Comments on: Comic Book Legends Revealed #230

By: M-Wolverine

M-Wolverine — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 18:47:56 +0000

Another No-Prize Book favorite….in a story Hercules moves the whole Island of Manhattan. Beyond how even Hulk with a wedgie strong this would have to be to move all that mass, when he puts it back Herc puts it in backwards, with the Battery facing the wrong end.

By: Andy E Nystrom

Andy E Nystrom — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:22:34 +0000

I own the marvel No-Prize book and as others have mentioned the only real problem with it was the 32-page length (minus intro). Even back then it could have been longer. My favourite bit is Captain America’s “Only one of us is walking away under his own power… and it *won’t* be me!”

By: Luis García Mozos

Luis García Mozos — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:16:48 +0000

Yes, I did, Luis Garcia Mozos, who misunderstood McGregor’s script, and drew in the comic’s first interracial kiss. Jose Luis Garcia Lopez, is a generation after mine.
A greeting.
Luis Garcia Mozos.
PS. Excuse my English.

By: Comic Book Legends Revealed #230

Comic Book Legends Revealed #230 — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:49:59 +0000

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By: Callum

Callum — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:40:43 +0000

Peter Palmer.. Oh god, does that mean there’s ANOTHER clone running around out there?

By: "O" the Humanatee!

"O" the Humanatee! — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:32:37 +0000

@jefhamlin: Thanks for that clarification. I didn’t actually attribute the mistake to Frankel (nor do you say I did). I just said that that his comment was “based on” the name overlap, without saying who did the basing-on – but I can certainly see why someone might think I said that.

By: jefhamlin

jefhamlin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:43:14 +0000

In David Frankel’s defense, that misidentification is out there. I’m pretty sure the source is Richard Arndt, who did an index of Warren Magazines http://www.enjolrasworld.com/Bibliographies%20by%20Richard%20Arndt.htm and who thought those were JLGL stories. From there it briefly got into comics.org and my own http://sites.google.com/site/joseluisgarcialopezchecklist/ until JLGL (through inker Kevin Nowlan) corrected it. So I suspect David is referring to Arndt’s Warren bibliography or other places dependent on it.

By: "O" the Humanatee!

"O" the Humanatee! — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:23:44 +0000

There really shouldn’t be any “debate” over whether that art’s by Jose-Luis García-López or Luis Garcia Mozos. Not only does it not look like Garcia-Lopez’s art at any known stage of his career, but as can be seen at http://lambiek.net/artists/g/garcia_luis.htm, Mozos was working from 1973 to 1980 for the French magazine Pilote in a style similar to the Creepy piece, and has continued to work in a similar vein for (primarily?) Spanish publications since then. Garcia-Lopez started working for DC in 1974 – drawing in a style not at all reminiscent of Mozos – following periods working in Argentina and drawing for Charlton. They’re just not the same person, and as far as I can tell David Frankel’s comment is based entirely on the partial overlap between their names.

By: John Cage

John Cage — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:05:10 +0000

I remember Kurt Busiek picking up on the Palmer and Watkins gaffs from early Spider-Man issues and having Peter Parker use the name Peter Palmer as an alias in Untold Tales of Spider-Man #7 and having Aunt May refer to Anna Watson as Anna Watkins as an early sign of her failing health (which necessitated a blood transfusion in an early issue of ASM).

Have a good day.
John Cage

By: Jamie Ott

Jamie Ott — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:36:34 +0000

Mojo Jojo and Chim-Chim have nearly the same hats….I think more than his speech patterns were influenced by Speed Racer.

By: Ted

Ted — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:55:02 +0000

Yeah, but then you’d get ten more minutes of ads. I’m suprised that wasn’t reason enough for the networks.

By: Kamino Neko

Kamino Neko — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:06:45 +0000

Ted – reducing a half hour show to 20 minutes to fix lip sync would be a lot more noticeable than just having the characters speak idiosyncratically.

By: James Moar

James Moar — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:32:17 +0000

@rolly

“They probably never matched in the original Japanese either, for all I know.”

Probably not. Anime has been fairly loose about lipsync from the first TV cartoons down to the present day.

By: Thom

Thom — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:49:09 +0000

For his earliest work at DC (1975), Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez was credited as just “Garcia Lopez.” I would think any work he did at Warren before 1975 might also be credited as Garcia Lopez, though I’m not certain.

By: DoubleWide

DoubleWide — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 06:41:54 +0000

I loved the way Mojo Jojo talked, but didn’t he gradually stop talking that way?

By: Ted

Ted — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 05:31:00 +0000

the lips aren't going to match the voices for the majority of screen time anyway.

It depends what you mean by match. If you mean that the movement of the lips wont match the words, then absolutely they wouldn't have matched, probably even in the original. However, I was more specifically talking about the lips moving for the same amount of time as the dialog takes. It's one thing to have the lips say "watermelon watermelon watermelon" for five seconds to match five seconds of dialog, it's much more noticable for the lips to say "watermelon" for five seconds to match one second of dialog. A better question is why they didn't just recut the thing. It might have been a hatchet job but it probably would have been less noticable. Either way it's certainly odd.

By: Monica Dickey

Monica Dickey — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:20:15 +0000

That Luis art is really amazing. Like I would really consider framing it and hanging it.

By: rolly (not dubbed)

rolly (not dubbed) — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:32:03 +0000

@ Ted

Thanks for trying to be helpful. But the thing is, it’s a cartoon. From the 60′s, no less, which means that the lips aren’t going to match the voices for the majority of screen time anyway. They probably never matched in the original Japanese either, for all I know. The odd thing is, we insist that the dubbed version and original match, when the languages and cultures are vastly different. That cracks me up.

By: Wilbur Lunch

Wilbur Lunch — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:20:29 +0000

Jose-Luis García-López or Luis Garcia Mozos – whoever drew it, that’s some gorgeous artwork.

By: Alan Coil

Alan Coil — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:21:12 +0000

“One more thing, has anyone noticed that, on the Weather Channel’s morning show, Wake Up With Al, that Al Roker has stolen the use of the term “No Prize” for some viewer contest he runs? Quesada needs to kick his lawyers in the pants and get them on the ball here!”

Marvel’s claim to the phrase may have expired, especially if they never trademarked it.