Thursday, July 19, 2007

Dumbass things you shouldn't do in the Marvel Universe, Number 48







Don't worry your pretty li'l heads, folks, he ain't hurt...
...he's just a dumbass:

All panels in this post are from the legendary Fantastic Four #48 (March 1966),
written by Stan Lee, art by Jack Kirby and Joe Sinnott



9 comments:

SallyP said...

It's the "plink" sound effect. It just MAKES it! Oh, and nobody wearing a hat like that, has any business mocking anyone else.

Sleestak said...

It would be fun to pinpoint exactly when the images of the 1940s dock worker thug and Bowery Boy vanished from comics.

Probably around when Jack left Marvel, I think.

Steven said...

Grr...

the line should be, "And you don't mess around with GRIMM."

Rhymes with "Jim" and "Slim"

Bully said...

D'oh! How'd I miss that! Brilliant! Thanks, Steven! Changed, and you get the credit. Consider yourself Bull-Prized!

Vaklam said...

When I become a superhero my catch phrase will be "I'll give you such a belt in the Labonzza!"

Walaka said...

I don't think I've heard anyone say "labonza" since I left Brooklyn. Sometimes Stan makes me misty... *sniff*.

Caleb said...

I have two questions about this.

1.) Sooooo where exactly is the labonza, roughly?

And

2.) Not that tough? Does The Thing not look like he's made out of rocks? WHenever I see something that looks to be made out of rocks, I've got to assume, "Hey, that has a better than even chance of being rock hard."

Anonymous said...

Exactly what I was going to say. The 'plink' bit is almost worth it, but, c'mon. Even a Yancy Streeter isn't *that* thick.

Anonymous said...

He was never seen again in the comics, because the next week he tried to put the Human Torch in a headlock, suffered 3rd degree burns over 90% of his body, and quickly expired.

Needless to say, the Code kept that from appearing on-panel.

I think that type of character stopped appearing because Marvel Central Casting fired them all shortly after this, and hired long haired hippies with fringe jackets.