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Post by Icctrombone on May 19, 2024 8:09:14 GMT -5
I was looking at Facebook and saw someone post this cover  This is something that Marvel did a lot especially during the 80's, they used guests stars to pump up a book. Can you think of any other instances where Marvel or any other company did this ? |
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 19, 2024 8:28:24 GMT -5
 This was one of my least favorite... sure, the book lasted another year... but it was never the same. |
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Post by Prince Hal on May 19, 2024 11:41:59 GMT -5
I think you could argue that Blackhawk 228 was an attempt to salvage Blackhawk, which had been running since the 1940s and at DC since the mid-1950s. This was the only instance I can recall that there had been any acknowledgement that the Blackhawks existed in the DC super-hero universe. And the JLA disses them mercilessly! (The Blackhawks did later pop up in The Brave and the Bold with the Earth-Two Batman when the title was revived as a WW2 title in the 80s.) Superman showed up in the final new issue of Inferior Five in 1968. The next issue was a reprint issue in 1972.   |
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Post by Icctrombone on May 19, 2024 12:15:48 GMT -5
Alan Moore took over the Swamp thing mag with #20. 24 had the JLA appear in a story about the Floronic man. I don't think that the book had taken off yet and they asked Moore to include the DC stars.  |
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Post by MDG on May 19, 2024 16:13:17 GMT -5
After she got her traditional costume back, DC still felt Wonder Woman needed a boost once in a while.  |
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Post by Prince Hal on May 19, 2024 16:48:41 GMT -5
After she got her traditional costume back, DC still felt Wonder Woman needed a boost once in a while. For about a dozen issues in a row, with a different JLA member on the cover each time. |
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Post by tarkintino on May 19, 2024 16:50:27 GMT -5
...and some new comics received the "seal of approval" from a big, flagship star, including the re-introduction of a hero some readers (at the time) forgot.  |
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Post by codystarbuck on May 19, 2024 19:08:20 GMT -5
Rom #17-18  The X-Men stop in to say "hi."
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Post by berkley on May 19, 2024 23:29:51 GMT -5
They did the same thing with Iron Man guest-starring in the last couple of issues of Werewolf by Night - and also tried to bring Jack Russell into the superhero world by giving him some control over his changing into a werewolf, which I always thought was a really stupid idea: "What's his superpower?" "He bites you and slashes you to pieces with his claws!".
I wonder what it was about Iron Man that made him one of the go-to characters for this kind of thing on more than one occasion?
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Post by chadwilliam on May 19, 2024 23:53:18 GMT -5
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Post by Chris on May 20, 2024 0:16:17 GMT -5
For as long as I can remember, there has been a void in my life shaped like a comic book featuring superhero Uri Geller. |
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Post by berkley on May 20, 2024 1:20:50 GMT -5
For as long as I can remember, there has been a void in my life shaped like a comic book featuring superhero Uri Geller.
I was following the Daredevil series around this time but didn't read this particular issue for one reason or another - most likely because of the usual distribution inconsistencies. But I did read the letters page commenting on it an issue or two later: I remember there was some questioning of Geller's appearance as a character in the story but can't recall Wolfman's response. I had never heard of Geller myself until then, but I gathered that his claims and "feats" were considered suspicious by many even at the time and I think I remember hearing years afterwards that they were decisively debunked at some point. It does feel like an odd lapse in judgement on the part of Wolfman, who wrote one of the more intelligent Marvel series of the 70s in Tomb of Dracula.
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Post by chaykinstevens on May 20, 2024 2:16:57 GMT -5
According to Marv Wolfman, Stan Lee had asked him to put Geller in a comic, and Wolfman wrote it himself because he felt this was easier than assigning it to another writer. link |
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Post by Icctrombone on May 20, 2024 4:08:42 GMT -5
They did the same thing with Iron Man guest-starring in the last couple of issues of Werewolf by Night - and also tried to bring Jack Russell into the superhero world by giving him some control over his changing into a werewolf, which I always thought was a really stupid idea: "What's his superpower?" "He bites you and slashes you to pieces with his claws!". I wonder what it was about Iron Man that made him one of the go-to characters for this kind of thing on more than one occasion? I'm guessing that Iron man was a person that had flight thus making it easy for him to appear at different locales. Isn't it a problem when Spider-man shows up in a place that's not New York? |
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Post by Icctrombone on May 20, 2024 4:11:12 GMT -5
According to Marv Wolfman, Stan Lee had asked him to put Geller in a comic, and Wolfman wrote it himself because he felt this was easier than assigning it to another writer. linkWell, putting Geller in a book doesn't seem to be the type of appearance that would affect sales in any way. Maybe Lee was friends with him ? |
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