Battle of the Gods!
September 6th, 2008
With the second anniversary of my blog having just passed, I’m thinking back to 2002, when I started the Web site. Composing and publishing with FrontPage was slow and laborious, and I lost interest after only a dozen pages. One of them, at this link, is about the Merry Marvel Marching Society, the 60’s fan club created by Stan Lee.
On that page was one of my earliest video transfers, now lost to a defunct Web hosting account, of an old Mighty Thor cartoon from the 60’s. I’ve made a fresh transfer from VHS. This one file is over 100 MB — more space than my entire Web site was allocated six years ago.
This cartoon, a mere 17 minutes long, has more going on, and is more fun, than any number of full-length animated features. What it lacks in animation quality it more than makes up in story, music, and voice acting. The scene in Don Blake’s office with the Enchantress is very funny.
BEHOLD! Thor the God of Thunder…
Filed under: Cartooning, Comic Books
4 Comments
1. D. F. Rogers | September 7th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
So,now we knowwho’s really behind Global Warming and all of those huricanes! The Evil Loki!
Gee, Stan Lee sure put in plenty of “soap opera” elements in these stories! This is almost like a Norse God Romance Comic! What fun!
Unfortunately, I think Thor’s theme song is pretty bland and mediocre, especially when compared to the Captain America and Iron Man themes.
2. DOuG pRATt | September 7th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
True, even the use of “breathless wonder” in the lyric can’t save this clunker of a theme. The Hulk’s theme has a quirky charm, with the made up word (aren’t all words made up?) “glammeray.”
3. Agent00Soul | February 26th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
Those shots of Enchantress in the limo and later with Blake are straight out of a Roy Lichtenstein painting! Of course, Lichtenstein was just mashing up old Kirby-illustrated Marvel romance comics so I guess that’s not really fair….
Does anyone else think that the voice of The Monarch from Venture Brothers is modelled after Loki’s from this series?
4. DOuG pRATt | February 26th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
I admit I haven’t seen the Venture Brothers. Loki was voiced by Len Carlson, who died two years ago.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0137965/
Carlson was also the voice of Ganon in the short-lived “Legend of Zelda” series 20 years ago — which happen to be cartoons that my son and I have been getting laughs from recently on Netflix Watch Instantly.
I don’t think Lichtenstein “borrowed” (i.e., swiped) any Jack Kirby art. The man who would know is David Barsalou.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/deconstructing-roy-lichtenstein/
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