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Oh, I don't think so; they just have to leave him in the ice longer, which they've been doing. Assuming someone could survive 60 years in an iceberg isn't that much more of a stretch than assuming they could do it 20 years.
True, but there was a goof a few years back with another story that's connected to Cap's revival. It was about Namor. He was still without his own mind in the 50's, but started to come around to his senses in the 60's. Somewhere between those two points is when he inadvertently tossed the frozen body of Cap into the water. So, that would still peg Cap's revival as happening sometime in the 1960's.
Now, there's a new Namor mini out that details Namor's adventures in the 1950's, making it seem he was still active and within his own mind during that time period. And because Joephisto doesn't know if the book will do well or not, he's not saying it's in continuty, but he's also not denying it.
True, but there was a goof a few years back with another story that's connected to Cap's revival. It was about Namor. He was still without his own mind in the 50's, but started to come around to his senses in the 60's. Somewhere between those two points is when he inadvertently tossed the frozen body of Cap into the water. So, that would still peg Cap's revival as happening sometime in the 1960's.
Now, there's a new Namor mini out that details Namor's adventures in the 1950's, making it seem he was still active and within his own mind during that time period. And because Joephisto doesn't know if the book will do well or not, he's not saying it's in continuty, but he's also not denying it.
Once terms like "Ret-con" and "current continuity" came into fashion any hope of true continuity died.
Having grown up in the 60's reading those Silver Age books I don't care what the latest hack editorial team considers "canon" -
I "saw" Cap picked up by the Avengers in Issue #4 (on a submarine no less!) and nobody can convince me it didn't happen!
Much like arguments over the "founding members" of the Justice League! I bought and read those early issues. I know who the founding members were. Unless that was a "different earth" which was an idea they unfortunately scrubbed in the first "Crisis" which actually worked in terms of the Golden Age heroes!
Speaking of which, did anyone ever notice that the first re-appearance of the JSA with the JLA proudly proclaimed "Back after 16 years!"
Can you imagine?
Only 16 years?
But this is a Marvel thread, so CustomCreator, you are right, Sleepers is the correct answer!
The thread is yours!
Je Suis Charlie!
"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can." John Wesley
Once terms like "Ret-con" and "current continuity" came into fashion any hope of true continuity died.
You forgot the "sliding time-scale". That's one of my fave phrases to use on people who inquire about my age. All you have to do is connect your age to an event that happened in a comicbook. Preferably an event that has been ret-con'd, like Cap's return from suspended animation.
For instance, CuCr could always tell people he was born after Cap was revived in the comics. Without adding the part about when cap was originally revived. So, people who have only paid attention over the last few decades may think CuCr is younger then he truly is. Of course, some people will think of Cap's revival in the 1950's.
If someone says, "Hey, you don't look that young", he can simply say "Sliding Time-Scale". Same goes if they were thinking he meant the 50's revival, only they might say, "Hey, you don't look that old".
Well, I'm sure you get the point.
You forgot the "sliding time-scale". That's one of my fave phrases to use on people who inquire about my age. All you have to do is connect your age to an event that happened in a comicbook. Preferably an event that has been ret-con'd, like Cap's return from suspended animation.
For instance, CuCr could always tell people he was born after Cap was revived in the comics. Without adding the part about when cap was originally revived. So, people who have only paid attention over the last few decades may think CuCr is younger then he truly is. Of course, some people will think of Cap's revival in the 1950's.
If someone says, "Hey, you don't look that young", he can simply say "Sliding Time-Scale". Same goes if they were thinking he meant the 50's revival, only they might say, "Hey, you don't look that old".
Well, I'm sure you get the point.
Great point!
I haven't been paying attention in recent years, but in the 60's and 70's I had a near complete run of Fantastic Four starting around issue 20. One of my favorite all-time stories was the FF Annual featuring "The Wedding of Reed and Sue" - great read, great action, great fun! Especially the scene at the end where Stan and Jack can't get in!!!
What is the current "wedding date" based on "ret-con/time sliding?"
In my world, they were married when I was in around 5th or 6th grade and I'm in my 50's now, so they have been married about 40 years or so.
How many grandchildren do they have? Great grandchildren?
Just curious
Je Suis Charlie!
"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can." John Wesley
Great point!
I haven't been paying attention in recent years, but in the 60's and 70's I had a near complete run of Fantastic Four starting around issue 20. One of my favorite all-time stories was the FF Annual featuring "The Wedding of Reed and Sue" - great read, great action, great fun! Especially the scene at the end where Stan and Jack can't get in!!!
What is the current "wedding date" based on "ret-con/time sliding?"
In my world, they were married when I was in around 5th or 6th grade and I'm in my 50's now, so they have been married about 40 years or so.
How many grandchildren do they have? Great grandchildren?
Just curious
Going by the Sliding Time-Scale... and using Norman Osborn's reappearance as a mark in time (when he returned, he said he'd been gone all of 5 years)... Franklin's almost 5 years old. And, if I recall, Sue said she and Reed had been married a "few years". Along that same scale, the FF have been mentioned as being a team for "nearly" ten years. So, I'd say Reed and Sue have been married 8 years.
Much as I hate to intrude upon this discussion with a question:
Well, you were born after Cap's revival, so, you're either in your 50's, 40's or your about 15 years old. There's no point in this, but I just wanted a chance to mention it. This could mean your wife is a cougar and your her young meat.
Wasn't there a story some time ago where Ben Grimm held a "bar mitzvah" for his Thing persona, meaning he had been the Thing for 13 years?
Close... Ben had never had an actual Bar Mitzvah when he turned 13, as his parents had died and he was being rebellious towards his kin who adopted him. So, years later, he finally had one.
Well, you were born after Cap's revival, so, you're either in your 50's, 40's or your about 15 years old. There's no point in this, but I just wanted a chance to mention it. This could mean your wife is a cougar and your her young meat.
I'll be 42 next month. My wife is 4 years younger.
Close... Ben had never had an actual Bar Mitzvah when he turned 13, as his parents had died and he was being rebellious towards his kin who adopted him. So, years later, he finally had one.
One of Marvel's short-lived "monster" series stars once battled an old enemy of the X-Men. Name the Marvel monster and the X-baddie he/she/it fought.
I have no clue, really, but I'll guess "Groot" and the baddie was the Stranger.
I make that guess based on an issue of Quasar, where it was shown that the Stranger had a bunch of monster-ish characters he kept prisoner for his studies. And Groot was recently shown to be out in space instead of being trapped on earth. But again, t's just a guess, since I never read that issue of Quasar.
"(Thing II #8) Jacob & Petunia attended Ben’s Bar Mitzvah, celebrating 13 years since he had been transformed into the Thing."
Maybe I read that issue wrong or maybe this site is wrong, I don't know. Weird to know that there really was/is an Aunt Petunia... something Joephisto must have not known a few years ago when there was a one-panel what if parody of DC's "Identity Crisis", where she wasn't seen and Joe mentioned something about how no one had ever seen her before, which is why she was covered-up in that panel (she was the one who'd died [ala Sue Dibney] in this silly story).
Yeah, John may-he-Byrne did a story that "introduced" Aunt Petunia as a thirtysomething married to the elderly Jacob Grimm. Kind of an early Catherine Zeta Jones bit.