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Knowing that O’Neill lived in New York at the time, one wonders if this was actually how drug dealers made their approach to potential customers back then.

It must have been a copy of Youngblood #1

Oh snap!

If I’m not mistaken, JJJ appeared in Marvels alongside with Phil Sheldon back when the Human Torch and Namor first appeared.

What’s even more scarier, just how damn old is his father?

Eh, sliding timescale. What are you gonna do?

If I recall correctly, Jameson was never identified by name in the WWII era section of Marvels, so it was a nudge nudge wink wink sort of thing.

The Jameson from “Marvels” has been retconned into a completely separate character with no connection to J. Jonah Jameson — I think the explanation is JJJ modeled himself after the original and because they look alike, folks assume they were related. Here’s the rundown on the character: http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix3/jamesonoldman.htm

Since Jameson’s father came back I’ve been thinking about how old they both are. I figure that if Jameson jr. is 65-ish (and was in his early 50s when the series started), Jameson sr. must be in his late 80s, which would be more obvious if he didn’t look at least ten years younger. And then I figure I should stop thinking about it so much and just enjoy the ride.

Have a good day.
John Cage

This was an infinity comic: the terrible thing he offered Peter was the very same comic they were appearing in!

Why the hell would Jonah from the first issue of Marvels need to be retconned? Marvels was an out-of-continuity story (made clear by the fact that the entire series narrative ran in real-time from 1939 to 1972).

That guy invented Goatse.

the art of such luminaries as Jim Starlin, John Byrne, Frank Miller, John Romita Jr., with a good dose of Keith Pollard and a dash of Al Milgrom thrown in.

Ok…why is Pollard not grouped in with the “luminaries?” Seriously, Pollard is so underrated and gets no respect! He was one of the greats!

One of my favorite Pollard covers:
http://anyeventuality.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/1986-05-spectacularspider-man114-keith-pollard.jpg

How about this–Robbie isn’t serious about Jameson, just making a joke about him–which fits the context–both the last time JJJ was that angry & a little dig at his age.

People do that all the time. They joke that somebody is so old, they were around when such & such happened.

I wouldn’t put any stock in it beyond that.

But I can still have fun with it, right, stephen?

Sorry, T. Pollard’s work on the book is decent if unspectacular, and I, personally, just wouldn’t put him up with those other gentlemen. I could be wrong, though, as I haven’t seen enough of Pollard’s work to judge very well.

Didn’t Young Avengers heavily imply that JJJ was a kid/teen in WWII? IIRC he said he wanted to be Bucky as a kid (right up until he was “killed” anyway)

“But I can still have fun with it, right, stephen?”

Of course–this is a comic after all.

Come on guys … the timelines are pretty fluid … at best … I believe the last comment was ‘can’t you just read the stories without worrying about this kind of stuff.
If you followed all the bloody timelines and everything … Parker would be 50 … Batman would be an old man … and Judge Dredd …well … he lived (agh .. lives … AGH does he?) in the future anyway … so that’s allowed.

@Mad_Man_Moon:
Ironically Judge Dredd does qage in real time, or near enough to it anyway.

‘age’. gah.

The Marvel Earth isn’t the same as our Earth, is it? They share a lot of the same history, but maybe this particular election happened, say, 25 years later in the Marvel timeline? Maybe it was even between different Hoover and Roosevelt than the candidates of that name in our history?

Come on guys … the timelines are pretty fluid … at best … I believe the last comment was ‘can’t you just read the stories without worrying about this kind of stuff.
If you followed all the bloody timelines and everything … Parker would be 50 … Batman would be an old man … and Judge Dredd …well … he lived (agh .. lives … AGH does he?) in the future anyway … so that’s allowed.

The problem is, even if you adjust for the rolling fluid timeline and use the date this issue was printed, the math still doesn’t work.

Aggghhhh! 25 years of collecting comics and I see this issue is still being debated!?

You just have to ignore topical references in comics. Like a dying parent, you just have to let them go.

Actually, the idea of a 12-year-old Jonah getting absurdly pissed off by an election result rings absolutely true to me. He always struck me as the type of person who wanted to be politically active – hence why the current storyline rings true, if odd – but was so disgusted by the people running the system that he then made it his life’s goal to weed them out of politics by being a good reporter instead.

Perhaps Ben was making a joke, and we are all wasting our valuable memorial day BBQ time by wondering otherwise.

…now I have to run to the store for some more hot dogs.

“Wanna buy somethin’ terrible?”

Who the funk would say “yes” to that question? May as well say, “Fancy a kick in the balls?”

I thought the scariest panel in the marvel Universe was JJJ and Aunt May in bed together. Hey, anyone’s a step up from Doc Ock.

No no, what makes that “terrible” panel so horrifying is the fact that the word balloon isn’t even coming from the creepy guy. THERE’S AN INVISIBLE DRUG DEALER NEXT TO HIM!

“Wanna buy somethin’ terrible” is a more interesting pitch than just “Hey, want some crack?.”

In a few more years, the “Old Man” Jameson of the 40′s will be revealed as JJJ’s grandfather. Just wait for it.

I thought the scariest Marvel panel ever was Brian Michael Bendis and Robert Kirkman …