Comments on: Comic Book Legends Revealed #233

By: Charles Sisto Malatesta 5/15/2011 | csm2

Charles Sisto Malatesta 5/15/2011 | csm2 — Sun, 15 May 2011 17:07:10 +0000

[...] ^ Comic Book Legends Revealed #233 (includes Balboa’s profile and the retraction) [...]

By: taffysaur

taffysaur — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 05:46:16 +0000

Also, sorry to double-post, but I MUST comment on the “Pugil-Stick”, Rocky’s weapon.
Actually, no. I don’t need to. I’ve drawn your attention to the Pugil-Stick (*really*, just *try* and say it out loud), and that’s enough.

By: taffysaur

taffysaur — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 05:40:39 +0000

If they ever made a figure of Dan ‘Terrible’ Turpin for the Superman: TAS toy line, then you’d *basically* have a Jack Kirby toy!
(They based Turpin’s model design on Kirby as a tribute. Looks just like him, too.)

Anyone know if Terrible got a toy back then?

By: J Gomez

J Gomez — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:15:42 +0000

“Rocky is not now nor has he ever been a member of G.I. Joe”

Now that’s some light-speed retcon.

By: R3D RJ

R3D RJ — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:29:18 +0000

Adriaaannn!!! =P

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:33:05 +0000

My favorite bit is the line on the retraction:

“Rocky is not now nor has he ever been a member of G.I. Joe”

Suuuure G.I. Joe, I get it. I’ll just pretend I never saw that Rocky bio page.

By: random

random — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:55:29 +0000

“”It reminds me of an excellent piece in the NYT Magazine about the reasons the Soviets lost the space race”"

But the Russian got to space first, so they won the space race… changing the goal posts to the moon should be counted as the moon race or something.

By: jmy

jmy — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:30:26 +0000

CameronBrown beat me to my comment on the idea that info about Gabe Kaplan would be a selling point.

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:50:39 +0000

Funny that Rocky is a GI Joe and not Rambo.

By: Craig Zablo’s StalloneZone » Rocky a Joe?!

Craig Zablo’s StalloneZone » Rocky a Joe?! — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:31:56 +0000

[...] Did you know that Rocky Balboa was almost a member of the GI Joe team? He was and you can read why it didn’t happen at CBR.com: Comic Book Legends! [...]

By: Mudduck

Mudduck — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:02:25 +0000

Corliss Archer actually began on Broadway, in the play KISS AND TELL. Broadway used to be a fertile source of material for both Hollywood and radio.

MOON KNIGHT has company in the multiple identity business. THE SHADOW, known on radio as the alter ego of Lamont Cranston, was actually the aviator Kent Allard who switched places with rich man-about-town Cranston when he needed a public face. From time to time, The Shadow also impersonated businessman Henry Arnaud, elderly gentleman Isaac Twambley, and old Fritz, a janitor at police headquarters (according to Wikipedia. I just remember Allard from the pulps).

By: Frank Rook

Frank Rook — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:01:53 +0000

In that bio pic, it looks like Rocky’s been drinking milk. Ah, the days of white upper lips in an effort to color teeth…

By: sean

sean — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:55:49 +0000

“so why didn’t they put Rambo in G.I. Joe?”

There’s several reasons; Stallone has more inherent rights to Rocky than he does to Rambo (Rambo is based on a character from a book and Stallone wasn’t the only writer on the project. Beyond that, if this was late 1986, Rambo already had his own cartoon show for kids. (The main writer of that was the guy who wrote the book, and Stallone wasn’t involved at all, even as an executive producer, which suggests that he didn’t have any rights to the character at that time.)

By: The Ugly American

The Ugly American — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:42:54 +0000

There was also a mail-away figure that was customized after yourself.

Of course, it wore a helmet.

By: Harv

Harv — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:18:48 +0000

There are three columns I look forward to on CBR each week. CBLR is two of them.

By: Kamino Neko

Kamino Neko — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:06:43 +0000

It was Owen King again – he created Crystal Ball…or else he suggested the idea to his father who fleshed it out and gave it to Hasbro on his behalf. That’s apparently why they modelled Sneak Peek after him.

By: dave

dave — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:37:59 +0000

I think I remember somewhere that somebody’s kid (I thought it was Joe Hill, aka Joe King) wrote the bio for a GI Joe character. Is that right?

By: worstblogever

worstblogever — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:03:46 +0000

I am embarassed to admit that I had the Big Boa action figure.

http://timetravellertoys.co.uk/action%20force%20gi%20joe/1987/Big%20Boa.jpg

The removable gloves were kinda cool. Other than that, not so much.

And as far as Janet Waldo goes… in doing research about old-school X-Men appearances in cartoons? Well, Janet was a guest voice on a few episodes of Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends. She did a stint as Shanna the She-Devil in one episode, and in another, was Verona, the Frost Giantess from Asgard with a crush on Iceman.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:03:33 +0000

About Janet Waldo, here’s an interesting little tidbit. She appeared on an early episode of “I Love Lucy” (“The Young Fans”) as Peggy, a teenaged girl with a crush on Ricky. The trivia bit is the fact that Ms Waldo at the time was 34 years old, about 7 years younger than Lucille Ball and about 1 year younger than Desi Arnaz Even more amazingly, Ms Waldo was pregnant when the episode was taped. The teenaged boy that Lucy and Ricky eventually manage to get Peggy with was played by Richard Crenna (who was, in real life, 8 years younger than Janet Waldo). Crenna, just to bring in another link to the legends, played Col Trautman in the “Rambo” movies (which, of course, starred Sylvester Stallone).

By: SwanShadow

SwanShadow — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:44:39 +0000

She played the titular Blondie in the long-running film series.

*snicker* You said “titular.” *snort*