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dr_hermes (dr_hermes) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-10-31 22:22:00

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char: dr. doom/victor von doom, char: silver surfer/norrin radd, creator: jack kirby, creator: stan lee, era: silver age

So, what really happened when Dr Doom stole the Silver Surfer's power?
The original story was one of the highpoints of the Silver Age, FANTASTIC FOUR# 57. It provided most of the plot for the second Fantastic Four movie, as well. But it was not until NOT BRAND ECCH# 1 in 1967 that Stan Lee and Jack Kirby let us in on the real events behind the legends.

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	volksjager 2009-11-01 03:00 am UTC (link)
	How funny do you think it would be if the talent at Marvel got to do satirical send ups of each other today ??? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	sd_mouser 2009-11-01 03:23 am UTC (link)
	I admit to missing "Assistant Editor" month! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	volksjager 2009-11-01 03:01 pm UTC (link)
	At one point Marvel put out "What the?" and it didn't last long. John Byrne did an issue called "it's bite the hand that feeds you week". (Reply to this) (Parent)

	psychop_rex 2009-11-01 09:39 am UTC (link)
	Probably pretty funny, actually - there IS a fair amount of genuine talent at Marvel, it just tends to groan under the burden of editorial mandate. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jlroberson 2009-11-01 05:40 pm UTC (link)
	I think the "events" are starting to become that. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	psychop_rex 2009-11-01 09:42 am UTC (link)
	I love how Stan and Jack were aware enough of the flaws in their work that they could cheerfully lampoon it with such reckless abandon. It's a type of humility that a number of comics creators today could stand a bit of. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	dr_hermes 2009-11-01 12:31 pm UTC (link)
	It's also worth remembering that fans should not take this stuff all that seriously. Stan and Jack created the Fantastic Four, Dr Doom, the Surfer; they spent a lot of time and effort working on the characters and the comics, yet they never forgot it was in the end just storytelling. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	psychop_rex 2009-11-01 08:20 pm UTC (link)
	I don't think there's any problem with taking it seriously as fiction - the problem is when you forget it's fiction, and start thinking of it as reality. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jlroberson 2009-11-01 05:35 pm UTC (link)
	This may be the only reference I've seen in Silver Age comics to going to the bathroom. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	dr_hermes 2009-11-01 08:26 pm UTC (link)
	Sneaking it in in a humor mag, eh Stan? I think he also slipped "damnation" into a THOR comic in the mid-1960s when that was forbidden; if caught, his defense might have been that it was a pious statement, Balder saying he would "suffer damnation" before betraying Asgard. (Reply to this) (Parent)