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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2020 21:39:14 GMT -5
Oh, right, Mad parodies! My first brush with The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner was a Mad parody with a skateboarder who killed a gopher and hung it about his neck. I don't remember if I realized it was a parody or not at the time. Of course, as I matured and became more learned, I encountered the authentic story. Courtesy of Iron Maiden, anyway.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2020 22:27:35 GMT -5
Does reading Classics Illustrated adaptations of literature and other comics of that ilk count? I read a lot of those as a kid before I ever encountered the actual books.
-M
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Post by Farrar on Feb 25, 2020 23:25:55 GMT -5
There was "Oh Wasp, Where Is Thy Sting?"  for the Giant-Man/Wasp story in Tales to Astonish #69. But back to full poems, in Avengers #76 (yes, by Roy T., who else? And once again sublimely illustrated by John B.) we get the Scarlet Witch--whose typical dialogue over the preceding years had largely consisted of "Pietro! Are you all right, my brother?" and "If only I could control my unpredictable hex power!" flawlessly reciting Tennyson's "Flower in the Crannied Wall" to Arkon.  |
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Post by beccabear67 on Feb 26, 2020 1:45:40 GMT -5
Does reading Classics Illustrated adaptations of literature and other comics of that ilk count? I read a lot of those as a kid before I ever encountered the actual books. -M I'm thinking they didn't so much quote as adapt. |
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Post by foxley on Feb 26, 2020 2:08:32 GMT -5
Does reading Classics Illustrated adaptations of literature and other comics of that ilk count? I read a lot of those as a kid before I ever encountered the actual books. -M I was thinking more of quotes in other works, rather than adaptations, but whatever floats your boat. These discussions are just for fun.
For me, the isolated quotations are interesting because they cause me to seek out the source. I suspect I would never have encountered the Hemingway quotation if not for the comics, and now it has become something quite meaningful to me. I've even quoted it out loud from memory on occasion, and received a hushed 'wow' as a response.
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Post by foxley on Feb 26, 2020 2:15:45 GMT -5
Another one that just occurred to me is the character of Dexter Myles in The Flash. He was the curator of the Flash Museum and a former Shakespearean actor (and, I suspect, more than a little 'inspired' by Vitamin Flintheart from Dick Tracy. He was always dropping Shakespeare quotes (and, in one story, Barry realised he had been replaced by an imposter because he failed to recognise a Shakespeare quote). These were intriguing to me, even before I developed my full-blown love of the Bard (which didn't really bloom till I was in university).
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Post by Rob Allen on Feb 26, 2020 11:15:56 GMT -5
Not quotes, but I first encountered the names "Tolkien" and "Conan" in the letters pages of Marvel comics in the 60s.
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for the Giant-Man/Wasp story in Tales to Astonish #69.
