Mythical scans

Comic continuity is complicated, especially Marvel and DC. In many cases, you have characters that have been around for decades, with literally thousands of appearances. Even if you think that you have read everything about a character, there's always the chance that they appeared in some obscure crossover or cameo that you don't know about.

At the same time, people love to make up and spread rumors. In my nearly 20 years of reading and posting on comic book forums (especially 'vs' sections), I have heard countless legends and tall tales of feats and scans that supposedly exist, yet I have never seen. I suspect you all have had similar experiences.

Surely a lot of these are pure fabrication, but sometimes there is a grain of truth to them.

In this thread, post examples of these mythical feats and scans, ones you have heard of but never actually seen. Then, if anyone else knows what you're talking about, they can comment on it, or even perhaps post the scan (if it really exists).

I know this is sort of similar to the comic book mythbuster thread, but I figured a thread for this more specific topic would be a good idea.

I'll start with two:

- Firstly, Lobo's famous feat of lifting and throwing a box that contained the weight of the entire universe. I know people who have gone through a lot of comics looking for this, and come up empty. Personally, I don't believe it exists, but feel free to prove me wrong on that.

- I once heard that, in a Marvel/Doctor Who reference/crossover, someone used a Time Lord device (stated to be from Gallifrey) to try to banish/defeat Galactus, but it didn't work, and he said something about having encountered such technology before and prepared for it. Sounds far-fetched, but Marvel did publish Doctor Who comics and did crossovers, and it's even been referenced in the Fantastic Four that Reed knows the Doctor. So I suppose it's possible.

Post any of your own such rumors too, or comment on mine.

So is no one interested in this, or is this forum just slow?

^ Have it moved to the main vs forum. Mythical feats have been cited so often in vs threads that it's not like it's off-topic in that forum.

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Originally posted by Endless Mike
or is this forum just slow?

I never believed the Odin/Space Ants fight happened till Abhi posted the scan. For like a decade people talked about it on this forum but no one posted the scans or could site what issue it took place in (so I could look it up myself).

It was me, how dare you.

Silver Surfer using cosmic awareness to create kryptonite/red sun radiation/chronal radiation/radion/whatever goober wanted. Still remains mythical to this day.

Originally posted by Endless Mike
So is no one interested in this, or is this forum just slow?

We don't wanna read all those paragraphs. Throw in some pictures at least.

^ The irony is that if the scan is "mythical," then there is no picture to post.

Originally posted by ODG
^ The irony is that if the scan is "mythical," then there is no picture to post.

But to be less facetious...

I think the era of online comics, first through torrents that came out on the day, and now through comics that are actually readily available to 'stream', as it were, has killed off the mythical comic BS.

You say Lobo has a feat of cramming a universe into a box? I can pull up every Lobo comic published and find out. If not me, then someone else would have read most of it, overlapping with me, and between us it would be covered.

Check out a respect thread, and if this famed Lobo feat doesn't appear there, that's even more proof.

If someone posts a panel/page, Google Reverse Image Search would quickly pull up the relevant comic, and anyone can then go back to the online comic sites and read the context behind it.

I just find it harder to bullshit people these days, mang.

The only thing I could think of for that is Lobo crushing a city into a ball, and was probably exaggerated. I see similar things a lot in Facebook battle groups all the time, and often theyll even reject when you show them the actual pages and issues involved.

Originally posted by DarkSaint85
If someone posts a panel/page, Google Reverse Image Search (...)

It's 2024, Old Man Saint.

We have TinEye and Yandex (and... PimEyes... iykwim 😖hifty: ) and other options.

Originally posted by Juntai
The only thing I could think of for that is Lobo crushing a city into a ball, and was probably exaggerated. I see similar things a lot in Facebook battle groups all the time, and often theyll even reject when you show them the actual pages and issues involved.

Originally posted by ODG
Lobo did do that though?

^ What issue did that happen in anyway?

authority / lobo - spring break massacre

https://postimg.cc/grNN7XpB
https://postimg.cc/HVnB1YsW

And they probably conflated it with Supreme/Suprema.

Originally posted by DarkSaint85
But to be less facetious...

I think the era of online comics, first through torrents that came out on the day, and now through comics that are actually readily available to 'stream', as it were, has killed off the mythical comic BS.

You say Lobo has a feat of cramming a universe into a box? I can pull up every Lobo comic published and find out. If not me, then someone else would have read most of it, overlapping with me, and between us it would be covered.

Check out a respect thread, and if this famed Lobo feat doesn't appear there, that's even more proof.

If someone posts a panel/page, Google Reverse Image Search would quickly pull up the relevant comic, and anyone can then go back to the online comic sites and read the context behind it.

I just find it harder to bullshit people these days, mang.

Originally posted by DarkSaint85
A good example actually of how online comic sites and image hosting sites are stopping some of the questions we used to have. In the past, even with our limited membership, this would have had pages of back and forth and we'd never have a real resolution.

Now, in combination with comics actually answering said question, anyone of us who reads comics can find it, post it, and answer definitely.

Back in the earlier 2000s, it used to be painfully hard to find/download any online comics at all, and if you finally found a hosting site it was like discovering the holy grail -- but usually those sites would get shut down within a few weeks, then you were left trying to find a new site yet again. So yeah, it was a LOT easier for people to bullshit their way through a debate back then, because if someone actually did post scans(cropped and out of context as they may have been) you sort of had to believe them, as 'fact-checking' was usually a very tedious process... If you could even do it at all.

But now? Virtually any comic you can imagine is just a few clicks away. So trying to knowingly lie about 'exaggerate' showings nowadays is just f*cking retarded.