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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2022 20:32:55 GMT -5
Just have to say...I always loved the Monica Rambeau Captain Marvel. Great costume, cool powers, super likeable, she was one of the best parts of the 80's Avengers IMO.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 3, 2022 21:46:07 GMT -5
Scooby-Doo Team-Up is a fantastic title (thank you, DC Infinite, although I did buy two trades years ago). Great adventures, great dialogue, e.g. Batman referred to criminals as a cowardly and superstitious lot in one story, so Shaggy and Scooby replied, “So are we.” I love how the likes of the Super Friends and Teen Titans realise that ghost hunting is not their expertise, so call on the Scooby Gang. The Scooby Gang/Flintstones team-up, which led to a Scooby Gang/Jetsons team-up, is golden. I still feel my favourite Scooby title is the 70s Marvel series, though. I’ve only read them in black and white, they were reprinted in an annual here. Need to read them in colour. Those stories are great. I wonder, in an alternate universe, where Marvel publishes Scooby-Doo comics, is there a Scooby-Doo Team-Up where the Scooby Gang team up with the likes of Spider-Man, Iron Man and Thor? The Marvel Scooby Doos were primarily the product of Mark Evanier and Dan Spiegle, who had been doing them for Western/Gold Key, when they had the license. They also did stories for foreign markets. I haven't read everything ME has written on his blog or elsewhere; but, I suspect Hanna-Barbera insisted on them doing the series, at Marvel, as they had at Gold Key and for foreign markets, as they were pleased with their work. No idea why Marvel didn't mix Scoob into their world; but, it might have been because the property was only licensed from Hanna-Barbera, while, at DC, it is all owned by Warner (Ted Turner bought the Hanna-Barbera studio & properties, then merged with Time-Warner). Lot more leeway when you all work for the same people. Marvel did a little bit, with Peter Porker, with the Star line, which they owned and they previously had Spidey Super Stories, done in conjunction with The Electric Company and the Children's Television Workshop. There, you had Easy Reader and some other from the show turn up in stories with Spidey and other Marvel heroes (though more background than anything else) and Spidey appeared in segments on The Electric Company. Easy Reader was a character portrayed by Morgan Freeman; so, he has, technically, appeared in the Marvel Universe! Also, Batman & Robin had teamed up with the gang on the New Scooby Doo Movies, twice (since Hanna-Barbera had picked up the rights to do cartoons with them and the Justice League, leading to the Super Friends). The Scooby Doo Team-Up book kind of grew out of that crossover.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2022 22:40:31 GMT -5
Scooby-Doo Team-Up is a fantastic title (thank you, DC Infinite, although I did buy two trades years ago). Great adventures, great dialogue, e.g. Batman referred to criminals as a cowardly and superstitious lot in one story, so Shaggy and Scooby replied, “So are we.” I love how the likes of the Super Friends and Teen Titans realise that ghost hunting is not their expertise, so call on the Scooby Gang. The Scooby Gang/Flintstones team-up, which led to a Scooby Gang/Jetsons team-up, is golden. I still feel my favourite Scooby title is the 70s Marvel series, though. I’ve only read them in black and white, they were reprinted in an annual here. Need to read them in colour. Those stories are great. I wonder, in an alternate universe, where Marvel publishes Scooby-Doo comics, is there a Scooby-Doo Team-Up where the Scooby Gang team up with the likes of Spider-Man, Iron Man and Thor? The Marvel Scooby Doos were primarily the product of Mark Evanier and Dan Spiegle, who had been doing them for Western/Gold Key, when they had the license. They also did stories for foreign markets. I haven't read everything ME has written on his blog or elsewhere; but, I suspect Hanna-Barbera insisted on them doing the series, at Marvel, as they had at Gold Key and for foreign markets, as they were pleased with their work. No idea why Marvel didn't mix Scoob into their world; but, it might have been because the property was only licensed from Hanna-Barbera, while, at DC, it is all owned by Warner (Ted Turner bought the Hanna-Barbera studio & properties, then merged with Time-Warner). Lot more leeway when you all work for the same people. Marvel did a little bit, with Peter Porker, with the Star line, which they owned and they previously had Spidey Super Stories, done in conjunction with The Electric Company and the Children's Television Workshop. There, you had Easy Reader and some other from the show turn up in stories with Spidey and other Marvel heroes (though more background than anything else) and Spidey appeared in segments on The Electric Company. Easy Reader was a character portrayed by Morgan Freeman; so, he has, technically, appeared in the Marvel Universe! Also, Batman & Robin had teamed up with the gang on the New Scooby Doo Movies, twice (since Hanna-Barbera had picked up the rights to do cartoons with them and the Justice League, leading to the Super Friends). The Scooby Doo Team-Up book kind of grew out of that crossover. Well the whole idea of the New Scooby Doo Movies, which the Batman crossovers were part of, was for the gang to team up with other well known figures to solve a mystery-whether is was Batman nd Robin or Sonny and Cher, the Globetrotters or the Addams Family, so I think the Team-up book is an offspring of that whole series rather than just the Batman/Robin team-ups. The core concept that the Scooby Gang reaming with someone else to make a story stems form that, and it was a formula followed in a lot of the Scooby original animated movies long before the DC team up comic as well. That formula of teaming Mystery Inc. with others to tell stories is ingrain the Scooby DNA by now, not something unique to the Batman/Scooby team ups. -M
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Post by berkley on Jun 3, 2022 22:41:17 GMT -5
Just have to say...I always loved the Monica Rambeau Captain Marvel. Great costume, cool powers, super likeable, she was one of the best parts of the 80's Avengers IMO.
She was a character that came along after my time as a Marvel reader but that's a nice image. As always, I think it would have been better for the character to give her her own name instead of recycling that of a previous (male) hero. See also: She-Hulk, Ms. Marvel, Lady Bullseye, Thor-Girl, Jane Foster Thor, etc, etc.
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Post by tarkintino on Jun 3, 2022 23:22:22 GMT -5
Largely because they were often purchased in bulk by churches and given away in Sunday schools, church schools and vacation bible schools. They were distributed mainly to kids and “young adults”, and were considered pretty much disposable. The only place I ever saw them outside of a church-related function was at a Christian bookstore. The only place I saw them for sale (on a spinner rack, no less), was at the Piece Goods fabric stores. It was the most boring place ever, for a 10 year old boy... they sold fabric, patterns, thread, etc. My mom and grandma would drag me there on Saturdays, and my grandma would "reward" me by buying me a couple of Spire Archies. Uh, gee, thanks, Grandma... Some of the Spire Archies had some well-written stories, often more mature than some attempts at "issue" subjects attempted by DC and Marvel.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 6, 2022 8:15:05 GMT -5
Captain Marvel JR. is the worst code name ever invented. There I said it.
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Post by tartanphantom on Jun 6, 2022 8:57:58 GMT -5
Captain Marvel JR. is the worst code name ever invented. There I said it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2022 9:31:33 GMT -5
Captain Marvel JR. is the worst code name ever invented. There I said it. Worse than D-Man? -M
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Post by majestic on Jun 6, 2022 9:32:01 GMT -5
Captain Marvel JR. is the worst code name ever invented. There I said it. and Mary Marvel is #2. And I am a big Marvel Family fan!
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Post by majestic on Jun 6, 2022 9:33:23 GMT -5
Captain Marvel JR. is the worst code name ever invented. There I said it. Worse than D-Man? -M good point.
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Post by badwolf on Jun 6, 2022 11:19:40 GMT -5
I like Mary Marvel. Fat Marvel on the other hand...
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Post by tarkintino on Jun 6, 2022 13:40:49 GMT -5
Captain Marvel JR. is the worst code name ever invented. There I said it. I take it Sandy the Golden Boy (Sandman's former sidekick) missed your glance when posting about bad codenames. I mean really--his name sounds like the kind of nickname of a child star of the 30s, and gives no indication that he's super- anything.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 6, 2022 13:46:39 GMT -5
I still maintain that all of the above are preferable to Pinky, the Whiz Kid.
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Post by Prince Hal on Jun 6, 2022 14:47:20 GMT -5
Roy the Super-Boy (the Wizard's oddly named companion) was no bargain, either, especially when he teamed up with the Shield's "better half," Dusty, and they both made jackasses of themselves.
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Post by impulse on Jun 6, 2022 15:07:53 GMT -5
This last one reminds me of Ace and Gary.
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