2005 Comic-Con International: San Diego Souvenir Book art by Alexander Lugo

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Here we see an animation style representation of the Post-Crisis/Zero Hour origin, in which Dr. Erdel saves a more alien J'onn J'onzz from plague riddled Mars through the wonder of teleportation. John Jones makes a winking appearance, and there's even a series of heroic headshots for a Justice League roll call!

2005 Comic-Con International: San Diego Souvenir Book art by Earl Martin

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Another "Fiftieth Friday" piece I like a lot, because it recalls early Kirbyesque Barry Smith, and because he's one of the only contributors with an active online gallery!

2005 Comic-Con International: San Diego Souvenir Book art by Ken Wright

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Is it summer yet, because it's feeling hot up in here? I dig this unique, quasi-cubist aggressive angle! I'm almost out of "Fiftieth Friday" material, and had to do some rescheduling to avoid gluts of shots of the Martian Manhunter floating in space. Wright helped break that up! Fi-fif-fifteen!

2005 Comic-Con International: San Diego Souvenir Book art by Gresham Vanderwolff

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It's funny to me that Mike Grell has to my knowledge rarely if ever drawn J'onn J'onzz, and most of Vanderwolff's art strongly shows his influence... but not this particular piece. Oh well, it still looks good, and I've got a nice big scan of the 50th birthday tribute. The artist has a smaller version in his deviantART gallery, but the SDCC book cropped the original, so check out the full image there.

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As part of the sixth seasonal Super Blog Team-Up's theme of top ten lists, Frank offers an audio synopsis of the series of essays The Ten Most Important Martian Manhunter Adversaries from 2010, which has held up pretty well these past four years since nothing much ever happens to the Alien Atlas, even during a line wide reboot. The "new kid" on this particular block debuted in 1998, and how many foes of the New 52 Manhunter can you name, anyway?

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2005 Comic-Con International: San Diego Souvenir Book art by Tom Kelly

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I spent a fair amount of time on the artist's deviantART page, going through years worth of pieces hoping to find a color version of this SDCC con book anniversary entry. I knew it looked suspiciously similar to this, which is forgivable, but I got a bit miffed when all I found in the gallery was this. Digital art has its uses, eh?