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Post by Prince Hal on May 13, 2017 11:28:56 GMT -5
I knew that somewhere there'd be a story that would make this pun....   |
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Post by Hoosier X on May 13, 2017 11:39:04 GMT -5
Even after all these years, it boggles my mind that Jerry Lewis had his own DC comic book for YEARS AND YEARS!
I keep meaning to check out eBay and scare up a low-grade copy of an issue of Jerry Lewis.
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Post by Prince Hal on May 13, 2017 13:58:34 GMT -5
Even after all these years, it boggles my mind that Jerry Lewis had his own DC comic book for YEARS AND YEARS! I keep meaning to check out eBay and scare up a low-grade copy of an issue of Jerry Lewis. Which he shared for a long time with Dean Martin! I liked the late issues of Bob Hope far more than any Jerry Lewis books I happened upon. And, hey, DC also put out books based on Dale Evans, Pat Boone, Ozzie and Harriet, and Alan Ladd, not to mention Pvt. Doberman and Bilko! |
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Post by Farrar on May 13, 2017 16:26:48 GMT -5
OT: The credits caught my eye; they're rather like what Stan and Marvel had been doing, that is: irreverent and jokey, a good fit for a book like JL. I checked a few older JL issues and it looks like this approach was adopted by ed. Murray Boltinoff for both the JL and Bob Hope books, and he'd instituted it a few months earlier with JL #91 and Bob Hope #96. |
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Post by Prince Hal on May 13, 2017 16:35:25 GMT -5
OT: The credits caught my eye; they're rather like what Stan and Marvel had been doing, that is: irreverent and jokey, a good fit for a book like JL. I checked a few older JL issues and it looks like this approach was adopted by ed. Murray Boltinoff for both the JL and Bob Hope books, and he'd instituted it a few months earlier with JL #91 and Bob Hope #96. Boltinoff and Drake were "Marvelly" at DC long before others, it seems to me. BTW, I'm writing a bit about Boltinoff in the next Comic Lovers' Memories, out soon! |
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Post by Farrar on May 13, 2017 16:57:13 GMT -5
Boltinoff and Drake were "Marvelly" at DC long before others, it seems to me. BTW, I'm writing a bit about Boltinoff in the next Comic Lovers' Memories, out soon! Excellent news! I'll be looking for that installment to-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow...  |
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Post by Rob Allen on May 13, 2017 23:50:21 GMT -5
Just thought of a subtle Shakespearean reference in Marvel's feminist superheroine book The Cat - one of the supporting cast was named Mal Donalbain. In Macbeth, the sons of King Duncan are Malcolm and Donalbain.
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Post by foxley on May 14, 2017 4:03:49 GMT -5
Prince Hal's post about villains named Falstaff reminded me of this. In "The Joker's Crime Customs" in Batman #63 the Joker commits a series of crimes while dressed as great comic characters of literature. This includes Falstaff, and he invades of production of Hamlet in doing so:  |
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Post by foxley on May 16, 2017 7:51:26 GMT -5
Another cover gag from Sabrina. What intrigues me about this cover is not the presence of Will but one of his co-stars. Is George Bernard Shaw really a name that is going to carry a lot of resonance with the target demographic for this book? Still, the lit geek in me approves.  |
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Post by Confessor on May 16, 2017 10:04:54 GMT -5
I just thought of this one, but in Star Wars #59 from 1982, Luke Skywalker and Lando Calrissian battle a worm-like Watchbeast that happens to be named Caesar. Writer David Michelinie takes the opportunity to have Luke paraphrase Shakespeare, when he has the young Rebel say, "We didn't come to feed Caesar...we came to bury him." Oh dear.   |
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Post by Prince Hal on May 16, 2017 15:28:02 GMT -5
Okay, check this out. It's from Mystic Comics 5...  And it features the first adventure of the disturbingly named Super-Slave:  The synopsis, courtesy of the GCD: "Cappy (an elderly fisherman) and his daughter Jane are shipwrecked on an island. Cappy scratches an old bracelet he finds on the beach, releasing the Super-Slave who must now do his bidding...   Cappy has him rescue Jane, and later needs Super-Slave's services again after they stumble onto a criminal organization."  The name of the adventure in which S-S made his one and only appearance? "The Tempest." "O, brave new comics that has such creatures in it..." |
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Post by Prince Hal on May 16, 2017 16:30:41 GMT -5
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Post by foxley on May 17, 2017 3:47:31 GMT -5
More bad Shakespearean puns.  The story in this issue owed more to the then current movie Cleopatra than to Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra. |
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Post by Prince Hal on May 17, 2017 14:20:10 GMT -5
And Iago's words haunt the DC Universe...   |
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Post by Farrar on May 17, 2017 14:31:22 GMT -5
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