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Post by Admin on Nov 13, 2020 9:12:35 GMT -6
Captain America: Is Steve Rogers Really A Captain?Grandspawn and I were talking about this when he called Wednesday. And, yeah, pretty chuffed that the official word agrees with me. Only part they got wrong however: His height wasn't the problem. Minimum height for a soldier back then was actually 5'3" (Google is my occasional friend).. Rogers was 5'4". It was that massive laundry list of medical issues.
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Post by vitugglan on Nov 15, 2020 9:15:47 GMT -6
In his case, the size went along with the medical problems, down to the sunken chest. So, indicative to his multiple conditions. Otherwise, I'm surprised the Navy wasn't fighting tooth and nail for such a small but determined man to join their submarine fleet - they liked them small.
Objection. I read the comics. I don't recall the Howling Commandos being Captain America's team. They were led by SGT Nick Fury.
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Post by Admin on Nov 15, 2020 11:41:22 GMT -6
Yeah, original Marvel Comics "coreverse". I don't think Cap was associated with the Howlers in the original comics done actually during the war. And Marvel Comics Coreverse had Sgt Fury a white man ... who later was Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D. (played by David Hasselhoff in a TV movie in the '80s I think) Late 90s (I know for sure, pre-9/11), Marvel began a new line called Ultimates (X-Men, Spiderman and they planned more) that they did some of the first eComics -- which would take three or four hours, on a good night, to download at 56.2k dialup -- and they decided that Ultimate Nick Fury looked like Samuel L. Jackson. So, in the Marvel Multiverse, Ultimateverse is probably situated fairly close to the MCUverse. And, the current MCU Spiderman reminds me quite a bit of Ultimate Spiderman. Still in high school. Wasn't lusting after Mary Jane Watson (just don't remember if he was panting after any girl at that point) and Wolverine made a few guest appearances with young Spidey who was still allowed to use the "With great power comes great responsibility" line.
Also, there actually Saturday matinee serials for the theaters back then. Captain America, Captain Marvel (was a guy), Spy Smasher, Captain Midnight (DC), The Copperhead (think Rocketeer), The Lone Ranger, Superman, Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers in the 24th Century among so many others. I actually used to watch The Copperhead, Superman, Flash Gordon on Saturday mornings or the "Late, Late, Late Early Show" (around 4-5a on Saturdays) when I was in Junior High.
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Post by vitugglan on Nov 16, 2020 8:40:35 GMT -6
I didn't start reading Nick Fury and his Howling Commandos until about 1972 or late 1971 when our new local comic book store (the liquor store on the corner) sold them. I remember seeing the first Nick Fury Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. comics coming out and didn't really go for them. I liked the war theme better, wasn't really into espionage, but that's what those comics looked like (and when on earth did Nick Fury lose his eye?) (Just searched. I apparently missed the SGT Fury and his Howling Commandos #27 that explained it, but then, #27 would have been before I read the comic, but then, he didn't have an eye patch when I was reading them, so this must have been a reboot I missed, and the story line as described here screenrant.com/how-did-nick-fury-lose-eye-marvel-comics/ doesn't make sense because he would either have had to have the operation or he would have been medically separated because you can't operate in those conditions with only one eye...) I never attended any Saturday serials at a theater. I think that was just shortly before my time, and we didn't have the money for frivolous stuff like that anyway, we just waited until movies came on TV. I lived in Los Angeles, so we had tons of extra stations (2, CBS, 4, NBC, 5, local, 7, ABC, 9, local, 11, local, 13, local) and they'd play old, I mean really old, movies. Saw a bunch of silent films, for instance, and of course the old comedy staples like Laurel and Hardy and Abbot and Costello. 9 had its 'Million Dollar Movie' that premiered on Sunday and then ran, same movie mind you, all week. In 1969 I visited my aunt in Ohio. One of their radio stations played old radio shows in the evenings, so while I did the dishes I listened to The Lone Ranger, The Green Hornet, Fibber McGee and Molly, The Shadow, and I'm sure some others that are slipping my mind right now. |
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Post by Admin on Nov 16, 2020 11:36:36 GMT -6
I watched the black and white serials on TV as well.... not old enough to have seen them in theaters either during those week hours of Saturday morning before sunrise when the animated shows began their programs.
I have an app on Li'l Autobot (phone) that allows me to listen to episodes of old radio programs. Its called Old Time Radio Player.
Also used to have (may still) the radio play adaptations of Star Wars: A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back. For a bit, in the mid-80s, NPR radio would broadcast an episode a week and (I think) they had about 13 or so episodes per movie adaptation. I couldn't always get all of each episode since the PBS station that I could pick up, KERA 90.1 didn't always come in clearly. Mark Hamill and Anthony Daniels reprised their roles from the movies. And I wonder if that was where the voice acting bug may have first bitten Hamill. Eldest Spawn had also found a website where you can listen to those episodes and I have no idea if they every adapted Return of the Jedi. Would have been nice. And Disney could also adapt the prequel trilogy.
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Post by vitugglan on Nov 17, 2020 6:04:32 GMT -6
Disney needs to do something. Their main cash cow, their parks, are severely restricted, and I think California hasn't opened yet.
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