Misfit Tag-Teams: Marvel Team-Up and Marvel Two-in-One
Oct 24, 2022 23:09:05 GMT -5
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 24, 2022 23:09:05 GMT -5
Marvel Two-in-One Annual #7
Ron Wilson practicing for Super Boxers.
Creative Team: Tom DeFalco-writer, Ron Wilson-pencils: Bob Camp, Mike Esposito, Frank Giacoia, Dann Green, Armando Gil & Chic Stone-inks, Jim Novak-letters, George Roussos-colors, Jam Salicrup-editor.
Apparently, the inking was done in a tag-team tournament.
Synopsis: Ben Grimm is hanging out with Alicia Masters, posing for yet another sculpture, when a bright light knocks him off his platform and an intergalactic promoter arrives to offer him a chance at the title.....
Ben passes on the fight (he must have dealt with Don King before and knew how much of a percentage the promoter takes) and Proja asks to shake his hand, then Ben disappears with the scumbag. He thenturns up around the globe, recruiting Thor, Doc Samson, Hulk, Colossus, Namor and Sasquatch. He comes for Vision, but when he sees he is a synthezoid, he leaves.
That's racist!
They end up in a cosmic gym, which still smells like sweat and old jockstraps, run by some foulf-mouthed little guy who talks about people "moiderizing" other people.
Namor, being his usual self, decides to leave and smashes through a wall, to find that their gym is floating outside "reality." Thor already figured that out, which is a major burn on Namor, as Thor is pretty much a lunk-head. Hulk starts bellowing for their opponent to come out and faster than you can say Also Sprach Zarathustra, out come The Champ.....
The Champ says he has scoured the galaxy, for the best competition and no one has made it to Round Two with him. he tells the heroes to feel privileged, as he has chosen them to represent their world, against him. Thor tells him to stuffeth it up his heavy bag. They all bum rush him and he tosses them off like Brock Lesnar throwing indie guys, disguised as security.....
He tells them he is an Elder of the Universe (like Collector, Gamesmaster, Contemplator, Gardner and Mel Brooks). They fight or the Earth gets mussed up. They go along with it and he provides them with trainers and cut-men, but lockers and towels cost extra.
Meanwhile, Alicia has alerted Reed Richards, who uses his equipment to try to locate Ben. At the X-Mansion, the X-Men report in to Professor Xavier about Colossus, who they can't locate.
The fighters work out with the trainers, but Doc Samson manages to get knocked out by a sparring machine and is chucked out of the tournament and sent home. Namor refuses to train and is sent home. Calossus, sasquatch and Wonder Man go ahead and train. ben whoops all over the robot sparring partners, like Bootney Farnsworth.....
Proja puts out press releases on Earth...
While the hype man works, the challenger trains.....
The time for the fight comes. The venue, of course, is Madison Square Garden. A forcefield surrounds the ring area. Closed Circuit locations are set up. The fighters are transported to the venue and introductions are made.....
The X-Men try to penetrate the field, but fail.
Thor is the first opponent and The Champ outclasses the God of Thunder, so he resorts to using a foreign object...
COME ON, REF!!!!!!!!!!!! OPEN YOUR DAMN EYES!!!!!!
The ref regains his sight and disqualifies Thor and he is sent home.....
Next up is Hulk, and he is fightin' mad, but Champion won't fight a mindless brute.
Yup, Don King is definitely promotin' this thing!
Sasquatch is next and he gets in an early shot, with a Bruno Sammartino bearhug; but, the Champ breaks free with an elbow to the mush, peppers him with punches and then the fur-bearin' critter is kissing the canvas.
Colossus tries next, but the ref stops the fight after he takes too much punishment and cannot defend himself.
Wonder Man is called to the ring and gets smacked around, then loses his @#$% and starts tearing up the ring, saying he is tired of playing by Champion's rules and is sent back to Earth, for unsportsmanlike conduct.
It all boils down to Ben. If he loses, the earth will be destroyed as unworthy. Ben vows to go down fightin'.....
Bne goes to the ring and the introductions are made:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE CHAMPION, WEIGHING IN AT 2050 LBS, FROM THE ANCRINDO NEBULA.........THE SULTAN OF SWING, THE MASTER OF DISASTER..THE AYATOLLA OF ROCK N ROLLA.....THE CHAMPION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*BOO!!!!!!! HISS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GO BACK TO JERSEY, YA' BUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
AND IN THIS CORNER, THE CHALLENGER, WEIGHING IN AT 500 LBS, FROM YANCY STREET...ONE QUARTER OF THE FANTASTIC FOUR...PETUNIA GRIMM'S FAVORITE NEPHEW...THE BLUE-EYED IDOL OF MILLIONS...THE ORIGINAL ROCKY...FRANKLIN RICHARD'S UNCA BENJY.....
BENJAMIN J. GRIMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
WHAT TIME IS IT?
IT'S CLOBBERIN TIME!
Champion gets in the first shot, knocking Ben into the barrier and down to the mat. Ben gets on his feet and takes a standing 8 count. He plays a little rope-a-dope and taunts Champion into coming at him, in the corner and dodges a right and knocks the Champ back with a left. The bell rings and Ben has become the first fighter to make it to the second round!
Round 2 begins with Champion hitting Ben with an upper cut that sends him to the top of the barrier and Ben decides that a stomp might be in order and tries to hit Champion, but he sidesteps and Ben crashes through the ring. The ref is about to award a TKO, when Ben crawls out of the hole and says he is still in the fight. Champion is stunned and Ben rushes him and grabs a waistlock, then pummels Champion.....
Champion fights back and sends Ben ass-over-teakettle, rolling into the corner. ben groggily gets to his feet and is saved by the bell. he has survived three rounds with the Champ. The ref says he will not make 4 and declares the fight for The Champ.....
Ben crawls toward him and tells him he hasn't won anything, that Ben hasn't quit.
Champion is awed by Ben's fighting spirit and acknowledges he could never defeat it. He declares that a world that could produce such a man deserves to survive and that some day, they will meet again to fight for dominance over the cosmos. He leaves an Ben collapses. He is carried from the ring, a hero.
Thoughts: This has been done before; but, it is done pretty well and it really boils down to the fact that Ben is a streetfighter, who won't quit. he isn't the strongest or most powerful being in the Marvel Universe; but, he is probably the toughest fighter , because he just won't quit. He is a kid of the streets, saved from a life of gangfights by his older brother, he became an athlete, fighter pilot and test pilot. he flew the fateful mission that changed the lives of himself and his friends. He was transformed into a monster and people treated him like one. He was angry and bitter; but, he didn't quit. He found his humanity again and stood proud. people came around and he became the Blue-Eyed Idol of Millions. He has fought tyrants and monsters, world beaters and world eaters and he doesn't back down from anyone.
This is what made MTIO great, at its core: Ben Grimm fightin' some threat, with friends or alone, but always taking the fight to his opponent, no matter the odds. His sense of humor keeps him going and people recognize him for the hero he is.
This is a lot of fun, as DeFalco and Wilson (I have to believe Wilson was co-plotting this one, given Super Boxers) play around with fight tropes, from promoters to trainers, with some good gags along the way. They also get to the heart of a fight story. Bac before television, the fight story was a regular part of the pulps and other story magazines. At the movies, it was fodder for a bunch of great and not-so-great films, long before a certain Italian Stallion took a shot at the title. Robert E Howard wrote boxing stories, George Plympton gave it a go for one of his pieces, one of the masterpieces of television was Requiem for a Champion. Comics had their boxing matches and boxing heroes, like Ted Grant, the Wildcat, in Sensation Comics or the Champ, Joe Palooka, star of the long running comic strip, in his own comic book adventures. Ben joins an illustrious crowd, here.
The multiple inking doesn't get too far out of control and Ron Wilson keeps it pretty consistent. There are some nice panels, like the end, with Champion posing with the title belt, or the crowd carrying Ben off from the ring.
Champion comes off, a bit, like a wrestling heel, as he seems to spend more time avoiding fights with the more powerful Marvel heroes; but, like Ric Flair defending the title against Ronnie Garvin, he grows overconfident and underestimates his opponent and finds himself in a real fight. Sadly, this was scripted to mirror the end of Rocky, where Rocky Balboa has gone the distance, but loses the fight on a split decision. However, Rocky got a return bout and won the title (in less convincing fashion than the first fight). So, we could have had a rematch. Then, Ben would get overconfident and lose to Mr T, but regain the title, with Champion's help. Then, he'd travel to the Skrull Homeworld to face the Super Skrull, in a battle on his turf, which wins over the hostile crowd and the Skrull Empire would fall apart. Then Ben would train a young fighter who listens to a sleazy promoter, while ignoring his own son and fight his protege on the streets. Then he'd return decades later to fight again, because of a computer. Then train his old nemesis' son, then........
Nah.............
Ron Wilson practicing for Super Boxers.
Creative Team: Tom DeFalco-writer, Ron Wilson-pencils: Bob Camp, Mike Esposito, Frank Giacoia, Dann Green, Armando Gil & Chic Stone-inks, Jim Novak-letters, George Roussos-colors, Jam Salicrup-editor.
Apparently, the inking was done in a tag-team tournament.
Synopsis: Ben Grimm is hanging out with Alicia Masters, posing for yet another sculpture, when a bright light knocks him off his platform and an intergalactic promoter arrives to offer him a chance at the title.....
Ben passes on the fight (he must have dealt with Don King before and knew how much of a percentage the promoter takes) and Proja asks to shake his hand, then Ben disappears with the scumbag. He thenturns up around the globe, recruiting Thor, Doc Samson, Hulk, Colossus, Namor and Sasquatch. He comes for Vision, but when he sees he is a synthezoid, he leaves.
That's racist!
They end up in a cosmic gym, which still smells like sweat and old jockstraps, run by some foulf-mouthed little guy who talks about people "moiderizing" other people.
Namor, being his usual self, decides to leave and smashes through a wall, to find that their gym is floating outside "reality." Thor already figured that out, which is a major burn on Namor, as Thor is pretty much a lunk-head. Hulk starts bellowing for their opponent to come out and faster than you can say Also Sprach Zarathustra, out come The Champ.....
The Champ says he has scoured the galaxy, for the best competition and no one has made it to Round Two with him. he tells the heroes to feel privileged, as he has chosen them to represent their world, against him. Thor tells him to stuffeth it up his heavy bag. They all bum rush him and he tosses them off like Brock Lesnar throwing indie guys, disguised as security.....
He tells them he is an Elder of the Universe (like Collector, Gamesmaster, Contemplator, Gardner and Mel Brooks). They fight or the Earth gets mussed up. They go along with it and he provides them with trainers and cut-men, but lockers and towels cost extra.
Meanwhile, Alicia has alerted Reed Richards, who uses his equipment to try to locate Ben. At the X-Mansion, the X-Men report in to Professor Xavier about Colossus, who they can't locate.
The fighters work out with the trainers, but Doc Samson manages to get knocked out by a sparring machine and is chucked out of the tournament and sent home. Namor refuses to train and is sent home. Calossus, sasquatch and Wonder Man go ahead and train. ben whoops all over the robot sparring partners, like Bootney Farnsworth.....
Proja puts out press releases on Earth...
While the hype man works, the challenger trains.....
The time for the fight comes. The venue, of course, is Madison Square Garden. A forcefield surrounds the ring area. Closed Circuit locations are set up. The fighters are transported to the venue and introductions are made.....
The X-Men try to penetrate the field, but fail.
Thor is the first opponent and The Champ outclasses the God of Thunder, so he resorts to using a foreign object...
COME ON, REF!!!!!!!!!!!! OPEN YOUR DAMN EYES!!!!!!
The ref regains his sight and disqualifies Thor and he is sent home.....
Next up is Hulk, and he is fightin' mad, but Champion won't fight a mindless brute.
Yup, Don King is definitely promotin' this thing!
Sasquatch is next and he gets in an early shot, with a Bruno Sammartino bearhug; but, the Champ breaks free with an elbow to the mush, peppers him with punches and then the fur-bearin' critter is kissing the canvas.
Colossus tries next, but the ref stops the fight after he takes too much punishment and cannot defend himself.
Wonder Man is called to the ring and gets smacked around, then loses his @#$% and starts tearing up the ring, saying he is tired of playing by Champion's rules and is sent back to Earth, for unsportsmanlike conduct.
It all boils down to Ben. If he loses, the earth will be destroyed as unworthy. Ben vows to go down fightin'.....
Bne goes to the ring and the introductions are made:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE CHAMPION, WEIGHING IN AT 2050 LBS, FROM THE ANCRINDO NEBULA.........THE SULTAN OF SWING, THE MASTER OF DISASTER..THE AYATOLLA OF ROCK N ROLLA.....THE CHAMPION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*BOO!!!!!!! HISS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GO BACK TO JERSEY, YA' BUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
AND IN THIS CORNER, THE CHALLENGER, WEIGHING IN AT 500 LBS, FROM YANCY STREET...ONE QUARTER OF THE FANTASTIC FOUR...PETUNIA GRIMM'S FAVORITE NEPHEW...THE BLUE-EYED IDOL OF MILLIONS...THE ORIGINAL ROCKY...FRANKLIN RICHARD'S UNCA BENJY.....
BENJAMIN J. GRIMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
WHAT TIME IS IT?
IT'S CLOBBERIN TIME!
Champion gets in the first shot, knocking Ben into the barrier and down to the mat. Ben gets on his feet and takes a standing 8 count. He plays a little rope-a-dope and taunts Champion into coming at him, in the corner and dodges a right and knocks the Champ back with a left. The bell rings and Ben has become the first fighter to make it to the second round!
Round 2 begins with Champion hitting Ben with an upper cut that sends him to the top of the barrier and Ben decides that a stomp might be in order and tries to hit Champion, but he sidesteps and Ben crashes through the ring. The ref is about to award a TKO, when Ben crawls out of the hole and says he is still in the fight. Champion is stunned and Ben rushes him and grabs a waistlock, then pummels Champion.....
Champion fights back and sends Ben ass-over-teakettle, rolling into the corner. ben groggily gets to his feet and is saved by the bell. he has survived three rounds with the Champ. The ref says he will not make 4 and declares the fight for The Champ.....
Ben crawls toward him and tells him he hasn't won anything, that Ben hasn't quit.
Champion is awed by Ben's fighting spirit and acknowledges he could never defeat it. He declares that a world that could produce such a man deserves to survive and that some day, they will meet again to fight for dominance over the cosmos. He leaves an Ben collapses. He is carried from the ring, a hero.
Thoughts: This has been done before; but, it is done pretty well and it really boils down to the fact that Ben is a streetfighter, who won't quit. he isn't the strongest or most powerful being in the Marvel Universe; but, he is probably the toughest fighter , because he just won't quit. He is a kid of the streets, saved from a life of gangfights by his older brother, he became an athlete, fighter pilot and test pilot. he flew the fateful mission that changed the lives of himself and his friends. He was transformed into a monster and people treated him like one. He was angry and bitter; but, he didn't quit. He found his humanity again and stood proud. people came around and he became the Blue-Eyed Idol of Millions. He has fought tyrants and monsters, world beaters and world eaters and he doesn't back down from anyone.
This is what made MTIO great, at its core: Ben Grimm fightin' some threat, with friends or alone, but always taking the fight to his opponent, no matter the odds. His sense of humor keeps him going and people recognize him for the hero he is.
This is a lot of fun, as DeFalco and Wilson (I have to believe Wilson was co-plotting this one, given Super Boxers) play around with fight tropes, from promoters to trainers, with some good gags along the way. They also get to the heart of a fight story. Bac before television, the fight story was a regular part of the pulps and other story magazines. At the movies, it was fodder for a bunch of great and not-so-great films, long before a certain Italian Stallion took a shot at the title. Robert E Howard wrote boxing stories, George Plympton gave it a go for one of his pieces, one of the masterpieces of television was Requiem for a Champion. Comics had their boxing matches and boxing heroes, like Ted Grant, the Wildcat, in Sensation Comics or the Champ, Joe Palooka, star of the long running comic strip, in his own comic book adventures. Ben joins an illustrious crowd, here.
The multiple inking doesn't get too far out of control and Ron Wilson keeps it pretty consistent. There are some nice panels, like the end, with Champion posing with the title belt, or the crowd carrying Ben off from the ring.
Champion comes off, a bit, like a wrestling heel, as he seems to spend more time avoiding fights with the more powerful Marvel heroes; but, like Ric Flair defending the title against Ronnie Garvin, he grows overconfident and underestimates his opponent and finds himself in a real fight. Sadly, this was scripted to mirror the end of Rocky, where Rocky Balboa has gone the distance, but loses the fight on a split decision. However, Rocky got a return bout and won the title (in less convincing fashion than the first fight). So, we could have had a rematch. Then, Ben would get overconfident and lose to Mr T, but regain the title, with Champion's help. Then, he'd travel to the Skrull Homeworld to face the Super Skrull, in a battle on his turf, which wins over the hostile crowd and the Skrull Empire would fall apart. Then Ben would train a young fighter who listens to a sleazy promoter, while ignoring his own son and fight his protege on the streets. Then he'd return decades later to fight again, because of a computer. Then train his old nemesis' son, then........
Nah.............
