Like many in my age group, this first Marvel superhero I saw in live action was Spider-Man on The Electric Company. While I thought it was cool to see him outside of the comics, there was something a little creepy about how they made him mute on the show. Sure, it was so us kids could have the educational value of reading his thought bubbles, but I still found it off-putting. It really illustrated the importance of Spidey's wisecracking persona, which did much to offset the appearance of a full face-masked character.
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I know what you mean. For me, the Spidey of ABC-TV's 1967 Saturday morning line-up is still the epitome of the wise-cracking wall crawler.
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Sure Spidey got his start on The Electric Company, but so did Morgan Freeman.
ReplyDeleteBatman was drawn by Irv Novick
ReplyDeleteOooh. I have that comic. Detective 377, before Irv Novick became so Neal Adamized. Nice mash-up on this one, Ross!
ReplyDeleteI'll take the artwork of a Neal Adamized Irv Novick over Franks Robbins and Springer, any day.
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