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Welcome to the two-hundred and fifty-third in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. Click here for an archive of the previous two hundred and fifty-two.
Comic Book Legends Revealed is part of the larger Legends Revealed series, where I look into legends about the worlds of entertainment and sports, which you can check out here, at legendsrevealed.com. I'd especially recommend you check out this installment of Board Game Legends Revealed for a special edition focused solely on legends related to the game of Monopoly, including the bizarre origins of the game!
Let's begin!
COMIC LEGEND: The Phantom ended up becoming purple because Lee Falk was out of the country when it came time to decide what color to make the Phantom, so without his input they made him purple.
STATUS: False
The "false" aspect of this legend is pretty simple, but the true parts of the story are a good deal more interesting.
Let's get the "false" stuff out of the way right off the bat.
On Lee Falk's IMDB trivia page, it reads:
Originally intended The Phantom's costume to be gray. However, when Lee was traveling around the world, syndicate King Features had to find a color to the costume without his permission, and thereby The Phantom received his trademark purple outfit.
Well, as we already discussed back the last time Lee Falk came up in Comic Book Legends Revealed (this installment), this was not true as Falk never left the United States until after World War II (Phantom became purple in 1939), and until the War, he never even traveled much within the United States ITSELF (he stuck mostly to the Midwest).
So yeah, that was not why the Phantom became purple, which he has remained colored ever since…
The actual reason, to be frank, is a bit of a mystery.
According to Falk on a few occasions, it was a printing error, but I've never seen that confirmed. The other rumor was that it was an intentional decision because Falk's preference, gray, would not appear consistent in the strip (this was the same basic reason why the Hulk became green). Honestly, either one makes sense.
What's more interesting to me, though, is just the odd history of the character's coloring period.
When the Phantom debuted in 1936, he was clearly intended to be gray. Heck, Falk originally wanted to call him The Gray Ghost, but changed his mind.
However, the Phantom appeared in black and white, so while Falk could INTEND him to be gray, there was no definitive color scheme for the character that his Syndicate would send out to other people.
And as time went by and people began to put the Phantom into collections, well, let's just say that they all pretty much did whatever they wanted.
In a 1937 Italian collection of the strips, he was colored all different colors…
When he was first collected in America in 1938, the costume was colored red/orange…
In Australia in 1938, he was lime green!
Interestingly enough, though, Falk did not shy about the color WITHIN the comic, it was just that, well, who is going to notice a small reference here and there over a few years?
But soon after the Phantom debuted, he is described in a 1936 strip…
And in 1938…
Finally, in 1939, King Features, Falk's syndicate, began doing the Phantom strip as a Sunday strip, which meant that they finally HAD to color the Phantom.
And they went with purple (the part about them not consulting with Falk is true – we just don't know if they didn't consult with Falk and just decided to go with purple or if they didn't consult with Falk and meant to make him gray and just screwed up).
However, hilariously, Falk just ignored this during his daily strips!
He just kept having the Phantom be gray!!
In 1940…
all the way up until 1953!!!
Finally, in 1956, Falk relented…
Eventually, he even came up with an explanation for the coloring of the costume in the strips (something about the dye from berries).
Pretty crazy, huh? For almost twenty years, he was gray in the daily strip and purple in the Sunday strip!
Thanks to the amazing Bryan Sheddon for collecting all these panels and for having one of the greatest Phantom site the internet will likely ever see, The Deep Woods. Be sure to check it out!
When I was taking German in high school, wayyy back in the 70's, I subscribed to the German "Superman-Batman" magazine. To my surprise, Batman's costume was purple in German. As I learned more about the comics printing process, I found:
• Batman's costume was almost always gray (a screen of 100% black) on his covers, going back at least to the 1960's and probably since inception.
• On the interior pages, the costume was "process gray," a mix of cyan, magenta and yellow, but with no black involved. Technically, the cover was printed on coated paper, which could hold a finer screen in color separations, so gray could be used. The insides were cheapest newsprint, which meant the dot on a gray screen could "clog" or overfill with ink, turning almost black. So better the lighter process colors. I thought when other publishers tried to reproduce the separations, they got more of a purple, and just went with it.
That doesn't seem to be the same reasoning as changing the Phantom from gray to purple, but that's my anecdote for this month.
Of course, if Wonder Woman or Mary Marvel were created today, the "Sappho" would undoubtedly refer to lesbianism. Though, I think using a variation of the name as a reference to lesbians is actually a recent development, and its argued whether or not it's based on anything in the poet Sappho's real life.
Random question that I'm never sure about. Have their been stories actually depicting or suggesting lesbian-ish goings on the Amazons' island? I'm sure I've heard it joked about, and it would make sense for an island with only women.
Steve Englehart, in 1987's Fantastic Four #310, shifted Ben to a more Anklyasaur-like appearance!
What quality would Sappho lend in that setup? I can't imagine poetry would be very useful in fighting crime.
I bet it would have been "grace."
Amusingly enough, if you look at Mary's people – their "powers" don't actually add up to all the powers that Mary Marvel has (invulnerability, for instance).
In France, the Phantom was garbed in red for a very long time. As I understand it, the printer originally couldn't use or make the purple color and settled on red, which then stuck in the reader's mind. (I don't really see how it wouldn't be possible to make purple by just using both red and blue, but I recall some old French comics that weren't printed in four colors… Maybe that was the case here and the printer didn't have blue ink).
I've always liked the Phantom as a character, but he has one of the dorkiest costumes ever.
That's really interesting about the thing. Reading those early FF issues you really get a sense of him refining how he drew the characters.
Captain Marvel's namesakes were a fairly mixed bag too… a Hebrew king, a Greek demigod (using his Roman name), a few Greek gods, and a Greek soldier.
About the Phantom, here in Brazil, he was colored red, through more than 50 years.
We only "knew" he has/had a purple costume when the movie premiered here, in 1996.
Ethan: Yes….that I know off the top of my head, Wonder Woman Annual..2..i think…from the Perez era. It's about Diana bringing various world leaders and important folk to tour Paradise Island, and it's mentioned pretty specifically, which sets off one of the religious leaders who's there.
Being in the newspaper industry for years working with color reproduction, I always chalked up the purple to the reasoning that a process gray is very hard to achieve consistently (and it would differ from press to press) and a flat gray would look washed out next to other colors. Sort of the same reason that comics have long used the shorthand of using blue to equatie black, such as Superman and Bruce Wayne's hair color. Likewise, many times when something is meant to be brown or tan, it is colored orange such as the GA Sandman's hat and gloves. The problem is after a long time, the short-hand gets forgotten and the printed colors become the actual colors of the costume. Batman's black & gray becomes blue & gray, Spider-man's black & red is considered blue & red, down to the original X-Men's uniforms and the Beast and Nightcrawler's fur colors (isn't it far more likely both characters were meant to be black, especially as the Beast was done with a grayscale color scheme in his first appearance?).
Have their been stories actually depicting or suggesting lesbian-ish goings on the Amazons' island? I'm sure I've heard it joked about, and it would make sense for an island with only women.
I've read Wonder Woman on and off over the years and I can say that yes, they have covered that to a certain degree in the comics. The first instances I saw were in George Perez's run in the late 80's. Nothing explicit, but he made it more than clear that some of the women were partnered. In issue #38, in which Man first steps foot on Paradise Island, we get the following exchange (plotted by Perez and scripted by Mindy Newell):
Reverend: "Don't you miss the sharing God intended for the sexes…?"
Mnemosyne: "Some do. They have sworn themselves to Artemis, the virgin hunter, and Athena, the chaste warrior. Other choose the way of Narcissus. But MOST of us find satisfaction in each other– three thousand years can be a long time, Reverend."
Reverend: "Oh…."
I know that Phil Jiminez referenced some lesbianism on the island during his stories, but that's the last I've seen of it, but then I again I missed Rucka's run on the book and just started re-reading it with Gail Simone a few months ago…
Similar to the Phantom, the Green Lama was originally intended to be the Gray Lama, but was changed to Green to be more eye catching as well as consistency.
Interestingly, the Lone Ranger series from Dynamite (issue #5) also explains the origin of his trademark blue shirt by having Tonto dye it with berries. I didn't know the Phantom connection.
Here in Finland, the Phantom's costume has always been BLUE. I guess this is the case in Sweden, Norway and Denmark as well.
In the latest edition of The Jack Kirby Collector (#54), Will Murray adresses, through Jack Kirby's own words, the issue of the Thing's dinosaur hide in "The formative Fantastic Four", pg. 34.
If I could have super powers, I would love to have Grace and Beauty. Those are such rare powers, don't you think? (Well, a lot of super-heroes have them, but they're never listed amoung their powers. Captain Marvel never had Grace and Beauty, which is why he was such a big, red cheese.)
One thing I always thought was cool about Mary Marvel is that she flew with her arms out to her side, like Peter Pan, instead of out in front like all the other supers. (At least that's how she did it when I was a kid. I haven't seen any recent portrayals.)
For some reason, I thought she got one of her powers from Atalanta. In fact, for all these years I couldn't remember any of the names listed for her powers (which I only saw listed once), except for Atalanta, and now it turns out that my memory was all wrong.
And to Robert– the Greek soldier who supplied one of Captain Marvel's powers was also a demi-god. Achilles was the son of the minor sea-goddess Thetis.
Grimm's early skin doesn't look like dinosaur hide to me, but it does look like Devil Dinosaur hide. I guess it's a Kirby thing.
Sometime during the eighties, somebody wrote a letter to Fantastic Four proving that the Thing is actually made of orange dog-nose.
If you think about it…dinosaur hide makes a lot more sense than rock.
The Thing question was interesting because I thought everyone already knew the answer. However, the answer also brings up another question: Did Kirby deliberately design the Thing so his appearance gradually evolved over time from dinosaur-like hide to his current rocky form? Or did he just go with his artistic flow and the Thing therefore gradually changed over time as a result of changes Kirby made to streamline the character's look?
I don't know if you would consider this a legend…but the Fantastic Four movie hints very strongly at the notion that the 4 have the powers of the Classic Elements. Earth (Thing) Wind or Air (Invisibile Woman) Water or Fluid(Mr. Fantastic) and Fire (Human Torch)
Is that what Stan and Jack intended in the beginning?
In Comics Interview #18, in an interview of Reed by John Pierce, Reed notes:
[H]ere's a scoop. Selena represents the first letter in Mary's SHAZAM, right. Well, man, the original was Sappho! I killed her. I was not then enlightened about the healthful effects of homosexuality and lesbianism. In a small way, I was the Anita Bryant of my time. But I said, "Ol' Sappho must go," and that's how Selena got in.
Not to start a flame war, but more a [hopefully respectful] socio-political discussion. i'm really curious, what are the "healthful effects of homosexuality & lesbianism."? i am not aware that this is a factor in people's sexual orientation. Does anyone know what he is talking about? And when would this quote have been uttered? Thanks!
Also, Brian, regarding the Thing's skin going from 'lumpy' to 'rocky', i remember that another artist drew the Thing in [something like] Strange Tales w/ the Torch and started drawing the Thing more rocky than lumpy. If my memory is correct, Kirby wasn't happy, as that meant that he would have to start drawing all the rocky definition, rather than the simpler lumpy version. Again, anyone hear this?
Thanks all!
Danjack, I'm pretty sure what he meant was the healthful effects of not living in denial about one's sexuality.
I always assumed Phantom's purple costume was grey in the way that Superman's blue hair was black.
I wonder if the Phantom movie with Billy Zane (which I love) would have been better received if his costume was grey.
I seem to recall King Kirby drawing pictures of the Thing getting punched so hard that chunks of him flew off, so he must have fully embraced the rock skin.
I also seem to recall a Marvel Two-in-One story where Ben hid in a pile of orange bricks. I could be wrong.
i found from Amazing Spidey in 1964 by Ditko who drew the Thing somewhat rocky:
It's seems like a transition between the original & what would become standard. i'm sure that there are lots more, but i have to get back to work!
@ The Mutt: Thanks for the input. i'm not sure that i get your interpretation from the quote, but that is one way to look at it. Thanks again. Anyone else?
Gail Simone's Wonder Woman does touch on the idea of female/female partnerships when Diana decides to court Tom "The Amazon Way". The two or three panels where the scene occurs definitely suggest that the Amazons have their own rituals for female/female courting.
This was yet another fascinating Legends post Brian. I wish I felt confident I was retaining all this great information you keep giving me…
Nothing contained in any Fantastic Four movie should be construed as having any meaning whatsoever.
understood, aaron. It is just an interesting premise, totally unrelated to the movie except that it brought it to my attention. Is it possible that Stan and Jack had such a thing in mind in creating the 4?
–> He was just trying to be a nice guy, say something positive, he didn't mean it was a cure for cancer or anything.
–> Those FF movies were terrible. Especially the first one, but especially the second one.
Brian, I don't disagree with your conclusion but what's your supporting evidence? Two classic covers of FF? I was expecting some quote from Kirby or maybe contacting Pete Von Sholly directly to get his take on what Kirby said to him.
I know I'm being juvenile, that the word had the different, older meaning back then, but I can't help myself.
I chuckled when I read about the "sorta queer costume" of the Phantom in the 1938 panel.
I was going to mention the same scene Andrew Collins described, but since he did, I don't have to.
I seem to remember a scene from Perez's run on Wonder Woman where one of the Amazons (I remember it as Hipolyta herself, but it was probably her main oracle) woke with a start from a prophetic dream, and another woman was lying next to her. I lost my collection in a house fire, though, so I can't go back to confirm it.
Great stuff as usual, Brian. A few random comments:
1. Dinosaur hide: Frankly, I always thought that BEn's "rocky" shape was comic book visual shorthand for dinosaur armor (E.g, the hides of the Ankylosaurus and the Stegasaurus). Hence, the change in Ben's skin, to my way of thinking, was meant to convey the maturation of his hide from that of a "smooth" dinosaur to an armored one.
2. John Byrne: In Marvel Two-In-One #50, scripted and drawn by Byrne, he refers to Ben's early skin as having a dinosaur hide look.
3.Amazon sexuality: Your citation of WW #38 is quite interesting, Andrew Collins. The way of Artemis and Athena is obviously the path of celibacy. The way of Narcissus is a subtle way of refering to masturbation.
4. Comic Book Shorthand: When I was a kid, I remember asking my Uncle why Superman had blue hair, and he told me that that was the traditional way that comic book colorists conveyed the color black. What a revelation! I remember looking through his collection and mentally altering the colors to their true look: Spider-Man from red and blue to red and black, Batman from gray and blue to gray and black, the Black Panther from dark blue to black, etc.
According to John Byrne, the Thing's "rocky" skin is still dinosaur hide and is not actually made of rocks.
I liked the second Fantastic Four movie. It was fun. I thought it felt like what a Fantastic Four story is supposed to feel like. (Doom was a horrible embarassment, of course, but they were stuck with what the first film had already established.)
I have the book of Marvel origins, and in the Fantastic Four chapter Stan Lee touches on the subject of the elements as being inspiration for powers. I will need to find it, I'm afraid I might be mistaken. I haven't read that book since I was a kid, but I remember it being quite informative to my prepubescent brain.
There's a FF/X-Men crossover in which Wolverine gets Reed's powers, Emma gets Ben's, Gambit get's Johnny's and Nightcrawler get's Sue's. They're especifically meant to be the 4 elements (Wolverine and Reed are fluid, because of the fluid nature of metal. Emma and Gambit are pretty obvious. Nightcrawler supposedly "vanishes" like Sue).
However, I have no idea if that 's what Stan and Jack first intended to imply.
re Danjack: Given when Mary Marvel was created, it was widely believed in the medical community as well as by psychologists that homosexuality was a mental illness. This belief was still in common currency up to at least the mid-60s (in fact, among my collection of old books is one that claims this, and it was published in 1970).
Such a belief is not accurate, but at the time anything that deviated from the "norm" of society was considered "deviant". So what he said must be viewed from the perspective of his time.
I just wanted to add that in Mark Evanier's Jack Kirby, King of Comics, the Thing is referred to by Evanier as having a "reptilian epidermis" . Most of the time, when the Thing takes a hard hit the sort of come off like scales. IMO, the dino-hide makes more sense since it could have the kind of look of the more armored conception back people had of the Stegosaurus and Triceratops in Kirby's time. I think Ben's hide would look like Ray Harryhausen's stop motion dinosaurs in a lot of the 1950's sci fi stuff, like the Ymir of "20 Million Miles to Earth". Kirby himself was a fan of those kind of movies.
Thanks, I'd forgotten about that moment in Gail's run. Nemesis' face is priceless, almost as good as that of the minister in the Perez issue I quoted.
@Crazed Spruce
Yes, there is that scene too, a little later in the Perez run. I don't remember the exact issue, but the oracle, Menalippe wakes up from a frightening prophetic dream, and her lover Penelope is shown lying next to her in bed, and she awakes and comforts Menalippe.
**Spoiler for the ending to Perez's run on WW**Spoiler**
During the War Of The Gods crossover, Menalippe is killed. Penelope assumes her role of Oracle on Paradise Island, and there are several passages of dialogue where characters wonder aloud how Penelope will carry on without her lover Menalippe, as if the exact nature of their relationship was in any doubt at that point.
To me, lesbianism in WW at the time was handled a little like Paul Levitz handled Light Lass and Shrinking Violet in Legion Of Super-Heroes. It wasn't explicitly stated, but it wasn't exactly kept a secret either…
Brian, I don't disagree with your conclusion but what's your supporting evidence? Two classic covers of FF? I was expecting some quote from Kirby or maybe contacting Pete Von Sholly directly to get his take on what Kirby said to him.
Kirby talked about it so many different places I didn't really see the point in quoting any one particular place.
As for Von Sholly, remember, I'm saying that yes, Kirby likely DID tell him that – he told lots of people that he originally envisioned the Thing as having dinosaur hide, so I have no doubt that he also told Von Sholly that.
@ ACFP Junior not really true. In the late 80s early 90s there was the cartoon, on SBT I think, that showed The Phantom wearing purple
That's interesting about Spider-Man (and even Batman to a lesser extent) being black where they're normally blue. I mean, I always thought that during the campier years Batman was supposed to be blue even though it makes more sense for him to be black.
Spider-man though, it's just weird. Do you think that's what Alex Ross was referencing with this?
danjack said: i'm really curious, what are the "healthful effects of homosexuality & lesbianism."?
I say: not getting pregnant.
Ryan, I think that Alex Ross was referencing the true colors of Spidey in those drawings.Another bit of comic book shorthand is the use of solid white for the lenses in Spider-Man's eyes. According to Stan Lee, the lenses are supposed to be one-way mirrors (This is just about the only thing that the live action SPIDER-MAN 70s television show got right).. Alex Ross is the only artist that I can think of who actually depicts the lenses as one way mirrors.
Speaking of the Ymir, and other stop-motion critters, I seem to recall a Marv Wolfman-scripted issued of Fantastic Four from that mid-seventies period where Ben Grim had been reverted to human; it was specifically mentioned by Ben that the Thing-shaped exo-skeletal armor Reed had built for him to simulate his old powers, quote, "Makes me move like something out of a Harryhausen flick.". unquote. Reed's reply was along the lines of, "You always did, old friend."
I always thought Marv was lobbying for who should do the FX work for an FF film, had it been done back in the day. Too bad it didn't happen. . .
As for Kirby and the Thing's skin, I would only mention that when he told me that it was in the eighties, long after he created the character's look. So I would tend to think that was how he still felt about it. Sure the look evolved but
scales are hard edged so it's not impossible that Jack didn't change his tune about the basic concept. He certainly didn't say "I orginally envisioned him as having dinosaur skin but later decided his skin was made of rocks" or anything to that effect. That's all I got!
On the topic of the Thing's skin complexion: It's my understanding that it was always intended to be 'dinosaur hide' from the beginning. The evolution began when Joe Sinnott starting inking Kirby throughout the series. It was he who most likely began defining the final look, from lumps to the sharper, straighter edges that fans and eventually pros observed to look more like rocks. Writers began describing what they saw as rocks, and (pure speculation on my part from here on, folks) even Kirby accepted this somewhat streamlined approach to the visualization. He could have fought to maintain the alligator-look, but probably he just decided to go with the path of least resistance for productivity's sake. It was just the most efficient way to do things back then.
As for the purpleness of the Phantom's outfit, maybe I'm just all accustomed to it by now, but I always saw it classically as the color of royalty and nobility. While it's not very ghost-like, I think it's quite striking and reasonably appropriate for a guardian of the lands.
Thank you for stopping by and giving more info, Pete! That certainly fills out more of what Scott Shaw was saying.
And Brian, I don't quite get the logic that since Kirby has been quoted several times it's not worth referencing here. I haven't read a ton of Kirby interviews, so it would be new to me, likely Eli (who asked the question), and probably others.
Also, Brian, regarding the Thing's skin going from 'lumpy' to 'rocky', i remember that another artist drew the Thing in [something like] Strange Tales w/ the Torch and started drawing the Thing more rocky than lumpy. If my memory is correct, Kirby wasn't happy, as that meant that he would have to start drawing all the rocky definition, rather than the simpler lumpy version. Again, anyone hear this?
Nope. And I doubt it is true. Kirby was such a prolific penciler that I doubt he would complain about drawing rock skin. Besides, he has been the main penciler for the character for such a long time, and used the rocky appearance for nearly all of it, that he'd probably have little trouble pushing for either a reversal or further changes in Ben's appearance.
Rubens Borges: you're probably thinking about "Defenders of the Earth", the cartoon jointly-featuring Phantom, Flash Gordon and Mandrake. Although I am fairly certain that RGE (Rio Gráfica Editora) made a point of showcasing the color controversy a bit earlier than that. Weirdly, they called the purple color "blue" for some reason.
The Mutt: my guess is that yes, a more somber color such as gray would indeed help the Phantom costume in a live action feature.
The dino scales idea makes lots of sense. Come to think of it, Spider-Man / Ka-Zar / Black Panther villain Stegron has a fairly similar skin appearance.
The very first Byrne-scripted FF story made the similarity of the FF's powers to the four elements (stretched as it seems to be to me, when it comes to Reed and Sue) a major plot point.
And Brian, I don't quite get the logic that since Kirby has been quoted several times it's not worth referencing here. I haven't read a ton of Kirby interviews, so it would be new to me, likely Eli (who asked the question), and probably others.
Sure, fair enough, Corey, I'll change it for ya!
Thanks, Brian. I appreciate you listening to me whine about it.
Thanks for the picture of the bust of Sappho. It showed me that I'd been mispronouncing Sappho's name all these years (and, more than likely, so has everyone else). The Greek letters used on the bust are Sigma–Alpha–Pi–Phi–Omega, meaning the correct pronunciation should be "sap-foe" (rather than the usual "saf-foe).
I can't find this anywhere in English, but:
This is why I always imagined the Thing as rocky.
^ meant to say it's around 3:40. Oops.
No joke, I took a guess at where 3:40 was on the clip and I nailed it to the SECOND on my first try!
That's neither here nor there, I just felt it needed to be said.
Interesting that the Thing is made of rock(s) and his girlfriend is a scupltor …. Hmm, any psychologists amongst us?
The Byrne Marvel Two In One has Ben going back in time to meet himself shortly after the FF have been created and the early thing is drawn scaly,like the cover of FF 1. I think the story asserted that Ben's body had mutated further with time.
The "way of Narcisssus" reference in Wonder Woman was to masturbation–I remember Perez said in an interview that he could get away with lesbians "but they'll kill me if I say the Amazons masturbate."
When E. Nelson Bridwell was writing Captain Marvel in the seventies, he said he was considering revamping Mary's powers to something that fit better than conventionally "girly" qualities like beauty and grace. Never did, but he made some possible suggestions in the letter columns.
Thanks for adding the stuff from the Jack Kirby Collector. I knew I had seen the dinosaur scale hide written about somewhere else.
Awesome job expanding the Thing section, Brian!! Thank you! I had no idea Joe Sinnott had so much clout.
It's always fascinating to me to see how iconic characters evolve.
'understood, aaron. It is just an interesting premise, totally unrelated to the movie except that it brought it to my attention. Is it possible that Stan and Jack had such a thing in mind in creating the 4?'
John Byrne made that connection between the FF and the four elements in his first issue as writer and artist – he had the team going up against elemental foes that mirrored the FF's powers.
That was long before the crap movies.
Looking at the splash of FF #51, is it any surprise that Kirby moved towards Sinnott's approach?
The "rocky" Thing just has a more dramatic look.
I think you could argue that the debut of the "rocky" Thing was on the cover of FF #18.
The four elements seem to have inspired not only the FF's powers, but their personalities. Though, curiously, when it comes to personality traits, Reed and Sue should be reversed. Reed is air, since air signs are closer to represent higher intellect and brains and all that is rational, while Sue would be water, that represents depth of emotion and compassion and feminility.
The Thing and the Torch obviously are well-matched with their elements both in powers and personalities.
do note that Stan Lee specifically told Sinnott to change anything he felt like changing about Kirby's pencils
Given the…reverence for Kirby, nowadays, I'm having a hard time imagining a time when this would go over as 'Sinnott's that good?' and not 'can Stan be more of a jerk?'
In Sweden, The Phantom is blue.
Sweden also produces their own The Phantom comics.
Please reference FF #40, this is the first appearance of the modern, 'rocky' Thing. It is also, I believe the first time Reed ever turned Ben into the Thing, on purpose. It is a dramatic series of panels, where Kirby and his inker for that issue, the much maligned Vince Colletta, depict the physical horror of becoming the Thing. Ben goes thru a definite 'scaly' look, but finishes as his current rocky self. He then kicks the crap out of Doom, and runs away to join the Frightful Four for the first time. I think I was 6 when I got this issue, and even then I could tell it was an important event for Ben.
Crap, that sounds nerdy….
"Release, the Kraken!"
peace, out
HAHAHAHAHA! That one guy in a panel from the Phantom describes his "sorta queer costume". I love changing times and meanings of words.
I'm a bit confused, Brian, as to why you think Kirby inked the cover of FF #8. That's Ayers' inking, as the detailing on Puppet Master's hands makes clear. As far as I know, the only time Kirby inked himself at Marvel was the cover of Fantasy Masterpieces #4 and it was considered such a rarity that Stan played it up big in that month's Bullpen Bulletins.
Regarding the "gray" Phantom costume…
The "gray" in Batman's costume, as well as The Gray Gargoyle and Odin's Destroyer (among others) was actually 25% Cyan-25% Magenta-25% Yellow because newsprint didn't handle a black screen well at all.
It wasn't as much of an issue in daily editions, which usually didn't use color at all!
The Phantom's gray on the Sunday pages was probably intended to be the same as Batman's in the comics.
However, since yellow was usually the LAST color to be prepped (The order is CMYK: Cyan-Magenta-Yellow, with the black [K] plate being line art) and 25% was a relatively-weak screen, sometimes it was either deliberately (due to deadlines) or inadvertantly (if the press was adjusted to compensate for color) left out, resulting in the violet-purple costume.
Leaving off the 25% yellow often meant that Caucasian characters had an unsually ruddy look, since the 25% Y was also a part of their skin tone (25M, 25Y), but few people seemed to notice, accepting the 25M only as "skin"…
NOTE: on comic book covers, a 25% black screen was used for "gray", since the slick stock wouldn't muddy it up the way interior newsprint did, and the screens themseves were 120 dots per inch as opposed to the 65 to 85 dots per inch of the interiors!
As printing and interior paper stock improved from the late '80s to today, except in special circumstances, the 25C,25M,25Y interior color combo was abandoned as "gray" in costumes.
I have read the FF's four elements analogy elsewhere before, but I doubt that Stan and Jack made it that clear a statement from the start. To me it feels more like someone accurately read the metaphor in the quartet at some point, and it just stuck from there. After verification in Stan Lee's "Origins of Marvel Comics", there is no mention of it whatsoever.
A note about the Aussie colours for the Phantom, Brian, the original comics, published by the Australian Woman's Mirror, had him in green on the cover. But then Frew Comics began publishing a Phantom Comic in 1948 and the colour of his costume was the now familiar purple and has been ever since.
Frew are still publishing the Phantom and the current issue is #1566, which came out last Friday.
I read (not sure where) that Kirby inked The cover to FF #7 – it's listed that way on the GCD as well.
I only bring this up because, yeah Kirby never really inked that much and I'm always curious about how the situations unfolded that led him to ink his own work.
Wow, American comics sure look ephemeral when you consider that other countries can have runs of 1566 issues and counting!
In Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark) Phantom's costume was blue og gray/blue and not purple. However the monthly Phantom magazine was in black and white often with paited covers.
Since the 1970's and well into the 2000's Phantom stories have been made for the Scandinavian market even with US illustrators and writers.
Apparently it was also due to some printing error but another version is about a publisher thinking purple looked silly and gray being too difficult to print.
I remember when I first saw the Phantom's US purple costume and thinking it looked strange as I was used to blue og black and white.
I'd guess that's a fortnightly comic, which helps in stacking up the numbers. A couple of British weeklies have reached their 3500th issues.
Yep, fortnightly. BTW, apart from 2000ad, what other British weeklies are still going? I used to read Whizzer & Chips, Buster, Whoopee & Jackpot and a few others when I was a kid, but you don't see 'em in Australia any more.
There's The Beano and The Dandy, which are the two with 3500 issues, and seem to still be more or less in the style of the traditional weeklies. There are quite a few kids' TV tie-in comics on the stands. 2000AD has its monthly sister magazine, the Judge Dredd Megazine, as well.
And I know of some British comics that come out weekly (or did in the past) and include split up reprints from the US. I know Star Wars comics in the UK from the 80s, for example, would often split a single US issue up into three parts, for three separate UK issues. Not that having all those issues still isn't impressive.
The original Marvel Transformers comic did so, too; two weeks reprints, two weeks new UK-only material. Nowadays, the latter is generally considered superior!
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You wrote:
"re Danjack: Given when Mary Marvel was created, it was widely believed in the medical community as well as by psychologists that homosexuality was a mental illness. This belief was still in common currency up to at least the mid-60s (in fact, among my collection of old books is one that claims this, and it was published in 1970).
Such a belief is not accurate, but at the time anything that deviated from the "norm" of society was considered "deviant". So what he said must be viewed from the perspective of his time."
As a therapist myself, i do know about the history of removing homosexuality from the catagory of illness, and you make a great & valid point. However, when you say 'Such a belief is not accurate…' i have to disagree with your assumption. The DSM is the manual that therapists use to diagnosis clients & the newer editions do not have homosexuality as a diagnosis, therefore, it is not seen as somehting to treat or 'cure'.
However, the DSM is simply a collection of standards created by people, which is not authoritative. The people who create this Diagnostic Manual may at one point decide to put homosexuality back in as a disease/condition/diagnosisto be considered abnormal & therefore to be treated. They also may put in HETEROsexuality as a disease/condition/diagnosisto be considered abnormal & therefore to be treated.
The point is not so much about sexuality, but about a group of people who decide upon something not NECESSARILY making it true or false. The DSM is a standard of what we agree are conditions to consider for treatment. This doesn't make it true.
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E.L. Doctorow had a youth refer to the Phantom as purple clad in his novel Billy Bathgate, which takes place in 1935. Of course, since the Phantom debuted in 1936, he slipped up doubly.
"I wonder if the Phantom movie with Billy Zane (which I love) would have been better received if his costume was grey."
Not by me.
I have to say, I never had trouble understanding the nature of, for instance, Superman's hair. I understood from as early as I can remember that comic colouring was limited, and was more representational than realistic.
I mean, did everyone think comic book people walked around with bright blue/orange/green/etc. suits at work? Or that the walls are actually yellow/purple/whatever?
As far as the FF's powers converging w/the four classical elements, the first time I ever saw it was Ellis' Ultimate FF.
"I liked the second Fantastic Four movie. It was fun. I thought it felt like what a Fantastic Four story is supposed to feel like."
What, meandering, superficial and anticlimactic..? I'll have to disagree there. ;0)
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For decades of racial struggle in South Africa, Desmond Tutu was the international voice for equality. Today he is one of the world's prominent voices for human rights, conflict resolution and reconciliation.
In 1948, when Tutu was 17 years old, the National Party won control of the government and codified the nation's long-present segregation and inequality into the official policy of apartheid. In 1953, the government passed the Bantu Education Act, a law that lowered the standards of education for black South Africans to ensure that they only learned what was necessary for a life of servitude. The government spent one-tenth as much money on the education of a black student as on the education of a white one. Tutu, a school teacher at the time, and no longer willing to participate in an educational system explicitly designed to promote inequality, quit teaching in 1957 and began his study of theology.
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Archibishop Tutu won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984.
While his opposition to apartheid was vigorous and unequivocal, Tutu consistently advocated reconciliation between all parties involved in apartheid. After the fall of apartheid he was named by Mandela to chair the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, bringing the victims and perpetrators of atrocities under apartheid together for reconciliation a crucial step in South Africa's non-violent transition to democracy and an often used model for international peace building.
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Then I noticed in my DailyCandy email that a company called Sugar Lily Bakery is now selling cupcakes in mason jars, a trend I've seen around the blog-o-sphere recently.
Of course, there's always the classic drinks-in-a-mason jar, usually accompanied by colorful straws.
A few more interesting mason jar ideas from Giver'sLog… chili with cornbread in a jar and BBQ in a jar.
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Marijuana use relating to child custody
This is a discussion on Marijuana use relating to child custody within the Child Custody & Support forum, part of the FAMILY LAW, DIVORCE, CUSTODY category; State of Missouri. My wife and I have 4 children, the eldest 3 of which are from my wife's previous ...
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State of Missouri.
My wife and I have 4 children, the eldest 3 of which are from my wife's previous marriage. We do not have full custody, though the children live with us full-time.
I am a recreational marijuana user and often have a very small quantity (1/4 ounce or less) in a fireproof lockbox that I keep locked in my office. I do not smoke in front of the kids, obviously, and make every effort to be as discreet as possible.
However, my wife is concerned that if the younger children find out about my marijuana use, they will tell their biological father. My wife believes that her ex-husband will, in turn, contact Family Services or whatever administrative body manages custody and child
support arrangements in Missouri with that information in an attempt to get the children taken away from us (the truth is that he doesn't even WANT the kids all the time, but would endure it in order to avoid paying child support).
My question is this: if push came to shove and Family Services (or whoever) was made aware of the circumstances I have described, would possession of a misdemeanor amount of marijuana be sufficient grounds for them to take our 3 oldest children away from us and order them to live with their father?
I am a 37 year old responsible adult with no trace of a criminal record. I have a good job, work hard for my money and provide a nice, upper-middle-class home for our children to grow up in. The children's biological father has a history of violent behavior (outside the home -- never towards his kids), adultery and 3 failed marriages (married a 4th time now). He's a career military guy who spent the last couple years away from his kids in Afghanistan and is trying to get sent back for another tour of duty soon.
It seems highly unlikely to me that any court or governing body would think it was in the best interest of the children to pull them out of their home and schools and relocate them to live with their father because I possess a misdemeanor amount of marijuana which I am careful to keep concealed.
I enjoy the recreational use of marijuana and want to continue, but any risk of losing our children is one that I am unwilling to take. I will change my lifestyle if I need to, but I'm hoping for an expert in Family Law to tell me that I need not worry about that happening.
Thank you for reading about my situation. I would greatly appreciate any insight that you might be able to give.
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You are right they may not remove the kids but it would be within their discretionary power to do so, and you certainly don't want even the chance of that happening.
We would advise to cease that use ASAP--or you just do assume the risk.
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Personally, I think if you are being discreet and not keeping tons of stash of hand, and are an occasional user, everything will be fine.
Your post sounds like you are a bit paranoid. Maybe you are smoking too much.
|May 22nd, 2008, 06:01 PM
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I would say you should be able to avoid being caught by the children. Avoid smoking when the kids are at home. I would also talk to them about doing drugs and explain to them that drugs are very bad and to never do them.
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Second, Yes -- depending on your state and who you are dealing with you can lose your children. My 13 year old son in Texas is currently not allowed to see me unsupervised even though I am a registered OMMP medical marijuana user (which means that yes -- it IS legal for me to grow, possess, and use marijuana per Oregon my state of residence). Apparently my mistake in this debacle was being honest with my ex-wife and son about my use of medical marijuana. Why? Because 1) I am not a liar -- especially to my son, and 2) I am not doing anything wrong or hurting anyone. My suggestion is to join NORML and lobby your legislative representatives to vote for the removal of marijuana prohibition, which must happen eventually since more and more people are finally realizing that marijuana is an herb (not a drug) and that legal drugs such as alcohol and tobacco (which kill people) are significantly more dangerous to everyone than marijuana could ever be. Even if you stop smoking to avoid any potential risks with your children please help get marijuana legal again for the good of the entire country. More importantly dont lie to people and when you do talk to your children tell them the WHOLE truth or else they will be as misinformed as too many people already are which could lead them to serious problems with true drugs in the future.
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I completely agree. There are TOOO many ppl who have never touched pot in their lives and think it's this "horrible" thing. The only reason you will get in trouble is because some politically-correct pompas judge will have to make you an "example". This happens way too often as well.
If you have used pot you realize there are no side effects. The only "side effects" are hungry & laughter. wow. The "drug" companies (because that's what they are: DRUGS) fill senate & congress with many many false ideas about what pot really does to you. NOTHING. Is really the answer.
Pot does not put you or anyone around you at any sort of risk. It is fun, relaxes you, and makes you laugh. There is no harm. Not only that but the smoke in pot is literally less harmful than cigs but somehow the gov't supports them. hmmm. is that because they're making money off of it? bet so. If pot is legalized there will be no way to tax it because everyone will grow their own. KNOW HOW???
get REAL ppl!!! this law is ridiculous & unless you have used YOURSELF I don't want to hear you're complaints. HUSH your mouth. thanks. have a great day.
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haha...no worries. by the time our generation is in congress this will be legal. all the old folks at nursing homes will be raising hell about our "wild ways". pot's harmless. let it go already.
i had a custody case & the judge told us we were both getting tested 20 mins after the case. appearantly he does this to everyone, there were 5 other cases of his that were getting tested at the same time. holy cow.
so i admitted that i did use marijuana and he didn't really give a crap. he just told me that i "had to stop" and shouldn't test positive again. all while smiling. too funny. most judges realize pot is not a danger, but they have to at least pretend to enforce the law bc it's the law. so...if you feel it's worth it, take a chance. look around, check the records of the family court near you that you would attend and see what the judges say for other parents who have admitted to using, or gotten tested. really good way to see.
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What an odd assortment of comments...
Fundamental question; is using illegal drugs ground for taking away a child? The answer is yes. I'm not saying it's logical I'm not saying it's right I'm saying...
It IS.
Yes, they can remove the child. Justified or not it is how the world turns. Until the courts see pot the same way you do I can't see that changing in the near future. I could care less (personally) about your use but you asked a question and I attempted to answer it. The answer is yes, the courts can take away your child based upon your use of illegal drugs.
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If somebody is interested in Native People of America this is a great, historical place to visit. The atmosphere of ancient Mayas is everywhere.
The ceremonial flight of the Voladores is shrouded in the mists of antiquity.
Information about the original ritual was partially lost when the invading
conquerors from Spain destroyed so many of the documents and codices of the
indigenous cultures. Fortunately, enough survived through legend and oral
history and in materials written by early visitors to New Spain, that
anthropologists and historians have been able to document at least part of the
story of this ancient religious practice and how it has evolved through time.
A Totonaca myth tells of a time when there was a great drought, and food and
water grew scarce throughout the land. Five young men decided that they must
send a message to Xipe Totec, God of fertility so that the rains would return
and nurture the soil, and their crops would again flourish. So they went into
the forest and searched for the tallest, straightest tree they could find.
When they came upon the perfect tree, they stayed with it overnight, fasting and
praying for the tree's spirit to help them in their quest. The next day they
blessed the tree, then felled it and carried it back to their village, never
allowing it to touch the ground. Only when they decided upon the perfect
location for their ritual, did they set the tree down.
The men stripped the tree of its leaves and branches, dug a hole to stand it
upright, then blessed the site with ritual offerings. The men adorned their
bodies with feathers so that they would appear like birds to Xipe Totec, in hope
of attracting the god's attention to their important request. With vines wrapped
around their waists, they secured themselves to the pole and made their plea
through their flight and the haunting sound of the flute and drum.
In Mesoamerican times the ritual of the Volador was performed throughout much of
Mexico and extended as far south as Nicaragua. It was performed once every 52
years at the change of the century, and the brotherhood of the Voladores was
passed from father to son.
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According to believes, Mayan civilization was a multitude of separate entities with a common cultural background. They were religious and artistics nation with increlible knowledge.
In hot days, there is no better place then lovely beach close to the ancient city. Tulum (7 km. north of Maya Tulum) is the largest Maya construction built on the coast. It is the most visited pre-Hispanic site. This place was a very important center of commerce in the past and is really worth a visit because of the magnificent view and historical buildings. I wish I could move to the past to see how it was before.
- Pros:Beautiful ocean, interesting history
- Cons:the best time to go there is early morning, later too many tourists are coming
- In a nutshell:Mayas Indian culture and history is worth to know
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not much, small back pack . It difficult to walk with a big bags comfortable shoes, you will walk a lot! Its good to... more travel advice
Around 11.00am is gointg to be very hot. Take a water with you. There is a nice beach over there so dont forget a swim... more travel advice
Local Crafts are easy to find everywhere. Its good to negociate the price. Tradicional, colourful blancets and Mayas... more travel advice
You must see Voladores ceremony. Now, it is performed mostly by actors but still doesnt look to safe. more travel advice
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Dear Alicja, I am still re-enjoying your stories and pictures, your VT-pages are like a book of your aventurous life. Cherish what you did before , take new actions and grab the opportunities in your future life. Take good care of yourself, Andy
Very nice page Alicja Lori & I loved Tulum and the Mayan Culture there and Chichen Itza was great as well We went last February . Very nicely done .
Dear Alicja, did not visit Tulum unfortunately, but the flight of the Voladores reminds me to what I saw in Xcaret (but it was without people).Thankx for the explaning and the picture, Andy
Beautiful writing in your intro Alicja. The respect you have for native cultures is so good to see. I wish more Australians could feel the same way about our native peoples & they would be a lot better off.
It must be breathtaking to watch the spectacle of these men gracefully "flying" upside down from a 75 foot pole secured only by a rope tied around their waists.
seems to be an interesting place
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It made my stay perfect - so both thumbs up.more
This is a review of the Manhattan restaurant on the ground floor of the Marriott West India Quay. I don't know why Yelp decided to merge the restaurant and the hotel, so I'm just leaving it alone.
The restaurant gets a good crowd of hotel guests. You can always expect to hear an American accent in the crowd, trying to order a Coors Light.
Speaking of beer, their choices are reasonable if...more


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