FFF Results Post #198—Thresholds

On Friday, CR readers were asked to "Name Five Memorable Entryways in Comics." This is how they responded.



Tom Spurgeon

1. Porch/Stoop, Avengers Mansion
2. Tube teleportation system in JLA satellite
3. Charlie Brown's front stoop
4. Reception Area In Baxter Building
5. Rainbow Bridge Heading Into Asgard

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TUCK!

1. Boom Tube (Kirby's Fourth World)
2. Negative Zone Portal (Baxter Building) (Fantastic Four)
3. Ptuii Tube (Rog 2000)
4. Wayne Manor Library/Entrance to the Batcave (complete with bust of William Shakespeare) (Batman)
5. Knight's Past storefront (Starman)

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Philip Rippke

1. The grandfather clock entrance to the Batcave
2. The stone steps leading down to Munden's Bar
3. The Boom Tube into New Genesis
4. The lobby of the New Eden Police Department's 39th Precinct
5. The door to Kadie's Club Pecos

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Rich Tommaso

1. TINTIN -- King Ottokar's Sceptre; cover
2. CEREBUS -- High Society; Telephone book cover
3. ROCCO VARGAS -- Triton; Page One
4. B.P.R.D. -- The Warning; Practically every chapter has a grand entrance!
5. GROO -- The Pescatel Issue

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Ali T. Kokmen

1. The courtyard of the Hall of Justice in the old SuperFriends cartoons.
2. The JLA transporter tubes
3. The giant key pointing the way to Superman's Fortress of Solitude
4. The road to the Batcave in the 1960s "Batman" TV show, especially that road barrier that would automatically lower when the Batmobile came by in comically fast motion.
5. The entranceway to the very first comic book specialty store I ever walked into back in the early 80s. Truly, for any comics fan of a certain age, the first time you went to a dedicated comics store--and came to realize that you'd never again have to depend on the vagaries of newsstand distribution, nor endure the disdain of a shopkeeper who'd take your money but never understand your hobby -- ah, that was a moment of as much pure joy as anything first love could offer.

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Cole Moore Odell

1. The door to the Fortress of Solitude
2. Detective Jim Corrigan's cement-filled barrel to heaven
3. The windowless, doorless non-entry of Dr. Fate's Salem tower
4. The belt-activated elevator to the top five floors of the Baxter Building
5. The subway tunnel leading to Shazam's cavern

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Buzz Dixon

1. That big giant key and lock outside Superman's Fortress of Solitude
2. The "cork" in the bottle city of Kandor
3. Duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-DUH--BAT-POLES!
4. The bulging vault door to Scrooge McDuck's money bin
5. Little Annie Fanny's

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Johnny Bacardi

1. The stoop at the beginning of Eisner's Spirit story "Ten Seconds" (with the kid bouncing the ball and singing "A, my name is Anna...")
2. The front entrance to Daimon Hellstorm's Fire Lake mansion, esp. in the Ellis/Manco series
3. The front entrance to Rah El Rex's wax museum in Starstruck
4. The door in the Angel Islington's lair in Mike Carey and Glenn Fabry's adaptation of Gaiman's Neverwhere
5. Any of Dr. Strange's trademark Ditkoeque dimensional doorways

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Sean T. Collins

The black door in Asahi Elementary School
The school gate of the El-Ameeriah School
The gate to Arkham Asylum
The grandfather clock conecting Wayne Manor to the Batcave
The gates of Mornemont

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Andrew Mansell

1. Nightcrawler's Brimstone and BAMF
2. The door to Nexus' Chamber guarded by Kreed and Sinclair
3. The microscope slide that leads to Sub-Atomica in the FF
4. The Entrance to Hell used by Morpheus in Season's of the Mist
5. The "DOOR!!" to the BLEED in Authority

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Dave Carter

1. Superman's Fortress of Solitude, with that enormous key
2. The Bat-pole entrance to the Batcave
3. Beanish's "Secret Sketch" in Beanworld
4. The Gates of Hell in Sandman #23
5. The Boom Tube in Kirby's New Gods.

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Marc Arsenault

1. Temple Bar Gate in Sweeney Todd (Gaiman, Zulli)
2. Sandy's mouth in Swamp Thing 43
3. Little Nemo's Bed
4. The offices of Horizons Unlimited in Steve Canyon
5. Wildwood Cemetery in The Spirit

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Robert Stanley Martin

1. The dimensional portals in Ditko's Dr. Strange (take your pick)
2. The doorway to Nite Owl's brownstone in Watchmen
3. The gate to Auschwitz in Maus
4. The skylight to Peter Parker's East Village apartment in the Ross Andru Spider-Man days
5. The door to the Fortress of Solitude in the Weisinger/Schwartz Superman

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James C. Langdell

1. Phantom Zone frame floating into the void
2. Chained door to the writer's apartment in Cages
3. Secret tunnel for Batmobile access to the Batcave
4. Distortion Area (access to the Negative Zone)
5. Functional square door labeled "Super Hero Club" leading into an inverted rocket

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Evan Dorkin

1. Portal to the Negative Zone
2. Boom Tube opening to anywhere
3. Frank. N. Stein's castle doorway w/welcome mat trap
4. Vault door/diving platform to Scrooge McDuck's money bin.
5. Subway entrance that leads to the wizard Shazam.

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Russell Lissau

1. The fake bookcase (or grandfather clock) passage to the Batcave
2. The giant key needed for the Fortress of Solitude's front door
3. The Tardis' front door
4. The Batcave's road through a waterfall for the Batmobile
5. The skylight of Matt Murdock's apartment building

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Bill Matheny

1) The Boom Tube from Kirby's Fourth World
2) The Giant Key and Door of Superman's Fortress of Solitude.
3) The cool time platform that Reed Richards built in the sixties.
4) The door to Uncle Scrooge's money vault.
5) Ditko's entrance and foyer to Dr. Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum.

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Tom Bondurant

1. The giant golden mountainside door to Superman's Fortress of Solitude (with accompanying "airplane marker" key, of course)
2. The secret elevator, concealed in a giant artificial tree, connecting the Wayne Foundation penthouse with the downtown Batcave
3. Calvin's front door, often thrown open unexpectedly by an overzealous Hobbes
4. Danny the Street's festively masculine storefronts
5. Reed Richards' portal to the Negative Zone

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Scott Dunbier

1) Famous Funnies #213 cover, with the creature coming through the bulkhead. The finest Frazetta Comic book cover bar none (yes, including WSF #29)
2) Weird Science #16 cover by the great Wally Wood
3) The WOW Page from The Rocketeer, where the door is knocked from its hinges revealing Betty in the buff.
4) Bessie the Cow, stuck in a black hole in the first Jack B. Quick story by Alan Moore and Kevin Nowlan.
5) The first appearance of Swamp Thing

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Don MacPherson

1) The grandfather clock leading from Wayne Manor to the Batcave.
2) The hall of seven sins leading to Shazam's throneroom in the Rock ofEternity.
3) The main foyer of the X-Mansion in Westchester, NY.
4) The SHIELD Helicarrier's flight deck.
5) The foyer of the Sanctum Sanctorum.

*****



Mark Waid

1. The door to Superman's Fortress of Solitude
2. The who-could-this-possibly-fool barberpole-striped road-closed barrier exactly 14 miles outside Gotham City
3. The entrance to Luthor's Lair
4. The gateway to Arkham Asylum
5. The cork to the Bottle City of Kandor

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Justin J. Major

1. The grandfather clock entrance to the Batcave (Batman serials)
2. The Shakespeare bust to the bookcase to the Batpoles entrance to the Batcave (Batman TV series)
3. The security gate on the Great Outdoor Fight Arena (Achewood)
4. The Super-Keyed, Super-Locked door to the Fortress of Solitude (Superman)
5. The stoop in Chris Ware's "Building Stories" (Acme Novelty Library)

*****



Jacob Covey

1. Manhole into the sewers of New York City.
2. Transmat in the TCRI building.
3. Living room window of April O'Neil's New York City apartment.
4. Front door to the Northampton barn belonging to Casey Jones' family, specifically on Dec. 19.
5. Newspaper draped over Raphael's face, as he lies unconscious in the shit-fed sewer on, presumably, Dec. 23. This last threshold being
only a metaphorical one demarcating the thinly constructed wall between the debilitating realities of life and the inner torture of youth's frank and fiery idealism.

*****



Stergios Botzakis

1. The Batpole
2. The giant door to Superman's Fortress of Solitude
3. Dagwood Bumstead's front stoop
4. Boom Tube
5. Zeta-Beam

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Uriel A. Duran

1) The Fortress of Solitude's classic steel door with huge arrow key
2) Waterfall in front of the Skull Cave
3) Wooly mammoth fossil 'protecting' the unexplored valley where Scrooge McDuck got rich
4) Any window used by Spider-man
5) Boom Tubes

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Sean Kleefeld

1. Kirby-designed Negative Zone portal (Fantastic Four #51)
2. Byrne-designed Negative Zone portal (Fantastic Four #251)
3. Entry gate to Mechanicsburg (Girl Genius, Vol. 7)
4. The SHIELD babershop
5. Boom Tubes!

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topic suggested by James C. Langdell

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