Hey, who knows what he wears under those trousers?

Or perhaps he should wear Dr. Fate’s helmet.

@@davidker8820 I mean there must be a reason Tong sticks around...

He would need the heels that go with the fishnets though. Need to complete the look

That's why God created Frank N. Furter 😁

"I am magic. I ain't got to explain s S***"

Tigress: That's it! I had enough. To hell with all you dirty heathens!!

Actually, back in the eighties, there was an animated cartoon with him, Flash Gorden, the Phantom and their children fighting Ming the Merciless. The eighties were WEIRD!!

@@crapshot321 that wasn't Zatara. It was Mandrake the Magician, a character from newspaper strips that was the very clear inspiration for Zatara (Mandrake is from 1934). I don't know about the US, but around the world Mandrake is a FAR more known character.

@@randomhourglass5687 Apologies. My mistake, I've gotten the two mixed up.

@@crapshot321 They do look almost identical, easy mistake to make.

@@randomhourglass5687 Wonder why there's never been a Zatanna/Mandrake crossover.

idk about unknown "even by diehard comic fans" i'm pretty diehard and i knew who Tex Thompson was.

@@fremontstreetpresents1415 Tex Thompson actually went on to be Mr. America and was a member of Roy Thomas' All-Star Squadron and other places into the 90s.

@@jackwells8107 i know but i have yet to read all-star squadron.

@@fremontstreetpresents1415 I read it as it was released.... Then again, I'm old.

Resident evil 4 moment

​@@alex_-yz9to I was about to say it

I was about to type something about the tommy gun before i checked the comments

Ah, yes, the Chicago Typewriter. The gun that goes best with Leon's gangster outfit in RE4.

Yeah

Leon Kennedy used it to great effect Resident Evil 4.

Well he is a stage magician.

You think that's messed up. I had to content with the film Holes turning 20 last month - our shit is becoming nostalgic!!

@benwasserman8223 bruh, my first horror movie I ever watched, SAW, is turning 20 next year... feels like only 2 or 3 years ago that I went to see the 10th Anniversary re-release in theaters...

I remember holes 😶

Same. Zatanna has become one of my favorite heroes and honestly she doesen't get enough love from DC and it's kind of sad. They could do so much with her.

@@Stargazer_Ley I hope Zatanna gets to be a Part of James Gunn's version of the Justice League.

Indeed!

And a sign that every genre needs to adapt and change, or be forgotten and left behind.

That was what our grandparents and older parents read and saw, yes.

It was pretty much exclusively a superhero comic by issue 140 in 1950, with other major features being Congo Bill (who you might know as superhero Congorilla), and a sci-fi series Tommy Tomorrow (which lasted until issue 252 in 1959). Tommy Tomorrow was the last non-superhero feature to run in Action Comics.

@@ShinoSarna I’d love to watch a documentary on the history of comics that’s focused on the weird minutia and quirks that disappeared from comics over the years.

Oh yeah, didn't they do a similar thing with Captain Marvel once.

Story starts with an homage to the Superman-Ali boxing match, but with Supes fighting Pep Morgan instead. Then, after that prologue, we cut to Clark watching a history film with Lois about Chuck Dawson, but he has to bail because he spots Sticky-Mitt Stinson trying to steal something from the Metropolis Museum of History, and discovers he was hired by the Tigress to steal a travel log that once belonged to Marco Polo, which apparently describes a route to locating some magical artifact or another. Though he manages to stop Stinson, Tigress' henchmen gets her hands on the log anyway. Fortunately, Superman uses his SUPER-INTELLECT to figure out where they're headed - but so does Scoop Scanlon, Ace Reporter, who thinks this might turn out to be a great, well... scoop. So he convinces captain Bret Coleman (from the text story) to take him along on his ship and follow the Tigress' gang to where they're headed. Also going are Tex Thomson, not having become Mr. America yet, who decides to go just because he's bored, and Zatara, who involves himself because he wants to stop Tigress. When they get there, they find Superman captured by the Tigress, who has already found the aforementioned magical artifact and used it against Superman, who has no defense against magic. Fortunately, Zatara uses his own magic to counter the spell affecting Superman and they all have a big team-up and stop the Tigress. There, I think that's everyone.

That would be cool.

I think Zatannas first appearance was as a secondary character in someone elses and we technically have seen it reviewed here...I just cant remember who it was or what issue/video

@@shino4242 Zatanna first appeared in an issue of Hawkman.

I could see him in two ways: being pissed at being Zatara's servant and using magic to get his revenge on the world OR see Zatara as a friend who saved him from slavery and treated him as a friend and equal.

@@sarafontanini7051 I'd prefer the second. Maybe he'd be an uncle figure to Zatanna.

@@OverlyPositiveFanboy Plus you could have fun explaining where Tong has been. Maybe he's been serving as a mentor to his own magical pupil, or playing a big role as a lynchpin in the world of magic in the DCU.

Fun fact: Wong was played by Benedict Wong, who had also played the Mongol emperor to whose court Marco Polo and his father were travelling to in this comic (Kubulai Khan).

And Thunderbird 1

Oh absolutely!

My wish is for My Greatest Adevnture #80 for the debut of the DOOM PATROL and Mister Miracle #1 for The World's Greatest Escape Artist and the Escape God himself, Mister Miracle

Same

that's a...odd change. because Dr Fate and Zatara are usually entirely seperate, unrelaed characters.

@@sarafontanini7051 They were completely separate characters (and Zatara had his own magic, was already a member of the justice league etc.) at the start of the the Young Justice cartoon. There was a whole subplot weaved through several episodes of the first season of Young Justice involved in getting the helmet on Zatara's head and the once a year thing only happens after that. Technically Kent Nelson was Doctor Fate in the show at the start of the first season, but he was old and inactive and never appeared on screen as Fate, some other characters wear the helmet briefly along the way..

Okay so i'm the one who requested this episode and I literally did not know that story took place in England until this review

I blame Errol Flynn.

There are also suddenly a lot of mountains in England...

Kind of. Both Tong and Wong are very blatantly inspired/stolen from Mandrake the Magician's assistant Lothar.

Eh he was a major part of dark justice league's rebirth story. It was a retread of the sacrifice thing but he was alive. Also while nabu has some control and can take control if he wants but comics fates usually work with him. It's more of a give and take thing. That jl dark story even had nabu and other order lords as villains for an arc. Afterwards Nelson refuses to take the helmet but his apprentice takes it and is fine

Ge had detective Brown absorb the first aid kit to restore his health.

Maybe it's easier to conjure a first-aid kit than cast healing magic? Most series do make that one of the harder branches.

AYE CAPTAIN! MAXIMUM ENGAGMENT

Yo ho! Yo ho! I am being engaging for the algorithm!

Engaged

Engaged!!

Yeah. Pep Morgan wasn't a boxing series, it was a series about an all-star athlete that was doing boxing in this particular story, but different sports in others. He was a baseball player in his original debut story too.

acccoring to One More Day they are! : D only the devil can fix a bullet wound!

That’s my main exposure to him as well.

He also briefly appeared in a Flashback in Zatanna's debut episode in Batman: The Animated Series.

I was also amused by all the guns, since British police at the time were not armed, and handguns were really rare in the UK. Most likely firearms would have been for hunting birds or rabbits.

Sheriff is actually derived from Shire Reeve. Reeves were tax collectors in England & had the power to gather a posse to chase after tax dodgers

Yeah I think it fits linkara's point. When Zatara does show up it's usually to be support for zantanna and/or given death or a similar fate Ala young justice to make her sad. He's seen as a part of zantanna's lore more than his own character.

It'll be back next year. He didn't do it last year because he got swamped by all the Halloween/Longbox videos and this year because it's the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who.

Yeah!

also it is always good to see the trans and pride cybermatts, like good to see your support up front and in the form of Doctor Who.

Yeah as mentioned in the video, the vast majority if not all of comics at this time were around 64 page anthologies. Most stories in these books were around 6 or 8 pages, humor comics were typically 4 or even 2 pages (the odd exception of the non-humor comics could be as small as 4 pages too) and the big ones reaching up to 13 pages. Superman was 13 pages per issue for example. Batman's first stories were just 6 pages! The future Marvel, Timely Comics, had a bit of a gamble with their flagship title called uhh... Marvel Comics, and had less stories with more pages for each. All of them had around 10 or 12, except Human Torch (their big popular hero along with Namor) had 16! Unprecedented. Superman got so big he got his own 60-odd page anthology comic made entirely of Superman stories, though they started off as reprints of Action Comics and reprinted coloured newspaper strips. Eventually, thanks to WW2, the size of comic books started shrinking and there were less stories, typically just two with a couple of humour strips thrown in by the 50s (I want to say). And now we're where we are now.

He probably do it on a comic book quickies

Giovani Zatara is a character in Young Justice as well a Zatanna and the Ripper. He doesn't really do much but Constantine has respect for the man.

Or rubber