Posted on 11/16/2018 11:54:31 AM PST by Kaslin
I read ‘em in the fifties....LOL
Notice that they changed Iron Man in the movies to a person who regrets what his company does.
‘Nuff said!
When I was a kid, I paid no attention to what was DC and what was Marvel...It was just a comic book....
Stan Lee had very little to do directly with Marvel’s comic book output from the mid-1970s onward. He wanted to be the only one who ever wrote Silver Surfer but he wasn’t even involved enough in the comics in the 1980s to stop Marvel from producing Silver Surfer stories by other writers.
I was born in 1957. Never a huge comic book fan but of course I read them. Around say 1965 or so, when I was about eight, I thought Marvel Comics were way beyond corny. Give me Batman or the Flash any day. I also really liked the Blackhawks and Tommy Tomorrow. Just never thought Marvel was all that. I liked Thor, but that was about it.
Very odd to see that the issues they're discussing almost sound like they could be discussed word-for-word on a modern talk show, other than the direct references to Vietnam.
Read a lot of Stan Lee’s Marvel comics,always felt they were the best in the business. I stopped reading once I entered high school.
The comics industry was always leftist, almost entirely founded by leftist, mostly secular, so-called liberal, New York Jews. (Orthodox aside, how many New York Jews are remotely conservative?) Many changed their names, including Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
(Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster modelled the orphan Kal-El and Superman after the story of the orphan Moses: The small rocket ship was the reed basket; space was the river. Kal-El was to lead humanity out of bondage.)
Comics only appeared conservative and patriotic in the Golden Age because NAZIs were regarded as extreme rightists.
The Senate hearings were during the McCarthy era. McCarthy was largely correct, and Wertham was partly correct. There was and is a subversive, insidiously leftist element in most comics.
The Viet Nam quasi-war brought them out of the closet, and they have never looked back.
I collected comics before it was common. I even got a No-Prize from Stan and company. But I was always aware - even at age ten, and long before I knew of the history of the Comics Code Authority - of the leftist philosophy that underlay the storylines.
Regarding the first issue of Captain America, the scrawny Steve Rogers was infused with drugs in order to make him equal or greater than the Nazi bad guys. Great message. The Three Stooges pulled that one when they met Hercules, but that movie is almost long forgotten.
Each and every Marvel character could be dissected and as Lee’s creations be scrutinized in any direction desirable. In Stan Lee’s reality it was often as if Steve Ditko or Jack Kirby never even existed. Others as well were overshadowed by Lee’s outrageous self aggrandizement.
A lot of his origin stories never quite made sense to me when they were first presented. Donald Blake, a lame Doctor finds a stick and becomes immortal Thor. I never understood Dr. Strange or Luke Cage until the dramatizations came along and explained stuff to stupid me, half a century later.
Anyhow, I liked Marvel. They raised the Comic Book bar, no doubt about that.
Iron Man 2 was all about not letting private resources fall to the government
ff
And yes, Archie, Richie Rich, Casper, Little Dot, Little Lotta, and Little Audrey helped get me through kindergarten through the rest of my single digits.
ff
Or The Dark Night Returns...I was strictly Marvel until a buddy turned me onto that.
Never read one, never cared to. Seems like a great way to waste money.
No offense to old time comic fans.
With modern ones all I hear about is how SuperApeman or Turbomegagirl is transsexual or Muslim.
Interesting how every one ever made is being made into a movie/TV show due to sheer lack of ideas in Hollywood.
RIP to the old man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914
I liked Garfield (still do).
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