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Post by electricmastro on Jan 21, 2020 14:20:44 GMT -5
Editorial oversight isn't always up to snuff in comics, resulting in some bloopers and blunders. Here are two doozies:  We're not going to mention three-toed Hulk? I suspect that was Stan and Jack attempting to give the Hulk a more alien quality to him by having differently numbered body parts, but I guess it didn’t work out. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2020 14:30:44 GMT -5
Hey, in 1989's The Trial of the Incredible Hulk, a bearded David Banner changes into a beardless Hulk (three times!). If the metamorphosis causes a bearded Banner to change into a beardless Hulk, then I guess the logical suspension of disbelief is to accept Banner's five toes become the Hulk's three toes!  |
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Post by Farrar on Jan 21, 2020 17:58:24 GMT -5
Jack Kirby accidentally drew Reed Richards with two left hands in Fantastic Four #88. Always wondered why Sinnott didn't correct it in the inking stage. And I guess Stan or production didn't notice it (and have M. Severin or Romita Sr., both of whom did a lot of art corrections back then, redo the hand). Or maybe it was decided not to mess with it, as it's certainly a most impressive piece of art! |
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Post by Farrar on Jan 21, 2020 18:07:14 GMT -5
Avengers #36: At that time Hawkeye often called Cap "Winghead", but here he refers to Cap as "Web-Head" (Spidey's nickname).  Then in Avengers #38, it's Pietro who's speaking but Cap addresses Wanda.  Both bloopers were mentioned by readers in subsequent letter columns. Roy Thomas had just taken over the Avengers writing duties from Stan. |
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Post by Farrar on Jan 21, 2020 18:25:56 GMT -5
From Fantastic Four #18.  |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 21, 2020 18:30:28 GMT -5
From Fantastic Four #18. This makes the dynamics of the FF much more interesting if you assume it's a colorist error. |
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Post by dbutler69 on Jan 21, 2020 18:57:27 GMT -5
Some of these seem like they must be photoshopped, they're so blatant. Hilarious.  |
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Post by MDG on Jan 21, 2020 19:59:41 GMT -5
Maybe Stan Lee should’ve hired himself a good editor
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Post by Farrar on Jan 21, 2020 22:17:55 GMT -5
And let's not overlook this bit of Zenn-Lavian logic, from Fantastic Four #61  |
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Jan 21, 2020 22:36:21 GMT -5
Wow - waiting for a DC blooper to show up!
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Post by badwolf on Jan 23, 2020 10:15:04 GMT -5
Because of this I grew up with the wrong interpretation of that phrase (it was the first time I'd heard it). |
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Post by Phil Maurice on Jan 23, 2020 12:27:51 GMT -5
Because of this I grew up with the wrong interpretation of that phrase (it was the first time I'd heard it). I feel you. It was either Len Wein or Marv Wolfman who routinely used "penultimate" to mean "ultimate." I was in college before I learned the difference. |
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Post by rberman on Jan 23, 2020 12:49:25 GMT -5
Because of this I grew up with the wrong interpretation of that phrase (it was the first time I'd heard it). I feel you. It was either Len Wein or Marv Wolfman who routinely used "penultimate" to mean "ultimate." I was in college before I learned the difference. Just like everybody uses "epicenter" to mean "center." |
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Post by badwolf on Jan 23, 2020 13:27:45 GMT -5
I feel you. It was either Len Wein or Marv Wolfman who routinely used "penultimate" to mean "ultimate." I was in college before I learned the difference. Just like everybody uses "epicenter" to mean "center." And "decimated" to mean "obliterated." |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jan 23, 2020 13:54:34 GMT -5
Because of this I grew up with the wrong interpretation of that phrase (it was the first time I'd heard it). I feel you. It was either Len Wein or Marv Wolfman who routinely used "penultimate" to mean "ultimate." I was in college before I learned the difference. More likely that it was Wolfman - I recall reading somewhere (probably on Jim Shooter's blog) that he also once misused the word noisome, i.e., he thought it was a synonym for noisy or something similar. |
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