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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Feb 25, 2016 11:14:35 GMT -5
This new cover contest theme (comics appearing on comic book covers) got me thinking. Those superheroes having comics featuring their fiction adventures in that very comic book world : It's quite "meta" as maybe Clark Kent would be a creation of that fiction, but wouldn't actually exist in the world of DC comics featuring DC comics, he would just be a writer's plot trick. Your thoughts? Which got me thinking that if we would make a parallel with our real world, the equivalant would be comics featuring extraordinary real beings that we know little about, the comics telling the story behind te scenes, in a fiction fashion. I can't really come up with any exemples right now, but how about a list of real people that got fiction adventures series : If in the DC world Superman has its own fiction comics as She-Hulk does in the Marvel Universe, how about ongoing series or maxi series that feature real life CONTEMPORARY people and their heroic adventures in a non-biographical manner that we can think of?
Edit : If Superman is real, the comics about him in the DC world are fiction. So if there are comics published about real life people that describe their life and adventures beyond what they are notorious for, published while those people were/are stillaround, that's what this topic is about
This got 124 issues, but it doesn't really fit the equation as it seems this all is about the on-screen Jerry Lewis personnae  Any ideas of extended series featuring such a specific trope? |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Feb 25, 2016 11:18:09 GMT -5
I guess what I'm talking about is quite diifficult to set into an actual steady set of boundaries, but I just like the implications of htis kind of fiction within fictio, how it distorts the rules of logic and yet makes for interesting considerations.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 25, 2016 11:28:26 GMT -5
Jackie Chan adventures lasted for something like 80 issues and seems to be the type of series you,re thinking about. Jackie Chan is an actor in our world, but he is also a genuine martial artist, so who's to say that the adventures depicted in his comics didn't happen in between movie shoots?
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Post by MDG on Feb 25, 2016 11:32:06 GMT -5
There were a ton of "real" cowboy characters that had their own series (Roy Rogers, Lash LaRue, etc.). Buster Crabbe and Alan Ladd also had their own titles, though I'm not sure if they had "adventures."
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Feb 25, 2016 11:39:16 GMT -5
There were a ton of "real" cowboy characters that had their own series (Roy Rogers, Lash LaRue, etc.). Buster Crabbe and Alan Ladd also had their own titles, though I'm not sure if they had "adventures." OK, so I should have specified people contemporary to their comic book stories  |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 25, 2016 11:41:09 GMT -5
Mister T had his own book!
*(Insert your "I pity the fool..." joke here)*.
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Post by Crimebuster on Feb 25, 2016 11:46:46 GMT -5
Real life magician Harry Blackstone had several different comic book titles about his fictional adventures:  |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Feb 25, 2016 11:47:02 GMT -5
Mister T had his own book! *(Insert your "I pity the fool..." joke here)*. But wasn't it about his adventures within or lateral to the A-Team world? |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2016 11:48:08 GMT -5
Not quite contemporary, but this might be along the lines of what you were thinking...  featuring the fantastic adventures of HP Lovecraft and Nicolas Tesla, if it had been published during their lifetime (though their fame came mostly posthumously). -M |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 25, 2016 11:50:39 GMT -5
Mister T had his own book! *(Insert your "I pity the fool..." joke here)*. But wasn't it about his adventures within or lateral to the A-Team world? The A-Team character is called B. A. Baracus, not Mr. T; I would suppose that the comic-book one is the same as in the TV cartoon in which Mr. T. and a gang of teenagers did good things for the environment... or something. Probably using the kind of SciFi equipment that doesn't exist in our real world! |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Feb 25, 2016 11:53:10 GMT -5
Again, I'm after comics about adventures of real life people beyond their public personnae, like the "fiction" clark kent side of the superman stories (in a world where superman actually exists, like Harry Blackstone existed, but did the comic feature his real Henry Boughton life beyond his stage character?), comics published when those people are still around.
That's the meta aspect I'm interested in, because who knws what those public figures did beyond the spotlight, maybe some were atcual heroes in a more real way, so I'm after comic that would have invented such a possible life.
So definitively not looking for some LOEG type of stories.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Feb 25, 2016 11:57:34 GMT -5
But wasn't it about his adventures within or lateral to the A-Team world? The A-Team character is called B. A. Baracus, not Mr. T; I would suppose that the comic-book one is the same as in the TV cartoon in which Mr. T. and a gang of teenagers did good things for the environment... or something. Probably using the kind of SciFi equipment that doesn't exist in our real world! Oh yeah, right, but then again, it's still the adventures of the public character. Again, it's like this : If Superman is real, the comics about him in the DC world are fiction. So if there is comics published about real life people that describe hteir life and adventures beyond what htey are notorious for, published while those people were around, that's what this topic is about  |
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Post by MDG on Feb 25, 2016 12:28:32 GMT -5
Oh yeah, right, but then again, it's still the adventures of the public character. Again, it's like this : If Superman is real, the comics about him in the DC world are fiction. So if there is comics published about real life people that describe hteir life and adventures beyond what htey are notorious for, published while those people were around, that's what this topic is about Still not sure what you're after. Do these come close?   |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Feb 25, 2016 12:37:38 GMT -5
This would qualify, but it wasn't exactly a series :   Sorry if I'm not articulate enough to explain : Real life people that are public for a variety of reasons that would get a cotemporary to their life comic book series in which they have adventures outside of hteir public personnae : in the world of superman they wouldn't make a comic about Clark Kent, but they do about Superman, therefore that comic is fantasy. I'm therefore after a comic that could be the secret adventures of Michael Jordan as a succefull under the radar PI, while still having his public life of hall of fame NBA player (but hopefully more creative then that!), or acomic about the scret life of Henry Kissinger as the head of a thief network, which is what a Superman comic would be in the world of Superman. Is this more clear now?  |
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 25, 2016 12:51:42 GMT -5
Do these fit the category? "The (Babe Ruth) series focused on a number of sports such as football and basketball, not just baseball, and spotlighted such contemporary stars such as Joe DiMaggio and Yogi Berra in a series of both biographical and fictional sports adventures."  Buster Crabbe comic books: "The first issue, published in November 1951, had a western cover and three western stories. #2-#4 were in the same western vein. From #5-#12, stories alternated, with each issue containing at least one western story, but also incorporating Crabbe’s adventures in the jungle and outer space. Covers from #5-#10 were space or jungle themed, then returned to a western motif. Oddly, even in these tales Buster still wore his cowboy outfit."  |
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