SHAZAM #25 page 8

I have spent several afternoons (when I should have been working) comic art mining in the Dick Giordando's section at The Artist's Choice , and this is one of the gems I have picked up. The featured page is from DC's 1970's SHAZAM comic. This particular issue featured the introduction of Isis to the DC Universe. I'm sure most young men (in their 40's) remember the smokin' Joanna Cameron from the live saturday morning Isis show. I stumbled across this page in Mr. Giordando's section, and bought it for several reasons:

1) The first introduction and origin page for a new character in the DC Universe (Ka-CHING!)

2) This charcter has recently been reintroduced to the modern audience in DC's "52" series (Ka-CHING, Ka-CHING!!)

3) This is one of the "Art of Controversy" pages I have recent started to collect (DING, DING, DING, DING, DING.... JACKPOT!!!)

It's not hard enought to collect "one of a kind in the universe" original comic art pages for me anymore. I am now dedicated to finding pages which have an addition story behind them. Apparently, DC could not reprint SHAZAM #25 due to the inclusion of Isis, who's TV visage was a trademark of Filmation (and lets not even get started why the comic could not be called "Captain Marvel" or his history with DC and Marvel comics). The new Isis in the DC universe is more of a public domain version, similar to other mythical characters (Thor, Atlas, Hercules, the "Where's the Beef" lady) who appear in comics. The Filmation version however, is now apparently verboten at DC, thus making this page a banned "Art of Controversy".