Friday, June 15, 2007

You're hooked, you're cooked, you're caught in the tender trap

You see a pair of laughing eyes

Secret Wars #3 panel
These panels are from Secret Wars #3 (July 1984),
written by Jim Shooter, art by Mike Zeck, John Beatty, and Christie Scheele

And suddenly you're sighing sighs

Secret Wars #3 panel
You're thinking nothing's wrong

Secret Wars #3 panel
You string along, boy, then snap!

Secret Wars #3 panel
Those eyes, those sighs,

Secret Wars #3 panel
They're part of the tender trap.

Secret Wars #3 panel
You're hand-in-hand beneath the trees

Secret Wars #3 panel
And soon there's music in the breeze

Secret Wars #3 panel
You're acting kind of smart,
Secret Wars #3 panel
Until your heart just goes wap!

Secret Wars #3 panel
Those trees, that breeze,

Secret Wars #3 panel
They're part of the tender trap.

Secret Wars #3 panel
Some starry night, when her kisses make you tingle


Secret Wars #4 panel
These panels are from Secret Wars #4 (August 1984),
written by Jim Shooter, art by Bob Layton, John Beatty, and Christie Scheele

She'll hold you tight, and you'lll hate yourself for being single

Secret Wars #4 panel
And all at once it seems so nice

Secret Wars #4 panel
The folks are throwing shoes and rice

Secret Wars #4 panel
You hurry to a spot, that's just a dot on the map

Secret Wars #4 panel
You're hooked, you're cooked,

Secret Wars #4 panel
You're caught in the tender trap.


Secret Wars #4 panel


Song: "(Love is) The Tender Trap," music by Jimmy Van Heusen, lyrics by Sammy Cahn. The best version of this boppin' ditty is sung by Old Blue Eyes himself, Benjamin J. Gri...no, wait, by the other Old Blue Eyes, the Chairman of the Board: Mister Frank Sinatra. But since there's not a Sinatra version on YouTube, start up this jazzy cover by Sandra Reemer and re-read the post to get the full multimedia effect!:




4 comments:

Bill S. said...

Why is Janet dressed up as the Molecule Man?

I think Magneto could do better.

Anonymous said...

Ah, even when ugly Secret Wars art distorts the Wasp of the 1980s era into wearing a hideous costume and looking like Rahne Sinclair circa 1983, THIS is the tough, take-no-prisoners intelligent Wasp that I remember and like, the Wasp that every subsequent era of comics has forgotten as she's been unfortunately dialed back to her Stan Lee/Roy Thomas-style characterization. Seriously, can you imagine the Wasp outsmarting and defeating Magneto now? Back then, she COULD.

Bill D. said...

So despite how they wrote Jan's turnabout at the end there, I think we can all agree that they totally did it, right?

Anonymous said...

That was what I thought when I was ten, Bill!

Yes, mid-80s Wasp was a genuinely competent and tough super-heroine!