What if Spider-Man had made his debut a few decades earlier? Maybe we would have seen the wall-crawler appearing in some classic movie serials, like the one above. Ah, what could have been!
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Excellent! :-)
ReplyDeleteOf course, being a movie serial of the 1930's, that would probably make this the noir version of Spidey. With his twin Colt M-1911's confiscated by Ming minions...and his trench coat and fedora confiscated by Princess Aura!
"Help me overthrow my father and you can rule worlds by my side! All you have to do is reject your redheaded companion."
This works brilliantly - and put me in mind of a Star Trek Voyager episode where the crew mixed with a Ming-like badguy in his black-and-white world?
ReplyDeleteHave you ever put black-and-white Flash with his technicolor descendant from the movies? Or the comics versions? That could a fun combination.
“The Bride of Chaotica”.
DeleteSince Mickey was on Star Wars radio then, he would have been used as Spidy!!
ReplyDeleteWhat universe is this?
ReplyDeleteMickey Rooney as Spidey? I would've expected someone more lithe, like Donald O'Connor or Ray Bolger. But yeah, I can accept Mickey in the role.
ReplyDeleteMaybe someday we can see the 2007 remake featuring Tobey Maguire an Eric Johnson.
Unrelated suggestion: How about the Golden Age heroic Catman coming out of retirement to face his villainous Silver Age [onwards] namesake, to reclaim & redeem the name?
ReplyDeleteOops! The above post was mine.
ReplyDelete@Bob Greenwade: Mickey Rooney was pretty spry in his younger days. He played the hyper-active Puck in the feature film version of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer's Night Dream." And he could really wail on a set of drums in some of his Andy Hardy musicals! Plus, his father, Joe Yule, was a burlesque comedian back in the early 1900's. So, I'm sure that Mickey (nee Joseph Yule, Jr.) learned some acrobatic schtick from him.
ReplyDelete"Spry," believe. Even in middle age, in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, he was moving around quite well. I'm thinking of the crazy limb movements that Spidey is known for.
DeleteThanks for the note nonetheless; at the least, I hadn't been aware that Mickey had been a Puck.