Friday, August 13, 2010

How to Write Comics the Marvel Way

FF #22
Letter printed in Fantastic Four #22 (January 1964)


With an attitude like that, Mister Jack Harris, you'll never get a job at Marvel Comics. Yah boo!

Later, in 1994, this Marvel comic book miniseries came out:

Spider-Man: Web of Doom
Spider-Man: Web of Doom #1-3 (August-October 1994)


The scripter of Web of Doom? Ah, you oughta have guessed by now. Jack C. Harris. Yep. Same guy.

So the lesson is...the moral of the story is...what you should learn from this...

Eh, I got nothin'.


Wikipedia-style citation.


2 comments:

Siskoid said...

Without looking, should I expect that Web of Doom is full of fight, fight, fights?

Is Spider-Man referred to as a Radiation-Hero?

Matthew Craig said...

It's certainly full of Spider-Man in jail, trying not get get his mask took off him.

There's actually a lot of ideas in there that are revisited in subsequent stories, such as Identity Crisis (not that one!), Civil War (I think) and most obviously, Brand New Day (where Spidey ends up in the nick and they're all like "Graa, unmaskulate him!" and Spidey's all like, "Heupp ma!" and Daredevil's all like, "Let's dress a teenage girl, a kung-fu master with rancid slipper feet and a woman with a bust like conjoined Space Hoppers in Spider-Man costumes. That'll make it completely impossible to remove this flimsy piece of mass-market Spindox(R)!").

And Spidey is referred to as A Heroic Masticator, because of the way the spider conferred its powers upon him.

Ahem.

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