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The comicbook industry has a long established history of mistreating their artists and writers,but,not granting then health insurance is beyond stupid to me.The US military does some of the same things too,that's why retention is so low and recruitment also,plenty of racist and sexist &&&holes who want to keep females and minorities under their thumb.
One important thing you left out was that superstar artist Neal Adams publicly shamed DC Comics to give not only a pension to Siegle and Shuster but a "Created by" tag line in every appearance of Superman thereafter
Honestly, I like this show. I like that the writers are experimenting with new ideas like gender flipping Penguin and making Harley Quin more serious. It appears to be the style nowadays. What I like most about this show is that it has types of villains that you can find in real life. Sure, in The Animated Series we had Rupert Thorne and Rolland Dagget, but the main villains there were the costumed ones. I had to rewatch the show to remember who Thorne and Dagget were. In Caped Crusader, the costumed rogues are more of a distraction. The real villains are the corrupt politicians, the mobsters and the crooked law men. I think that was shown better in the fourth episode. In that episode Flass and Bullock are the real bad guys. Firebug is just a sick man who clearly needs help. It brings back that question from Batman 2004: "When is a villain not the villain?". Gotham in this shows looks like a city that needs the Dark Knight.
I think Batman: The Animated Series is the superior adaptation I have mixed feelings about Caped Crusader. It's not bad but it's not good either it's just meh.
"It belongs in a Museum ! So do you !" sentences pronounced by the character Indiana Jones in the third movie of the franchise "The Last Crusade" directed by Steven Spielberg (1989) and starring the young River Phoenix (the brother of Joaquin Phoenix) who died of an overdose a few years later in the Nightclub owned by Johnny Depp. also starring Sean Connery (known for James Bond, Zardoz, the man who would be king , In the name of the Rose, Highlander,The Hunt for Red October, First Knight, The Rock, Entrapment, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ) Now The real "Crusaders" were Knights of the Christian Latin church in the medieval period send to "The Holy Land" in the period between 1095 and 1295 that had the objective of reconquering Jerusalem from Muslim rule. you can see a movie about it called "Kingdom of Heaven" (2005) directed by Ridley Scott and starring Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Liam Neeson, Edward Norton, Jeremy Irons Peace Next
I may have had some recency bias when I said it was a B+ show, probably closer to a C+ with room for improvement. I wouldn't agree that it sucked, necessarily, but I can absolutely see why some folks would lose interest somewhere in the middle.
@@crwhitwick interestingly i skipped batman beyond becoz i didn't like the concept of batman getting old and someone else taking over but i recently started watching it and i love every episode of it. I wish i had watched it sooner, it's story telling, animation and dialogues are top notch. I saw the difference right away..
@@zachsummers2872 i was really waiting for this show.. it being cancelled and shelved i felt really bad. Poster looked cool n i was hyped abt it. This doesn't feel like a bruce tim show tbh. Even Kevin Conroy would have looked at it n said that's not batman series. R.i.p Kevin conroy. The animation was choppy, batman felt like a side character in his own series, characters look fat for no reason even bruce, unnecessary change of race n gender.. i wouldn't hv minded these even if the story telling was good but.. disappointed.
Besides the characters and good story (not BTAS level of quality but still good), one thing I really like about this show is how it adress Gotham's corruption. Previous cartoons (including BTAS) never portray Gotham as this place controlled by corruption like in the comics. Yes we had mobster like Rupert Thorne and corrupt CEOs like Rolland Dagget. but politicians and cops were either average or just incompetent, not malicious. Caped Crusader, on other hand, shows how corrupt Gotham system truly is not only through villains like Catwoman and Gentleman Ghost (both are rich who abuse their position and privilege) but also through characters like Bulllock and Flass (who became the villains in the final episode). This really helps to connect the viewers with Batman and his allies struggle and justifies why Gotham needs a vigilante.
You make a very good point! That's also an example of one of the 'new' things in the series that's a change from both BTAS and the golden age iteration of Batman. Back in the 40's and 50's it was practically seen as sacriledge to portray police officers as anything less than the ideal. It definitely boosts the necessity of the Dark Knight if even the GCPD can, on the whole, be considered one of the contributing factors to the city's corruption.
@@crwhitwick That's true. As showed in many Batman stories, It's not just the rogues that make Gotham an awful place. It's the corrupt people and institutions who opress the people and make their lifes miserable. Yes we did got some of this in BTAS, with some rich CEOs being corrupt and responsible for the origin of some rogues, like Mr. Freeze and Clayface, but it's not the same thing as have people in higher position of power (like politicians and cops) being corrupt. The Batman 2004 also tried to have Batman having conflicts with the police but they were never show to be evil, only misguided and lead by Chief Rojas, who was more a unlikable arrogant cop who couldn't accept that Batman did a better job than the GCPD. The closes we ever got to see Gotham's corruption in a Batman cartoon was in the 2004 The Batman, with the first two seasons having Batman being hunt down by the cops, but they were never portrayed as evil. They were just cops doing their jobs and following the orders of Chief Rojas, who was treat more like a cop version 'J Jonah Jameson" than a straight up villain.
I was always more of a Broome guy, but Fox did some outstanding work: Adam Strange; "Man, thy Name is Brother from the JLA; The early Specter in the late 1960s with Murphy Anderson; and some of his Strange Adventures and Mystery in Space stories, like The Man Who Lived Forever.
Fox was close to Shelly Mayer; but possibly not as close to Julius Schwartz. I wonder if Fox had been a practicing lawyer, he would have been allowed to join one of the services' JAG programs? It would strike me that he would have been a natural Civil Affairs Officer, as well . . . .
This was a bit of a flub on my part with the research. I basically say that he was a fan of the Mets growing up, because the biography I got that information from just listed it offhand as one of his interests. I didn't realize that the Mets weren't formed until Fox was in his 50's, at which point he did become a fan, obviously much later in life that I thought it to be and stated it as in the video.
I’ll keep on saying it, Shang chi’s original run I’ll never understand the coloring of old Shang. He was obviously done as the bad old days Asian “ yellow”, yet at the same time the other Asians in the same comic in the same panels are colored much more realistically! And in fact in the new Shang chi comics you’ll notice he has a much more human hue.
I like to compare him the Stuff the Chinatown kid. Who while Chinese, had no accent and was drawn very well. The real question is why one is a stereotype and the other is perfectly fine. Same comic book company!
Great focus on Wing! As mentioned above, I've published on the character Wing, including other prominent Asian American superheroes. Feel free to search "Wing Finally Takes Flight" to see the in-depth piece written and interviewed by Devin Whitlock.
This may sound Bad for a few people, but I like Lois to be both capable and a Damsel in Distress. She has help Superman here and there. But it's justified why she gets kidnapped that often, and that's one of the few things that I like about her
I can understand the thought behind that. The fact that she's Superman's girlfriend, later wife, and even later very PUBLIC wife, definitely puts a target on her back. It just felt a bit ridiculous back in the Golden Age when, more often than not, it was sheer coincidence or plot convenience rather than anything more substantial.
You keep referring to the time after Crisis as Bronze Age . That is incorrect Bronze Age is the decade of the 70’s or 1970 to the Crisis depending on who you ask. The Modern Age is everything after the Crisis . Some people also retro fit the Copper Age from the Crisis to 1991.
Thanks for such a great video! Wing is an underrated character. Dr. Mark Martell wrote a great article for the Journal of Comics and Culture a couple years ago about how Wing is the first Asian American superhero in American comics. It’s a great read!
A complex and original concept, foreshadowing a lot of Dr. Strange. Well done, Jerry and Joe. Interestingly, Joe's cousin Frank Shuster, of the comedy duo of Wayne and Shuster -- who racked up more appearences on Ed Sullivan than any other act -- named his daughter Rose. Rosie Shuster married Lorne Michaels and was a writer on SNL from the first season, later involved with another Canadian comedy star, Dan Ackroyd.
Can you explain further something you said in the video? You say that during WWII, when many DC writers were off to war, Fox would write many stories under their names so readers would not notice they were not writing. But at the time, writers very rarely (if ever at all) got credit for their writing. So this makes no sense to me.
It's true that credit often wasn't attributed to the writers and artists, but that wasn't always a consistent thing. In fact, it was becoming more common in the latter-years of World War II. While it still had room for improvement (and even does to this day, quite frankly) credit was indeed being given around the time that Gardner Fox was finding himself much more alone on the writing staff.
Thanks from Canada! Here, the Joe Shuster Awards are the Canadian equivalent of America's Eisners and Joe Shuster was, fittingly enough, the first inductee into the Joe Shuster Canadian Comic Book Creator Hall of Fame. Toronto street Joe Shuster Way is another tribute and Superman featured on Canadian government stamps in 1995 and 2013. It is one of my personal regrets that Shuster did not return home to work in the Golden Age of Canadian Comic Books during the war. A question for you, CR, one of my long held beliefs is that the Fortress of Solitude is located somewhere in Canada -- can you tell us if the Fortress appeared before Siegel/Shuster had left the title?
Hi Neil! I wound-up spending some time looking into your question, and it was a little trickier than I first expected. The fortress first appeared back in 1942, but was just described as Superman's 'secret base,' and we never saw it from the outside, or really outside of very specific rooms. Siegel and Shuster left in 1947, and we didn't see the outside of the base until quite a while later in 1958. So while the two are technically behind the idea, the Fortress of Solitude as we know it moreso comes from Jerry Coleman and Wayne Boring.
Late 19th century/early 20th century Asians were usually depicted as villains. Fu Manchu and the Yellow Peril and all that. Charlie Chan was specifically created to offset that, a smart Chinese detective playing the hero or protagonist. Even Wing is obviously a good guy, in spite of his otherwise stereotypical depictio.
I do love the thought of a 'secret Da Vinci diary' where he applies his observational skills to things he's found that DEFY conventions logic and science, stuffing them all into a tome missing and forming the links between his other journals; like, he knew he couldnt publish this shit to the public when he was espousing science on the other hand, and stashes it away, working on it between all his other busy hours
Charlie Chan was university educated and all of his kids spoke normal English, his accent was mostly so that nobody who didn't already know him personally would underestimate him. I believe this came up in one or two of the films, but it has been eons since I last watched them.
Wing was Kato to the Crimson Avenger's Green Hornet. The character was originally a knock off. Besides Wing, the original Vigilante's sidekick was an Asian, Hot Stuff. The coolest, hipster sidekick ever.
Very true! I mentioned the parallels to Green Hornet in my Crimson Avenger video, so I didn't want to cover the same content back-to-back. And I can't believe I forgot to mention Hot Stuff!
@@crwhitwick Those Mort Meskin Vigilates were just surreal to me in reprints as a kid. And, the only time you got an Asian reference was when they went to Chinatown.
I understand what you mean, it feels like a lot of sidekicks are either very independent of their leaders, going on solo outings more often than standing by their side, or they're quick to become standalone heroes right away. We've got a few sidekicks introduced recently, though, like The Boom for Jay Garrick or Quiz Kid for Mr. Terrific!
Actually never knew he was am Asian-American until a while ago when researching for my project. Whenever I saw him in modern comics, it was often a flashback and in a mask. It wasn't until a retrospective that cited the Crimson Avenger was a knockoff of the Green Hornet that I knew.
