A post from my old Marvel blog in which I touch on a variety of then-current issues as the week comes to an end.
April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General
I didn’t get to cover as many blog topics this week as I had planned on–largely because of yesterday’s unexpected “Mister Fish” alert-level. So let me quickly bullet-point a couple of them here, before they get to be too out-of-date to do any good.
So far, reader Eric Sellers is the only person to scan and send me in one of the Bad Sketches I’ve done for fans at conventions–and the piece he sent wasn’t really a sketch at all, but my little cartoon-doodle signature head. Still, it’s better than nothing, so I’ve included it below. but if anybody else has one of these priceless gems they’d like to share, preferably of an actual comic book character, I’d truly welcome it.
I got an e-mail last week from Rob Liefeld, who’d been reading the series on “Bad Comics I Bought”, and felt like sharing some of his own early memories of buying comics, since he and I started reading the books at around the same time. Say what you will about Rob, love him or hate him, the guy has an earnest enthusiasm about the characters, the books and the industry that it’s just hard to beat. (For those of you who are interested in such things, Rob revealed that his first Marvel comic was FANTASTIC FOUR #147, which he found at a barber shop while getting his hair cut.)
As some of you may have seen, they just announced the panel schedule for the New York Comic Convention taking place in a couple of weeks. And, as we’ve done in the past (assuming we can actually make our way into the packed convention hall), we’ll be debuting the new 2007 edition of Prize or No-Prize on Sunday afternoon. I’ll be on hand to host the festivities, and if it’s anything like past years, it’ll be incredibly entertaining, whether it’s a well-oiled machine or a complete and total flop. So please, stop on by, show off your knowledge of useless Marvel trivia, and win semi-valuable, semi-rare, semi-exclusive semi-prizes!
Next week, inspired by a question from one of the blog posters, we’ll begin an exciting new five-part series: “My So-Called Career in Comics.”
And at the request of sulkin’ Stephen Wacker, today’s Art Avalanche focuses primarily on projects he’s working on. So let’s all share a little of the love with Steve.
More later.
Tom B
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Tom, I have been wanting to ask this question: You have done the Times Marvel Has Reference DC and DC Has Reference Marvel but when are you going to the Times Marvel Has Reference Itself ( Force Four ( Teamleader, Thunderhoof, Firemane & Ghostmare ) the Kymellian Fantastic Four [ Power Pack#50 ( November 1989 ) ] ) and Times DC Has Reference Itself ( Hyper-Man ( Chester King of the dying planet Zoron to Oceania and adopted by the King family )[ Action Comics#265 ( June 1960 ) 1st story — an alien like Hyperion & Gladiator is a homage of Superman in the same universe as Superman and Oceania is a duplicate of Earth with a name our planet should be called considering the planet is mostly ocean — see dc.fanfom.com ]?
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Tom, Mockingbird ( her Wikipedia ) and I remember in her first appearance in The Amazing Spider-Man#194 ( July 1979 ) letter page it was said that the Black Cat was originally meant to be a Spider-Woman foe ( Which Wikipedia says was true for Mockingbird ( originally African-American ) too, so are there other characters that were meant to be one thing before they appeared in a series but ended up another thing? Plus Mockingbird originally being “black” a.k.a. brown is like the mutant hero Dazzler who was originally African-American ( her Wikipedia ), are there others?
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Was the Spider-Woman Mockingbird to be Bobbi? You’re better with minutiae than I am. Had the character had to give up the nom du alter ego of Huntress yet at that time? It’s hard for me to set Marvel Team Up right in the timeline because it was such an inferior book most of the time I associate it with comics of years before.
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