By: buttler
Plus the whole Herbie-for-the-Human-Torch silliness. Man, now I really wish they’d replaced the Torch with Herbie instead of H.E.R.B.I.E. That would have been awesome.
View ArticleBy: Lars Jensen
“COMIC LEGEND: Disney had another artist change the ending of a Carl Barks story because the story ended with Donald as an arsonist.” Not Disney. Barks’ firebug story was produced by Disney’s American...
View ArticleBy: Jim Kosmicki
I would guess that part of the reluctance to have swastikas has to do with international sales – I have read that you can’t have swastikas in entertainment in Germany – pretty much the strongest...
View ArticleBy: Ivan Isaacs
I would guess that part of the reluctance to have swastikas has to do with international sales – I have read that you can’t have swastikas in entertainment in Germany – pretty much the strongest...
View ArticleBy: pedro de pacas
For me, Spider-Man had nothing on Batman:TAS or X-Men, but I watched it all the same. And that arc where he was flipping through alternate universes and met his creator Stan Lee blew my nine-year old...
View ArticleBy: AS
“That was believed to be correct for years, yes, but the artwork looks nothing like Buettner. If I had to guess I’d say Dan Noonan was visiting Western’s offices that day and was asked to redraw those...
View ArticleBy: Tom
Hey, Brian Cronin, sir. did you get the one I sent you from Grant Morrison’s Supergods?
View ArticleBy: Andrew Perron
“Is that all Spider-Man is to writers? A failure in everything but crimefighting? Because that was NEVER my interest in Spider-Man.” This. This this this this this this this.
View ArticleBy: Captain Librarian
Wow, interesting find on “What do you mean we?” Would never have guessed it had an origin you could trace so directly. That Carl Barks cartoon is crazy! I suspect it wouldn’t be allowed at all in a...
View ArticleBy: Ed (A Different One)
Wow – now I know what always bugged me about that damned 90′s Spider-Man cartoon – no punching! Hell, when I first got into Spider-Man back when i was 7 or 8, the punching was some of the stuff I loved...
View ArticleBy: David Gerstein
I’ll back up Lars Jensen on accrediting Dan Noonan with that artwork. As seen in the Donald/José Carioca story, Buettner’s natural style looked nothing like the two new “Firebug” panels; and while one...
View ArticleBy: ShadowWing Tronix
“Oh, and while I”m ranting about the 90′s series, their visual portrayal of Peter Parker never looked like any of his comic incarnations that I can think of. He looked more like Lance Bannon than Peter...
View ArticleBy: C.M. GRiffin
About the Lone Ranger gag, it had been around since at least the 1950′s when Black Comedians such as TIMMIE ROGERS, NIPPSY RUSSEL and DICK GREGORY (who among Black Comedians is credited with this joke)...
View ArticleBy: Dreadjaws
“‘Oh, and while I”m ranting about the 90?s series, their visual portrayal of Peter Parker never looked like any of his comic incarnations that I can think of. He looked more like Lance Bannon than...
View ArticleBy: Anthony Durrant
One of my particular favourite MAD Magazine jokes is in the second frame of the second page of their adaptation of STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. The text goes something like this: BEN KENOBI: Use...
View ArticleBy: Edward Liu
“the show was still doing well in the ratings, but the economics of animated series have always been strange – producers are typically more willing to end earlier than expected and try to launch a new...
View ArticleBy: What Do You Mean "We," Anglo-Saxon Man? | FavStocks
[...] years ago, I was moved to ask George W. Bush that famous question from E. Nelson Birdwell’s “The Lone Ranger”: What do you mean [...]
View ArticleBy: Entrepreneurship in the Expanded Field: or, explaining startups to...
[...] Vol. 8. (Spring, 1979), pp. 30-44. 2. “What you mean ‘we’, white man?”: A 1958 comic in Mad magazine by E. Nelson Bridwell depicted The Lone Ranger and his companion Tonto surrounded by hostile...
View ArticleBy: capaware
Why was Electro made the son of the Red Skull in the SPIDER-MAN Animated Series?
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