a companion thread of transparent analogues of real-life people would be cool
― like working at a jewelry store and not knowing about bracelets (Dr. Superman), Monday, 25 May 2015 19:45 (eight years ago) link
Pierre Trudeau:
https://kangaratmurdersoc.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/120-trudeau.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 25 May 2015 20:02 (eight years ago) link
also, just getting this one out of the way
http://www.littlestuffedbull.com/images/comics/presidents/president0803/10asm583.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 25 May 2015 20:03 (eight years ago) link
http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/dynamics/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2010/07/2010-07-21_071527.png
― Category:Low-importance biography (musicians) articles (soref), Monday, 25 May 2015 20:10 (eight years ago) link
http://www.spiderfan.org/comics/images/marvel_teamup/074.jpg
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Monday, 25 May 2015 20:16 (eight years ago) link
http://crossover.bureau42.com/supeskennedy.jpg
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Monday, 25 May 2015 20:26 (eight years ago) link
http://www.littlestuffedbull.com/images/comics/capflag1.jpg
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Monday, 25 May 2015 20:29 (eight years ago) link
on a 'transparent analogues of real-life people' tip, Brick Springhorn and the Tenth Avenue Band
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lyNSe4WVBkQ/UxM5CHKioMI/AAAAAAAABYE/58G-NXib_ks/s1600/2014-03-01+17.04.20.jpg
― Category:Low-importance biography (musicians) articles (soref), Monday, 25 May 2015 20:39 (eight years ago) link
http://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/9/9c/Brickspringhornandthetenthavenueband.jpg
― Category:Low-importance biography (musicians) articles (soref), Monday, 25 May 2015 20:40 (eight years ago) link
YES!
― like working at a jewelry store and not knowing about bracelets (Dr. Superman), Monday, 25 May 2015 20:59 (eight years ago) link
love the creepy/enervated balloon and letterforms there
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 25 May 2015 22:14 (eight years ago) link
ugh, really struggling to find a jpeg of that time bill clinton appeared on a monitor to yell at Prime (from the Ultraverse) about his responsibilities to the nation. like most adult males in breyfogle's Prime, he just had spooky shadows for eyes, it was pretty great.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 25 May 2015 22:19 (eight years ago) link
Thomas Jefferson as a Satanist in Batman/Detective Comicshttp://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/batstory40b.jpg
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Tuesday, 26 May 2015 06:09 (eight years ago) link
Not really a cameo, because he's the the other protagonist, but:
http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111022132648/marveldatabase/images/6/6d/Eminem_punisher.jpg
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 26 May 2015 06:59 (eight years ago) link
is the Red Skull in disguise as Spider-Man in that Obama story?
― ( who ALSO my boss and his sister!) (sic), Tuesday, 26 May 2015 13:53 (eight years ago) link
https://36.media.tumblr.com/5d32bb05210c83db51df8a1bf47fa367/tumblr_n3d46tuzrj1rvhk4ho1_500.jpg
― Pheeel, Saturday, 30 May 2015 12:59 (eight years ago) link
I give up, who?
― ( who ALSO my boss and his sister!) (sic), Saturday, 30 May 2015 18:08 (eight years ago) link
norman osborn
― bizarro gazzara, Saturday, 30 May 2015 18:14 (eight years ago) link
Khrushchev practically a regular in early 60s marvel comics
http://winterdrake.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/DaThatIsWhyYouWillNeverBeDictator1.jpg
― soref, Saturday, 30 May 2015 18:23 (eight years ago) link
I remember reading some 1970s marvel uk comics that reprinted 60s Iron Man stuff + marvel uk's preoccupation with changing random things for no good reason had extended to drawing hair and a beard on Khrushchev, and tippex-ing out his name and replacing it with 'The Mad Ghost', written in a different font to everything else. I guess they thought that Khrushchev's presence would confuse the kids as he hadn't been soviet premier for about 10 years at that point?
― soref, Saturday, 30 May 2015 18:30 (eight years ago) link
they's also removed all references to 'the soviet union' in the dialogue and captions and replaced them with some made up country name, but hadn't done anything about the hammer + sickles on the walls etc
― soref, Saturday, 30 May 2015 18:32 (eight years ago) link
hahhaha, that's awesome. they should have done that with everybody. wrinkles and jowls awkwardly ghosted onto kennedy.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 30 May 2015 18:35 (eight years ago) link
just looked it up and apparently 'the mad ghost' was actually the replacement name they gave to a 60s marvel villain called the red ghost in the US books, so maybe I'm getting this mixed up? or maybe they drew hair on pictures of Khrushchev and tried to make out it was all the same character? that seems plausible as red ghost looks not unlike Khrushchev with added hair anyway
http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/square_small/4/49448/2460376-jack_kirby._the_red_ghost_and_his_indescribable_super_apes._001.jpg
― soref, Saturday, 30 May 2015 18:40 (eight years ago) link
maybe marvel's UK reprints take place in a parallel universe where everything is the same except that nikita khrushchev moonlights as the red and/or mad ghost.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 30 May 2015 18:41 (eight years ago) link
http://funnybookbabylon.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/ff178-beame-carter-ford-reagan-small.jpg
reagan, ford, carter, and abraham beame, all in one page. many more at http://funnybookbabylon.com/2011/02/06/the-adventures-of-ronald-reagan-americans-comic-bookiest-president/ . i also like the x-men #150 one with reagan, brezhnev, deng, thatcher, daniel moi, and king khalid i guess. but of course, just wheeling world leaders in to indicate a high-stakes situation is sort of old hat.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 30 May 2015 18:47 (eight years ago) link
written in a different font to everything else
people's hands aren't fonts
― ( who ALSO my boss and his sister!) (sic), Sunday, 31 May 2015 01:43 (eight years ago) link
i can't make my hand turn into a font
― bizarro gazzara, Sunday, 31 May 2015 19:42 (eight years ago) link
So many in Herbie - kruschev, lbj, kennedy, various movie actors etc.
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 31 May 2015 22:19 (eight years ago) link
The Joker met Ayatollah Khomeini (and became ambassador to the UN for Iran) in the death-of-Robin storyhttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/_m_yEp4yvWQY/R-kOxbH8eUI/AAAAAAAAI20/rYrWIJELtUk/s320/11.jpg
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Monday, 1 June 2015 01:34 (eight years ago) link
http://herbiepopnecker.com/examples/titles/01b.jpg
― Οὖτις, Monday, 1 June 2015 16:10 (eight years ago) link
Well done, "Shane O'Shea". Well done.
― Nhex, Monday, 1 June 2015 17:52 (eight years ago) link
Wesley Willis in Wonder Woman
http://i.onionstatic.com/avclub/4237/03/original/595.jpg
― Pheeel, Saturday, 6 June 2015 15:54 (eight years ago) link
great thread. i still want to find that bill clinton issue of breyfogle's prime. it was early, like around #4-6. around when prime goes to the moon.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 05:40 (eight years ago) link
wow @ that abe beame one. how'd rick perlstein miss that.
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 8 December 2015 15:22 (eight years ago) link
RIP Abe Vigoda
http://13thdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/IMG_7205-580x382.jpg
― Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:47 (eight years ago) link
elton! and sanford!
― a fucking men (stevie), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 12:52 (eight years ago) link
http://www.hembeck.com/Images/FredSez/CountDuckulaCover380.jpg https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/54/bb/c3/54bbc3cf08908742f5ef2ea4754a5da6.jpg
http://www.hembeck.com/Images/FredSez/CountDuckulaPanel425.jpg
Geraldo Rivera meets Count Duckula
(this seems an odd combination. was the Count Duckula cartoon even shown in North America? Geraldo is not particularly well known in the UK afaict)
― soref, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 05:43 (seven years ago) link
The fact that it's issue eight of an American Marvel comic rather than a British one suggests to me that Count Duckula did get some kind of screening in the US.
― Foster Twelvetrees (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 08:13 (seven years ago) link
Yeah it definitely did. I remember it
― Nhex, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 10:24 (seven years ago) link
one's a sinister creature of the night whose actions often lead to comedy and the other's count duckula
― in the beer garden of clitheroe kate's on mincing lane (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 11:45 (seven years ago) link
Duckula, like Danger Mouse, had a decently long run on Nickelodeon (children's cable channel). That comic is still insane, though.
― DOCTOR CAISNO, BYCREATIVELABBUS (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 12:52 (seven years ago) link
Magneto Rodney Dangerfield and Titanium Man:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hG0Pn6R4pcE/Up6qxNl_i5I/AAAAAAAABCY/V0EcnzY-5Ss/s1600/IM_134D.png
― soref, Sunday, 6 November 2016 15:49 (seven years ago) link
this is from a late 70s marvel one shot telling the story of the Beatles, so not really a cameo, but
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c0/Paul_McCartney_%28Earth-616%29_from_Marvel_Comics_Super_Special_Vol_1_4_001.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20160923081433
― soref, Sunday, 6 November 2016 15:51 (seven years ago) link
I remember one of the Sinister Dexter pair from 2000Ad morphing into what looked massively like Nick Cave for a panel. But wouldn't have a clue when that would be.Has anybody seen that strip?
I think it's Finnegan Dexter and it's cave with stand up hair as far as I can remember. I think he's wearing a white suit too.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 6 November 2016 16:01 (seven years ago) link
Finnegan Sinister, it's Ramon Dexter.& I think it's the Irish one. But has been years since I saw it.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 6 November 2016 16:44 (seven years ago) link
http://blogs.faz.net/schachblog/files/2016/11/DonaldCarlsen2-680x1024.png
― Wes Brodicus, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 15:51 (seven years ago) link
Minnie the Minx meets Jimmy Savile (also Boy George, Henry Cooper and David Attenborough)
http://the-slipper.blogspot.co.uk/2016_06_01_archive.html
― soref, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 04:43 (seven years ago) link
from that same blog, Dennis the Menace meets Mike Read:
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9_q_rPi7x0A/VfR8lvFSbzI/AAAAAAAACF0/7X9PTkTl2rI/s320/Beano%2B2281%2B4.jpg
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BrXjajo6bhk/VfR8mKH1dlI/AAAAAAAACF0/ytxI3weQBpY/s320/Beano%2B2281%2B5.jpg
― soref, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 04:45 (seven years ago) link
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zvu4YNxlurs/V1yfI4dWu1I/AAAAAAAACsA/oV3lzGQy04oGG05tfHhyUKkSSh4uEQC9ACKgB/s1600/Beano%2BComic%2BLibrary%2B99%2B31.jpghttps://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ea7GATTShv0/V1yfIwu1u2I/AAAAAAAACsA/I9PVWvDNYdYX_adh75xYc9MXnghKrH2GQCKgB/s1600/Beano%2BComic%2BLibrary%2B99%2B32.jpg
Minnie the Minx, the original rockist?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 11:53 (seven years ago) link
God, I remember both of those when they originally published. The creepy Mike Read image is especially emblazoned
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 8 December 2016 12:37 (seven years ago) link
Image above didn't load, hopefully this one should
https://i.imgur.com/7zBtZNY.jpg
Scanning back through the thread and spotting Jackie Kennedy reminded me of this wtf reveal from Action #309, where it turns out JFK stood in for Clark Kent to protect Superman's secret identity. Which with spectacularly unfortunate timing, hit the newsstands a week after Kennedy went to Dallas.
https://i.imgur.com/dO9cY9X.jpg
― "Spaghetti" Thompson (Pheeel), Sunday, 22 August 2021 11:01 (two years ago) link
Well, at least Supes didn't have to worry for long about JFK accidentally revealing his secret identity.
― Tuomas, Monday, 23 August 2021 08:27 (two years ago) link
That’s why the ballistics are so confusing - first shooter missed, Supes caught the bullet in his mouth, and spat it back through JFK’s dome to keep him quiet.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Monday, 23 August 2021 15:06 (two years ago) link
Of related interest
Please search with @rblandford’s tag #popculturereferencesinMarvelComics You will not be disappointed.— Andrew Male (@Andr6wMale) November 1, 2021
― thing that i used to think was cool but now i just don't have time for (stevie), Monday, 1 November 2021 12:50 (two years ago) link
Ladies and gents, here come Glennan, Saul, Benji and Hal...the TWISTS!
https://13thdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/batman222-01.jpghttps://13thdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/batman222-11.jpghttps://13thdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/batman222-07.jpg
I'm not sure why the Paul stand-in looks like more like Jason King dressed in Dr Strange's wardrobe though.
― "Spaghetti" Thompson (Pheeel), Tuesday, 28 December 2021 01:13 (two years ago) link
THE CLUE IS ON THEIR ALBUM COVER!
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 28 December 2021 03:31 (two years ago) link
"new arrangements and stuff" lol
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 28 December 2021 04:21 (two years ago) link
It's funny how late this was to capitalise on Sgt Pepper era Beatles as well, 1970?? I guess in the DC universe every fashion trend is about three or four years behind the real world, so at this point hip and trendy youngsters are still wearing beads and kaftans and confusing oldsters with beatnik lingo.
― "Spaghetti" Thompson (Pheeel), Tuesday, 28 December 2021 12:40 (two years ago) link
Captain Britain commits regicide
https://i.imgur.com/2PYbY9f.png
https://i.imgur.com/Zr8cjve.png
― soref, Thursday, 5 October 2023 18:47 (seven months ago) link
disappointing cop-out in this Superman comic (from Jan 1969, so they could have gone with LBJ or Nixon)
https://i.imgur.com/HYKcd2m.png
― soref, Thursday, 5 October 2023 18:53 (seven months ago) link
Lol at that Ed. note
― Chavez video on MTV, July 1995 (morrisp), Thursday, 5 October 2023 18:57 (seven months ago) link
bonus Queen vs Captain Britain content
https://i.imgur.com/mSm0BMx.png
― soref, Thursday, 5 October 2023 19:02 (seven months ago) link
Richard Nixon as the head of the Secret Empire:
https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/d2-DVITeUySU-XoBxlhLSpVQEJQ=/0x0:630x624/1320x0/filters:focal(0x0:630x624):format(webp):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/8496509/SE02.jpg
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 6 October 2023 05:48 (seven months ago) link
PLOT by BOB BUDIANSKY * SCRIPT by JIM LAWRENCE * PENCILS AND INKS by SOMEONE WHO SAW A PHOTO OF THE QUEEN SEVERAL YEARS AGO AND HAS SINCE FORGOTTEN WHAT SHE LOOKS LIKE
― Lumpy pillows, kiss my ass. Put that in your book (stevie), Friday, 6 October 2023 10:30 (seven months ago) link
iirc the Captain Britain artwork is by Ron Wilson and Pablo Marcos, neither of whom were Brits.
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 6 October 2023 10:42 (seven months ago) link
Although looking again at those pages, the royal faces look like the work of another artist entirely (possibly an art droid in the Marvel UK offices)
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 6 October 2023 10:45 (seven months ago) link
the first image is from issue 38 of Captain Britain, the second and third from issue 39 (the final issue before it was cancelled). Pencils for both are by Ron Wilson, the inking on #38 by Mike Esposito, inks on #39 by someone called Brian H. Moore who doesn't seem to have any other credits other than the final issue of the original run of Captain Britain ... unless he's the same person as this Brian H Moore, who drew cartoons for Sinn Fein's newspaper An Phoblacht under the name Cormac: https://www.anphoblacht.com/contents/835
Maybe someone at Marvel UK knew him and as a laugh hired him to ink an issue of Captain Britain where the title character attempts to kill the queen? (Or an Irish-American working at Marvel US, maybe?)
― soref, Friday, 6 October 2023 11:23 (seven months ago) link
sorry, I've just double checked the issue, and the full credits are "ART BY RON WILSON AND PABLO MARCOS * ZIPS BY BRIAN H MOORE". idk what 'zips' means here ... but maybe it was an Irish Republican Marxist cartoonist who drew the faces of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh rather than a Marvel UK art droid?
― soref, Friday, 6 October 2023 11:36 (seven months ago) link
is zips short for zip-a-tone?
― Nhex, Saturday, 7 October 2023 19:33 (seven months ago) link
it is.
is the second Queen/CapB also Budiansky? FPing jimbeaux for putting those digital recolors into my corneas.
― vashti funyuns (sic), Saturday, 7 October 2023 20:05 (seven months ago) link
love it, but also why is Nixon shooting himself a KRAK rather than a BANG
― Nhex, Saturday, 7 October 2023 20:13 (seven months ago) link
Looks like a Luger
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 7 October 2023 20:16 (seven months ago) link
is the second Queen/CapB also Budiansky?
both issues credit Budiansky with plot and Jim Lawrence with script
― soref, Saturday, 7 October 2023 20:25 (seven months ago) link
Always fascinating / bemusing how Marvel had an actual office in the UK but would still employ US-based authors for piecework I see Jim Lawrence wrote some James Bond comics, so “blasted superhero’s done his nut, like I always said he would!” could have a genuine ring of authenticity about it
― vashti funyuns (sic), Saturday, 7 October 2023 21:38 (seven months ago) link
This is making the rounds online ("real bands being name-checked in comic books"):
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dz3e2cvgmhtrqqjiivbocjnd/bafkreig42fdxt5h3qfizxnunqqhyhowuvwptnflefjmwwqdb2nc2oxiteq@jpeg
― Chavez video on MTV, July 1995 (morrisp), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 22:21 (seven months ago) link
during the ridiculous part of the 90s, mutant military posse x-force were seen dancing to a porno for pyros song in a clubwhy this stuck with me idk!
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 23:08 (seven months ago) link
i’m probably posting the wrong url, but here’s aerosmith in shadowman from the early 90s:https://valiant.fandom.com/wiki/Shadowman_Vol_1_19?file=Shadowman_Vol_1_19.jpg
― brimstead, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 23:42 (seven months ago) link
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/Q00AAOSwulViY01T/s-l1600.jpg
― brimstead, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 23:43 (seven months ago) link
Topical (this may be one of the dead links above; I see another Kissinger appearance w/Captain America):
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jxitdeqb6coq7beqtmpm6j4c/bafkreickcavapc5gfdguz27cx6ohfbrnyllkzmng4i23wcgannilcchdky@jpeg
― This field is required (morrisp), Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:53 (five months ago) link
from BlueSky, a 1979 edition of the Spiderman newspaper strip where Flash Thompson and Harry Osbourne open a discotheque
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:k5vwobjngg43lj7zuw2gudib/bafkreifver4grajxq5ae4abz2s37it2zj7emtnb7u5kv7a2kurtxn2ia4u@jpeg
https://bsky.app/profile/comicsinthega.bsky.social/post/3kjj5ydogrc2l
― soref, Monday, 22 January 2024 19:41 (three months ago) link
Wow. I'm sure a bunch of those folks must turn up frequently, but I can't imagine there are too many Gene Shalit appearances out there. Oddly, he seems like he'd be the most at home if he had a page in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe. I'd believe it if he turned out to be some worthless one-off villain from Marvel Team-Up, or the very tail end of Stan Lee's Spider-Man.
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Monday, 22 January 2024 20:25 (three months ago) link