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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 2, 2020 16:09:16 GMT -5
I remember a Bullpen Bulletins where they gave pronunciations for various staffers by saying what they rhymed with. David Michelinie (one that also stumped me) was given as "rhymes with pickle-my-knee (sort of)". It is thanks to a letter page comment that said “Moench” rhymed with “wench” that I mispronounced it as “Mwench” for more than a decade! I had better luck with Pickle my knee.
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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 2, 2020 16:26:04 GMT -5
Never knew how to pronounce the name of the brilliant Stan Lynde, of Rick O'Shay fame. It rhymes with "wind."
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Post by foxley on Jan 2, 2020 20:02:34 GMT -5
Has a story ever dealt with how certain characters avoided the draft (WWII and Vietnam)? Did anyone like Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent or Bruce Banner ever receive draft papers? I have a vague memory of Dick Grayson having a deferment from the draft because he was attending university. Does anyone else recall this, or have I just imagined it?
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Post by MDG on Jan 3, 2020 10:57:53 GMT -5
Has a story ever dealt with how certain characters avoided the draft (WWII and Vietnam)? Did anyone like Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent or Bruce Banner ever receive draft papers? I have a vague memory of Dick Grayson having a deferment from the draft because he was attending university. Does anyone else recall this, or have I just imagined it? I'm sure having a rich benefactor had nothing to do with keeping him out of the army.
I don't remember that, but it seems likely the question came up and was addressed quckly--maybe in Teen Titans if not Batman.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 3, 2020 13:39:37 GMT -5
Sounds a bit more like something that would come up on the letters page.
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Post by foxley on Jan 3, 2020 20:18:52 GMT -5
I haven't found the reference to the draft being deferred, but in Batman #217 Dick does state that he has a draft card.
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Post by Confessor on Jan 3, 2020 21:24:02 GMT -5
Not a hero (well, not at that point anyway), but Peter Parker's one-time school bully Flash Thompson served in the Vietnam War, but he volunteered, rather than got drafted.
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Post by Cei-U! on Jan 4, 2020 9:41:56 GMT -5
Not a hero (well, not at that point anyway), but Peter Parker's one-time school bully Flash Thompson served in the Vietnam War, but he volunteered, rather than got drafted. No, Flash was drafted, as stated explicitly on the last page of Amazing Spider-Man #43.
Cei-U! I summon the point of order!
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Post by Confessor on Jan 4, 2020 11:57:35 GMT -5
Not a hero (well, not at that point anyway), but Peter Parker's one-time school bully Flash Thompson served in the Vietnam War, but he volunteered, rather than got drafted. No, Flash was drafted, as stated explicitly on the last page of Amazing Spider-Man #43. Cei-U! I summon the point of order!
Ooh, good knowledge, Kurt (not that I'd have expected any less from you, of course). I don't remember that being the case at all, and had believed for years that he'd volunteered for the war. That makes the dislocation and thinly veiled PTSD that Flash suffered upon his eventual return to civilian life all the more poignant. I'll definitely have to dig out ASM #43 and have a look to see how I coulda missed that. Thanks for putting me straight.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jan 4, 2020 16:37:54 GMT -5
I recall the story being that he was drafted, but he was happy to go, but it's been a while.
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Post by beccabear67 on Jan 4, 2020 19:52:25 GMT -5
Is there a brief summary of when Wolverine was somehow given claws made of bone? And presumably regular human bones generally? I just ran into a reference in one late '90s/early '00s Marvel saying he has had adamantium re-grafted on to his claws/skeleton. I wonder who messed with this needlessly? I still remember vividly that panel set in the future where a Sentinel blasts Wolverine and all that's left is the adamantium skeleton and claws. I never knew there was any backstory besides his getting an adamantium skeleton with claws because of his mutant healing abilities. In the story I've come across (Wolverine #149) the High Evolutionary has removed all mutant abilities worldwide and Wolv is getting deathly ill from the adamatium, it's just the line about it being re-grafted onto to him and seeing examples of him having bone claws that makes me wonder 'what the...?'
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Post by rberman on Jan 4, 2020 22:42:33 GMT -5
Is there a brief summary of when Wolverine was somehow given claws made of bone? And presumably regular human bones generally? I just ran into a reference in one late '90s/early '00s Marvel saying he has had adamantium re-grafted on to his claws/skeleton. I wonder who messed with this needlessly? I still remember vividly that panel set in the future where a Sentinel blasts Wolverine and all that's left is the adamantium skeleton and claws. I never knew there was any backstory besides his getting an adamantium skeleton with claws because of his mutant healing abilities. In the story I've come across (Wolverine #149) the High Evolutionary has removed all mutant abilities worldwide and Wolv is getting deathly ill from the adamatium, it's just the line about it being re-grafted onto to him and seeing examples of him having bone claws that makes me wonder 'what the...?' The idea was (according to this retcon) that Wolverine always had claws made of bone, as a mutation. His Adamantium was removed by Magneto in X-Men Vol 2 #25 (1993). The next issue of the Wolverine solo series (#75) revealed his underlying bone claws.
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Post by beccabear67 on Jan 5, 2020 13:08:59 GMT -5
I wonder if this lead to the newer Marrow character who grew excess bone outside her skin (and even used some as blades). I think they blew it with this twist for poor suffering Wolverine, and obviously went back to status quo, but I'm sure it seemed like a clever idea initially. The main problem is his earlier claws looked like they had zero bone content, and what he had minus the adamantium was drawn larger than the metal blades... you'd think minus the metal grafted on the claws and skeleton would be somewhat less (as well as extremely weaker). Shrekktthh! Aaarrrrgghh
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2020 5:55:47 GMT -5
Does DC and Marvel have a policy pertaining to a potential drop - a huge drop - in sales for their flagship characters?
I mean, we know if Plastic Man or Iron Fist have a title that has a huge drop in sales, then they're done (for a while). But what if sales for Superman, Spider-Man, Batman, the Avengers and others dropped hugely? And I mean HUGELY?
Would they just keep publishing them as a loss leader? Logic tells me that even if Detective Comics or The Amazing Spider-Man started selling only 226 copies a month, the publishers would still keep them going, possibly diverting resources from elsewhere. But the realist in me would think that'd be unsustainable.
I realise this is a deeply hypothetical question. No, they're not gonna drop to 226 units a month. But I remember reading a Hero Illustrated issue (remember that publication?) which talked about poor sales on Superman, this was probably 1994/95. So I guess it can happen to flagship heroes. And I know the characters wouldn't become invisible or go on hiatus for decades, but could they really continue publishing Action Comics or Avengers if the sales became extremely poor?
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 6, 2020 6:17:25 GMT -5
Anything could happen. Fantastic Four and the Thor book were canceled a few years back and they Canceled the Brave and the Bold. I would think that the movie franchises might help to keep them alive , but it appears that there's no crossover from the movie fans to comic buying. mrp keeps saying that the monthly sales are bad , so I could see movies still existing while publishers release tpb every few months.
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