real people making cameo appearances in comic books

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?

is zips short for zip-a-tone?

it is.

is the second Queen/CapB also Budiansky?


FPing jimbeaux for putting those digital recolors into my corneas.

love it, but also why is Nixon shooting himself a KRAK rather than a BANG

Looks like a Luger

is the second Queen/CapB also Budiansky?

both issues credit Budiansky with plot and Jim Lawrence with script

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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.