Comments on: Comic Book Legends Revealed #216

By: Anthony Durrant

Anthony Durrant — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 20:07:06 +0000

I watched the anime on YouTube this morning, and wept tears copiously for Dracula because I knew how it feels to lose someone you love. The anime spawned a second one called Kyofu Densetsu Kaibutsu: Frankenstein.

By: Felicity

Felicity — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 00:07:23 +0000

The cartoony version of Bob Hope looks a lot like Quagmire from /Family Guy/!

By: Lunchboxkun

Lunchboxkun — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:47:53 +0000

Didn’t Marvel’s deal with Toei lead to a rather interesting Japanese version of Spider-man and the Avengers? I believe the Avengers in Japan went on to become the basis for the Power Rangers. I preferred the concept behind the live-action Japanese Spiderman more than the series done in America.

By: 4thletter! » Blog Archive » Dude, You’re Getting a Dell Dracula!

4thletter! » Blog Archive » Dude, You’re Getting a Dell Dracula! — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:38:54 +0000

[...] admit that this entire article is thanks to Brian Cronin, whose article on the CCA and their opinion on vampires led me to first seeing that cover. From [...]

By: TBG

TBG — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:16:23 +0000

“The Dracula anime aired on U.S. tv as a movie in the late 80’s. Around the time Robotech and Voltron were first airing.”
Those first aired in the mid-80′s, not the late 80′s. I wanna say 84, but maybe 85.

By: Clayton Emery

Clayton Emery — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:06:51 +0000

Some fans had been asking for SHOWCASE PRESENTS JERRY LEWIS editions. Paul Kupperberg said that DC asked Jerry Lewis’s people, and they immediately smelled money and asked for so much there would be no profit. Amazing greed considering the property was bringing them $0.00 to start.

By: Ted

Ted — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:25:28 +0000

Alan Coil: “((Sigh)) (The bastardization of the English language.) ((Sigh))”

It would be much easier to respect your opinion if it didn’t include a sentence fragment.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 05:49:00 +0000

>> The most awesome thing about those Bob Hope covers is that the Neal Adams was the artist on at least one of them, #106.

And I think Bob Hope #106 is his only DC cover with go-go checks, making it probably his earliest DC work.

By: Jack Norris

Jack Norris — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:27:56 +0000

Too bad they don’t make licensed fictionalized comics about celebrity comedians anymore, like DC used to do with Bob Hope and Jerry Lewis.
Just think, we could have “Adam Sandler Comics,” or “The Adventures Of Will Farrel” or… wait.
Never mind.

By: Dave Blanchard

Dave Blanchard — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:27:12 +0000

I had the pleasure of interviewing Arnold Drake some years back, and he informed me that Super-Hip and the Monster Faculty were created partly with the thought of continuing them on after DC let the license lapse on BOB HOPE. Same deal with Witch Kraft and Renfrew in the JERRY LEWIS comic.

DC’s Silver Age humor comics, especially those written by Drake and drawn by the peerless Bob Oksner, are perhaps the most underrated comics of all time.

By: N.M. Boliek

N.M. Boliek — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:36:16 +0000

I’m in the middle of reading “The Ten Cent Plague by David Hajdu (Farrar,Straus and Giroux publishers) and it’s proving to be one of the BEST reads about comics I’ve ever indulged in.

I like all of this stuff….even the campy shite….sometimes the campier the better )

but then again I do own full runs of The Witching Hour and We Dare you to Read Ghosts )

wish I had those farcical Bob Hope books……they make me cringe(with embarrasment)

By: Kirth

Kirth — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:33:07 +0000

If only we could get DC and Marvel to remove torture from its CURRENT books. But they won’t do that. Torture is “edgy” and “real”.

By: Jbird

Jbird — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:44:29 +0000

2nd Dell Dracula = new favorite Dracula

By: joe niggins

joe niggins — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:37:33 +0000

I vant bloodz

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:35:49 +0000

“The story was by by Tadaaki Yamazaki, who actually at least mentioned the original comic creators, Wolfman, Colan and Palmer in the credits as the inspiration for the story” could be misconstrued. The first issue of Tomb of Dracula was by Gerry Conway and Colan. (The inker is uncredited, but several sources attribute the inks to Colan.) The “classic” TOD team of Wolfman, Colan, and Palmer came together for the first time on issue 7.

Right, but the series specifically adapted the Wolfman/Colan/Palmer issues, which they were the original comic creators of, but yeah, I get your point that it could be misconstrued!

By: Rob Schmidt

Rob Schmidt — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:07:51 +0000

Hey, where are this week’s references to blacks and gays? If you don’t watch out, Shelly will start reading this column again!

By: John Warren

John Warren — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:01:42 +0000

Marvel’s zuvembies appeared in Avengers #151-152, in the story where Wonder Man returns from the dead. I haven’t read those issues recently enough to comment on how similar they are to “regular” zombies.

By: Omar Karindu, with the power of SUPER-hypocrisy!

Omar Karindu, with the power of SUPER-hypocrisy! — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:27:15 +0000

Don’t dis Super-Hip; he even made it to the wedding of Elasti-Girl and Mento of the Doom Patrol!

By: Sijo

Sijo — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:26:57 +0000

They should bring back Herbie. He has plenty of material to parody these days, like Marvel Zombies and Black Lanterns!

By: Joe D

Joe D — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:53:24 +0000

The most awesome thing about those Bob Hope covers is that the Neal Adams was the artist on at least one of them, #106.