Comic Book Legends Revealed
Comic Book Legends Revealed #352
Welcome to the three hundredth and fifty-second in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. Today, learn whether Spider-Ham was really inspired by Cerebus, discover what Marvel character was nearly Captain Marvel and marvel at the oddity that is the comic book baseball team in the Ken [...]
Comic Book Legends Revealed #351
Welcome to the three hundredth and fifty-first in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. Today, learn whether Robin was originally going to be a one-issue wonder! Discover the super-villain that came out of a bad review! And discover the supervillain invented by Harlan Ellison…for a T-Shirt? [...]
Comic Book Legends Revealed #350
Welcome to the three hundredth and fiftieth in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. Today, discover whether Marvel sued Dave Sim over his usage of the Wolverine parody Wolveroach, marvel at a lawsuit involving a billboard of all things in the Spider-Man movie and learn just [...]
Comic Book Legends Revealed #349
Welcome to the three hundredth and forty-ninth in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. Today, marvel at the bizarre awesomness that is the Adventures of Superpup, discover the background of the X-Men villain S’ym and learn whether Alpha Flight’s Wild Child was intended to be Sabretooth’s [...]
Comic Book Legends Revealed Addendum – More Aquaman II Goodness Plus Mutant Rights!
I recently did a Comic Book Legends Revealed (you can read it here) about how there was nearly a sequel to Neal Pozner and Craig Hamilton’s popular mid-80′s Aquaman mini-series. I totally forgot that Back Issue #46 had a story on the never-seen series (in a neat article written by Richard A. Scott). In the [...]
Comic Book Legends Revealed #348
Welcome to the three hundredth and forty-eighth in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. Today, be amazed at who was Alan Moore’s inspiration for Rorschach’s speech patterns! Also, was the Human Torch based on the Iron Skull? And did DC almost do an adaptation of Hamlet [...]
Comic Book Legends Revealed #347
Welcome to the three hundredth and forty-seventh in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This week is a special all-Mad edition of Comic Book Legends Revealed! Learn about Alfred E. Neuman’s strange origins! Discover if Mad Magazine actually used to sell straightjackets! And find out the [...]
Comic Book Legends Revealed #346
Welcome to the three hundredth and forty-sixth in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This week, examine the odd history of Snake-Eyes and just what role Larry Hama played in his creation! Plus, what popular teen-themed comic strip backed away from having a gay character over [...]
Comic Book Legends Revealed #345
Welcome to the three hundredth and forty-fifth in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This week, learn about the complicated legal history of Red Sonja plus the surprising history of her metal bikini! Plus, the strange and amusing story of how Holly Robinson was brought back [...]
Comic Book Legends Revealed #344
Welcome to the three hundredth and forty-fourth in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This week, discover whether Mickey Mouse was the code word for the Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II! Plus, learn about an amazing attempt by the late, great Jerry Robinson [...]
Comic Book Legends Revealed #343
Welcome to the three hundredth and forty-third in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This week, learn about the Superboy TV series that would have pre-dated Smallville by forty years! Plus, the strange history of Shuma-Gorath and the sad (for fans) story of the Aquaman II [...]
Comic Book Legends Revealed #342
Welcome to the three hundredth and forty-second in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This week is an all Will Eisner edition of Comic Book Legends Revealed! Discover the bizarre tale of Eisner’s “feud” with Al Capp! Learn the mystery of John Law! And was Midnight [...]
Comic Book Legends Revealed Addendum – Roy Thomas on What If…? #4
In this week’s Comic Book Legends Revealed, one of the legends was about whether Roy Thomas always intended for What If…? #4 to be part of Marvel’s “main” continuity rather than it later becoming part of the main continuity but originally intended as an alternate continuity. Well, a reader wrote in to say that he [...]
Comic Book Legends Revealed #341
Welcome to the three hundredth and forty-first in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This week, learn the amazing story of how Alan Moore decided to let Marvel reprint his Captain Britain stories. Plus, discover how long Steve Gerber was willing to wait to deliver on [...]
Comic Book Legends Revealed #340
Welcome to the three hundredth and fortieth in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This week, learn the inspiration behind both the Trial of Reed Richards and Knightfall! Plus, did the Katzenjammer Kids have to change their name because of anti-German sentiment during World War I? [...]
