Comments on: Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #115

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:28:30 +0000

I'd explain it, but seriously, the context of the piece explains how the term is being used.

By: Justin Alexander

Justin Alexander — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 03:42:45 +0000

You keep referring to the Milgrom insults as a "mistake" (both in the original column and here). The failure to remove them after somebody noticed them may have been a mistake, but the insults almost certainly were not. You don't just spill an ink bottle and "accidentally" have it spell out insults to your former boss.

By: Will Morgan

Will Morgan — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:20:57 +0000

Could you lay off with the "female heroines" tag? A heroine is a female hero, and therefore by definition, duh, female. There's no such thing as a MALE heroine. (Well, apart from Madam Fatal). So, "Female Heroes" or "Heroines", but NOT "Female Heroines", okay?

By: Matt Linton

Matt Linton — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:27:08 +0000

And I need to read the comments before adding my own. Sorry!

By: Matt Linton

Matt Linton — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:21:51 +0000

Night Nurse has showed up in Brian Michael Bendis' Daredevil run, and in the Brian K. Vaughan's Doctor Strange: The Oath miniseries, where she began dating Dr. Strange. As of the most recent issue of New Avengers, she's still dating him.

By: Atomic Mystery Monster

Atomic Mystery Monster — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:49:03 +0000

Several years ago, I once read that only two of the Mickey Mouse comic strips were actually in the public domain and the accidental use of the non-PD stuff is what got "The Uncensored Mouse" in hot water. I don't know if it's true, though.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 07:25:27 +0000

Thanks, Steven.

That's exactly what they did. Thanks so much for the correction.

By: steven rowe

steven rowe — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:34:28 +0000

Al Milgrom has been inking at Archie for many years now - doing the regular books, inking Stan Goldberg etc.

part of the Disney defense against Malibu, was that the comic strips used still-in-copyright stories from the animated films. ("Plane Crazy" for those of you wanting to check)

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:31:46 +0000

Christine Palmer, the redheaded night nurse, did show up as a supporting character in Nightcrawler's ongoing series a couple years back. Given the supernatural themes of the series, I wonder if it was linked in any way to the cancelled MAX series.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 17:38:44 +0000

Thanks for stopping by, Jim!!

And thanks for the link - interesting stuff!

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 17:38:08 +0000

Good point, Marionette. It IS odd how Patsy Walker's past has been downplayed, as she was a major success for Marvel (as was Millie, but I just like Patsy better).

By: Marionette

Marionette — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:27:26 +0000

I wonder if that sort of thing was a conscious attempt at shoring up the â€œfemaleâ€ titlesâ€™ sagging sales

Whether the sales were sagging by the seventies, one thing that Marvel have always played down, if not completely ignored, is that their biggest sellers through much of the sixties were Milli the Model and Patsy Walker.

By: Jim Korkis

Jim Korkis — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 13:46:49 +0000

Absolutely LOVE your Urban Legends column. It is a MUST READ for me when I see it. So I was quite pleased to be credited in your column with a link to my column about UNCENSORED MOUSE. A while ago, I helped Disney historian Wade Sampson with some information on the Mickey Mouse suicide strips and that column can be found at the following link: http://www.mouseplanet.com/articles.php?art=ww060906ws. Since that time, I have found a page from a British Mickey Mouse Comic Album from the same time period where there is a one page series of panels of Mickey trying to commit suicide after he sees Minnie flirting with another mouse. The final panel has him trying to hang himself from a tree branch over a body of water and deciding to shoot himself as well. The final gag is that the bullet splits the rope and Mickey falls in the water and he says: "Thank heavens I can swim. I might have drowned!" Keep up the great work!

By: Vanja

Vanja — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 12:17:52 +0000

It'd be interesting to read some information about the case of alleged civil suit Grant Morrison vs Wachowski brothers on account of their supposedly ripping off his Invisibles in the Matrix

By: Unguentina

Unguentina — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 01:49:33 +0000

I vaguely remember a Black Panther miniseries from Marvel in the 80s, involving apartheid in South Africa.

The series halted abruptly. I've heard some wild things about what was in the unpublished issues. What happened?

By: MWGallaher

MWGallaher — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 23:14:51 +0000

J_Maggio, the brunette and redhead were Linda's roommates. The series was set up to change leads between them from issue to issue. And believe it or not, NIGHT NURSE was really a fun, well-written series. It doesn't deserve its current "joke" status at all. It was better than a large percentage of its Marvel peers of the era. (And Linda Carter, Night Nurse was preceded in the early 60's by a series called LINDA CARTER, STUDENT NURSE. Presumably, they are the same character, although I believe she changed hair color by the time her 70's series came along.)

By: J_Maggio

J_Maggio — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 22:19:31 +0000

A couple notes on the Night Nurse series... her first name, Linda, is on the cover of the first issue, and I believe her last name was Carter.

Also, if you happened to see all four covers, you'd notice that she's shown as a blonde, a brunette and a redhead.

By: Pack

Pack — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 11:42:26 +0000

Tigra's future doesn't look bright:

NEW AVENGERS #35
Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
Pencils & Cover by LEINIL FRANCIS YU
The Hood makes his play for the big time by gathering the most ruthless rogues gallery of evil the Marvel Universe has ever seen. What does a guy who wants to be the "Kingpin of all super-villains" do to make his point? You have to see it to believe it.
Guest-Starring Tigra. Poor Tigra. Poor, poor Tigra.
32 PGS./Rated A ?$2.99

By: Tomer

Tomer — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 07:32:06 +0000

[quote]â€œTigra isâ€¦ What the hell is she doing nowadays?â€

Tigra was the Pro-Reg spy on the Anti side in Civil War (see Black Panther circa #24). She popped up Mighty Avengers #3, about to get her bones jumped by Hank Pym. But alas, she was rejected. Now sheâ€™s on the cover to Ms. Marvel #19:[/quote]

I know about CW and heard about her appearance in MA (don't read it). Don't read Ms. Marvel either. So other than her spying in CW she didn't do anything important lately. Even that role was unnecessary.

By: yo go re

yo go re — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 04:28:00 +0000

Well, this is embarrassing. It seems installment #3 of this very feature already covered the Bob Harras/Al Milgrom topic and... found it to be true!

And the reading comprehension award of the week goes to...

This is a special theme week. Each urban legend this week is a follow-up on a previous urban legend installment!

and

In one of the very first installments of Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed, I detailed how Al Milgrom snuck an insult of exiting Editor-in-Chief Bob Harras into the background of a panel

How embarrassing!