Saturday, November 7, 2020

Expansion Team (The Animated Series!)

 

It's always cool when one of your favorite comics gets  the aminated series treatment, and I thought that it was high time that one of STF: the Lost Issues' super-groups received that honor.  I know that I would be tuning in!

This is the fourth appearance of The Expansion Team - Elastigirl joined the team in STF #2130, they battled the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man in STF #1490, and first got together back in STF #934...

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9 comments:

  1. det_ToborNovember 7, 2020 at 8:18 AM

    And with an occasional visit by Rita Farr, Elasti- Woman, from The Doom Patrol. Funny how serious these guys can get. Did The Avengers ever have a stretcher? DC still has Jimmy Olsen's Elastic Lad, Plas, and Platinum of the Metal Men.
    Idea: a Giant captures the team and makes them stings for his guitar. sour note?

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  2. CarycomicNovember 7, 2020 at 9:00 AM

    I still remember the 1967 H-B version of FF with great pleasure. I always got a big kick out of the way Paul Frees uttered Ben Grimm's trademark battlecry! But, I also enjoyed the sound effect used for Reed Richards' stretching scenes. As it was also used for Gloop and Gleep of the Herculoids!

    Thanks, once again, for this enjoyable trip down Memory Lane, Ross. :-)

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  3. AnonymousNovember 7, 2020 at 9:22 AM

    Great cover!

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  4. BigMike20X6November 7, 2020 at 9:49 AM

    Now more than ever do I want to see Plastic Man, Kamala Khan, and Jake the Dog as The Expansion Team's expansion team! The whole concept still seems like a bit of a stretch though.

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  5. Bob GreenwadeNovember 7, 2020 at 9:52 AM

    Don't forget guest appearances from the current Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan. And, possibly, Coil-Man of the Impossibles -- especially with Tobor's adventure idea (though with only four members on the actual team, it'd have to be a bass guitar). And Stretch Armstrong.

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  6. ELSNovember 7, 2020 at 11:51 AM

    Perhaps we might add Metamorpho, Spaghetti Man from the Super Globetrotters, Whozis (Dial H for Hero), Chameleon Boy, J'onn J'onzz, and on into silliness.

    @CaryComics - I believe that Gloop and Gleep were actually voiced by Don Messick; they were voices, not a special effect. (And Mike Road - Zandor - voiced Igoo and Tundro.)

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  7. Bob BuetheNovember 7, 2020 at 12:39 PM

    @ELS: But the sound effect used when Gloop and Gleep stretched was the same one used for Mr. Fantastic.

    Also, Whozis didn't stretch, he just bounced like a basketball... which would make him a good partner for Bouncing Boy and Speedball, maybe.

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  8. RossNovember 7, 2020 at 2:42 PM

    Thanks, Anon!

    And yes, I remember fondly both "It's Clobberin' Time!" as well as the stretchy sound effect. Great stuff!

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  9. CarycomicNovember 7, 2020 at 5:07 PM

    @ELS: what Bob Buethe said. Thanks, Bob! :-)

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