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Post by Cei-U! on Dec 14, 2016 0:10:40 GMT -5
Disclaimer: Frankly, I think this year's 12 Days of Classic Comics is an okay subject. Since we did it in 2007, it just seems there's nothing new. I know we're going to have lots and lots of repeats, which I'm fine with, but c'mon... there's hundreds and subjects we could've used instead of recycling. Frankly, 'bip, you're right. I've been so busy working on the book (and dealing with recurring back pain issues) that I didn't even think about CCC until the day I posted the Advance Warning thread. Someone had suggested revisiting the theme at the end of last year's event so I went with that, and I limited it to movies and TV shows without a minimum age requirement to minimize the amount of time I'd have to spend rules lawyering. It's the way it had to be if there was going to be a 2016 Classic Comics Christmas at all. Cei-U! I summon the plain truth! |
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Post by coke & comics on Dec 14, 2016 0:44:44 GMT -5
Day #12 Marvel Superheroes 1966
As a kid , my love for comics was reinforced by this show that came on everyday in syndication during the early evening. It incorporated the original artwork in the worst animation this side of the Flintstones, but I loved the three chapters a night that made up the Adventures of the Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, Captain America and Namor. My favorite was Thor ( of course) and I still remember the adaptation of his fight with Hercules. I don’t think those videos are available , but my memories will suffice. This was my introduction to superheroes. Long before I picked up my first comic, I knew the characters from this. In fact, it's probably why I picked up an Avengers book off the stand as my first comic. |
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Post by coke & comics on Dec 14, 2016 1:04:01 GMT -5
#12: Barbarella (1968)  I won't lie, I watched this movie as a teenager just to see Jane Fonda's birthday suit. I don't remember much else. I won't lie, I rewatched the opening a few months ago for the same reason. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 14, 2016 2:45:51 GMT -5
Sunday mornings used to be the haven of old movies on the local network stations before the advent of cable. My dad loved watching them and I was into knights in shining armor so he sat me down to watch this gem from 1954 sometime in the mid to late 70s...  Prince Valiant It's more a favorite because of the circumstances of how I discovered it than for the film itself, but it's one filled with a lot of happy memories. -M I heard about it in the World Encyclopedia of Comics; but, didn't see it until the dawn of the 90s, at a video store. i don't know what was sillier the gigantic swords (which look exactly like they are cut from wood) or Robert Wagner in that hair. I'd love to see someone do a serious and respectful version of this, on a real budget. This is somewhat typical of similar films of the period (Knights of the Round Table, Black Shield of Falworth, King's Thief, etc..); but, not quite up there with The Adv. of Robin Hood or Ivanhoe. I would have loved to have seen it when I was a kid and would have been more forgiving. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2016 2:58:52 GMT -5
Sunday mornings used to be the haven of old movies on the local network stations before the advent of cable. My dad loved watching them and I was into knights in shining armor so he sat me down to watch this gem from 1954 sometime in the mid to late 70s... Prince Valiant It's more a favorite because of the circumstances of how I discovered it than for the film itself, but it's one filled with a lot of happy memories. -M I heard about it in the World Encyclopedia of Comics; but, didn't see it until the dawn of the 90s, at a video store. i don't know what was sillier the gigantic swords (which look exactly like they are cut from wood) or Robert Wagner in that hair. I'd love to see someone do a serious and respectful version of this, on a real budget. This is somewhat typical of similar films of the period (Knights of the Round Table, Black Shield of Falworth, King's Thief, etc..); but, not quite up there with The Adv. of Robin Hood or Ivanhoe. I would have loved to have seen it when I was a kid and would have been more forgiving. Those were exactly the kinds of movies I loved as a kid which led my dad to having me watch this one. Errol Flynn as Robin Hood was the pinnacle (I watched anything Errol Flynn I could get my hands on) but Knights of the Round Table and Ivanhoe were also favorites. My dad was more into war movies and westerns, but we watched a lot of movies on Sunday mornings, often while working on model kits at a card table in the living room. Sundays were usually his only day off (he was a butcher working for a local chain of markets at the time) and Sunday morning was usually the only time I got to spend with him when he wasn't too tired to do something, so this movie represents a lot of nostalgia and memories in its selection, moreso than the content itself. -M |
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 14, 2016 3:30:09 GMT -5
I heard about it in the World Encyclopedia of Comics; but, didn't see it until the dawn of the 90s, at a video store. i don't know what was sillier the gigantic swords (which look exactly like they are cut from wood) or Robert Wagner in that hair. I'd love to see someone do a serious and respectful version of this, on a real budget. This is somewhat typical of similar films of the period (Knights of the Round Table, Black Shield of Falworth, King's Thief, etc..); but, not quite up there with The Adv. of Robin Hood or Ivanhoe. I would have loved to have seen it when I was a kid and would have been more forgiving. Those were exactly the kinds of movies I loved as a kid which led my dad to having me watch this one. Errol Flynn as Robin Hood was the pinnacle (I watched anything Errol Flynn I could get my hands on) but Knights of the Round Table and Ivanhoe were also favorites. My dad was more into war movies and westerns, but we watched a lot of movies on Sunday mornings, often while working on model kits at a card table in the living room. Sundays were usually his only day off (he was a butcher working for a local chain of markets at the time) and Sunday morning was usually the only time I got to spend with him when he wasn't too tired to do something, so this movie represents a lot of nostalgia and memories in its selection, moreso than the content itself. -M I didn't get to see a lot of that until high school, when we got cable, with WGN and Family Classics, on Sunday afternoons. Then, I got to see The Black Shield of Falworth, all of Flynn's classic swashbucklers, Ivanhoe, Zorro (1940 version), and The Prisoner of Zenda. With my dad, it was the Pink Panther series. Movies were a rare treat; but, my dad (a school teacher) took us to see the Panther films, starting with return of the Pink Panther. he didn't watch a lot of tv; but, he would watch Bugs Bunny with us, on Saturday morning, after making us a breakfast of pancakes; also Dastardly & Muttley and Their Flying Machines. He had a lifelong love of airplanes (also served as a maintenance chief on the B-36 bomber, in the Air Force) and would watch any aviation themed tv show or movie. We watched Robert Conrad in Baa Baa Black Sheep, The Spirit of St Louis, Flight of the Phoenix, Strategic Air Command (which was more personal to him, as that's where he served and that was his plane), Twelve O'Clock High, The Blue Max...anything with planes. I do also remember watching part of Doc Savage with him, though I don't think he ever read the pulps. I think it was more of the period adventure. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2016 3:40:06 GMT -5
Those were exactly the kinds of movies I loved as a kid which led my dad to having me watch this one. Errol Flynn as Robin Hood was the pinnacle (I watched anything Errol Flynn I could get my hands on) but Knights of the Round Table and Ivanhoe were also favorites. My dad was more into war movies and westerns, but we watched a lot of movies on Sunday mornings, often while working on model kits at a card table in the living room. Sundays were usually his only day off (he was a butcher working for a local chain of markets at the time) and Sunday morning was usually the only time I got to spend with him when he wasn't too tired to do something, so this movie represents a lot of nostalgia and memories in its selection, moreso than the content itself. -M I didn't get to see a lot of that until high school, when we got cable, with WGN and Family Classics, on Sunday afternoons. Then, I got to see The Black Shield of Falworth, all of Flynn's classic swashbucklers, Ivanhoe, Zorro (1940 version), and The Prisoner of Zenda. With my dad, it was the Pink Panther series. Movies were a rare treat; but, my dad (a school teacher) took us to see the Panther films, starting with return of the Pink Panther. he didn't watch a lot of tv; but, he would watch Bugs Bunny with us, on Saturday morning, after making us a breakfast of pancakes; also Dastardly & Muttley and Their Flying Machines. He had a lifelong love of airplanes (also served as a maintenance chief on the B-36 bomber, in the Air Force) and would watch any aviation themed tv show or movie. We watched Robert Conrad in Baa Baa Black Sheep, The Spirit of St Louis, Flight of the Phoenix, Strategic Air Command (which was more personal to him, as that's where he served and that was his plane), Twelve O'Clock High, The Blue Max...anything with planes. I do also remember watching part of Doc Savage with him, though I don't think he ever read the pulps. I think it was more of the period adventure. Baa Baa Black Sheep was also a favorite in our house and I always picked out model kits of planes I saw in that series when I had the chance. I watched Doc Savage with my dad a few years after this (we had then moved to Maine and it was on a cable movie network, so this was circa '81-'82) and my mom was htere too and it caused some embarrassment as I think it was Savage or the villain called someone a prick, to which my mom blushed and went wide-eyed and my dad had to explain why she had reacted that way as I hadn't encountered that word previously. Ahh the not so fond memories of embarrassing father-son moments.  -M |
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 14, 2016 4:01:11 GMT -5
Let the madness commence! Of course I know today’s pick is terrible. How could I not? It’s David freakin’ Hasslehoff in an eyepatch, for crying out loud! All the same, I have an inexplicable fondness for #12. Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD  This 1998 made-for-TV movie (presumably a pilot for an ongoing series) makes a sincere effort to translate the Jim Steranko Strange Tales Fury to life and it succeeds on several levels. Acting is not one of them. The Hoff is not convincing as the aging super-spy and Lissa Rinni’s Val has all the depth of a Barbie doll, but both are positively Shakespearian compared to Sandra Hess’ Viper, who chews the scenery with a wild abandon that makes me howl with laughter every time. Still, any SHIELD movie that gives us Tim Dugan (minus the derby, handlebar mustache, and silly nickname), Gabe Jones, Alexander Pierce, Baron Strucker, Arnim Zola, HYDRA, and a surprisingly cool helicarrier given a TV budget can’t be all bad, right? (crickets) Okay, it can. I don’t care. NFAoS has fallen a place or two from its spot on my 2007 list but it remains one of my guiltiest pleasures, one I feel compelled to watch whenever it pops up on TV Cei-U! I summon Sam Jackson... please!! One thing about this, though; it wasn't so much the Steranko Nick Fury as it was the Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD series that followed Nick Fury vs SHIELD. To me, it had a far stronger vibe of that material than it did Steranko. I still long for a straight on Steranko SHIELD (complete with SHIELD agents swinging from the Hellicarrier to a sky fortress, via grappling hooks) movie; but, it'll never happen. Would be lightyears better than the tv series. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Dec 14, 2016 10:40:04 GMT -5
On the First Day of Classic Comics Christmas I give unto thee...A Green Skinned Goliath on the World Tree: The Incredible Hulk Returns (1988) In addition to being my first introduction to Thor and the Incredible Hulk, which are both favorites of mine to this day, this made for TV movie is(along with reruns of the Adam West Batman show) one of my earliest comic book memories. I was only three at the time but I vividly remember getting to stay up "late" to be able to watch this. I was told it was going to be taped so I could go to bed and watch it in the morning but when the VCR broke my Dad came and got me out of bed and we ended up watching it together on the floor with me wrapped in my superman blanket.
At the time I thought it was the greatest, but upon repeated viewings it feels more than a little hammy and unlike with Batman I'm not sure it's really meant to be. Still, it's a lot of fun to watch and I do think it's a pretty good look for Thor. |
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Post by Cei-U! on Dec 14, 2016 10:58:42 GMT -5
On the First Day of Classic Comics Christmas I give unto thee...A Green Skinned Goliath on the World Tree: The Incredible Hulk Returns (1988)In addition to being my first introduction to Thor and the Incredible Hulk, which are both favorites of mine to this day, this made for TV movie is(along with reruns of the Adam West Batman show) one of my earliest comic book memories. I was only three at the time but I vividly remember getting to stay up "late" to be able to watch this. I was told it was going to be taped so I could go to bed and watch it in the morning but when the VCR broke my Dad came and got me out of bed and we ended up watching it together on the floor with me wrapped in my superman blanket.
At the time I thought it was the greatest, but upon repeated viewings it feels more than a little hammy and unlike with Batman I'm not sure it's really meant to be. Still, it's a lot of fun to watch and I do think it's a pretty good look for Thor. Cool! It was while watching the first airing that I drew this:  Cei-U! I summon the inspiration! |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Dec 14, 2016 11:29:17 GMT -5
On the First Day of Classic Comics Christmas I give unto thee...A Green Skinned Goliath on the World Tree: The Incredible Hulk Returns (1988)In addition to being my first introduction to Thor and the Incredible Hulk, which are both favorites of mine to this day, this made for TV movie is(along with reruns of the Adam West Batman show) one of my earliest comic book memories. I was only three at the time but I vividly remember getting to stay up "late" to be able to watch this. I was told it was going to be taped so I could go to bed and watch it in the morning but when the VCR broke my Dad came and got me out of bed and we ended up watching it together on the floor with me wrapped in my superman blanket.
At the time I thought it was the greatest, but upon repeated viewings it feels more than a little hammy and unlike with Batman I'm not sure it's really meant to be. Still, it's a lot of fun to watch and I do think it's a pretty good look for Thor. Cool! It was while watching the first airing that I drew this: Cei-U! I summon the inspiration! Ha, that's awesome. At three, I'm pretty sure my drawings weren't any where as near as good as that but I'm sure it inspired me too. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Dec 14, 2016 12:50:18 GMT -5
On the First Day of Classic Comics Christmas I give unto thee...A Green Skinned Goliath on the World Tree: The Incredible Hulk Returns (1988)In addition to being my first introduction to Thor and the Incredible Hulk, which are both favorites of mine to this day, this made for TV movie is(along with reruns of the Adam West Batman show) one of my earliest comic book memories. I was only three at the time but I vividly remember getting to stay up "late" to be able to watch this. I was told it was going to be taped so I could go to bed and watch it in the morning but when the VCR broke my Dad came and got me out of bed and we ended up watching it together on the floor with me wrapped in my superman blanket.
At the time I thought it was the greatest, but upon repeated viewings it feels more than a little hammy and unlike with Batman I'm not sure it's really meant to be. Still, it's a lot of fun to watch and I do think it's a pretty good look for Thor. To this day I find Ferigno's Hulk more impressive than the CGI one from the current movies. |
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Post by shaxper on Dec 14, 2016 18:20:16 GMT -5
Disclaimer: Frankly, I think this year's 12 Days of Classic Comics is an okay subject. Since we did it in 2007, it just seems there's nothing new. I know we're going to have lots and lots of repeats, which I'm fine with, but c'mon... there's hundreds and subjects we could've used instead of recycling. Frankly, 'bip, you're right. I've been so busy working on the book (and dealing with recurring back pain issues) that I didn't even think about CCC until the day I posted the Advance Warning thread. Someone had suggested revisiting the theme at the end of last year's event so I went with that, and I limited it to movies and TV shows without a minimum age requirement to minimize the amount of time I'd have to spend rules lawyering. It's the way it had to be if there was going to be a 2016 Classic Comics Christmas at all. Cei-U! I summon the plain truth! Personally, I think it was an excellent choice. When we did this in 2007, there was significantly less material to choose from. So revisiting seven years later and narrowing the focus to balance the wealth of multi-media adaptations that have occurred between 2007 and 2016, seemed like an excellent decision to me. I'm glad it was efficient, Kurt, but it was a good choice too. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2016 18:24:29 GMT -5
#12: Barbarella (1968) My first pick for the 2016 Classic Comics Christmas is Roger Vadim's psychedelic and supremely far out take on Jean-Claude Forest's Barbarella. Though I do like reading the Barbarella comics, the movie adaptation is definitely my preferred way to enjoy this material. For one thing, the movie has the extremely "va-va-voom!" Jane Fonder in it, as the eponymous scantily-clad astronaut herself, but the film also takes the – already pretty strange – comic and spikes it with a healthy dose of LSD. The result is a trashy, groovy, psychedelic masterpiece which, even though it takes some fairly big liberties with the source material, gives Forest's sexually liberated heroine and slightly absurd sci-fi setting a mind-altering, technicolor veneer, while charging it with the playful eroticism of the late '60s sexual revolution. Barbarella is by no means a great film. This is a movie that is poorly acted, clumsily directed and hamstrung by its minuscule budget. But in spite of that, the film is a lot of silly, kitschy fun, while somehow also managing to be downright creepy on occasion. From that Zero-G striptease during the opening credits, to the sight of Barbarella writhing with pleasure inside the Excessive Machine, this is a film that is equal parts sci-fi, parody, psychsploitation and soft porn – and that's just the way I like it!  Every year, this event winds up taking a bite out of my wallet (part of the charm of it really). I saw Barbarella on The Movie Channel when I was a freshman in high school and liked it for a lot of the same reasons everyone here did, but didn't learn it was originally a comic until years later. I have never read the originals and always meant to track them down, and today as I walk into my lcs the first thing I see on display is this...  the new Humanoids edition with a new translation/adaptation by Kelly Sue DeConnick. Needless to say it went home with me. -M |
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Post by shaxper on Dec 14, 2016 18:41:21 GMT -5
Still, it's a lot of fun to watch and I do think it's a pretty good look for Thor. [/div][/div][/quote] I liked this 1980's look better  But that memory with your dad is priceless. Thanks much for sharing it. |
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