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Post by Rob Allen on Apr 27, 2017 17:07:56 GMT -5
If it weren't for Shakespeare, Stan and Roy would have had to make up titles for half their stories.
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Post by foxley on Apr 27, 2017 17:34:10 GMT -5
Jughead as MacBeth? Sure, why not?  |
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 28, 2017 14:54:50 GMT -5
Straman meets Shakespeare in Adventure Comics #80, "The Time Machine Crimes." We know it's the Earth-Two Shakespeare because he refers to "Burnham" Wood.  |
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 28, 2017 15:01:30 GMT -5
The Blackhawks see someone familiar when they go back in time in #168.  |
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 28, 2017 15:03:31 GMT -5
And Superman helps Will overcome writer's block by feeding him an idea for a play in Superman 44, proving once and for all that Edward de Vere did not write the Scottish play...  |
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 28, 2017 15:17:05 GMT -5
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Post by foxley on Apr 28, 2017 20:37:44 GMT -5
Storm quotes the classics:  (Although I question the wisdom of asking to be struck by lightning.) |
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Post by foxley on Apr 28, 2017 20:43:46 GMT -5
Straman meets Shakespeare in Adventure Comics #80, "The Time Machine Crimes." We know it's the Earth-Two Shakespeare because he refers to "Burnham" Wood. If the crooks wanted ideas from Shakespeare, wouldn't it have been easier to just read the plays, rather than going to all the trouble of building a time machine, travelling back to Elizabethan England, kidnapping Shakespeare, and getting him to describe the plot of his plays? Some people are just addicted to complexity, aren't they?  |
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 29, 2017 12:07:42 GMT -5
Gold Key Goodness from Arnold Drake and Jose Garcia Lopez... ![]()  |
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 29, 2017 23:33:18 GMT -5
Dexter Myles was the Vitamin Flintheart of The Flash   |
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Post by Batflunkie on Apr 30, 2017 0:01:49 GMT -5
 From Green Lantern #64 I think that might be the first time I've ever seen Hal sport a "5 'O Clock Shadow". Kind of expect that more from Guy honestly I love Hamlet. I've read it probably a dozen times. I've seen it onstage about three times. I've seen a bunch of the film versions, including the 1921 German version in which Hamlet is a woman masquerading as a man! I used to have a reprint of the Classics Illustrated version of Hamlet. It was great! I love how the soliloquy is just a single one-page panel with small Hamlet in the center of a big room and the soliloquy is crammed into a single word balloon. An editor probably thought: This is so awesome, you don't need to pretty it up with any gimmicks or anything. Words. WORDS. WORDS!One of my favorite fan-films is Chris Notarile's "Punisher '79-'82". In the first one, Jigsaw captures frank and holds him captive in a theater until the mob bosses arrive. First thing he does to keep himself, his boys, and Frank occupied is read Hamlet. Frank of course sees little humor in it and just wants Jigsaw to kill him and get it over with. Personally, I'm quite partial to the iteration of Hamlet (1961) that appeared towards the tail end of MST3K's run on Sci-Fi Not sure what that's from, but in'69 Jack did costume designs for a production of Julius Caesar.   More hereOh, to be able to go back and time and see that play first hand would have been a real treat~ |
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Post by foxley on Apr 30, 2017 2:22:55 GMT -5
Insert your own 'ghost writers' joke here:  |
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Post by Farrar on Apr 30, 2017 15:41:36 GMT -5
Thanks, Hal! And fwiw that Lady D story was reprinted in a 1971 Lois Lane comic.  |
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Post by Farrar on Apr 30, 2017 16:11:04 GMT -5
This is turning into an incredibly informative thread! Looking forward to reading that Batman/Hamlet pitch. Thank you all! Thomas Wayne's ambitious brother was behind the murder, made to look like a hold-up! Martha isn't killed; she marries the murdering brother! Thomas Wayne's ghost, dressed in the bat costume he was wearing from the story "The First Batman," tells Bruce "Become a bat! Avenge me!" James Gordon was Thomas Wayne's main advisor. He has a lot of advice for his son, James Jr, that surprisingly doesn't stop him from becoming a murdering sociopath. James Gordon has a daughter Barbara who is so overcome by grief at all the things happening in the play that she lets her guard down and is attacked and crippled by the Joker, who is now the King of Norway for some reason. Alfred is Bruce's confidant. When he expresses great wonder at the story told by Bruce, Bruce responds "There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy, Alfred." Um, I'm not sure where it goes from here. Maybe Two-Face and Hush could be Rosencrantz and Guildenstern? Mr. Byrne actually did a Hamlet-Gertrude-Claudius spin in his X-Men Hidden Years #14-15, with Warren trying to stop his evil uncle from romancing Warren's widowed mother. The story in #14 is titled: "Yet No More Like My Father..." |
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Post by foxley on May 1, 2017 0:54:21 GMT -5
Just a variant cover with no other Shakespeare connection, because I was hurriedly looking for something for today's contribution. Still on topic though.  |
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