Spidey Super Stories #39: "The Cat and the Cosmic Cube!"

[xdoop.insanejournal.com]

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

R U FUCKING KIDDING ME?!
How could they do that to Thanos?!
Marvel's version of Darkseid is being treated like a fucking joke
and Why would he have a helicopter with his name on it?
He's supposed to be one of the most evil darkest cosmic villians in Marvel.

[brandiweed.livejournal.com (from insanejournal.com)]

Clueless anon is clueless.

[gwalla.livejournal.com (from insanejournal.com)]

Actually, Thanos is a tweener as often as he's a universe-killing villain.

[crinosg.insanejournal.com]

That just kills me.

Its like whoever wrote this has no idea who Thanos is and utterly refused to anything even resembling research.

Thanos in a helicopter (with his name on it),

Thanos being beaten by a little boy,

Thanos BEING LED AWAY BY COPS IN HANDCUFFS,

Spidey Super stories; there be none crackier in all the world.

[bluefall.insanejournal.com]

I prefer to think the writer knew exactly who Thanos is and just doesn't like him.

[brandiweed.livejournal.com (from insanejournal.com)]

I wouldn't be surprised if there was some editorial mandating of content along with the "Don't use multisyllable words or sentences longer than 4-5 words in speech balloons"-- and Thanos' MO is not the most young-kid-friendly.

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

My guess is that it was originally written to star someone like the Kingpin, and they decided at the last moment to make it Thanos, too late to alter the plot.

[jlroberson.insanejournal.com]

Or given the time period, maybe someone wanted to really annoy Jim Starlin.

If you can't say the word Hell, don't use the character Hellcat!

[seriousfic.insanejournal.com]

Is it wrong that with all the crack, I could only fixate on Hellcat's chest insignia? What's it mean, anyway? "I have opposable thumbs"?

I can only imagine that "The Cat is a copycat of Spider-Man/women can be super too!" discussion as some sort of passive-aggressive sparring over the Black Cat. Try it, it's fun!

Re: If you can't say the word Hell, don't use the character Hellcat!

[darklorelei.insanejournal.com]

Patsy Walker: Heckcat!

[thandrak.insanejournal.com]

... at least Patsy gets to say "Cheese and Crackers!"

... Thanos... flying a helicopter.

[long_silence.insanejournal.com]

I thought it was Greer, not Patsy.

[thandrak.insanejournal.com]

Why would Greer say Cheese and Crackers? That's Patsy's idiom!
(Yes, it has to be Greer, given the horrid logo on her chest. I was being a bit silly.)

[xdoop.insanejournal.com]

This comic came out in 1979, when Greer was Tigra and Patsy was Hellcat.

[long_silence.insanejournal.com]

But like thandrak said she has that claw logo on her shirt in some panels. And the story only ever refers to her as the Cat, I was under the impression that Patsy has only ever gone by Hellcat.

[buttler.insanejournal.com]

It was a comic for kids, thus the lack of H-E-double hockeysticks.

Also, Greer had black hair till she went orange all over.

[blake_reitz.insanejournal.com]

I demand the return of the Thanos-copter.

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

The return of it? I want the Hot Wheels toy of it, to go with the Living Tribunal mobile and the Eternity-jet

Obligatory Link-And-Quote:

[arrlaari.livejournal.com (from insanejournal.com)]

http://notthebeastmaster.typepad.com/weblog/2004/03/hey_kids_death.html

The scene: Marvel Comics, circa 1979. Editor-in-chief Jim Shooter and veteran writer Jim Salicrup sit down to discuss upcoming plots…

SHOOTER: So, Jim, who’s Spider-Man going to fight in the next issue of Spidey Super Stories?

SALICRUP: I was thinking… Thanos.

SHOOTER: Who?

SALICRUP: Thanos, Lord of Evil! Thanos, matricide of Titan! Thanos! Who would court Death herself with the slaughter of a billion billion worlds as his dowry! Thanos! Who would bed his love on the bones of half the cosmos, the screams of the dying lending bittersweet harmony to his furious copulation! Thanos! THANOS!

SHOOTER: …Okay, what about the back-up story?

Re: Obligatory Link-And-Quote:

[regulus13.insanejournal.com]

"furious copulation"? I don't know whether I should be :D or D:
Either way, it made me laugh hysterically.

[perletwo.insanejournal.com]

Only in Spidey Super Stories could a vast galactic epic involving the Cosmic Cube hinge entirely on a random child's wearing an incredibly stupid Jughead cap...

[volksjager.insanejournal.com]

Yikes, one day Thanos was strolling through the park...

[jlroberson.insanejournal.com]

And on the way, Thanos kills one of the cops. Another subdues him, saying, "What the hell'd you do that for? Killing a cop! You'll get the death penalty!"

All of a sudden Thanos sighs and goes quietly with the most mysterious lump in his pants.