Shawn Gilmore
@gipperfish
Teaching Assistant Professor at UIUC, Editor of the @vaultofculture.bsky.social ( Executive Secretary of the Comics Studies Society, NTFC Local #6546 steward, comics scholar, and a ton of other stuff. Views own.
Nearly all of the beats on these pages (just a couple of instances here) are from the Nilsson book, for those interested. This is also one of the times when the more recent Marvel reprints with digital color doesn't capture the original... #marvelman
I had known that the Rick Veitch illustrations were drawn from a photographs of a real birth, but didn't know until today that they are from Lennart Nilsson's A Child is Born, which went through many editions after its original publication in 1965, which cat yronwode suggested to him. #marvelman
Those familiar with Marvelman might recall "Scenes from the Nativity" in Miracleman #9 (Eclipse, July 1986), an issue that ran with a warning label: "ATTENTION PARENTS: This issue contains graphic scenes of childbirth." #marvelman
What do Donal Logue in Blade (1998) and Thomas Haden Church in Spider-Man 3 (2007) have in common? (insert train joke here 🚆😬)
Martin Scorsese, Paul Bartel, and Sylvester Stallone eating KFC in Cannonball! (1976).
Another July, another huge limb down—this time ~35 feet long. (Don’t worry, it only lightly caught one gutter and I am a Midwesterner with a chainsaw and many Monty-Don approved saws…)
Oh noes… how dare we expose the youth to the concept of two adults being horny for one another?
Some plant guys from the Marvelman/Miracleman book research: Captain Marvel Jr. #93 (Fawcett, Jan 1951), Whiz Comics #134 (Fawcett, June 1951), Marvelman Family #3 (L. Miller & Son, Feb 1957), Shazam! #10 (DC, Feb 1974). #marvelman
New potential title for the Marvelman/Miracleman book: "Marvel Man?! Boy, What a Dopey Name!" #marvelman
This title split is why Marvel uses "Captain Marvel" for its MCU iteration, while DC had to use "Shazam!" in the DCEU. #marvelman
With Marvel having secured the Captain Marvel title, when DC acquired Fawcett in the early 1970s, they had to use "Shazam!" as the title of the February 1973 comic reintroducing their Captain Marvel, though billed as "the original Captain Marvel" on the cover. #marvelman
Or when "Captain Marvel Fights Captain Marvel" (this time Niatpac Levram) in Captain Marvel Adventures #139 (Fawcett, December 1952). #marvelman
New Marvelman book theory: Alan Moore's Marvelman is really just a recapitulation of the original of Hoppy, the Marvel Bunny in Funny Animals #1 (Fawcett, December 1942). #marvelman
For those interested in the early labor struggles of the Golden Age of American comics, check out "Captain Marvel and the Revolt of the Comics" from Captain Marvel Adventures #22 (Fawcett, 26 March 1943). Some selected pages. #marvelman
Mac Raboy's art in the 1940s Fawcett Master Comics (example from #25, April 1942) is really something! #marvelman
And then there is this lovely two-page spread by Mac Raboy in Master Comics #27 (Fawcett, June 1942), with Captain Nazi looming over a London under attack. #marvelman
Free research project to a good home: the diegetic use of plot-relevant comics on screen. 😎 Example from Blade: Trinity (2004). 🧛♂️
Another example, the prose story "Marvelman Fights Marvelman" from Marvelman Annual 1957 (L. Miller & Son, 1957). #marvelman
New union template! (Just replace the text in Captain Marvel's speech balloon.) From Captain Marvel Adventures #42 (Fawcett, January 1945).
Since I have to scan a lot of comics at the moment, I took a moment to scan this lovely page. From Daredevil #56 (Marvel, September 1969), credited to Roy Thomas, Gene Colan, Syd Shores, and Artie Simek. Color work not credited in the issue, but GCD speculates it is the work of Michele Robinson.
Please enjoy the many large animals Captain Marvel must deal with in Special Edition Comics #1 (Fawcett, 1940) #marvelman
A lovely house ad from Whiz Comics #23 (Fawcett, October 1941) for the upcoming Captain Marvel/Bulletman team-up against Captain Nazi: