real people making cameo appearances in comic books

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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

one year passes...

Captain Britain commits regicide

https://i.imgur.com/2PYbY9f.png

https://i.imgur.com/Zr8cjve.png

soref, Thursday, 5 October 2023 18:47 (six 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 (six months ago) link

Lol at that Ed. note

Chavez video on MTV, July 1995 (morrisp), Thursday, 5 October 2023 18:57 (six months ago) link

bonus Queen vs Captain Britain content

https://i.imgur.com/mSm0BMx.png

soref, Thursday, 5 October 2023 19:02 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six months ago) link

is zips short for zip-a-tone?

Nhex, Saturday, 7 October 2023 19:33 (six 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 (six 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 (six months ago) link

Looks like a Luger

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 7 October 2023 20:16 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 club

why this stuck with me idk!

ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 23:08 (six 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 (six months ago) link

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/Q00AAOSwulViY01T/s-l1600.jpg

brimstead, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 23:43 (six months ago) link

one month passes...

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 (four months ago) link

one month passes...

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 (two 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 (two months ago) link


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