Spidey Super Stories #31

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[hot_pie]

They just straight up made the Millennium Falcon and light sabers and a death star with teeth. Awesome.

[cricharddavies]

... Marvel Boy? Marvel-freaking-Boy?

[coldfury]

You took the words right out of my mo-- keyboard.

[cricharddavies]

... was this done by someone who hadn't worked for Marvel since the 50s? Is that it? It's like that Red Tornado page that they got when they asked Ma Hunkel's creator to retell her origin story, right?

[laughing_tree]

Wait, what's this about a Red Tornado page?

[cricharddavies]

Way off-topic, but, when DC was publishing a Secret Origins book and trying to present the origins of major Golden Age characters in chronological order, they contacted Sheldon Mayer, the creator of the GA Red Tornado (Ma Hunkel), to see whether he'd do the art for a retelling of her origin. Instead of that, he produced a one page gag strip featuring Ma, and sent it in. They duly published it, admitting that they weren't sure whether he'd just misunderstood their request.

[icon_uk]

It's possibly not the Marvel Boy you're thinking of. :)

For a VERY brief period in the same month as this issue came out,(February 1978, and the length of Captain America #217 to be exact), Wendell Vaughn debuted using the Marvel Boy codename (Since he was using the original's quantum bands), before becoming first Marvel Man (in Captain America #218), and then being better known as Quasar (in Increible Hulk 129 in April 1979).

[cricharddavies]

... okay, that ... does make slightly better sense.

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NO IT DOESN'T! There's a fricking purple gorilla who tags along for no good reason! The Sesame Street robot shows up and is palling around with Moondragon. Moondragon!

I have seen the face of true insanity, and, lo, its name is Spidey Super Stories.

[icon_uk]

I mean, if a giant gorilla shows up and starts calling you Marvel Boy, you probably just go along for the ride.

Translation - Buggered if I know anymore...

[donnblake]

Didn't original flavor Marvel Boy hang out with a giant gorilla sometimes, though? In... that alternate timeline that was erased during some sort of Kang shenanigans?

[icon_uk]

This is the MU, they're not short of a gorilla or two. Not as much as DC perhaps, but there must have been more than one.

[penguinzero]

The 'What if the Avengers had formed in the 1950s' timeline, from a late '70s issue of What If, which was eradicated in Avengers Forever, then became the basis of Agents of Atlas. Marvel Boy and Gorilla-Man were both members.

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

Too much personality to be a Luke parody?

[coldfury]

Wow. That's... that's something.

That's right up there with the Thanos Copter. Someone tell me this inhabits the same 'for kids' section of non-canon as that story.

[crinos]

Yeah it does, they're both part of the Spidey Super stories imprint.

I mean sometimes its fighting a lady in a bunny suit stealing easter eggs. Sometimes its Doctor Doom in a giant Metal Pac Man trying to eat earth. The tone is INCREDIBLY inconsistent. Like not so much tonal whiplash as tonal get flung across the room like Dark Helmut in Spaceballs coming down from Ludicrous speed.

[remial]

if you thought the Spidey comics from Electric Company were bad the live action segments were worse.

[erikred]

Ahem. Easy Reader would like a word with you.



(I kid, I kid, yes, the mime version of Spidey was... a thing.)

[remial]

allow me to clarify, the live action Spidey segments were worse. Eazy Reader was, of course, awesome.

[tripodeca113]

Classic Doom.

[onsokumaru]

This is the equivalent of being killed by power popper candies.

[icon_uk]

You have to admire the commitment to parody here!

Not the plot, or the characterisation or anything like that, but the sheer level of commitment, oh yeah.

[scorntx]

Wow.
Some days, you've got a malfunctioning Doombot, and some days you've got the malfunctioning Doombot.

Victor had to be furious when this was all over.


Love how the American government not only has one million tons of TNT just sitting around, they're perfectly willing to hand it over to Spidey, Marvel Boy and Moondragon at a moment's notice.
"Well, we were thinking of a way to use this stuff on Mutants, but do what you want."

I mean, if it were Captain America asking, I could see it, but... Marvel Boy?

Er ...

[jenni411]

Since when does Doom use language like "So long, suckers?"

[laughing_tree]

I was surprised to learn that there were almost 60 issues of this series. It's fascinating how, despite that, it seems to be scenes from the same few issues that always get passed around the internet.

[repto]

"Square eyes." Moondragon is a straight-up savage.