Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked (Documentary) 

That’s why I uploaded it dude :)

I agree. This documentary is magnificent!

​@@andrewdayton3914I'm curious what your thoughts are on "Superheroes: A Never Ending Battle"?

@@SchweitzerMan I never seen it before, is it better than this one?

@@andrewdayton3914 It's from 2013/14 and I'd argue that it is. I think you can find the third part on RU-vid

I agree with everything you just said

Wow.....up until now, I thought it was Avery Brooks. I stand corrected.

Fitting. He was Spawn.

'I LIVE AGAIN!............Again!'

@@jamestilson8985 And I thought it was Laurence Fishburne!

Right on,keep kicking life in the teeth✊

how deceived you are. There is only one hero and that is Jesus Christ.

​@@bryanbulmer6716If you really believed in Jesus, you'd know He isn't threatened by people liking comics

@@bryanbulmer6716that hero asked his followers to kill babies, then he killed himself 😂

Yea

gypsy1287 Keith David is the voice actor who played Spawn in the animated series.

gypsy1287 no biggie. Have u seen the series?

Really? sounds like Goliath to me

Admiral David Anderson Mass effect Series :)

MasterVideoStudios OOOOOH!! Rekt.

ivanhoe & Patoruzu started the superhero genre.

Sadly as well as ironically history channel rarely deals with history anymore. Now it’s all reality tv shows. History channel use to be my favorite channel

Stupid reality shows with fabricated drama to generate views. Its laughable

Disney bought em

CT Kooz God dammit Disney

YES! Fucking thank you. I know some people who just beat their meat over DC and just shit all over Marvel for no reason. Oddly enough its never the other way around but Im sure those people are out there. I love it all: IDW, Darkhorse, Marvel anyone if its good its good.

***** Me too!!! LMAO at that one.

Tyler Blanchard If I could, I would give you 5 thumbs-up for your comment.

Oldduketree Same

well that has changed after trump was endorsed by marvel. bye bye Marvel

That's quite a reach and Wertham was kind of a crazy conservative. Just because one person insinuates it doesn't make it true, as that wasn't the author's intent, anyway.

There was a panel where it looked like batman and robin were share a bed(in reality their beds were right next to eachother ) and it it seemed to promote them as being gay. Also robin was bright green short shorts, this was probably seen as being too flamboyant

That mainly applies to Ren and Stimpy than Batman and Robin

How would he react if you showed him this?

Well although Frank Miller has gone off the deep end by this point in his writing this is still prior to his true descent into madness

+Anthony Jordan frank miller probably went off the deep end by the time he wrote and illustrated 300. He was too far gone by the time the movie was made, being the homoerotic, far right (or fascist) and ethnocentric carnage fest that it is

When was this done? Pre-Holy-Terror?

Chris Check yes

John Reilly he 's also the NARRATOR of City Confidential!! and the voice of the lead GARGOYLE on suitably enough GARGOYLES !! [the show that made those ugly buggers cool to kids!!] and numerous other voice -overs as well!!

pvtrichter88 and the voice of spawn on the HBO series

+Anna Travis I thought so

carl manis It’s -probably- the best comic film ever made!

Some good news, there's around 24 million comics readers.

They need to come up with new ideas.

I agree in any medium a physical release will always be wanted

because he sucked and was a waste of a person

Yeah, that sounds about right.

All the so called proof was recently (in the last few years) all disproved.

It could have been disproved just by people realizing correlation doesn't equal causation.

i don't even think he had a real concern he just wanted fame and money.

Yeah Stan the man will live on forever.

+XrosM you're wrong, try again.

+XrosM wait, Keith David is Spawn?

+Jon Garza Voice actor for Spawn, yes.

My bad bros.

Yes. Keith David is Spawn as Mark Hamill is Joker.

Ben Quick Keith David played a character named Goliath in the Gargoyles TV show.

This documentary came out in 2003. 2001 was the last big event in comics when this was being written and filmed.

dude past identity crisis. everything made me depressed from killing cap to new 52 then another 52. plus the combining of stories in marvel titles. still too much.

bekim sakipi Try Hawkeye by Matt Fraction.

bekim sakipi WRONG! Bendis's New Avengers ARE EPIC! Now just out in Giant Tpb. format! Leads into CIVIL WAR & Dark Reign (ELLIS'S #TBolts "Caged Angels is All time Top 5 series).. NTM Hickman's FF Is thee Most Heroic & one of the Most Creative things ever written! What about ASM: CIVIL WAR! & Later ASM "BIG TIME" (Slott & Ramos) leads into Superior Spider-Man Allah #700 w/ Dock-Oct!

I also had it recorded on vhs

Crtics DO have a point - MOST comics are just soap operas with muscles and capes - its rare for anything controversial to happen and even when it does it quickly gets re-jigged back to normalcy...IMHO ONLY one-offs or limited series can rise above the average-ness case in point marvel.com/comics/issue/45722/a-babies_vs_x-babies_2012_1 I am not saying that ALL comics are bad...just a huge % of them

Jack Luminous That's just within the superhero genre not "comics" as a whole

Jack Luminous You are completely wrong

What a joke you are for taking the time to type that. The fact that you acknowledge critics gives them merit.

womblewandering womble well funny most movie critics are Idiotic millenials who cant conzentrate for 2 hours without a fight every 20 mins

What are "RU-vid comments which did not age well".

@@alexthelizardking Ha ha, but he WAS a good guy.

Diego Camacho I want to own this on DVD. Is it available on Amazon?

feel you buddy :/ you should pick a title on Marvel.com and subscribe to it, and just have them mailed to ya

-_- oh. Ok. Mayyybe it's for the best.

im in a small city in wyoming and i would have to go to a entire new town just to get comics

count yourself lucky. the there's no comic book shop in my country at all.

You could always go the digital route, These days you can have comics sent to your iPhone and your ereader for a fee, although I'd never go that route myself. Too much of a luddite and I like the feel of paper in my hands, I guess.

He might have been the first but he is FAR from the greatest

its all opinion i like spiderman.

love spider-man too I personally think his better than batman but even Stan Lee said that they took a lot of inspiration from when they created spider-man.

900bot Deadpool isn't iconic and the character was originally mad as a parody of deathsroke even it's creators admitted that they didn't put much thought in character.

***** hes an antihero

lol ok

+SHAZAM RX they are a couple documentaries you can watch on youtube, they are once upon a superhero, and the creation of tales from the crept comic books.

There' several on RU-vid covering Jack Kirby that are good. Crumb is a documentary that is well worth checking out on the father of Underground Comix. Will Eisner: Portrait fo a Sequential Artist. Frazetta Painting with Fire. Are some of my favorite documentaries on individual artists that are available on DVD and Blu-Ray.

Comic book confidential is a personal favorite of mine. Also there’s a documentary on comic strips called Stripped. The best thing about that is that there’s an interview with Bill Watterson.

The Grim Peeper Check out the PBS documentary called Superheroes A never ending Battle. I have both the DVD and the Book. You can find both of them on Amazon. com.

He's got one of those voices, interesting and emotional like Morgan Freeman or James Earl Jones. Hell even Mark Hamill has a great voice for documentaries.

As many as Morgan Freeman?

Will Niles The voice acting industry is relatively small compared to mainstream acting circles ! because typically people don't become as tired with a particular voice as they do with a person's appearance also voice -actors can obviously alter their speech and accent !!

not enough

He should do all of them

Yep

Chillton sure is

Keith David... Wasn't he Goliath on Disney's Gargoyles?

Most DEFINITELY!

Keith David is his name he’s done voice work for everything but people either remember him as spawn for the to show or gargoyles. But he’s done everything lol

Pick up the latest 2017-2018 Overstreet Price Guide for that info, Fair warning some of them can be pretty pricey. The good news is that a lot of the older comics are being reprinted like never before in the 21st Century from a lot of the major companies out there in trade paperback and hardback books.

Actually, Dick Tracy's adopted son, Junior, was the first kid sidekick

nas revels Actually Captain Easy's pal 'Wash Tubbs' was the very first kid sidekick I believe nas. ;-) As to references to the Holocaust in WW2 comics by Jewish comic book creators such as Simon & Kirby, Sheldon Mayer and others you can find them if you look hard enough, Nothing quite on the scale of Art Spiegleman's 'Maus' perhaps, but there were references to Jewish persecution in Germany in quite a few Golden age comics of that period, and there's even a classic cover of Captain America and Bucky liberating a Nazi death camp. Captain America # 46 from 1945 which IMHO is just as if not more powerful than the cover of Captain America #1 with Cap slugging Hitler in the jaw which came out nearly a year before America entered WW2.

Oof. Wing. Here in the Netherlands we had a famous western book (literal book) my father knows from when it was popular, I suppose 60's. Arendsoog - Eagleeye - was a white cowboy who's best friend was a native indian called Witte Veder - White Feather. First book published july 1935. It sure was the 30's, I suppose. Lol. Guess it was never translated in English also 'cause the writer was Johannes Nowee. I suppose you could name him John, but that last name literally sounds like 'no way'. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.

What's wrong with the new 52 I mean don't get me wrong it's not my favorite continuity but I don't think it's terrible.

Jacob Burnard The biggest reason is Superman. In his barest form Superman is not a hero that you can relate to like spider-man or the X-men. He is a hero that has set a bar that everyone that wants to can strive for it. Whether As Clark or Superman he has morels or rules, kindness, trueness, fairness, and strength of will. He will not, can not, bend or brake these rules and morels. He may not be the most down to earth hero but that just makes him into like I said something to strive for. However, this new continuity has made him into nothing more then an emo, pretty boy with muscles (that aren't as impressive as Christoper Reeves) in a slimmed down suit that looks like every other heroes plus wonder woman hanging off his, because why not. There are other reasons but what they did to superman is almost unforgivable, I'm not saying that there is nothing good to be found in side characters but why make Sups the way they did?

fullmetal fanboy I would say that characters evolve to fit how society is. Our way of life now is different than before. Kids grow up and are replaced by a new generation. People that are into superheroes will forever be the younger generation. So, it has to appeal to them. I see nothing wrong with characters evolving whether it's to my taste or to another... Evolution my dear Watson.

Look, I'm not saying that evolving to fit the times is a bad thing. Superman and others have done that before in past decades. However, when they changed or "evolved" their core character shines threw. Superman, wonder woman, and Batman have all remained, at their cores, the printed embodiment's of truth, justice and freedom. What the new 52 has done is to say "Hey, screw all the things that made them the heroes that they today lets dumb them down so that they will be at the maturate level of 15 year olds. Also hey, lets throw out all the interesting and intelligent plots and give the kind of story lines that would make soap operas cry. And while we're at it lets throw starfire into an even worse costume then the 80s and give almost no personality other then she likes to have sex, and hell with lets make that teen vampire superman. That'll rake in the fans!" Like I said I don't mind change, but when the company just changes to get more money and nothing else that's where I draw the line of evolving and trying to fix something that wasn't broken.

fullmetal fanboy Superman in the New 52 continuity now deals with the "reality" of an nigh-invincible humanlike person whose power (if not his very existence) both unites him with his fellows (because of how he choose to use them) yet alienates him at the same (because no one else has his gifts and are understandably afraid). Superman is a complex hero because he embodies all that the everyday man (of any nationality) wishes they could be: to be strong and tough enough to handle any external threat to yourself and your closest loved ones; to possess understanding of technology that could help yourself and other people; to have a skillset useful enough and potent enough to never fear about being impotent in any situation; and to be capable of bypassing borders and barriers and thus travel where you please at any time. Literally infinite potential at your very fingertips, agency in any situation, and confidence borne of knowledge and backed by decades of experience... And yet, all of those powers are nothing if you cannot relate to your fellow man, which is why Superman's primary pathos since the revamp is his social skills. Imagine having all of the above gifts at your disposal and being *incapable* of relating to your peers. Cold doesn't affect you, nor does excessive heat --- why not wear whatever the hell you feel like wearing? You are never tired (physically, at least) so why drink coffee to kick start your mornings? You can fly, so why would you ever bother with a plane or car to travel? You have never gotten sick in you life so how can you empathize with someone with cancer or HIV? All of these things are just the bare bones issues that become relevant when dealing with Superman's life. But the real kicker is when your parents (for all intents and purposes) tell you to *conform* or face social exile, to hide your potential so that others don't get envious, or afraid, or just plain hateful and out for your destruction out of a sense of schadenfreud. You are, after all, everything they wish to be so if they can tear you down, even in the slightest bit, they can derive some satisfaction from your misfortune. Imagine, if all of this were going through your mind growing up as a kid, and later a teenager. Would you feel even the slightest bit put out at being capable of so much yet restricted by the very rules and norms you try to follow? I think its reasonable to assume that Superman would have trouble in any social situation, and be a little bit awkward and childish around members of whichever gender he's attracted to. Especially when he knows that, should things progress into a physical dimension, he could kill someone should he lose control over his power for even a second.