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Friday Night Fights: Roundhouse Left!

Another Friday, another pointlessly violent interlude of pain and suffering. But enough about your typical workday — it’s time again for FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHTS!

Our superpowered brawl tonight comes courtesy of the Elongated Man in January 1965’s Detective Comics #335, in the story “Break Up the Bottleneck Gang!” by the great Gardner Fox, also-great Carmine Infantino, and the great-but-not-as-well-known-as-Fox-and-Infantino Sid Greene:

Spacebooger spins you right round, baby, right round.

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Friday Night Fights: Elasto-Mystical Beatdown!

If it’s Friday night, and it’s time to start releasing all that pent-up end-of-week aggression, then it’s definitely time for FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHTS!

Tonight, we’re going back to the only decent weekly comic DC has made in the last few years, 52. From Week 42, by Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, Mark Waid, Darick Robertson, and Keith Giffen: Ralph Dibny unleashes a surprise jawbreaker on Felix Faust!

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And with that, Ralph Dibny became the 3,461st DC superhero to clean Felix’s clock. That guy’s gotta be the most pathetic supervillain ever. They should just publish a series of DC heroes and villains beating the stuffing out of Felix — heck, I’m sure it’d be better than “Countdown”…

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