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Post by Batflunkie on Mar 21, 2020 18:26:56 GMT -5
I always preferred Marvel in my active collecting years (1960s-70s). Stan's kind of pseudo-science was much easier for me to accept than the DC version I feel like Marvel's science was more in line with science fiction than DC who was pure hard science (Flash, Metal Men) And Marvels, at least in the 60s, had the feeling that we were seeing the characters' lives unfold sequentially; what happened in one issue had an effect on the next. Most DC comics could be read in any order; no matter how extreme the events in any story were, things were always back to the status quo ante by the end. Agreed, Silver Age Marvel could be silly but it still had a heart to it. Silver Age DC is just, no offense, very difficult for me to read sometimes |
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Post by profh0011 on Mar 21, 2020 23:05:11 GMT -5
My favorite comic universe existed in the Archie Comics. I wanted to live in Riverdale when I was a preteen. When the " JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS" movie came out, it felt like a heavily-fictionalized version of a REAL all-girl band I used to go see play a lot... if they had actually "made it big", and so on. |
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Post by chadwilliam on Mar 22, 2020 15:25:51 GMT -5
I believe I heard that Stan Lee was irked by superheroes who flew without any obvious means of propulsion. "What does a yellow sun/lighter gravity have to do with Superman being able to defy the laws of physics?" - that sort of thing. Which isn't to say that his characters couldn't fly using some fairly dubious logic ("Well, how come Thor can fly then, Stan?" "He throws his hammer with such force that it pulls him along." "Yeah, but..." "OK, ok, but it's kind of, sort of, almost logical").
The impression then that I have is DC expected their audience to suspend their disbelief just a little bit more than Marvel did. I've seen editorial responses to "Why didn't Batman just ask Superman to help him when he was stumped in June's issue of Detective Comics?" in DC mags which read "Because sometimes superheroes have their own egos to think about" whereas I suspect Stan would have responded to a similar question with "Good ol' Spidey was busy attending classes while The Fantastic Four were in the midst of a crucial experiment while Rick Jones was keeping Cap occupied with...". In other words, the DC approach tended to brush off such questions with an answer that didn't really make sense, while Marvel would make some attempt to pretend that everything which transpired in their periodicals had an answer (just don't question it too much).
And, man, I'm really hoping that Taxidriver comes back to this, if not thread, then forum. I always enjoy his posts and he seems like a great guy. (First Mecha and now this!)
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Post by Batflunkie on Mar 22, 2020 17:07:37 GMT -5
The impression then that I have is DC expected their audience to suspend their disbelief just a little bit more than Marvel did. I've seen editorial responses to "Why didn't Batman just ask Superman to help him when he was stumped in June's issue of Detective Comics?" in DC mags which read "Because sometimes superheroes have their own egos to think about" whereas I suspect Stan would have responded to a similar question with "Good ol' Spidey was busy attending classes while The Fantastic Four were in the midst of a crucial experiment while Rick Jones was keeping Cap occupied with...". In other words, the DC approach tended to brush off such questions with an answer that didn't really make sense, while Marvel would make some attempt to pretend that everything which transpired in their periodicals had an answer (just don't question it too much). Yeah, Marvel always seems to treat their fans with a bit more respect than DC did. But then again, Marvel was supposedly courting teen and college age audiences |
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Post by chadwilliam on Mar 22, 2020 17:31:20 GMT -5
The impression then that I have is DC expected their audience to suspend their disbelief just a little bit more than Marvel did. I've seen editorial responses to "Why didn't Batman just ask Superman to help him when he was stumped in June's issue of Detective Comics?" in DC mags which read "Because sometimes superheroes have their own egos to think about" whereas I suspect Stan would have responded to a similar question with "Good ol' Spidey was busy attending classes while The Fantastic Four were in the midst of a crucial experiment while Rick Jones was keeping Cap occupied with...". In other words, the DC approach tended to brush off such questions with an answer that didn't really make sense, while Marvel would make some attempt to pretend that everything which transpired in their periodicals had an answer (just don't question it too much). Yeah, Marvel always seems to treat their fans with a bit more respect than DC did. But then again, Marvel was supposedly courting teen and college age audiences I don't think in this case it was a matter of respect so much as DC not wanting to have to go down that road of having to explain every little detail until all the fun had been sucked from the medium. Sort of "Look, we probably could come up with some sort of explanation for why no one can see that Clark is Superman, why Superman can't end the war in Vietnam, why there are starving kids in a world with Green Lantern, but can't we just tell fun stories instead?" |
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