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| Inks by Chic Stone |
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| Inks by Dick Ayers |
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| Inks by George Roussos |
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| Inks by Joe Sinnott |
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| Inks by Joe Sinnott |
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| Inks by Dick Ayers |
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| Inks by Don Heck |
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| Inks by Joe Sinnott |
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| Inks by Joe Sinnott |
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| Inks by Joe Sinnott |
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Classic Jack Kirby THOR Gallery
Friday, February 18, 2011
Marvel's "Big Shots" Initiative: why it's the WRONG approach...
"Fans are going to love what we have in store with Big Shots," said Marvel Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso.
"We’re taking some of the best Marvel characters that we all know and love and sending them in a brand new direction with some Grade-A talent.
We want to reach a whole new set of readers, while at the same time appeal to long time fans of these great heroes, and Big Shots is how we’re doing it."
What irritates me is that it implies that Marvel usually puts second-rate talent on their books, and that only this "special" project utilizes "top-rate" talent.
Our regular books are crap! Don't bother with them! Buy these, instead!
I miss "The House of Ideas"...
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Green Hornet Movie Sequel Comic..."Aftermath"
which features both the movie's personnel and characters from the movie prequel comic Green Hornet: Parallel Lives
.Jai Nitz and Nigel Raynor will continue writing and illustrating duties from Parallel Lives.
And, I'm a bit perturbed by Nitz's comment that "...Green Hornet comics either stunk or didn't exist for a long time..."
He obviously didn't read the NOW Comics run
, which was as good, or (more often) better than his work. Wednesday, February 16, 2011
YouTube Wednesday: CAPTAIN NICE
Continuing our weekly feature "YouTube Wednesday"...
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| Yes, this promo art was by Jack (King) Kirby! |
, starring Adam West and Burt Ward
debuted on ABC.This set off a wave of Bat-Mania
, and all three TV networks scrambled to add superhero programming to schedules already crowded with science fiction and fantasy programming ranging from Man from U.N.C.L.E.
to My Favorite Martian
!While one or two, like The Green Hornet
, were done seriously, most of the new shows were not even campy tongue-in-cheek like Batman, but flat-out comedies!The best of the new shows was the brainchild of Get Smart
co-creator Buck Henry, who was asked to to to superheroes what he had done to spies, hopefully with similar ratings. |
| "My mom made my costume!" |
Along with veteran performers Alice Ghostly (Carter's overbearing mother), Liam Dunn (annoyed Mayor Finney), Bill Zuckert (inept Police Chief Segal) and newcomer Ann Prentess (police Sgt/Carter's girlfriend Candy Kane), the show tried it's best to capture the style and flavor that made Get Smart a hit.
It didn't.
It was amusing, and Daniels tried his best, but a limited budget caused a lot of the super-stuntwork to misfire, ruining the jokes.
After only 15 episodes, Captain Nice was cancelled.
Maybe if they had done a crossover with Get Smart...
There was some merchandising including a one-shot comic book, a novel written by the same author who did the Get Smart books, and a limited-distribution batch of trading cards, all of which are HTF.
It's not out on DVD, and unless you videotaped it when it ran on Comedy Channel around 1993-94 (like I did), the only place you'll find it is on bootleg dvds or YouTube.
Here's the pilot/origin episode "The Man Who Flies Like a Pigeon".
Enjoy!
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
The FIRST Black SuperHeroine!
Who was the FIRST Black superheroine?
Most people say the X-Men's Storm...
...and they'd be wrong!
Four years before Ororo Munroe made her first appearance in 1975's Giant Size X-Men #1
, another costumed Black superheroine flew across comic pages (in her own strip) for two issues!
If you want to know more about her, and read her premiere appearance, go HERE!
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