Comments on: Top Five Comic Book Newspapers

By: Ninjawookie

Ninjawookie — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:42:32 +0000

the only thing that ever happens at the planet is that someone always manages to knock the globe off. They should just invest in a hologram finally. Or maybe the already did?

By: mrjayberry

mrjayberry — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 23:33:53 +0000

Where is the honorable mention for the Clairton Clarion from Rom Spaceknight, I know its not as iconic as the ones that made the list, but they did convince most of a town and any snoopy outsiders that Rom was just made up to sell newspapers by editer Jem Marcus.

By: km

km — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:34:05 +0000

Um, wait. According to Andrew C's post, it's Jameson who gets the 'wife-beating' tip, yet it's Superman goes out to stop him? Is this in one of their crossovers?

By: suedenim

suedenim — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 13:01:40 +0000

Perhaps it was a phoned tip *from* the police, or at least a contact in the police department?

By: Lothor

Lothor — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 06:52:39 +0000

I don't mean to make light of wife-beating but...well, acutally I guess I do (a little). Was the average wife beating so important back in '38 that people CALLED THE NEWSPAPERS about it? They're not cops. It's not like they said the mayor was beating his wife, which might be important news. The rest I can justify: editorial figured that if there's a wife beating going on Superman might show up so they sent Kent in a rush. I'm still left with the question of why call them? It was a phoned tip, so it isn't that they were monitoring the police band or something.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 06:30:45 +0000

I believe the Daily Globe is also famous for being the paper where Eddie "Venom" Brock was employed.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:42:00 +0000

Andrew, Superman beat the holy hell out of the wife beater, sneering, "You're not fighting a woman now."

He threw the jerk around the room which should have broken his back. I hope someone can help me out but I think this was the same issue when Supes killed/indirectly caused the death of a normal human criminal. The guy died of a heart attack and Supes just shrugged it off.

By: Matt Bird

Matt Bird — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 01:31:16 +0000

Frank Miller's depiction of JJJ in as a coscientious editor (but only when it comes to the big stories) picked on Stan Lee's evolving depiction of the character in the late '60s (also when Robbie Robertson came to the fore).

By: Doug Atkinson

Doug Atkinson — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:56:24 +0000

I'd say the Daily Planet building is more recognizable than the Fortress of Solitude, because it's had a single iconic look for decades (well, the sign on top has, anyway), while the Fortress has had a few different looks. (Arguably the contest would be between the landmark on top of the Planet building vs. the souvenirs in the Batcave anyway, since without them they're just an office building and a cave...)

By: Andrew Collins

Andrew Collins — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:55:02 +0000

I like how Bendis writes Jameson in a modern sense, while Dan Slott has a great feel for the 'classic' Jameson dialogue and attitude. I love that Superman panel where he's rushing out the door to cover a "Wife Beating" tip that was phoned in. Classic. Hopefully he's on his way to STOP said wife beating...

By: Punch

Punch — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:33:17 +0000

Patient Boy I agree with your comments about Born Again. That was the first time I've seen JJJ treated as a real person as opposed to the cartoon that is his normal depiction.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:23:11 +0000

What about The Word from Transmetropolitan? I know the only people was got to see were Spider, Mitchell, and Spider's two assistants, but it could've gotten at least an honorable mention.

By: Patient Boy

Patient Boy — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:01:31 +0000

The Planet is a much better visual, but the Bugle's had better stories written in and about it IMHO. I guess I agree then. And JJJ is generally a better written character than Perry White. I specifically like his scene with Ben Urich in Born Again, when Urich is writing his expose regarding the Kingpin and Jameson goes on his spiel about the Bugle having the power to depose presidents.

By: Paperghost

Paperghost — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:11:19 +0000

"Lex.com"?

ahahahahaha etc

By: Omar Karindu

Omar Karindu — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:04:49 +0000

Ditko and Lee did indeed create EIC Barney Bushkin and the Daily Globe as an alternative venue for Peter Parker in ASM v.1 #27 or thereabouts. The gag was that Bushkin liked Peter's photos so much he bombarded him with enthusiastic questions about how he got them, which drove Peter away. Bushkin and the Globe next turned up in a major role in Bill Mantlo's Marvel Team-Up v.1 #56, where Bushkin and Jameson were the victims of an extortion scheme led by Electro and the original Blizzard. A few yearsa after that, Wolfman revived the paper and its editor in the Spider-titles as a proper employer for Peter after an especially deranged Jonah fired him in ASM v.1 #193. Denny O'Neil then used the paper for a byzantine "mysterious recluse" storyline involving its publisher K.J. Clayton. The story's finish also finished Peter's employment at the Globe, and Roger Stern got Peter back to the Bugle in ASM v.1 #206 with a wacky mind-control story to explain away Jameson's psychotic Peter-firing scene earlier on.

By: JG

JG — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:58:09 +0000

The Spider-Man movies were worth the price of admission for their respective JJJ scenes alone.

By: Rohan Williams

Rohan Williams — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:20:13 +0000

As long as I'm here- that's a good point, Ryan H, but I think the Daily Planet would be more well known than the Bugle because it seems to have seeped into the public consciousness. When people think 'fictional newspaper', they probably think 'Daily Planet', even if they've never had an interest in Superman (or watched any Spidey cartoons, for that matter).

By: Rohan Williams

Rohan Williams — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:17:36 +0000

Marv Wolfman may well have done that story during his time on the Spider-books- I couldn't tell you, since I haven't had the pleasure of reading his run- but I'm also pretty certain that Stan Lee told that exact same story within the first 40-odd issues of ASM. It's one of my favourite Stan Lee moments, because I hadn't realised until I got around to reading it that the main question I had about Peter's career (why the heck doesn't he just take the photos somewhere else?) had been answered by The Man himself relatively early in his run.

By: David M

David M — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:41:28 +0000

No love for Marvel's weekly alternative, Front Line? They outed Cap for not knowing what MySpace is!

And just so we don't forget what a special and poignant place the Daily Bugle has in all of our hearts, who could forget Amazing Spider-Man #248 ("The Kid Who Collected Spider-Man") which shows the kid amidst all of his Daily Bugle clippings of Spidey?

Also, does anyone remember the last issue of Spider-Man's Tangled Web (maybe issue #21 or 22)? A really good done-in-one story -- I think it was called "The System" -- where the Bugle is used to great effect at the story's conclusion.

By: suedenim

suedenim — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:01:07 +0000

Gotta love JJJ and the Bugle... and JJJ *is* the Bugle, really! That combination of personality, paper, and editorial viewpoint/religion (see Jonah's entry at http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/comic_book_religion.html !) is hard to beat. And IMO, it even makes the lame-by-comics-action-standards Spider-Man newspaper strip fun, because you've still got Stan writing JJJ and the Bugle there!

One bonus point in favor of the Picture News is what a wonderfully Silver Age, 1962-Worlds-Fair-esque newspaper title it has. Clearly, the Picture News was the *modern*, happening newspaper of Central City, versus its stodgy unnamed(?) competitor (probably something like "The Plains States Telegraph-Railroad Dispatch.")

Why? It has *pictures*! Lots of 'em!