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Anyone else remember the issue of "Brave and Bold" written by Bob Haney and drawn by Jim Aparo, in which terrorists deduce the best way to kill Batman and Sgt. Rock is to kidnap Haney and Aparo and force them to write and draw our heroes being killed?



Yeah, that was a WTF all right, G-man. From BRAVE & THE BOLD 124:



It was fun seeing Aparo's rendition of himself, writer Bob Haney, and B & B editor Murray Boltinoff.



This story was Bob Haney's own attempt in the same vein as other oddball stories where DC writers, artists and editors included themselves in stories.
The first that I'm aware of was in BATMAN 237, "Night of the Reaper", by Dennis, O'Neil, Neal Adams and Dick Giordano (which will hopefully soon be out in a few months in a BATMAN ILLUSTRATED BY NEAL ADAMS, Vol 3 hardcover).


"Night of the Reaper" featured a whole bunch of DC creators from 1971 (Dennis O'Neil, Al Weiss, Gerry Conway and Berni Wrightson) at an annual Halloween parade hosted by then-big-time fan convention host Tom Fagan in Rutland, Vermont. Fagan also had a cameo in the story.
My favorite part is where O'Neil is shown talking to a thuggish-looking big guy in a Thor costume, and Thor is saying to him: "So you're a comic book writer, huh? That's a stupid way to make a living."
To which O'Neil responds: "Mind getting off my foot?"



There was a follow-up appearance of Berni Wrightson, Al Weiss and Gerry Conway in a Robin back-up feature in BATMAN 239. I found the idea in this story of writers and artists getting involved in a fist-fight rather unlikely. (story by Mike Friedrich, art by Rich Buckler. )




There was a reprise of this festival the following year in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA 103 (in late 1972) , which I think included Gerry Conway and a few other creators. (by Len Wein, Dick Dillin and Dick Giordano)




Then there was a JLA/JSA crossover in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA 123 and 124, that also included DC creators in the story, this time writers Elliot Maggin and Cary Bates, along with editor Julius Schwartz.
To my knowledge, this was the first time our Earth was actually named as part of the DC Universe, which they dubbed "Earth Prime".
(story by Bates and Maggin, art by Dillin and McLaughlin)

( This was within a few issues of when the JLA had visited the Quality Comics heroes on their world, where Doll Man, Black Condor, Phantom Lady, Uncle Sam and others were fighting on a parallel Earth where the Nazis won WW II, dubbed "Earth X".
And in another story of the same period, the Shazam heroes had been established to live in the parallel universe of "Earth S".
So the parallel DC worlds were growing by leaps and bounds. )