Comic Book Funnyverse...

[fajrdrako]

This item on Funny Stuff in Old Comics started my day with a laugh. I'd seen a few of them before - especially the last one, which crops up a lot - but some were new to me. I can hardly believe the Batman panel "Papa spank". I wish the blog had given issue numbers and dates!

Comments

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

ROFL!
(But not sure why the page-writer thinks only Cockneys use the word "wank". Pretty universal, as far as I know, certainly in the UK.)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Pretty familiar here, too, especially to anyone with exposure to UK books or television. Maybe less so in the 1960s.

There really is some amazing stuff in old comics.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of the person who put the webpage together and said, "This is one for the Cockneys".

They're all too funny for words...

[omnivorously.livejournal.com]

If you find that amusing, check out scans_daily; not everything posted there has slashy subtext - but an awful lot of it does.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Oh, I read scans_daily on a regular basis. Enjoy it too. I don't find it as entertaining as it used to be - it's become much more diffuse, with a lot of posts that don't have much more substance than "hey, look at this!" But sometimes there are gems.

[catalenamara.livejournal.com]

Too funny! Have you been to superdickery.com? There are pages upon pages upon pages of this stuff, and the scary thing is, I read a whole lot of those comics in the 60s, and all that sailed right over my head then...!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I read many of those comics in the 1960s too. And something thought they were dumb (and sometimes brilliant) but I was too young to pick up on double entendres and blatant kinkiness. I did sometimes glare at the sexism in Fantastic Four especially the classic:

Sue Storm: Reed, I'm scared!
Reed Richards: Easy, honey.

...But on the whole, I loved Sue Storm too much to care.

And it wasn't as if we had non-sexist alternatives.

[catalenamara.livejournal.com]

>>> I was too young to pick up on double entendres and blatant kinkiness.

Ditto and ditto. It really is amazing all the stuff they got away with - even after Dr. Wertham and the Comics Code.

>>>I did sometimes glare at the sexism in Fantastic Four especially the classic:
Sue Storm: Reed, I'm scared!
Reed Richards: Easy, honey.
...But on the whole, I loved Sue Storm too much to care.

Same here.

>>>And it wasn't as if we had non-sexist alternatives.

It was all so invisible to me then. I did love all the superheroines, no matter how sexist their presentation was, because it was cool seeing women getting to do the fun stuff, too.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

It really is amazing all the stuff they got away with

I think they knew most of their intended audience would miss it. Maybe it was a sort of challenge, to see what they could do.

I did love all the superheroines, no matter how sexist their presentation was, because it was cool seeing women getting to do the fun stuff, too.

Yes, and it wasn't that they were bad characters - just that the sexism was so pervasive it was in comics just like it was everywhere else. When I look back, that adds a certain poignancy to some of the characters (Supergirl and Wonder Woman, for example) and a certain strength to some of the others, like Saturn Girl - I don't remember anything condescending relating to her, though that might just be my selective memory.