Super-Villain Team-Up!

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Your Spidey Super Stories moment of joy for this week:

 

 

 

 

Thus:

 

 

Question: Greatest Panel… or Greatest Panel?

 

All panels scanned from Spidey Super-Stories #53, which features, I kid you not, a kid-friendly, easy to read J. Jonah Jameson ranting about Spider-Man being a menace. Truly, it is the greatest of all comics.

37 thoughts on “Super-Villain Team-Up!”

  5. I love these Super Spidey stories posts. They’re weird, and this is the only place I’ve ever heard of them.

    Like all things that puzzle me, I eventually got around to typing Spidey Super Story into Wikipedia, and while their entry focuses on the TV series, it does provide a synopsis for each episode, which featured this gem:

    “”A Night at the Movies” — At a movie theater, Count Dracula (Morgan Freeman) plans to bite the neck of an unsuspecting movie-goer (Judy Graubart). However, Spidey is able to foil Dracula’s plans just as he is about to strike. The woman’s boyfriend (Luis Avalos) arrives to find Spidey about to take Dracula to jail and tells him he is in his seat. However, the woman (who has been oblivious to everything that has gone on), tells the man to be quiet, “You’ll miss the best part!” ”

    Apparantly Morgan Freeman was a regular for a lot of the Super Spidey Stories episodes. He’d make a great Thanos.

  6. In re the last panel: Huh, so that’s what goes on in Dr. Doom’s head when he’s not devising plans to defeat and humiliate Reed Richards.

  8. Scott– young Morgan Freeman was a regular on “the Electric Company”. He played Easy Reader, after all.

  9. Note to Leo DiCaprio – that’s how to be master of the world – not on the prow of a ship that’s about to sink, but rather on the back of a giant mutated underwater Grimace.

  15. Indeed Morgan Freeman spent a lot of time guesting on SSS, although you won’t get the details from him. I used to think less of him for refusing to talk about it, until I read the ep synopsis where he tries to trick Paul the Gorilla into eating the mind-control banana.

    Meanwhile…here we see the logical – and somehow hugely endearing – consequences of the CTW approach to a superhero universe: a step-by-step primer in How to Take Over the World. Because obviously the kiddies would be deprived if we just skipped straight to the big booms.

  16. “Too bad! My PLANS are set!”

    I dunno why they opt to bold words seemingly at random, but it is so mint that Doom asks him to team up, then just completely dismisses his refusal.

    Did he plan on Namor refusing? Did he plan on shooting him and taking off on the giant death muppet?

    The world may never know…

  17. I used to think less of him for refusing to talk about it, until I read the ep synopsis where he tries to trick Paul the Gorilla into eating the mind-control banana.

    Hypnotizing an ape with a banana may well be the least embarrassing thing he did on the EC.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp0-yDJAtWQ

  18. The first thing that leapt to mind from the first panel was the Pet Shop Boys “Let’s Make Lots of Money”. Now I’ve got brit pop clashing with Dr. Doom in my head…

  19. The next time the boss tells me to get back to work, I’m going to laugh and say, “Too bad! My plans are set! I’m the master of the world!”

    If I can arrange to do this while holding a giant flower and riding the god of the Walrus Men, so much the better.

  20. Did Doom’s plan include Namor riding behind him on the giant sea monster, his hands on Doom’s hips? How evil and romantic!

  22. Indeed Morgan Freeman spent a lot of time guesting on SSS, although you won’t get the details from him. I used to think less of him for refusing to talk about it, until I read the ep synopsis where he tries to trick Paul the Gorilla into eating the mind-control banana.

    I wish I could tell you that Namor fought the good fight, and that Doom let him be. I wish I could tell you that… but Spidey Super Stories is no fairy tale world. He never said who did it, but we all knew. Things went on like that for a while – Super Stories consist of routine, then more routine. Every so often, Namor would show up with fresh bruises. Doom kept at him – sometimes he was able to fight him off, sometimes not. And that’s how it went for Namor – that was his routine.

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    ~P~
    P-TOR

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  25. That one speech balloon sums up Namor’s whole personality better than anything anyone’s done since Stan and Jack. “Hey, Namor! Let’s all do this!” “NO! I DON’T WANT TO!”

  26. So, Doom’s secret weapon is an empty Thanksgiving cornucopia? (Or is that an old-fashioned ear horn? I always wondered if he had problems hearing conversations inside that armor.)

    Hmmm… whatever it is, it’s both phallic and yonic. Maybe he is Master of the World.

  29. Spider-Man – where are you comin’ from?
    Spider-Man – nobody knows who you aaaaare!

    Best show ever, and best comics ever. This post makes me infinitely happy.

  30. Wow. I love Marvel so much more for letting that happen. And it puts the FF movies in perspective, too.

  32. In my perfect imaginary world, the four panels we are shown here are not excerpts, but the entire complete comic.

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