How a Marvel mistake derailed an MCU’s Eternal Star fight
In the latest Comic Book Legends Revealed, find out how a coloring error caused a problem with Avengers any sense.
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COMIC LEGEND:
Marvel had to put in recoloured panels so fans could cut and paste them into an old issue to correct a coloring error, as the end of an Avengers issue made no sense.
STATUS:
True
This ends perhaps the weirdest theme in Comic Book Legends Revealed – Marvel’s cut and paste fixes!
The most famous screenplay in Roger Stern’s acclaimed 1980s series on the Avengers was “Under Siege,” a storyline in which Baron Zemo slowly but steadily put together a mammoth Masters of Evil roster, then systematically planned the downfall of the Avengers, culminating with the villains attacking and taking control of Avengers Mansion on him. -same !
The storyline was slowly introduced, as Stern showed Zemo recruiting new team members and also spying on the Avengers to notice their various interpersonal issues that made the team weak. Avengers The No.271 is a good example of this, as Namor abruptly left the team, leaving them shorthanded and especially shorthanded in the feed department. Meanwhile, Hercules gets angry under the Wasp’s leadership, as he clearly doesn’t really respect her.
Meanwhile, Black Knight yearns for the Wasp as she is oblivious to his interest in her. These fractures were all later exploited by Zemo in his attack on the Avengers (Hercules, for example, ignores an order from the Wasp and tries to attack the Masters of Evil on his own and he is beaten almost to death).
In the above Avengers # 271 (By Stern, John Buscema and Tom Palmer), Wasp (along with Mercenary Paladin, who she was casually dating at the time) visits new villain Yellowjacket, in jail, when she gets out of jail by Screaming Mimi and Gray Gargoyle.
We see Wasp trying to follow the escaped villains and she notices that she has a clue of some people in the hallways …
Black Knight was having dangerous experiments on Captain Marvel when he heard that Wasp was in trouble. He ditched Marvel to come to the aid of the Wasp, hoping to prove himself to the Wasp (Dane is a screwed up dude).
He arrives and shoots down the gray gargoyle, although that doesn’t make sense as to HOW he did it, does it?
Well, the column of letters for Avengers # 277 (the “Under Siege” story finale) revealed what the deal was. In the end, the colorist made a mistake and forgot to color people like statues earlier in the story and ALSO forgot to show that Black Knight’s sword had some sort of sucking effect on the body. gray gargoyle, rendering him human and allowing Black Knight to knock him out. So the column of letters had panels that you could cut and paste and put in the pages of # 271 so this story now makes sense …
You can understand how difficult it would be for a colourist to keep track of all the people who have been transformed (or not transformed) into statues. I think there was even a similar error a few glitches later, but it wasn’t as inexplicable as it sounds.
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In the latest TV Legends Revealed – The Executives of Warner Bros. Did they really consider having a Static Shock live action TV series starring Jonathan Taylor-Thomas from Home Improvement?
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