Friday, March 21, 2008

Friday Night Fights: Gotta Laugh

Let's say you're the Web, one of the Mighty Comics stable of 60's superheroes, and you're trying to convince your concerned wife and harridan of a mother-in-law that dressing up in a gaudy costume and fighting crime is a worthwhile career. Would you really want to cite this particular incident....

(from Fly Man #38, July 1966; by Jerry Siegel and Paul Reinman)

...as a way of pleading your case? It's not so much an effective means of persuasion as it is evidence to be submitted in the inevitable divorce proceedings.

There's nothing else quite like the superhero comics published under Archie's Mighty Comics imprint in the mid-1960's, and that's for the best, really.

Squeeze - Slap and Tickle (from Cool for Cats, 1979) - Fully realizing the pulsating pub-funk hybridization that had previously been hinted at on the band's debut single, "Take Me, I'm Yours."

(Bahlactus doesn't have to explain anything.)

2 comments:

Highlander said...

Of course the Web wouldn't stand a chance these days against his newly updated nemesis - Morbidly-Obese-Man! He would be crushed in an instant.

bitterandrew said...

Luckily for The Web, Morbidly-Obese-Man, is too busy ordering three super-size value meals (with a Diet Coke, of course) to actually get around to his planned crime spree.