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Post by beccabear67 on May 30, 2020 16:17:02 GMT -5
I seem to remember Joe Kubert art on some of DC's Firehair, at least the one or two issues of it I ever had. I know my brother had one early Jonah Hex as Weird Western, a very memorable character! I thought maybe he was a bit based on Rowdy Yates from Rawhide which we used to have as reruns when I was little, Rowdy was played by Eastwood. There was also someone on Alias Smith And Jones that might've been an influence.
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Post by Prince Hal on May 30, 2020 18:16:55 GMT -5
I seem to remember Joe Kubert art on some of DC's Firehair, at least the one or two issues of it I ever had. I know my brother had one early Jonah Hex as Weird Western, a very memorable character! I thought maybe he was a bit based on Rowdy Yates from Rawhide which we used to have as reruns when I was little, Rowdy was played by Eastwood. There was also someone on Alias Smith And Jones that might've been an influence. Firehair, the 1969 version in DC's Showcase, was a Kubert creation. He wrote and drew it. He didn't appear much after that three-issue run, IIRC. Kubert did a nice job on the "white raised by Indians" trope. ASIDE: When wasn't Kubert at the top of his game?) It wouldn't surprise me in the least if the Yates/ Eastwood character was an influence on Hex. The Smith and Jones show was more spoofy, and appeared in the wake of the immensely successful Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid movie, so unless it was a guest star who might have inspired the creators of Jonah, I don't think any of the characters there would have been an real influence on the Hex series.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 30, 2020 19:00:50 GMT -5
Both Firehair and Son of Tomahawk are on the list to decide if They Ended to Soon.
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Post by Prince Hal on May 30, 2020 19:02:41 GMT -5
Both Firehair and Son of Tomahawk are on the list to decide if They Ended to Soon. They did.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 30, 2020 19:04:36 GMT -5
Both Firehair and Son of Tomahawk are on the list to decide if They Ended to Soon. They did. No spoilers!
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Post by junkmonkey on May 30, 2020 19:21:51 GMT -5
"He is the reason that the Ralph Macchio film has a little copyright notice at the end, that says copyright DC Comics (same with Starman)."
There was a Starman movie?
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Post by foxley on May 30, 2020 19:24:26 GMT -5
Brilliant summary of the history of Tomahawk, Prince Hal. (Sometimes our tastes are so similar it's scary.) And the different 'phases' the title went through are a fascinating microcosm of shifting tastes in comics. It is interesting that Tomahawk predates the Davy Crockett craze of the mid-1950s, although I suspect the title got a boost during that period. The character of Schroeder in Peanuts came out of the Davy Crockett craze. Charles Schulz was somewhat bemused by the phenomenon and wondered what it might be like if kids were obsessed with a difficult historical figure. So he took the character of Schroeder (who had appeared in the strip, but only as a baby), aged him up, and gave him a fascination with Beethoven. And the rest, as they say, is history.
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Post by foxley on May 30, 2020 19:26:55 GMT -5
"He is the reason that the Ralph Macchio film has a little copyright notice at the end, that says copyright DC Comics (same with Starman)." There was a Starman movie? Yes, but not the comic book Starman. It's a 1984 Jeff Bridges film about an alien stranded on Earth
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Post by codystarbuck on May 30, 2020 19:50:38 GMT -5
"He is the reason that the Ralph Macchio film has a little copyright notice at the end, that says copyright DC Comics (same with Starman)." There was a Starman movie? Red Stop Green Go Yellow go fast The film carries a trademark notice that Starman is a trademark of DC Comics. The World Wrestling Federation used to have to have a notice in advertising for merchandise that Hulk was a trademark of Marvel Comics, when they showed Hulk Hogan. I suspect it was largely to do because of the t-shirt tearing he would do when he entered the ring, like Banner turning into the Hulk. They also had to have a legal notice for the Ultimate Warrior, saying trademark Marvel Comics; though I never understood what that was based on. The name came for the Yul Brynner Movie and the basic look was yet another copy of The Road Warrior (and the first Mad Max), just like all the rest that followed the debut of the Road Warriors, Hawk and Animal, in 1983. The WWF also had to post a notice on the screen, in the late 90s, when Gangrel (Dave Heath, aka Vampire Warrior) debuted, as it was a trademark of White Wolf or some other RPG company.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 30, 2020 19:52:16 GMT -5
ps James Robinson's series was optioned for either tv or movies, back when it was still being published; but, hasn't ever progressed very far. I think you could have a pretty darn good HBO or Netflix-style series with Jack Knight and the rest.
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Post by Confessor on May 30, 2020 22:55:08 GMT -5
Starman with Jeff Bridges was a touching little film. A bit schmaltzy, yes, but still a charming film anyway. I first saw it in my teens and it made quite an impression.
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Post by Prince Hal on May 30, 2020 23:43:50 GMT -5
Brilliant summary of the history of Tomahawk, Prince Hal . (Sometimes our tastes are so similar it's scary.) And the different 'phases' the title went through are a fascinating microcosm of shifting tastes in comics. It is interesting that Tomahawk predates the Davy Crockett craze of the mid-1950s, although I suspect the title got a boost during that period. The character of Schroeder in Peanuts came out of the Davy Crockett craze. Charles Schulz was somewhat bemused by the phenomenon and wondered what it might be like if kids were obsessed with a difficult historical figure. So he took the character of Schroeder (who had appeared in the strip, but only as a baby), aged him up, and gave him a fascination with Beethoven. And the rest, as they say, is history. Yes, I've always wondered what inspired the creation of Tomahawk, b/c as you say, he long pre-dated the Crockett fad. There had been "frontier' movies like "Last of the Mohicans, "Drums Along the Mohawk," and the epic "Northwest Passage," but the latter two were released seven years before Tomahawk first appeared and none of the "Mohican" movies were world-beaters. In fact, movies set during the American Revolution had and continued to be box office duds. You just didn't see many of them at all. Maybe it was seen as a twist on the traditional Western, and it just happened to hit big.
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Post by junkmonkey on May 31, 2020 6:51:04 GMT -5
Starman with Jeff Bridges was a touching little film. A bit schmaltzy, yes, but still a charming film anyway. I first saw it in my teens and it made quite an impression. "Schmaltzy" is not a word you'd normally associate with John Carpenter but you're right. I too saw this many years ago and it has a little warm, fuzzy place in my memory.
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Post by Ozymandias on Jun 10, 2020 11:46:21 GMT -5
I sometimes receive TPBs bagged. What size should I be looking for, if I want to buy my own? I'm guessing I'd need at least two sizes, for thin ones (about a hundred pages) and thick ones (200-300).
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Post by junkmonkey on Jun 10, 2020 14:50:55 GMT -5
I sometimes receive TPBs bagged. What size should I be looking for, if I want to buy my own? I'm guessing I'd need at least two sizes, for thin ones (about a hundred pages) and thick ones (200-300). erm... I may be missing something here but why don't you measure one or two of the bags you already have? Take the TPB out and get a rule to it.
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