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Post by tartanphantom on Jun 3, 2020 21:41:16 GMT -5
Yeah. Definitely Ted Kennedy. I can kind of see it, now that you say it. My mental image of Ted Kennedy is from later in his life, when he was older, fatter, and greyer.
By that time, he had learned to drive sober.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 3, 2020 23:18:15 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2020 23:25:58 GMT -5
Ted Kennedy according to mycomicshop.com Yeah. Definitely Ted Kennedy. I can totally see Ted Kennedy, but having not ever read the issue in question (tho it's obviously a spoof of "Night Gallery").. my 1st thought was Liberace. simply due to the "sparkles" around that picture. here's what Liberace looked like in 1973, which is when this issue came out:  |
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Post by foxley on Jun 4, 2020 4:06:11 GMT -5
Ok Stanley and His Monster is going to be on my next comic purchase. Phil Foglio's mini is a lot of fun. I'm sure you can find them on the cheap.... Phil also did an origin story for Stanley & His Monster in Secret Origins #48 that you should track down if you like the mini. It ties in directly with Neil Gaiman's Sandman. No, really. It also contains one of my all-time favourite lines from a comic, in the form of a pair of captions. The story starts with a caption reading "Hell. A terrible place to raise your kids." The second page starts with a caption reading "Earth. A slightly better place to raise your kids".
His Angel and the Ape miniseries is also worth a read. It's fun, but (IMO) it never reaches the brilliance of Stanley & His Monster.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jun 4, 2020 4:32:12 GMT -5
BTW, who is that supposed to be in the topmost painting of "the Nut Gallery"? I recognise Joe Namath and Woody Allen in the other two but can't place the other one though he looks vaguely familiar, whoever it is. This is the entirety of my knowledge of Joe Namath. Phil Foglio's mini is a lot of fun. I'm sure you can find them on the cheap.... Phil also did an origin story for Stanley & His Monster in Secret Origins #48 that you should track down if you like the mini. It ties in directly with Neil Gaiman's Sandman. No, really. It also contains one of my all-time favourite lines from a comic, in the form of a pair of captions. The story starts with a caption reading "Hell. A terrible place to raise your kids." The second page starts with a caption reading "Earth. A slightly better place to raise your kids".
His Angel and the Ape miniseries is also worth a read. It's fun, but (IMO) it never reaches the brilliance of Stanley & His Monster.
Both added to the list. Thanks for the heads up. |
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Post by hondobrode on Jun 4, 2020 13:21:45 GMT -5
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Post by berkley on Jun 4, 2020 14:08:51 GMT -5
BTW, who is that supposed to be in the topmost painting of "the Nut Gallery"? I recognise Joe Namath and Woody Allen in the other two but can't place the other one though he looks vaguely familiar, whoever it is. This is the entirety of my knowledge of Joe Namath. Definitely a generational difference at play there. As far as sports figures go, I'd say he wasn't far off from being as famous as Muhammad Ali at the time, though his fame wouldn't have been world-wide the way Ali's was. I was completely oblivious to American football as we didn't get it on our channels in Canada back then, at least not in Nfld, but I knew who he was from the general ambience of American pop culture we were surrounded by. |
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Post by badwolf on Jun 4, 2020 15:10:24 GMT -5
I remember hearing the name of Joe Namath a lot but I don't think I could identify him from a picture.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2020 15:25:34 GMT -5
I remember hearing the name of Joe Namath a lot but I don't think I could identify him from a picture.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 4, 2020 15:27:03 GMT -5
I remember hearing the name of Joe Namath a lot but I don't think I could identify him from a picture. One of the least deserving players in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jun 4, 2020 19:32:28 GMT -5
This is the entirety of my knowledge of Joe Namath. Definitely a generational difference at play there. As far as sports figures go, I'd say he wasn't far off from being as famous as Muhammad Ali at the time, though his fame wouldn't have been world-wide the way Ali's was. I was completely oblivious to American football as we didn't get it on our channels in Canada back then, at least not in Nfld, but I knew who he was from the general ambience of American pop culture we were surrounded by. It probably didn’t help all the men in my family growing up watched baseball over football. So if football players weren’t famous outside of football they were probably off my radar. |
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Post by Jeddak on Jun 4, 2020 21:09:18 GMT -5
Soulsearchers and Company 4  |
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Post by MWGallaher on Jun 5, 2020 9:43:15 GMT -5
Showcase #32  It may be a stretch, but I've always thought the funniest monsters were the ones intended to be taken seriously, and Showcase #32 cover artist Bernard Baily could generate some goofy-looking beasts, as we've seen over in the early days of the Spectre thread. So how about this portly pink beetle-bodied triple-jointed turtle/dinosaur-headed mount, galloping under the bare-handed control of the one and only Cave Carson in the City 100 Miles Down? With this, I'm down to only 2 more covers remaining in my (so far) 97-week-long personal Secret Classic Comics Cover Contest Challenge! I could stop here if I really wanted to: the remaining pair of features on my roster didn't qualify under my initial rules, and so this entry is a definite milestone. But, for the sake of a solid finish, I'm going to hang in there and see if I can use covers from the two remaining features in the next few weeks. It's going to be difficult, I'm sure, since I now have only 17 covers to pick from, and the odds of any of those satisfying a random contest topic are very low! If I can't find a slot for them, I'll retroactively pull one of my previous entries, and start up the overview of this little project! |
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Post by badwolf on Jun 5, 2020 10:15:13 GMT -5
I remember hearing the name of Joe Namath a lot but I don't think I could identify him from a picture.
Well! Now I'll never forget him! |
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Post by chaykinstevens on Jun 7, 2020 16:53:31 GMT -5
Warrior #12 by Steve Parkhouse  |
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