From Batman to Tamara Drewe, Spider-Man to Calvin & Hobbes: 15 More Splendid Rain-Soaked Comics Pages (Part 2 of 3)

In which the blogger posts a second selection of 15 splendid comic book pages on the theme of rainstorms, the first part of which can be found here.

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  1. from 2009’s The Rocketeer: The Complete Adventures, by Dave Stevens, as originally printed in 1988’s The Rocketeer Adventure Magazine #1, with Henry Mayo & Carrie Spiegle.

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2. from 1975’s Batman #255, by Len Wein, Neal Adams & Dick Giordano.

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3. from 1988’s Jonny Quest #20, by William Messner-Loebs, Marc Hempel, Mark Wheatley & Kathryn Mayer,

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4. from The Man Who Was Death from 1950’s The Crypt Of Terror #17, by Al Feldstein, Bill Gaines, an unknown artist and colours by Liz A. Rost.

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5. from Low Life: Hostile Takeover, by Rob Williams & D’Israeli, first published in 2000AD in 2009 and reprinted as part of the Mega Collection in 2016.

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6. from 1995’s Spider-Man: Clone Genesis and its reprint, in an edited form, of 1975’s Amazing Spider-Man #143 by Gerry Conway, Ross Andru, Frank Giacoia, Dave Hunt , Jan Cohen and Artie Simek.

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7. from Karl Kerschl’s Bremen Town in 2013’s Fairy Tale Comics.

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8. from 2007’s Tamara Drewe, by Posy Simmonds.

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9. from Massacre At Agincourt! in 1951’s Two-Fisted Tales #22, as reprinted in 2006, by Harvey Kurztman, Wally Wood, Ben Oda with new colours by Joshua G. Jones.

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10. from 2002’s The Ultimates #5, by Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch, as collected in the 2004 HB, with its impossibly tight spine: hence the problematical scan above. Mea culpa.

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11. from 2002’s Catwoman: Selina’s Big Score, by Darwyn Cooke with Matt Hollingsworth.

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12. from 2009’s Grandville by Bryan Talbot.

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13. From the 2004 TPB printing of Bone, by Jeff Smith.

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14. from The Magic Hammer in 1957’s Tales Of The Unexpected, by Jack Kirby.

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15. from 1995’s The Calvin And Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book, by Bill Waterson.

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