November 19, 2011
FFF Results Post #276—Fists
On Friday,
CR asked its readers to"Name Five Of Your Favorite Superhero/Supervillain Gloves Or Glove Treatments." This is how they responded.
Chris Duffy
1. Baron Von Strucker
2. Hellcat
3. Dr. Strange
4. Spectre
5. Elasti-Girl
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Tom Spurgeon
1. Dr. Doom
2. The Spirit
3. Captain America
4. Wildcat
5. Iron Man
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Michael Buntag
1. Roy Mustang
2. Omni-Man
3. Revy
4. Batman
5. Lust (Homunculus)
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Christopher Brown
1. Green Arrow (Neal Adams design)
2. Batman
3. Nightcrawler (Dave Cockrum design)
4. The Creeper
5. Hawkman, when he wears those straps wrapped around his forearms and hands that have spikes on his knuckles
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Shannon Smith
* Dreadstar
* Electro
* Galactus
* Apocalypse
* Ant-Man (the early costume with that zig zag edge on the gloves)
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Danny Fingeroth
1. The Satan Claw from Steranko's SHIELD series, hands down, so to speak.
2. Batman's gloves
3. Rube Rookie's baseball glove
4. Iron Man's repulsor-ray gloves
5. The Spirit's The Octopus's gloves
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Jason Michelitch
1. Dr. Strange
2. Thanos w/ Infinity Gauntlet
3. The original dainty gloves of The Bat-man
4. Rogue, conceptually if not aesthetically
5. Robin wearing Mongul's gloves in "For the Man Who Has Everything"
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Michael May
1. Batman
2. Zatanna's current fishnet gloves
3. Rogue (those short, leather ones she wore in the '90s)
4. Spider-Man
5. Dr. Strange
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Mark Coale
1. Golden Age Aquaman
2. Dr. Doom
3. Phantom Stranger
4. Prince Gavin Starman
5. dr. fate
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Thomas Scioli
1. Darkseid's Killing Gloves from New Gods #7
2. Orion's Wrist Circuitry from New Gods #5
3. The Mother-Box-killing gloves worn by an unnamed assistant of Desaad in Forever People #4 (Kirby's Fourth World is all about the gloves)
4. Nick Fury's Satan's Claw
5. Batman's Scalloped Gloves (Who hasn't tried to draw these?)
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Jamie Coville
1. Lenore (from D.P.7.)
2. The Gray Gargoyle
3. The Beetle
4. Razor Fist
5. Rogue
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Grant Goggans
1. Those sort of weird plastic oven mitts that my Mego Aquaman doll has
2. My Batman doll also has those mitts
3. So does Robin
4. My Mr. Mxyzptlk, however, just has purple plastic hands
5. The only other thing that comes to mind would be Johnny Alpha's Electronux
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Tom Bondurant
1. Spider-Man
2. Green Arrow (Neal Adams design)
3. Batwoman
4. Doctor Strange
5. The Huntress (Helena Wayne)
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Dave Knott
* Doctor Strange
* Power Girl
* Kanto the Assassin
* Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
* Nexus
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Joe Vince
1. Space Ghost
2. Dr. Strange (this whole list could be gloves drawn by Steve Ditko)
3. Green Arrow
4. Deadshot
5. Lex Luthor (the supervillan power gloves he wore throughout the 1970s, introduced to me in Batman #293)
BONUS: The way Rafael Grampa draws the gloves on Daredevil's original costume.
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M. Emery
1. Judge Dredd
2. Frank
3. The Leopard From Lime Street
4. Pim and Francie
5. The Tower King
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Chris Arrant
5. Gambit
4. Wildcat
3. Kaboom
2. Mandarin
1. Hellboy
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Sean Kleefeld
1. Invincible Man (Kirby)
2. Dr. Strange (Ditko)
3. Flash (Infantino)
4. Green Arrow (Adams)
5. Black Panther (Texeira)
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Evan Dorkin
1. Iron Man
2. The Shocker
3. Judge Dredd
4. Mysterio
5. The Beetle
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Alan David Doane
1.
Dr. Strange
2. Mysterio
3. The Prowler
4.
The Beetle
5. Spider-Man
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John Platt
1. The Octopus
2. The Human Bomb
3. The Purple Claw
4. Jack Staff
5. Joe Fixit
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Mark Spedding
1 Boxing-glove arrows of any kind
2 Dr Strange's gloves with the black dots
3 The glove the Gray Gargoyle removes to do his thing
4 The Wizard's Wonder Gloves, especially in FF 81, where he sets out to annihilate the team with a new improved pair, only to be decomissioned by new recruit Crystal in about five seconds. An overlooked gem from the twilight years of the Lee-Kirby team, with wonderfully exuberant, dynamic action scenes from the King
5 THE SATAN CLAW
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topic suggested by Chris Duffy; thanks, Chris
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