tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16823651.post2805472669013524307..comments2024-03-27T13:51:16.021-04:00Comments on Bully Says: Comics Oughta Be Fun!: 365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 228: I don't know, but I do know why he has stripes. (Answer in the hover-text.)Bullyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11708103213119467419noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16823651.post-52528607748821193282016-12-13T16:17:15.671-05:002016-12-13T16:17:15.671-05:00Thanks for posting this I really never knew that C...Thanks for posting this I really never knew that Capt Marvel series had a talking TigerAhmar Wolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11381350485485308404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16823651.post-79013547445028400242013-09-10T21:13:11.286-04:002013-09-10T21:13:11.286-04:00Thanks, Blam, for reminding us: it'll behoove ...Thanks, Blam, for reminding us: <b>it'll behoove ya to care for your uvula.</b>Bullyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11708103213119467419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16823651.post-85234265881987308712013-09-10T00:10:17.802-04:002013-09-10T00:10:17.802-04:00"Knock-knock."
"Who's there?&qu..."Knock-knock."<br />"Who's there?"<br />"Mr. Tawny's uvula."<br />"Mr. Tawny's uvula who?"<br />"<i>[chuckle]</i>i don't know, Mr. Tawny. But I do know this: While he definitely 'cartooned up' his style for the occasion, Gaspar did indeed letter that house ad."Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16823651.post-38372872765409977732013-08-17T08:13:41.748-04:002013-08-17T08:13:41.748-04:00Yes. Also, it has a talking tiger!Yes. Also, it has a <b>talking tiger!</b>Bullyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11708103213119467419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16823651.post-49605407963825867692013-08-17T05:43:29.817-04:002013-08-17T05:43:29.817-04:00To be fair, the Golden Age Marvel Family stories c...To be fair, the Golden Age Marvel Family stories could be absolutely nightmarish in their own right; there was a story in which Sivana (I think) was randomly blasting citizens with his airship's "dust ray," reducing a grocer to a pile of dust before Billy's horrified eyes. In another case, Sivana had Billy, Mary, and Freddy tied and gagged; as Sivana approached them with a wicked-looking blade, cackling, Billy thought, "Holy Moley! <i>He's going to slit our throats!</i>" Me: "Eeeeeeee!"<br /><br />Then there was the final Golden Age Marvel Family tale, in which "Mary" (actually a robot double) attempts to murder Billy and Freddy, and after subduing her Billy breaks down in sobbing tears at the thought of condemning his sister to an insane asylum...as she looks on, snarling. (Good LORD. The disposal of the various robots in the end is likewise disturbing, even if they are only 'bots.)<br /><br />Anyway, to clear up the mystery, the villain in the Tawny story above has drenched Billy in some irresistible-to-tigers scent for the express purpose of "framing" Tawny for Billy's death--I forget what exactly, but you can see the "stink" lines around Billy's head. <br /><br />As for O'Neil...well, I don't know if "respect" is the word I'd use. Denny wrote superheroes as fools--throughout the '70s, Batman would constantly get clobbered or blinded or otherwise bamboozled by any punk who crossed his path, GL was an ignorant bully, and Cap was regularly punching first and thinking second. O'Neil just kept his contempt for spandex "cryptofascists" on a level that would slip by the casual or underage reader. (I think he resented being stuck writing in--then supervising--a single, limited genre as comics withered down to an almost-exclusively-superheroes medium for a long time.)BillyWitchDoctorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14311279565432013472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16823651.post-70197169180152285882013-08-16T22:10:11.463-04:002013-08-16T22:10:11.463-04:00This is kinda sad. DC's attempts to bring the ...This is kinda sad. DC's attempts to bring the Fawcett Captain Marvel back showed how radically the comic audience and American popular culture in general had changed since the 1940s.<br /><br />I'm sure O'Neill made an honest effort to respect C. C. Beck's homey Golden Age take on the character while trying to write stories that appealed to modern readers. But the result was weird concoctions like this. Tawny compelled to eat Billy? Tawny noting a woman "wearing Uncle George"? Eeww!<br /><br />Beck was convinced to the end that "his" kind of CM story had a place in today's comics. Unfortunately the Golden Age Captain Marvel was tied inseparably to its era, like Frank Merriwell and Tom Swift. Those who grew up with him adored him but to late 20th-century readers (and writers!) he just didn't make sense. No wonder the buffer, angrier, darker CM is the one that survived.Smurfswackerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11807173070389349098noreply@blogger.com