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Top 10 #9 p2-3 DPS

Artist: Gene Ha (Penciller)

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Title:	Top 10 #9 p2-3 DPS
Artist:	Gene Ha (Penciller)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	81
Likes on CAF:	7 8
Comments:	5
Added to Site:	11/9/2025
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Ultra-Mice and Atomic Cats -- One of the more easter-egged pages of this magnificent series:

Page 2 --
"This page is a riff on the events of Fantastic Four #50, when the Fantastic Four, with the help of the cosmic being The Watcher, managed to drive off from Earth the cosmic Eater of Worlds, Galactus. In this case, however, rodent versions of other superheroes, both Marvel and DC, have apparently joined the fight.

The rodent in the upper right is dressed like DC's Wonder Woman. The two enormous animals, identified in dialogue as "Cosmouse" and "Galactapuss," are analogues for Marvel's The Watcher (an alien who watches the Earth without--usually--taking action) (note that Cosmouse's silhouette is that of Mickey Mouse) and Marvel's Galactus. Cosmouse's look, a silhouette filled with stars and planets, is like that of Marvel's Eternity.
Flying between Galactapuss and Cosmouse is "the Saturnian Scrap-Hunter," who is threatening Galactapuss with the "Ultimate Pacifier." The "Saturnian Scrap-Hunter" is a rodent analogue for DC's alien hero the Martian Manhunter. The "Ultimate Pacifier" is an analogue for the Ultimate Nullifier, which was the weapon that The Watcher allowed the Fantastic Four to steal from him and to threaten Galactus with in Fantastic Four #50. Note that the "Ultimate Pacifier" looks like a mouse squeak-toy, and that "Galactypuss" was the name of a Galactus analogue in an issue of Peter Porker the Spectacular Spider-Ham.

Of the other animal analogues, the ones that I recognize are (moving from left to right): Batman (and Robin, behind and to the left of Batman), John Constantine (the overcoat-wearing cigarette-smoking rat with its back to us; Constantine is a DC anti-hero), Atomic Mouse,the Human Torch (the flaming rodent; the Human Torch is a member of Marvel's Fantastic Four), Danger Mouse (below the Human Torch, wearing an eyepatch), Mighty Mouse (flying at one of the cats), the Thing (the grey, rocky rodent on the far right; the Thing is a member of Marvel's Fantastic Four), and Mr. Fantastic (the stretching rodent wrestling with the Thing; Mr. Fantastic is a member of Marvel's Fantastic Four). Presumably the rat to the right of Constantine is a Hercules analogue.
One of the flying rats (the Danger Mouse analogue) is wearing "a reversal of Aquaman's classic costume." That is, DC's Aquaman traditionally wore green tights and a chainmail shirt. This rat also has wings on his feet, like Marvel's Sub-Mariner.

Page 3 --
Panel 3. "--verine has a prosthetic," seen on the wall, is a joking reference to Marvel's Wolverine, whose skeleton and prosthetic claws are made of metal, which leads one to speculate what other body part of his might be metal.
Panel 4. Note that the graffiti, "The Huntress has 2 fathers," is a reference to the background of the current Huntress in DC Comics.
Panel 6. Power Pup, a cartoon super-dog, is one of the (somewhat annoying) "assistants" that shipped with Microsoft Office 97. Most people know only the default one, Clippit (a "perky" animated paperclip) and never realize that you have a handful of others to choose from.

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kap j
Member Since 2013

1 - Posted on 11/9/2025

Loved this issue, loved this sequence. Great pages!

Keith Veronese
Member Since 2005

2 - Posted on 11/9/2025

My favorite sequence in the entire series - classic!!!

Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

2 - Posted on 11/10/2025

There's so much to Moore's scripts that you can't help to think that everyone doing art on an ABC title really went through the wringer and came out of it a better visual storyteller. Gene Ha got even better and more complex towards these later issues.

Marvelman Excelsior
Member Since 2011

Posted on 12/15/2025

MAGNIFICENT cat-ch! (Yeah, I'm still slaying it with the Dad Jokes!) Im seriously in paw of this incredible two page Top Ten grail!

Very impressed that you've managed to hunt down and bag such a great sequence from a classic and brilliant Alan Moore run!

Robert C
Member Since 2020

Posted on 12/16/2025

Marvelman Excelsior wrote:

MAGNIFICENT cat-ch! (Yeah, I'm still slaying it with the Dad Jokes!) Im seriously in paw of this incredible two page Top Ten grail!

Very impressed that you've managed to hunt down and bag such a great sequence from a classic and brilliant Alan Moore run!

Thanks Steve. Top 10 was under-rated in its time, but I think people are starting to call it a classic. Enjoy the holidays, my Brother!

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