Friday, September 28, 2007

BURT!

Not every sound effect in mid-seventies FFs was "FOOM!", however. Here's one of the other...more unusual...sound effects in Fantastic Four #137:
BURT!
Panel from Fantastic Four #137 (August 1973), written by Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway, art by John Buscema, Joe Sinnott and Glynis Wein, lettering by Artie Simek


Only a few months before this issue, actor, tough guy, and shag rug Burt Reynolds appeared nude in Cosmopolitan magazine. So let's put that Artie Simek-designed sound effect to good use, shall we?:

BURT!


Artie Simek: saving us from Burt Reynolds since 1973.




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7 comments:

  1. Anonymous9/28/2007 3:06 PM

    "BURT" is a sound my five-month-old daughter makes. A lot. "SPLAK" not so much.

    I wonder if Thomas & Conway got Simek on a conference call to work out the sound effects, or if they gave him free rein. Or maybe I just like the idea of a bunch of grown men on a conference call, making nonsensical sounds at each other.

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  2. J.R. Jenks9/28/2007 3:21 PM

    If FOOM is Friends of Ol' Marvel, then BURT is?

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  3. J.R. Jenks9/28/2007 3:23 PM

    Bouncin' Uncle Roy Thomas

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  4. J.R. Jenks9/28/2007 3:24 PM

    Bully's Underwater Rescue Team

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  5. Bully9/28/2007 3:28 PM

    I'd so buy that comic book!

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  6. Matthew E9/28/2007 4:28 PM

    Back Up Right There.

    Bring Us Roast Terrapin.

    Beat Up Red Tornado.

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  7. Gloria9/29/2007 11:37 AM

    BURT!

    SELLECK!

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