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scans_dailyLadies and gentlemen, Mr. Ross Andru!
As we begin our tale, Spider-Man takes on some minion types robbing the Guggenheim and has a surprising amount of trouble with one guy armed with nunchucks. I guess that's why they're banned in the UK.
That's a pretty decent villain plan, by seventies Marvel standards. Of course, it's going to end up with them teaming up and stopping you, but there's only so much genre-savvy you can expect from Fu Manchu, after all.
Of course, now we get to see what Spider-gangbangers would look like.
Finally, a Marvel character we all can cosplay as.
Shang takes the attacked man to Nayland Smith, where he 'reveals' that Spider-Man is working with Fu Manchu and planning to attack the power station.
It was the seventies. You could be an old man who had an 'aide de camp' with huge muscles that lived with you and never wore a shirt... it just meant you were 'with it'.
Spider-Man and Shang meet, both assume the other is evil, and have it out in one of those misunderstanding fights with no clear winner. Which, okay... Spider-Man has enough superpowers for the Avengers and Shang-Chi is good at karate, but you know, we'll be nice. We'll say they fight to a standstill. Doesn't cost anything to be nice.
Spidey at least gets to be the guy who figures out that they're on the same side and stops the fight. Which has gotta be a little embarrassing, to be a Zen master and have less understanding than Peter Parker, but then this is 70s Peter Parker, he isn't allergic to character development unlike some decades I could name...
So Shang and Spidey set out to find what Fu Manchu's real plan is and boy, this is some great art, isn't it? Round of applause for Mr. Ross Andru!
However much the writing may be old-fashioned, I do love that old-school Marvel continuity where Jean Grey can be roommates with Misty Knight or whatever. It's just so charming, isn't it?
So we get obviously a big action scene and Fu Manchu flees, leading to this kinda weird ending.
It's Spider-Man--I don't think it would really be too hard for him to rip open the elevator doors and jump down onto it, but they're going somewhere with this...
Obviously, FM gets away, leaving Spider-Man musing about him being a fictional character? I kinda assumed his was the standard Marvel deal of "the books happened in the 616 Universe the same way that Defenders issue 9 did," not that someone published Fu Manchu novels in the Marvel universe and also Fu Manchu is a real guy. I mean, it can't be that Scott Summers or Matt Murdock bring up the Fu Manchu books that often, you don't have to explain that the Fu Manchu books and Fu Manchu himself somehow co-exist.
Whatever. Everyone who produced this was probably doing at least a little speed, so we'll assume it seemed like a better idea there.
As we begin our tale, Spider-Man takes on some minion types robbing the Guggenheim and has a surprising amount of trouble with one guy armed with nunchucks. I guess that's why they're banned in the UK.
That's a pretty decent villain plan, by seventies Marvel standards. Of course, it's going to end up with them teaming up and stopping you, but there's only so much genre-savvy you can expect from Fu Manchu, after all.
Of course, now we get to see what Spider-gangbangers would look like.
Finally, a Marvel character we all can cosplay as.
Shang takes the attacked man to Nayland Smith, where he 'reveals' that Spider-Man is working with Fu Manchu and planning to attack the power station.
It was the seventies. You could be an old man who had an 'aide de camp' with huge muscles that lived with you and never wore a shirt... it just meant you were 'with it'.
Spider-Man and Shang meet, both assume the other is evil, and have it out in one of those misunderstanding fights with no clear winner. Which, okay... Spider-Man has enough superpowers for the Avengers and Shang-Chi is good at karate, but you know, we'll be nice. We'll say they fight to a standstill. Doesn't cost anything to be nice.
Spidey at least gets to be the guy who figures out that they're on the same side and stops the fight. Which has gotta be a little embarrassing, to be a Zen master and have less understanding than Peter Parker, but then this is 70s Peter Parker, he isn't allergic to character development unlike some decades I could name...
So Shang and Spidey set out to find what Fu Manchu's real plan is and boy, this is some great art, isn't it? Round of applause for Mr. Ross Andru!
However much the writing may be old-fashioned, I do love that old-school Marvel continuity where Jean Grey can be roommates with Misty Knight or whatever. It's just so charming, isn't it?
So we get obviously a big action scene and Fu Manchu flees, leading to this kinda weird ending.
It's Spider-Man--I don't think it would really be too hard for him to rip open the elevator doors and jump down onto it, but they're going somewhere with this...
Obviously, FM gets away, leaving Spider-Man musing about him being a fictional character? I kinda assumed his was the standard Marvel deal of "the books happened in the 616 Universe the same way that Defenders issue 9 did," not that someone published Fu Manchu novels in the Marvel universe and also Fu Manchu is a real guy. I mean, it can't be that Scott Summers or Matt Murdock bring up the Fu Manchu books that often, you don't have to explain that the Fu Manchu books and Fu Manchu himself somehow co-exist.
Whatever. Everyone who produced this was probably doing at least a little speed, so we'll assume it seemed like a better idea there.
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Date: 2024-09-13 10:33 pm (UTC)... this is the 70s. Spidey's pretty established at this point, and despite all the best libel the Bugle can toss out there even at this point pretty sure someone must've noticed he's not actually going around on murder-sprees. (Okay, the odd police chief is crushed by falling rubble, but that's more a complaint about building codes...)
So threatening to do something vaguely horrible to a goon surely wouldn't work.
Unless his plan is to psychologically demolish them with vicious taunting.
"Talk, or..."
"Or what, pyjama man? You won't hurt me!"
"Not physically. But I'll give you such a verbal beatdown that even if your boss doesn't kill you, the mental scars will never heal!"
"Y-you wouldn't!"
"Oh, yeah? Try me. I'm feeling a quip coming on right now..."
... um, anyway.
Foolish Fu Manchu, mucking around with radiation producing TV antennas to mind-control the eastern seaboard. Could've just taken over the networks or something, and you could've done it legally.
(But then, where's the fun in that?)
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Date: 2024-09-14 12:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-09-16 11:10 pm (UTC)