...Okay , that was brief (if to the poknt) .
I happened onto a showing on KQED here of some film of this 21st Century " old white suit- era Elvis footage shown live with newvocal and instrumental backinv , live " . (BTW , the station has follwed it with Lawrence Welk remember Super-Hip ?. )
...In '56 the Silver Age started with a POW ZAM bang ! With SHOWCASE #4 Barry Allen , the new Flash , launched to the top of the comic book charts as he burst out of a celluloid frame ! :-
The same year , Elvis Aron Presley was launcing nonstop 45RPM biscuits (and a few 78RPM ones) to the top of the record charts as he burst out of the screen at neighborhood Roxys and Ritalos (or prepared to) !
Surely these two great American pop-culture
manifestations would ride together once or twice (Or , anyway , funnybooks would piggyback/cash in on the bigger one) ?
But , no . It was not to be . Why ??? Thereby hangs a tale .
Emerkeith Davyjack said:
...Okay , that was brief (if to the poknt) . I happened onto a showing on KQED here of some film of this 21st Century " old white suit- era Elvis footage shown live with newvocal and instrumental backinv , live " . (BTW , the station has follwed it with Lawrence Welk remember Super-Hip ?. )
....Seems like Elvis would have cashed in on a series of comic books about himself or even comic book editions of his movies back during the Silver Age but that did not happen! Maybe it had something to do with Colonel Parker pulling most of the financial strings during that era? Anyway I did a search on Ebay and most of the comics about Elvis were made in the late 1980's and early 90's! I did find one silver age comic from 1956...Young Lovers #18....with his image on the cover! There were a few parodies but nothing like what exposure Roy Rodgers or even John Wayne had in the comic book field.
...As far as parodies go , I recall Don Glut saying in his book about the Frankenstein Monster in comics , that the plot of " a F.M.-like creepie leaves the nest/castle , and , on the last page , is shown on stage , performing as an Elvis-style teenage idol , with girlies throwing things at/screaming for him " was the all-time most-used plot in MAD-style parody comic magazines !
Did Elvis appear to controversial , potentially , in those post-Wertham years for either Dell or Gold Key to adaptations of his movies ?
And/or , too , yeah , I think I've too thought mebbe Colonel Parker demanded too much moohlaah !!!!!!!!!
Seems the British Fab Four had more of a presence in U.S. comics in the Silver Age than the American King of Rock 'n' Roll. In the '70s, one of the oldest comics in my collection which I had bought when it was new on the stands but eventually became rather battered, losing the cover, etc., was an issue of Marvel's Greatest Comics, reprinting FF #44 & 45, the introduction of the Medusa's relatives, the Inhumans. Another reprint separated those two, however, that of Johnny & Ben sort of meeting the Beatles from an issue of Strange Tales. I'm not sure I even knew who the Beatles were when I first read that story at about age 8 in 1971, I think, but even tho' they were already broken up then, I got to know and love their music quite a bit in the coming years. The Beatles also showed up in an issue of Crazy (the comic) in a cameo from a reprint of a Forbush Man story from Not Brand Ecch! And I know they also showed up in Jimmy Olsen and BatMan stories in the '60s and likely quite a few other Silver Age comics. I'm not aware of Elvis showing up in any, although in the origin story for Drax the Destroyer in Captain Marvel #31, reference was made to Drax's former human self having been to Vegas to see Elvis the night he and his wife were murdered by Thanos and his soul was transferred into a new body to be Thanos' nemesis. Astute readers pointed out in letters published a couple of issues later that Elvis could not have been in Vegas on the date as described by Starlin but over 40 years later that detail could be changed to make it the Blue Man Group instead.
I've always wondered if Perry White somehow had the goods on Clark/Superman, knowing they were one and the same, given how often Perry bosses Superman around with no fear of Kryptonian heat-vision accidentally incinerating the cigar in his mouth.
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I happened onto a showing on KQED here of some film of this 21st Century " old white suit- era Elvis footage shown live with newvocal and instrumental backinv , live " . (BTW , the station has follwed it with Lawrence Welk remember Super-Hip ?. )
The same year , Elvis Aron Presley was launcing nonstop 45RPM biscuits (and a few 78RPM ones) to the top of the record charts as he burst out of the screen at neighborhood Roxys and Ritalos (or prepared to) !
Surely these two great American pop-culture
manifestations would ride together once or twice (Or , anyway , funnybooks would piggyback/cash in on the bigger one) ?
But , no . It was not to be . Why ??? Thereby hangs a tale .
Emerkeith Davyjack said:
....Seems like Elvis would have cashed in on a series of comic books about himself or even comic book editions of his movies back during the Silver Age but that did not happen! Maybe it had something to do with Colonel Parker pulling most of the financial strings during that era? Anyway I did a search on Ebay and most of the comics about Elvis were made in the late 1980's and early 90's! I did find one silver age comic from 1956...Young Lovers #18....with his image on the cover! There were a few parodies but nothing like what exposure Roy Rodgers or even John Wayne had in the comic book field.
...As far as parodies go , I recall Don Glut saying in his book about the Frankenstein Monster in comics , that the plot of " a F.M.-like creepie leaves the nest/castle , and , on the last page , is shown on stage , performing as an Elvis-style teenage idol , with girlies throwing things at/screaming for him " was the all-time most-used plot in MAD-style parody comic magazines !
Did Elvis appear to controversial , potentially , in those post-Wertham years for either Dell or Gold Key to adaptations of his movies ?
And/or , too , yeah , I think I've too thought mebbe Colonel Parker demanded too much moohlaah !!!!!!!!!
Seems the British Fab Four had more of a presence in U.S. comics in the Silver Age than the American King of Rock 'n' Roll. In the '70s, one of the oldest comics in my collection which I had bought when it was new on the stands but eventually became rather battered, losing the cover, etc., was an issue of Marvel's Greatest Comics, reprinting FF #44 & 45, the introduction of the Medusa's relatives, the Inhumans. Another reprint separated those two, however, that of Johnny & Ben sort of meeting the Beatles from an issue of Strange Tales. I'm not sure I even knew who the Beatles were when I first read that story at about age 8 in 1971, I think, but even tho' they were already broken up then, I got to know and love their music quite a bit in the coming years. The Beatles also showed up in an issue of Crazy (the comic) in a cameo from a reprint of a Forbush Man story from Not Brand Ecch! And I know they also showed up in Jimmy Olsen and BatMan stories in the '60s and likely quite a few other Silver Age comics. I'm not aware of Elvis showing up in any, although in the origin story for Drax the Destroyer in Captain Marvel #31, reference was made to Drax's former human self having been to Vegas to see Elvis the night he and his wife were murdered by Thanos and his soul was transferred into a new body to be Thanos' nemesis. Astute readers pointed out in letters published a couple of issues later that Elvis could not have been in Vegas on the date as described by Starlin but over 40 years later that detail could be changed to make it the Blue Man Group instead.
He wasn't on the cover but Jimmy Olsen was more electrifying than Elvis anyway, Big Daddy. And Supie can really dance!
Hoy
I've always wondered if Perry White somehow had the goods on Clark/Superman, knowing they were one and the same, given how often Perry bosses Superman around with no fear of Kryptonian heat-vision accidentally incinerating the cigar in his mouth.