Comments on: Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #15!

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:55:14 +0000

Sorry, Tyson, it was just a reference that Mysterio began adjusting the PLAN when Ben was Spider-Man.

By: Tyson

Tyson — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:22:56 +0000

I'm confused by the timeline of the Mysterio bit - you mention that this was in 1998, and then state:
"However, at the time, Spider-Man was currently a different character (Ben Reilly), so Mysterio decided to adapt his plan to someone else, namely Daredevil."

Ben Reilly was killed in PETER PARKER: SPIDER-MAN #75, which was published in December 1996. I pretty much quit reading comics for a few years while after Marvel killed off Ben Reilly, but my impression since then was that they just wanted to forget about him as much as possible (or mock him in Spider-Girl and make him a bad guy in Ultimate Spider-Man).

So, what was happening with Reilly in 1998? Somehow, I'm missing something here. Since Ben Reilly/Scarlet Spider is my favorite super-hero, I'd love to know if there was something else happening in 1998 that I missed.

Thanks!

By: John McDonagh

John McDonagh — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 12:00:08 +0000

"It was even rumored that Mike Hammer was originally meant to be a comic strip titled Mike Danger!"

http://www.thrillingdetective.com/danger_m.html

But, seven years after Mike Danger was rejected by his publisher, the unsold stories actually did make an appearance -- in Crime Detector #3 and 4 in 1954.

By: Johhny Reb

Johhny Reb — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 20:34:48 +0000

That's all really nice Josh, but the article clearly states that it was Ralph Macchio's decision to use Mysterio, not Byrne's. If it was Macchio's decision to still use him after Smith's story, then shouldn't the blame fall on him?

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 20:44:23 +0000

That is pretty cool, Josh.

You certainly could make the argument that Byrne should have been more accommodating of Smith's mistake.

By: josh

josh — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 16:01:02 +0000

At thetime that that whole Kevin Smith thing went down, i was amemeber of an early Daredevil emailing list.
Joe Quesada was known to be a lurker on that list. He occasioanlly asked research questions toget things right by the fans. For example, he asked about who should be at Karen Page's funeral.

Anyway, when the word came out that John Byrne was bringing Mysterio back 1 month after Smith had killed him, some of us were pretty upset.
It seemed pointless.

I did not take into account the complications that DD's delays had caused. I posted a long message that basically said that it seemed like Byrne was putting Smith in his place. "You ain't paid your dues, kid. Until you do, there is nothing that you can do that I can't undo."

It was clear that a last minuet explanation piece of dialog had to be inserted. It could have jus as easily explained that this Mysterio was a different one than the one that had kileld himself. It really seemed to us that Smith was being taught a lesson in how to play in the Marvel toybox.

Once that message was up, Mr. Quesada re-postde my whole message and added at the top (paraphrasing) "I have agreed to not publicly comment on this subject, but I just wanted to re-post Josh's message and look at it for a while."

I thought it was pretty cool.

Josh Dahl

By: Prometheus

Prometheus — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 17:44:59 +0000

Wasn't Alan Davis, was it? He was known for his Who references in comics...ala' the "Weird Happenings Organization/W.H.O" in early EXCALIBUR issues, lead by a Lethbridge-Stewart (who was insinuated to be the daughter of the Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart that lead the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce/U.N.I.T in the Doctor Who television series). Sounds like something Davis would do.

By: anon

anon — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 03:08:07 +0000

However, it's worth noting that in the famous Captain Britain plotline involving alternate universes, recently collected in the Captain Britain TPB, the authority which deleted universes most likely *was* based on the Time Lords -- in the same comic, the writer revived characters he'd created for the Doctor Who comic, and it was certainly on his mind.

Pity I can't remember any names and don't have access to my collection right now.

By: Kip W

Kip W — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 23:18:38 +0000

I had heard that text pages in the comics were there to maintain some legal status as "magazines" for postal reasons. At some point in time, comic books stopped being viewed as illegitimate stepchildren of literature and got their own legal standing and the text pages vanished pretty much overnight. Perhaps someone better informed will comment.