Comic Book Legends Revealed
Comic Book Legends Revealed #409
Welcome to the four hundred and ninth in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. Click here for an archive of the previous four hundred and eight. This week, who is Scott Seva and how close did he come to portraying Spider-Man on film? Did Jerry Siegel almost write “Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?” Finally, what behind the scenes reason led to the whole “Ms. Marvel gives birth to her own boyfriend” plot in Avengers #200?
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Comic Book Legends Revealed #408
Welcome to the four hundred and eighth in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. Click here for an archive of the previous four hundred and seven. This week, it is a special theme week! All about Batman’s sales in the 1960s! Did the 1960s Batman TV series really save the Batman comic book from cancellation? If not the TV series, then did Julie Schwartz and Carmine Infantino save it from cancellation a few years earlier? Finally, how did Batman’s popularity affect the introduction of Zatanna?
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Comic Book Legends Revealed #407
Welcome to the four hundred and seventh in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. Click here for an archive of the previous four hundred and six. This week, did William Marston’s boss really have to order him to reduce the amount of times Wonder Woman was tied up with chains by 50%? Did DC Comics really try to stop a cricket company from trademarking the term “Batsman”? And who was the Peanuts character who was followed around by a cloud?
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Comic Book Legends Revealed #406
Welcome to the four hundred and sixth in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. Click here for an archive of the previous four hundred and five. This week, it is a special theme week! Another edition devoted to the 1960s Batman TV series! Learn whether Frank Miller’s Carrie Kelley was inspired by a minor character from the first episode of the Batman series! Discover whether Batgirl nearly had her own series before joining the cast of Batman in Season 3! Finally, marvel at the bizarre episode of Batman that worked in references to all of the sponsors of the series!
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Comic Book Legends Revealed #405
Welcome to the four hundred and fifth in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. Click here for an archive of the previous four hundred and four. This week, learn of the secret return to the X-Men titles Chris Claremont made in 1999! Discover whether Steve Ditko seriously turned down a chance to adapt Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged as a comic book! Finally, what’s the deal with this Peanuts comic strip with Charlie Brown and archery?
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Comic Book Legends Revealed #404
Welcome to the four hundred and fourth in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. Click here for an archive of the previous four hundred and three. This week, it is a special theme week! All legends relating to the Batman TV series from the 1960s! Discover the role that the Playboy Mansion had in the creation of the Batman series! Learn what other comic character ABC considered before Batman (and who they then made a pilot for after Batman’s success)! Finally, find out the strange reason behind the famous Batman cliffhangers!
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Comic Book Legends Revealed #403
Welcome to the four hundred and third in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. Click here for an archive of the previous four hundred and two. This week, learn whether famed filmmaker Federico Fellini wrote a Flash Gordon bootleg strip in Italy in the late 1930s! Discover whether Charlton Comics was really formed in a PRISON! Finally, marvel at the bizarre and convoluted journey the Mike Allred character the Horn took before he finally showed up in a comic!
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Comic Book Legends Revealed #402
Welcome to the four hundred and second in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This week, learn about whether Lois Lane was based on the future wife of Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel! Plus, before Maxwell Lord became the big bad guy in Countdown to Infinite Crisis, what other obscure DC character was in the running for the role? Finally, did Peter Milligan intend to have Shade canceled twenty issues before DC finally ended it?
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Comic Book Legends Revealed #401
Welcome to the four hundred and first in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This week, learn whether Supergirl co-creator Al Plastino was secretly Charles Schulz’s back-up on Peanuts if Schulz ever became ill! Did an issue of Cable predict Hurricane Sandy? Finally, discover the seven-year old who got a plot assist on an issue of Power Rangers!
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Comic Book Legends Revealed Addendum: Bob Rozakis on How the “Son of Sam” Case Took Police to DC Comics
In last week’s Comic Book Legends Revealed #400, one of the legends featured involved the time that the NYPD visited DC Comics for help with their investigation into the serial killer “Son of Sam.” Bob Rozakis explained the situation to me and now he has the FULL story up at his blog.
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Comic Book Legends Revealed #400 (Part 3)
Welcome to the four hundredth in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This week, in honor of the four hundredth edition of Comic Book Legends Revealed, you’ll get a TRIPLE-sized column this week, in three parts (Friday, yesterday and tomorrow). The special theme this week will be that I will feature one legend that was suggested to me in each of the nine years that I’ve been doing the column, so a legend someone suggested in 2005, a legend from 2006, etc. All the way up to 2013, which is less than a week old! Today, we learn how Jackie Onassis was briefly the world’s most famous comic book editor. Plus, how did a minor continuity gaffe lead to a classic Adam Strange story? And was Alan Moore’s Top 10: The Forty-Niners originally meant to be a mini-series?
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Comic Book Legends Revealed #400 (Part 2)
Welcome to the four hundredth in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This week, in honor of the four hundredth edition of Comic Book Legends Revealed, you’ll get a TRIPLE-sized column this week, in three parts (yesterday, today and tomorrow). The special theme this week will be that I will feature one legend that was suggested to me in each of the nine years that I’ve been doing the column, so a legend someone suggested in 2005, a legend from 2006, etc. All the way up to 2013, which is less than a week old! Today, we learn whether Alan Moore was going to write a Superman ongoing title after Crisis, discover whether they actually BANNED editorial cartoons in Pennsylvania and see the classy tribute Kurt Busiek and George Perez did to a respected Avengers fan.
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Comic Book Legends Revealed #400 (Part 1)
Welcome to the four hundredth in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This week, in honor of the four hundredth edition of Comic Book Legends Revealed, you’ll get a TRIPLE-sized column this week, in three parts (today, tomorrow and Sunday). The special theme this week will be that I will feature one legend that was suggested to me in each of the nine years that I’ve been doing the column, so a legend someone suggested in 2005, a legend from 2006, etc. All the way up to 2013, which is only a few days old! Today, we learn the truth behind whether Steve Ditko and Stan Lee really fought over whether to reveal that Norman Osborn was the Green Goblin! We learn of the bizarre superhero version of the Shadow from the 1960s that was written by Superman creator, Jerry Siegel! Finally, we learn about how the Son of Sam case led police right to DC Comics!
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Comic Book Legends Revealed #399
Welcome to the three hundredth and ninety-ninth in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This week, it is a special theme week! All comic strip related legends! Is there really a famous Peanuts strip featuring Snoopy complaining about the IRS? Did the FBI seriously investigate Pogo for hidden messages? Finally, did DC Comics really try to block an Australian comic strip named Swamp from getting a trademark because of Swamp Thing?
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Comic Book Legends Revealed #398
Welcome to the three hundredth and ninety-eighth in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This week, how did a Mickey Mouse strip lead to a reporter being exiled from Yugoslavia? How did the Three Stooges end up as regular characters in the pages of the Flash? And did John Romita really not consider himself a co-plotter of his Spider-Man stories with Stan Lee?
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