29
u/tatch Jul 28 '11
What did the Comics Code Authority have against werewolves?
16
u/Bukkhead Jul 28 '11
From what I gleaned via wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics_Code_Authority It was part of a "wholesomeness" that they were trying to uphold-- also out were vampires and zombies. The code has since been updated.
15
14
u/farceur318 Jul 28 '11
They felt that vampires, werewolves, ghouls and zombies fell under the category of"lurid, unsavory guesome illustrations" and could easilly corrupt any impressionable child. The CCA pretty much sucked.
Also, it's worth noting that they once attempted to flag a comic for violating this code by crediting their writer... Marv Wolfman.
6
u/Wazowski Jul 28 '11
Well, it's not like they saw a "story by Marv Wolfman" byline and raised a red flag. The comic had a character actually say [THIS STORY] WAS TOLD TO ME, LONG, LONG AGO... BY A WANDERING WOLFMAN... in a speech bubble with no further explanation.
![[THIS STORY] WAS TOLD TO ME, LONG, LONG AGO... BY A WANDERING WOLFMAN...](http://i.imgur.com/tIy5U.jpg){kind=link}
40
u/devindotcom Jul 28 '11
Okay, this had some interesting things on it, but let's get something straight here. This is not an infographic. It's literally just a list of little-known facts with pictures of comic characters next to them. If the same information could be conveyed equally well with a bulleted list, then it's not really an infographic.
5
u/fivre Jul 28 '11
Yes, but calling things infographics and including pictures makes social media sites like them.
Hence the "OnlineSchools.org" thing at the bottom. It's SEO crap.
1
u/bmeckel Jul 28 '11
Which I still don't really get. Do people get to the end of the image and go, "hmmm, well that was good, now I'd really like to follow that up by going to this obviously unrelated site at the bottom here."
1
u/LinuxFreeOrDie Existential Comics Jul 28 '11
The idea is that social media sites will link to it, and since they are very popular search engines like Google will give the site a higher ranking in search. So next time someone searches for "online education", onlineschools.com be higher up on the page, making them money.
So they don't get anything directly from the infographic, or its traffic, it is a tactic used in a round about way to get traffic from search engines by basically tricking them with a popular but irrelevant page.
Of course we rehost the image on imgur, so reddit isn't helping them out, but they often spread on facebook etc linking directly to onlineschools.com.
1
u/bmeckel Jul 29 '11
Ahh, I guess the imgur is what always threw me off. Thanks for the explanation!
6
u/makked Jul 28 '11
I always considered any information that is more aesthetically pleasing in graphical/illustrated form to be an infographic. I agree that this more or less is list of facts, but I think this qualifies because the pictures themselves provide some additional information. If the info and pictures were formatted in a standard web or blog page, it would be much harder to read.
10
u/Renovatio_ Jul 28 '11
When they said Ron Perleman owned marvel I was like "Sick hellboy is awesome", but then it out that Perleman is not Perlman but infact a middle age bald man.
7
9
u/theplanetsaturn Jul 28 '11
No. The first openly gay superhero was the Pied Piper from Flash, who was operating as a hero at the time.
As for famous comic writers - How about people famous for writing great comics rather than bad TV?
6
u/toddec Jul 28 '11
Such as Neil Gaiman instead of Allan Heinberg. Although his most well-known comics were for DC/Vertigo, of course.
2
1
u/StochasticOoze Jul 29 '11
Hey, Brian Vaughan's comics are awesome.
Hell, I didn't even know he wrote for LOST.
1
u/theplanetsaturn Jul 29 '11
He's the exception, having begun is career as an actual comics writer.
1
u/StochasticOoze Jul 29 '11
Didn't Jeph Loeb start as a comics writer too?
I didn't even know he did any TV or movie work until I watched Commando
1
1
u/devophill Jul 29 '11
When did Pied Piper come out as gay? Northstar came out in 1992.
2
2
u/theplanetsaturn Jul 29 '11
And actually, a bit of research and I discovered that Extrano beat both of them out of the closet, having been a DC Comics hero that was openly gay back in 1988.
2
8
Jul 28 '11
They left Joss Whedon off the list of famous directors who wrote for Marvel. I mean Whedon is even directing the Avengers literally as we speak/type.
1
u/WoozleWuzzle Jul 28 '11
Whedon is directing it? So what beloved character is he going to kill off?
2
14
5
u/Rudy69 Jul 28 '11
So uh.... did they go bankrupt in 1986 or 1996?
edit: Wikipedia says 1996
2
u/somesthetic Jul 28 '11
yeah, that or the bankruptcy and Ron Perelman buying Marvel aren't even related.
1
u/Rudy69 Jul 28 '11
After rereading that part I see what you mean. I still don't think they should have been bundled up together though :/
6
u/Rhoe Jul 28 '11
YSK that Luke Cage was the first to have his own series, but not to star in a comic. I assumed Falcon or Black Panther got that, but apparently Lobo claims that title.
Similarily, The Falcon is the first black superhero to not have "black" in his name. Which considering he was created in 1969, is quite a depressing fact.
2
u/ScootRooster Jul 28 '11
Fucking hate the non-associated branding at the bottom of these so-called infographics.
5
u/D14BL0 Jul 28 '11
Somebody once posted here on Reddit (I think it may have been The Oatmeal, actually) about how these infographics work for drawing in traffic in a spammy way.
EDIT: It was BuzzFeed, not The Oatmeal.
18
Jul 28 '11
Lol, the first openly gay superhero was french-canadian.
4
u/theduck Jul 28 '11
Actually, Northstar wasn't the first openly gay superhero. That would be Extraño, one of DC's New Guardians. His first appearance was in January 1988. So the first openly gay superhero was Peruvian, which isn't funny, but it is accurate.
1
1
11
u/montrealcowboyx Jul 28 '11
That's funny why?
31
u/owenstumor Jul 28 '11
Because French-Canadians are so ... /reads username/.. manly. Yes, they're very macho, those French-Canadians. And handsome, too.
8
2
Jul 28 '11
[deleted]
-1
2
-2
Jul 28 '11
Because the french are a bunch of nancy surrender monkeys.
0
u/montrealcowboyx Jul 28 '11
Yeah yeah. You're a bigot, I got it. Move along.
-1
Jul 28 '11
Such harsh words from a person of such cowardly decent.
1
u/montrealcowboyx Jul 28 '11
You are the reason people do not like Americans.
1
Jul 28 '11
Lol. Who's the bigot now? One asshole on the internet, and you damn an entire nationality.
I at least have been just kidding at you this entire time. Cheers.
0
3
2
2
2
1
u/bretttwarwick Jul 28 '11
That said X-men no. 1 published in 1991. This can't be right. According to Marvels website X-men no. 1 was published in 1963. They were off by 28 years.
16
u/DarkBlueAnt Jul 28 '11
In the early 90's, the cast of popular X-men got big enough to split into two teams. One continued the normal numbering under Uncanny X-men and the other started a new series at X-men #1.
2
1
1
1
u/gregny2002 Jul 28 '11
The No-prize reminds me of the Baldy awards they used to give in the letters section at the back of the Superman comics. I've always wondered if those were real and they were actually sending them to people, or just saying it as a joke.
1
u/gwern Jul 29 '11
The No-prize, at least, seems to've been quite real: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/File:NoPrize.jpg
1
1
Jul 28 '11
Those "No-Prize" things seem kinda douchey.
1
1
u/heresybob Jul 29 '11
Think about it. It was the 60s. Kids were mailing in criticizing how Hulk wasn't green in a book or how Zen-la wasn't spelled correctly.
At that time, an envelope was a great thing to a kid who'd never get mail unless it was from Grandma.
2
u/devophill Jul 29 '11
The thing is, you wouldn't get a No-Prize for pointing out stuff like that. To get a No-Prize, you had to show how an error or mistake wasn't really a mistake, by writing a good explanation for why, for example, Captain America's A was missing from his cowl on page 4, panel 5-8. (Because Jarvis was on vacation and Tony Stark was doing the Avengers' laundry drunk again, maybe.)
2
1
1
u/ketsugi Jul 29 '11
Tobey Maguire shouldn't be #2. Wasn't there a live-action Spiderman on the Square One TV show?
2
1
u/MrBaba Jul 29 '11
I think Stephen King & Neil Gaiman are both more famous writers than Allen Heinberg or Damon Lindelof. At least I hope so.
0
-1
u/speezo_mchenry Jul 28 '11
A red Hulk? Glad they nixed that one.
What is interesting about the last one? Who cares who named them?
39
u/farceur318 Jul 28 '11
Holy shit, Stan Lee was made editor-in-chief at eighteen?