tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830827465735526826.post2662890747943759034..comments2024-03-28T02:32:56.979-07:00Comments on Marvel University: September 1974 Part One: The Green Goblin (sorta kinda) Lives Again!John Scolerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15830334036783163702noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830827465735526826.post-22354863879744832612014-09-08T18:36:38.309-07:002014-09-08T18:36:38.309-07:00Actually, Andy, Richard Matheson and Dan Curtis di...Actually, Andy, Richard Matheson and Dan Curtis did it even earlier in their TV-movie DRACULA, starring Jack Palance (said to have been Colan's model for the Count even before that), which had aired on February 8. Scheduled to air on October 12, 1973, it became a victim of history in the making when it was pre-empted by President Richard M. Nixon’s announcement of Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s resignation. For further details, see my book RICHARD MATHESON ON SCREEN.Matthew Bradleyhttp://bradleyonfilm.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830827465735526826.post-90295798297240792002014-09-03T22:53:48.669-07:002014-09-03T22:53:48.669-07:00RANDOM NOTE ROUND-UP:
Prof. Matthew: thanks for t...RANDOM NOTE ROUND-UP:<br /><br />Prof. Matthew: thanks for the shout-out to the G.C.A.J.T.A. Shame I burned out my Grand Machiavellian Scheme gene at such a young age...<br /><br />So the no-Cap Cap run "remains one of the most honored sequences in comics history." At least Steve Englehart thinks so. Among his other gifts, we can add modesty.<br /><br />And Don Heck drew Giant-Sized Drac #2? While I think more of Dashing Don than most of our exulted facility, the mere thought of that sends a shudder down the spine.<br /><br />Glad a didn't pester Dean P in London to send me that exercise in true horror... Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13756661422733285599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830827465735526826.post-9563145923694864122014-09-03T21:13:54.858-07:002014-09-03T21:13:54.858-07:00Anyone think Starlin purposely set up that Captain...Anyone think Starlin purposely set up that Captain Marvel story to be able to come back in a few years and make that typical hyperbolic cover blurb factual? It would have been very difficult for anyone to top the conclusion to the Thanos epic, but still CM #34 was a topnotch tale. Alas that it would be Starlin's last on the title, even if not his last on Mar-Vell. <br />On Harry's first outing as the Green Goblin, it seemed to me his entrance into the warehouse the previous issue was ambiguous -- I don't recall it specifying that it was the first time he went inside so maybe he'd been practicing in his father's duds for months -- or ever since he took the costume off of his not quite dearly departed dad and re-dressed him in a proper business suit for the police to find. Thus we finally see fruit from one of the major strands Conway weaved following the murder of Gwen Stacy, leaving the mystery of the Jackal for the remainder of his run. And in the same month the final resolution of Franklin's mind-mush in the FF and Pietro & Crystal's wedding (roughly 9 years after Crystal was introduced as Johnny's hot new girlfriend with a very strange family). Fred W. Hillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07602124919964053532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830827465735526826.post-4236684121528805752014-09-03T11:07:01.305-07:002014-09-03T11:07:01.305-07:00I never knew that there was yet another version of...I never knew that there was yet another version of "Hour of the Dragon". Interesting.<br /><br />Maybe the comparison between Colan and Heck is a bit unfair, especially as Colan/Palmer defined Dracula. Still this Giant-size is terrible in every regard. But it is intriguing that Claremont back in 74 had the idea of Dracula meeting a woman who is a dead ringer of his wife. (Even if you miss this if you blink.) So Coppola was not the first who worked in this – imho misguided - direction. Weird.<br />AndyDeckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12806906746754478064noreply@blogger.com