Ladies and Gentlemen… Mister Johnny Storm:
Wait for it…
And that is why if I ever hit the lottery, I will to hire John Romita Jr. to design my entire wardrobe.
The majesty of Johnny Storm’s tough-guy outfit can be seen in Ann Nocenti and JR Jr’s classic Daredevil #261, reprinted in Marvel’s good–REAL GOOD–Typhoid Mary trade paperback.
UPDATE: You like it? Buy It!
That entire outfit is made of unstable
FAB-ecules! And the deck of Luckies rolled up in the sleeve is the cherry on the sundae!
Slap a ISB logo on that shirt and sell it at the Amazon store cause I would buy two!
It’s no Ding Dong Daddy shirt, but it’s okay.
I was wondering why his jeans were tucked into his boots, and then I realized that when he flames on and lights that whole pack of cigarettes at once, the velocity at which..err…no, that still doesn’t explain it.
Is this the one where Johnny beats up some huge biker guy?
I knew Franklin was a clumsy kid, but Sue, that might be overdoing the protection.
The blue coloring on the rolled up cigs makes it look like Johnny’s giving the whole room the cold shoulder.
“I knew Franklin was a clumsy kid, but Sue, that might be overdoing the protection.”
You are made of win.
Is it possible that there was a bigger tool than Scott Summers out there and we didn’t spot him? Ben Grimm should’ve walked in with his “I’m with Stupid –>” shirt on.
I am transported back to the wonders of Patrick Swayzee in Roadhouse…
Hey, Guy Gardner called, and he wants his boots back!
sheesh!
So, what happened to Mr. T’s jewelry in the second panel?
Mind you, he could’ve been wearing Batman Jr’s pants…
“”I knew Franklin was a clumsy kid, but Sue, that might be overdoing the protection.â€
You are made of win.”
Hey all the kids are wearing X-Wing fighter pilot helmets to skateboard in these days. I’m sure Tony Hawk has something to do with it.
ALmost EVERY “civilian” wardrobe design by JRjr during the 1980’s (and part of the 1990’s) looked like some BAD biker/SMBT(?)/NewWave/Punk hybrid that could NEVER exist in the real world.
Well…not outside of a Biy George video anyway.
But then I remember that old photo of JRjr as the “Hunk of the Month” from Marvel Age, and HIS t-shirt looked like that.
Maybe he was drawing from his own wardrobe, which makes it all even MORE amazingly mind-blowing.
;-)
~P~
P-TOR
Yikes
Is that Johnny Storm or Johnny Bravo?!
Poor mixed-up Johnny Storm – that’s not a pack of Luckies, it’s a pack of CARDS.
Maybe I’m just being dumb in here, but those panels look like they’ve been drawn by Marc Silvestri, instead of JR JR.
The entire scene is JUST THIS AWESOME.
“The MAN is here to sing to you!”
“Now, who knows something? Or do I have to get… TOUGH?”
“You all through, Mr. Whitebread? You done? ’cause if you are, we gonna slice your whitebread butt up and kick you out of here so we can get back to serious things like drinking and shooting pool. You dig, Mr. Bad? You ready to hurt?”
(All this is from memory. I loved Ann Nocenti’s work on DAREDEVIL, especially the Typhoid Mary storyline, and my love glows undimmed all these years later.)
I don’t know how far you’re going to take this Great Moments in T-Shirt History thing, but can I nominate this little Wally West number?
I’ve always been amused by the fact that one of the best Human Torch stories ever written appeared in an issue of Daredevil.
Everything Ann Nocenti writes is awesome.
Well, it’s clearly “Mr. T” night in this dive and Johnny walks in wearing a t-shirt celebrating Michael Jackson. I can’t imagine this is going any place good.
Chance, this is the one where some huge biker guy beats the crap out of Johnny, until Johnny burns his face off, and burns down the entire bar.
Fortunately, I think the shirt was also destroyed in the process.
I remember reading that issue and thinking Ann Nocenti and John Romita, Jr. were geniuses. Perfect example of a guy out of his depth.
If they had dressed Peter Parker like this in Spider-Man 3, that movie would’ve been at least 50% better.
Attention Marvel Bullpen:
Petey doesn’t wear a mask anymore. Give him some hair gel, a headband, and something denim, and pair him up with this Johnny Storm.
And call it ‘Bad Dudes’.
Sincerely,
Expectant Customer
I’d buy 20 extra copies of that book just to give out to friends and random strangers.
I seriously tried to make the shirt for you guys, but CafePress doesn’t do front and back on black t-shirts.
Stay tuned.
I would totally buy that shirt! It’s an epic amount of extremely righteous awesome. You see, I’m just stringing together words now, THAT’S how cool the shirt is, I can’t even articulate it.
I would buy it, and I would wear it, but I don’t know if I’d wear it to school. No one in my school would get the reference, so I would have to pull the look off earnest, on my own merits. I just don’t think I have what it takes to be that much of a hardass. Especially since, in classic Mr. T fashion, I have “Fair Play” tattooed on my arm. I don’t think bad–Real Bad!–dudes play fair.
You wanted it? YOU GOT IT. Now you too can tell the world how bad you are with the ISB’s Bad! Real Bad! T-Shirt!
BELIEVE IT!
time to put my money where my mouth is
Is this before or after the issue where Daredevil fights the demonically-possessed vacuum cleaner?
I think Johnny went straight from this bar to a club where Rick James was performing to meet up with Charlie Murphy.
Do I have to buy the pack of cigarettes separately?
How bad? Real bad! He’s a 12.0 on the ten-point scale of badness.