This Batman/Cal Ripken, Jr. comic book giveaway to 10,000 kids attending the Baltimore/Cleveland game the day before Free Comic Book Day at Camden Yards — one of many events planned during the season to honor the former Orioles star — made much more sense to me, after remembering Diamond Comic Distributors president and CEO Steve Geppi is a minority owner of the team.
Would’ve rather have seen a modern day version of the Silver Age Strange Sports Stories comics pitting a team of retired Hall of Fame players versus Marvel, considering the JLA had their turn against a pack of their own super-villians in 1976. For you baseball trivia nuts, in the latter DC Super-Stars Giant #10, Black Canary started the winning rally that allowed the heroes to win 11-10 and made a winner out of Superman who went the distance…
May 15th, 2007 at 10:10 am
I think this is awesome!
May 15th, 2007 at 10:14 am
THis was also inserted in all the Johnny DC superhero cartoon comics last month, so fans shouldn’t go out of their way to find a copy on eBay or anything.
May 15th, 2007 at 10:21 am
This was included in some DC books a month or two ago - I know it was in several of mine. (Don’t know about Johnny DC titles, though.)
May 15th, 2007 at 10:44 am
I wish Peter Angelos and the rest of the clowns who own the Orioles would sell the team to Cal Ripkin Jr.
May 15th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
They are being quite generous with Mr. Ripken’s hairline in this comic.
May 15th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Hi folks,
For those who read the book, was it OK or not so much?
I’ve heard great things about Camden Yards and drove right by it not so long ago. Might be more interested in going there if the team occupying it was more competitive…
Wayne
May 16th, 2007 at 10:41 am
Well, it features “The Batman” from the current cartoon. If you enjoy that cartoon or the comic tie-in, you’ll probably enjoy this. I would say it was just OK, mainly a multi-page advertisement for Big League Chew…