| Slot: |
Marvel Family 78 |
| Item: |
Marvel Family 78 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
0274780020
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Owner Comments
The Marvel Family #78 is referenced in Geoffrey Wagner’s “Parade of Pleasure” (POP) in the text on pages 92-93.
Wagner is critical of the inaccurate portrayal of the Korean conflict in comic books and uses a story contained in Marvel Family #78 to illustrate his point. He describes the story as follows “The Marvel Family, however, who interfere in the Korean war fairly consistently now, consist of Captain Marvel, Captain Marvel Jnr (the little lad who, as we have seen, has his own comic book to himself), and Miss Marvel, whose swirling skirt seldom comes much lower than her lap. Take the first story in The Marvel Family no 78, a patriotic legend entitled ‘The Marvel Family Battles the Red Star of Death’ (we have already had the Captain himself battling the ‘Red Crusher’ in Captain Marvel no 142). This latter personifies the red soldier in Korea in these stories, an unshaven, toothy Russian who evidently goes into action in Korea with a whip rather than a rifle and who makes remakes like ‘Die Yankee dogs! Let your blood and bone splatter all over the landscape!’ One page in this comic book features the word ‘WHAM!’ four times, each letter measuring three quarters of an inch in thickness. This is essentially a simple tale. Captain Marvel stops an American general from calling ‘a full scale retreat’ after the man has read one enemy pamphlet, and goes on to halt a bombing raid in mid-air. He deals as easily with Ruski soldiers as he does with those undefined foes who swear ‘By Buddha!’ The ‘red vulture’ himself is personally KO’ed by the Captain, Miss M administering a ladylike kick to the jaw (‘CHUMFFFF!’), followed by a snorting right hook (‘WHAM!’ again, I fear).
I have included a scan of the page containing the quadruple “WHAM!” as described by Wagner.
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| Slot: |
Marvel Family 81 |
| Item: |
Marvel Family 81 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
1484457010
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Owner Comments
The Marvel Family #82 is referenced in Geoffrey Wagner’s “Parade of Pleasure” (POP) in the text on pages 92-93.
Wagner is critical of the inaccurate portrayal of the Korean conflict in comic books and uses a story contained in Marvel Family #82 to illustrate his point. He describes the comics as follows “In the Marvel Family no 81, where the Marvels go after the ‘mightiest mongol’, young Marvel shows that he is not behind the rest of his family in brutality; he mops the floor, literally, at the end of a stick, with a coloured, Mongolian enemy.
The Marvel Junior mopping scene is contained in the story “The Marvel Family Battles the Plundering Pasha, Chapter Two: The Perils of the Pasha”.
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