Happy Halloween, from the Green Goblin
Category: Comic Books
Go Bing!
G. Michael Dobbs, aka Mike, aka (by myself) the Dobbster, interviews former mainstream comic book artist, now teacher, Steve Bissette. Mike and Steve will be appearing at the Bing Comic-Con in Springfield, MA, this coming Saturday.
Avengers Assemble!
There sure are a lot of Marvel Comics actors in this “get out the vote” video. They don’t mention Donald Trump by name, but by inference. The video features Tony Stark, and Natasha Romanova (or, if you prefer, Romanoff), and Bruce Banner, and S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Coulson, but where’s Steve Rogers, aka Captain America? Wouldn’t he be the most effective spokesman against bullying and Demagoguery?
HAPPY 90th BIRTHDAY TO JOE SINNOTT!
Who Was That Lady?
TCM West is showing “Who Was That Lady?” Good question, because who’s the blonde in the middle of this scene? Why, it’s B-movie bombshell Joi Lansing.
Joi appeared in “Superman’s Wife,” one of the more memorable episodes of “The Adventures of Superman” that, as a kid, I was always particularly excited to see.
And who was that guy on the left, from the same movie? It’s an uncredited appearance by my mother’s old friend, Vincent Beck playing, of course, a Russian, as he would later do in episodes of “The Monkees” and “Gilligan’s Island.”
Prattman!
“Down the Batpole Robin! And up! And down! And up!” I admit I didn’t get the joke the first time I heard it when I was a kid.