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dr_hermes (dr_hermes) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-09-28 00:04:00

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creator: jack kirby, era: silver age, publisher: marvel comics

Some of those people on the Rainbow Bridge look awful familiar
From the tenth of issue of NOT BRAND ECCH, Jack Kirby decides to throw in some celebrities from 1968. I imagine that, in a lot less than four decades, current hot numbers like Megan Fox or Will Smith will have become the answer to trivia questions. ("Who were the MEN IN BLACK?" "Oh, heck, I know that... Dan Ackroyd, Bill Murray and Harold Ramis, right?")

(I believe the gorilla with the lollipop is not anyone in particular, just any of a number of lollipop gorillas you used to see on TV...)

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alschroeder
2009-09-28 11:13 am UTC (link)

left foreground: the Monkees, plus Don Knotts right next to them. Behind the Monkees are Bob Dylan and Mao Tse Tung and LBJ. Behind Mao is Cassius Clay and behind LBJ is Mitch Miller. I believe that's Jackie Gleason behind Clay, next to Doctor Doom, and of course, as someone pointed out, Charles De Gaulle next to J. Jonah Jameson. Two of the Munsters are next to De Gaulle.
(sp?) Behind Alfred E. Newman are Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Beside Alfred is...hmmm. Is that Bobby Kennedy? Not sure. If so, it was drawn before Bobby's death on June 6th. Likewise, I'm not sure of the three right by Mitch Miller and behind Aunt May's umbrella...they almost look like Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, and Errol Flynn, but they would be older then.

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	halloweenjack 2009-09-28 05:32 pm UTC (link)
	I'm thinking that that would have been Sinatra, rather than Fred Astaire, with Mia Farrow, whom he used to date. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	alschroeder 2009-10-05 01:25 pm UTC (link)
	Ah. Yes, I think you're right. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	lieut_kettch 2009-09-28 06:22 pm UTC (link)
	Mao Tse Tung and Cassius Clay? Someone's age is showing. Nowadays, its Mao Zedong and Muhammad Ali. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	alschroeder 2009-10-05 01:27 pm UTC (link)
	Absolutely. I guess I reflexively used the names that they would have used at the time. (Yes, I am old enough to remember when this first came out.) (Reply to this) (Parent)

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