Comments on: Comic Book Legends Revealed #203

By: TJCoolguy

TJCoolguy — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 03:11:09 +0000

I wanted to mention this earlier (specifically for the entry entirely devoted to Cable’s origins), but never got around to it ’til now…

For all the (deserved) trash talking that Rob Liefeld gets, he does seem to have an innate ability to create characters that (in my opinion, and that of many people I know) later become great when written by other people. I’m a big Deadpool fan (though I’m definitely happy that they recently “trimmed the fat” and got rid of most of the bloated Deadpool line), I’ve seen some great stuff done with Cable over the years, and I even liked a lot of the Copycat/Domino stuff that later X-Force and Deadpool teams did.

I recently went to WonderCon in San Francisco and got a great photo of a dude in a very accurate, very ridiculous Stryfe costume.

By: Michael Powers

Michael Powers — Sun, 01 May 2011 20:26:38 +0000

So Bruce Wayne and John Wayne both got their last names by way of Mad Anthony Wayne. When director Raoul Walsh cast a prop boy as the lead in his stunning 1930 widescreen epic (that wasn’t a typo–widescreen in 1930!) shot on location all across the west, he changed 23-year-old Marion Morrison’s name, choosing “Wayne” because Walsh happened to be reading a biography of Mad Anthony Wayne at the time. I’ve seen the restored widescreen movie, “The Big Trail,” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York any number of times, and it’s one of the greatest westerns ever shot with a sensational performance by John Wayne that was as good as anything he subsequently did, including “The Searchers” and “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.”

By: Ron Coyne

Ron Coyne — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 21:18:42 +0000

It was a devil of a time to find it, because I remember reading this story in the mid- seventies. I did finally locate it on the DC Wikia website and I pulled this synopsis of the story, “Bow Before Satan’s Children” from World’s Finest #225: “Superman and Batman go to Castle Wayne in Inishtree, Scotland to investigate a rumor of possessed children with great powers.”

That’s the earliest reference to Bruce Wayne’s Scottish heritage that I recall.

By: GordonD

GordonD — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:28:24 +0000

Frank Quitely got started drawing “The Greens” in the Scottish underground comic “Electric Soup”. This was a parody of “The Broons”, a humorous one-page strip about a Scottish family which has been appearing weekly in the “Sunday Post” newspaper since 1936. The Greens actually make a cameo appearance in “The Scottish Connection” – they’re the family in the mini-bus which is forced off the road during a car-chase, IIRC – it’s been a while since I read it. Until today when I found it was the same artist, I could never work out why!

By: HOMESLICE

HOMESLICE — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:35:28 +0000

“Mad” Anthony Wayne is my great great great great uncle.

By: GQ

GQ — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:27:21 +0000

My my. General Wayne was certainly… well-endowed, wasn’t he?

“…is like pointing out that water is blue…”
Um….
Water is clear, dude.

By: Squashua

Squashua — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:27:20 +0000

I agree. That “footless” Liefield slap is pretty tight.

By: DanCJ

DanCJ — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:08:28 +0000

The best thing about the two Magog paintings here? You can’t see his feet in either of them.

We have a winner in the “cleverest Leifeld bash” competition! I like the way you bashed Leifeld by comment on Alex Ross paintings!

By: sgt pepper

sgt pepper — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 01:47:53 +0000

So Batman was named after an Indian killer. Huh.

So was my high school in Ohio.

By: Bert Duckwall

Bert Duckwall — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:06:41 +0000

Maybe we could get Hart Fisher to publish a comic where Rob Liefeld goes to jail and meets O.J. Simpson. It would be right up there with Jesus Christ VS. Jeffery Dalmer.

By: Wilbur Lunch

Wilbur Lunch — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:17:48 +0000

Me: “…but what’s the deal with all the DC heroes having two first names?
Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent, Barry Allen, Alan Scott, Kent Nelson, Hal Jordan, Wally West, etc…”

Kamino Neko: “‘West’ is common enough as a first name to count in this list?”

Um, actually, no. I just had a brainfart after just listing the alliterative names… On the other hand, I missed Ted Grant, Selina Kyle, Dinah Lance, Jason Todd, Barbara Gordon, Kate Spencer, Travis Morgan, Ronnie Raymond, Roy Raymond, Steve Trevor, Mal Duncan and Nathaniel Adam. So there’s plenty of examples to prove a point.

By: Win Scott Eckert

Win Scott Eckert — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:29:39 +0000

“I believe the idea that “Clark Kent” is derived from Clark Savage and Kent Allard is something that Philip Jose Farmer proposed in his fictional biography of Doc Savage (HIS APOCALYPTIC LIFE)”

Phil was responsible for a lot of great work on Doc Savage, but not for proposing this derivation of “Clark Kent.”

By: Bill Hood

Bill Hood — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:38:57 +0000

Brian,
As always, I love the column, and as soon as I’m done here I’m headed over to check out legendsrevealed.com, how about… just for laughs you have a column or two based on legends from the convention circuit?

I can tell you a few that I’ve heard…i.e. Lou Ferrigno once took a guests camera after said con guest took a picture of him without permission, or James O’Barr (creator of the Crow) had coffee spilled in his lap by a conventioneer, causing burns that required treatment, or two Image comics creators came to blows after a Q&A panel in Chicago.
Y’know…that sorta thing. Just a thought.

By the way, you say that your book isn’t due out until April 28th, but I’ve got one in my hot little hands now and I got it 04/17/09, ordered from Barnes & Noble @ bn.com. Great stuff, and even though I’ve read this column weekly for the longest time, still the book is full of great info and surprises. Loving it…so, thank you.

By: Thom

Thom — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 09:44:28 +0000

I know, I meant it was a surprise to see Gordon IN the first Batman story, I thought he came up later. In fact it is surprising that it was a one-page thing with virtually no facts or other related characters!

Oh, sorry. Yeah, Commissioner Gordon first appeared in Detective #27.

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By: Sijo

Sijo — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 03:59:40 +0000

“Commissioner Gordon was not in on Bruce Wayne’s identity as Batman in that first story. The last panel states that the commissioner would be “amazed to learn” that “his young friend” is Batman.”

I know, I meant it was a surprise to see Gordon IN the first Batman story, I thought he came up later. In fact it is surprising that it was a one-page thing with virtually no facts or other related characters!

By: Beacon

Beacon — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 01:24:23 +0000

The best thing about the two Magog paintings here? You can’t see his feet in either of them.

By: Dan Bailey

Dan Bailey — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:52:44 +0000

>>‘West’ is common enough as a first name to count in this list?

Also, I seriously doubt that “Jordan” was at all common as a first name back when the Silver Age GL was introduced.

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By: Thom

Thom — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:44:44 +0000

Thanks for expanding on Batman’s background (and posting the first story! I had no idea Comm. Gordon was on it from the start!)

Commissioner Gordon was not in on Bruce Wayne’s identity as Batman in that first story. The last panel states that the commissioner would be “amazed to learn” that “his young friend” is Batman.