One of the reasons The Punisher is so fully formed is that he began as a pastiche of an existing character: Mack Bolan, The Executioner who was the star of a series of men's adventure paperbacks where he carried on a one man war against organized crime because his family were bystanders in a mob hit gone bad. Just thought this should be pointed out because this channel is really committed to the ethos of creation and it used to be common knowledge that Punisher was a pretty blatant swipe.
Absolutely. In the wake of the Executioner, there was a big boom in "Men's Action" paperback series; the drugstore book racks began to look like the pulp era had returned. I wouldn't be surprised if the Punisher was the result of editorial fiat because of the massive success of this phenomenon. Those in control of the early Punisher stories had no idea what they were talking about as far as weapons and military tactics. The young writers of the 70's were mostly from within the comic book bubble and about as masculine as bunny slippers.
Ed, your story is so similar to what happened to me a month ago, bought a storage box of comics for $100, it was all bronze age: New Gods, Kamandi, Demon, Metal Men, Doc Savage, Luke Cage, a few X-men and one single Spidey book #129. I lost my mind. It's in perfect condition too!
I love David Finch's RU-vid drawing videos for drawing cylinders, he puts the bones into the hip/leg joints in his roughs to make sure his legs are going in the right direction, smart dude.
As mentioned before it’s Jackal who was easily one of the creepiest villains in Spidey lore, with his maniacal teacher student infatuation with Peter’s Gwen, which got even worse when he or (his clone?) cloned Gwen (again) and married her and lived some life with her.
Ed, you're referring to Contraposto where the torso and pelvis are moving in opposition. Study Michelangelo's paintings like The Last Judgment and Sistine Chapel and you'll see extensive use of this device.
Amazing Spider-Man had great artists from 70s -80s. The basics of art apply then as they do now. And those guys had it down. I bought a ton of those issues in dollar bins back 30 years ago. All beat up didn’t matter. What great issues what a fond time
Hi! New suscriber here. I have just discovered your channel in the midst of a comic book interest rebirth in my life after almost 10 years. I recently bought a collection (yeah, when I like stuff I'm kinda intense) of Marvel comic books for the 80th anniversary, and this comic is part of the 70s book. Haven't read it yet, because I'm trying to go chronologically with Spidey (at least will try to finish the Lee-Ditko run and then jump to the events of Green Goblin and the death of Stacey) but I'm super excited, and you just uploaded this video haha great start. Looking forward to dig in all your channel and make this an exciting journey rediscovering my love for comic books and graphic novels. Thanks for your content!
Got this back then. The suit was so cool, I had wished he'd been a full hero. So, when I years later came across old yard sale Black Terror comics from the 40's I was in heaven. I never in a million years expected him to become one of comics most popular heroes. But he was not a surprising character. I recall everywhere were the vietnam vets (as tropes and in real life) and the Dirty Harry types. But, he was a great synthesis of them and the superhero type.
I’d like to see CK take an expansive look at the mid tier (I.e not as popular as Kirby, Buscema etc ) artists in the Marvel Bullpen of the ‘70s. That would include artists like Herb Trimpe (a Hulk artist I know you both like) George Tuska, Don Heck, Frank Robbins. I don’t necessarily love these artists, I’m more interested in what it was like to be jobber grinding away in the bullpen.
