Category: Marvel Comics

  • “Offline” indeed

    I was reading this archived message board post about how Nightcrawler was created. Why? I was learning more about Dave Cockrum and had found a link to it. This message board post from 2002 is Dave’s write-up about how he first conceived of Nightcrawler, pitched it to DC as a member of the Legion, and…

  • 25 years later, Larry Hama’s life makes sense

    Larry Hama’s name is synonymous with G.I. Joe. He is known throughout comic fandom as the guy who wrote the bios for the action figures, as the guy who took what could have been a rather silly and short-lived toy line and brought it to life with deep characterization during his very long run on…

  • Odd bit of plagiarism

    As some of you remember, I got into comic books because of my late uncle Leslie, whose worn stacks of comics I would read whenever I was at grandma and grandpa’s.  He was into the old Marvel monster books, some of which were narrated by three witches.  Stories like a giant alien mummy inside the…

  • Spider-Bun!

    Starz Bunny Club Exclusive: Spiderman

  • Silver Surfer is real!

    I used to love checking out “Theater Hopper“. Problem is, I never visited it every day because it only comes out periodically. I just bookmarked it at work and every now and then I’d dig it out of my bookmarks and read a few months’ worth at a time. Then I got laid off a…

  • Where do we get our “Cap Was Right” shirts?

    Warning: This linked item has profanity galore. And a moderate one in this post. I don’t read Marvel, of course, but it seems that there’s actually an issue of Civil War Frontline wherein some character named Sally Floyd chews out Captain America because he isn’t interested in MySpace or YouTube and thus doesn’t represent America.…

  • Kids still love superheroes!

    Shhh! Don’t tell kids that they’re not allowed to read comic books because they’re all PG-13 content (except for the hard R-brutality). So far as kids know, superheroes are still for them! The proof is all around me. This summer, my neighbor kids went nuts when they saw all the comic book stuff I was…

  • Marvel Marvel Marvel!

    What is this, Marvel day? Beau Smith is on about Marvel again. Oh…and Beau is on MySpace. Of course he is. !!!!!!!

  • Marvel and Me

    Some of Monitor Duty’s readers may be new and unfamiliar with my standing re: Marvel. I don’t read Marvel. I’ve never read Marvel. I’m such a NON-Marvel reader that I can list herewith the total, er, list of my Marvel reading from childhood to today.

  • Stone age podcasting

    Beau Smith sent me this: Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Wally Wood, Don Heck and the rest of the “nutty Marvel Bullpen” cut a record. Jeez, I don’t know who this “Flo” was, but she sure is reading that script. There aren’t any real actors here…Stan included…but it is interesting. Thanks for the tip, Beau! UPDATE:…