As someone without much knowledge regarding the history of the comics industry, I really enjoy this style of video. Being given an overview of an influential creator's career is fascinating, and your obvious passion and knowledge really makes this series engaging. Please, keep 'em coming!
Marv Wolfman is also credited as the writer who first "humanized" Hal Jordan. He took over writing Green lantern after his dispute with Jim Shooter and after Green Arrow was dropped from the title. He was given the task of returning Green lantern to his roots after the whole "hard Traveling Heroes" run. Marv Wolfman was the first to try and give Hal Jordan actual character traits. Hal's personality as we know it was really born during this period rather than during the Silver Age.
You're absolutely correct, I've heard about his tenure on Green Lantern but I've never seen it compiled in a TRADEPBK! I guess it's because Neal Adams didn't draw it!
You, by far, have one of the best shows in entertainment history. I have been reading comic books for over 45 years and your episodes are informative with the right amount of humor. Keep going strong.
Marv Wolfman wrote one of the most beloved episodes of Jem, too! The Bands Break Up is one of the most important episodes, probably the most important that wasn't written by Marx or Slifer
Just another awesome vid, Chris. I love learning about the behind-the-scenes, political/cultural landscapes of Marvel and DC. Their histories always sound so rocky...it's a wonder anything ever got done. Marv Wolfman was a name I always saw in the credits in different comics I read as a kid, but never had a face to the name, or an understanding of his history. And I agree...Jim Shooter would be an interesting character to spotlight soon. Lots of stories in the industry that don't paint Shooter in a favourable light...that guy always seemed like such a dictator. Many thanks for educating us, Chris!
MARV WOLFMAN was just a great writer, PERIOD and is easily my favorite writer of the 1970s! And while he was exceptional on team books, his "solo hero" comics were among my favorites: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, DAREDEVIL, 8 wonderful issues of BATMAN around 1980, a handful of ACTION COMICS from the same year and of course, TOMB OF DRACULA, my favorite horror series of all time! Marv was adept at depicting Drac as the villain and sometimes--as an anti hero! I take issue with one thing you said: Marv EXCELLED at character development which he aptly demonstrated numerous times, especially if he was on a book for longer than a few issues; often with such subtlety, some may not have noticed, at least not immediately! (Example: Rachel Van Helsing\Tomb of Dracula or Domini from the same series!) Overall, I loved this video so much, a tear came to my eye! GREAT JOB! NOTE I'll let you in on a little secret: Marv uses a DRYERASE BOARD to work out his stories! He positions characters and plot points like a football coach or military general!
The Wolfman-Gil Kane run on Action (which is had to exactly pinpoint because Wolfman was there first with stories illustrated by Joe Staton and others before Gil Kane, who then continued onto a writer-artist stint that even spilled over into a series of annual-sized specials) was lost gem from the early 80s. They basically did a soft reboot of Superman that modernized him for the 80s at least three years before Byrne did his own revamp. Had this run gotten more notoriety and support from DC (like having the main Superman title also reflect those changes), it might have made the later reboot unnecessary.
@@wtk6069 So the Wolfman & Kane stories were from '83? I thought they were earlier! Makes sense because I think the issue in which the New Brainiac and Luthor appeared was some kind of anniversary issue of Action Comics! It also contained Joe Shuster's last Superman drawing because the editor said Shuster's eyesight was failing!
Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan with Tomb of Dracula are one of my chief inspirations for my own comic "Karl Vincent: Vampire Hunter." Marv has always been one of my favorite writers along with Roy Thomas, Len Wien, Steve Gerber, all great '70's writers. I also loved his Kiss '70's comic
I know this is unrelated but i caught your live stream of you drawing All Might, and you got me into My Hero Academia and in 2 days i finished all the episodes that there are; im hooked and i thank you for broadening my horizons. also that was a really good drawing.
Good video, I can listen to you talk about Wolfman all day long...BUT, (you understand...) you need to do a COMPLETE video on 'Judas Contract' now (Book, not the film)... Probably one of THEE Best comics/stories ever created!
Love the video. Reading New Teen Titans, I would say character work is underrated bc of he ties his intricate plotting to character development for his characters Like the progression of Nightwing is prob. best Nightwing work I’ve seen
I remember seeing "Marv Wolfman" in Dracula comics as a kid and thinking it was a joke... amazing to learn that someone using his name as a pun actually led to DC totally changing their policy on crediting writers.
I didn't know Shooter had killed Tomb of Dracula, but am not surprised. Wolfman and Colan did a wonderful job of recreating Dracula as a villain/anti-hero.
According to former DC writer BOB HANEY the editors were real dictators! "We writers were seen as sh** and we were treated like sh**!" I think that interview was printed in either The Comics Journal or an issue of Hogan's Alley!
I grew up in the 80's and I bought Crisis off the newstands or bookstores! I took for granted how great he is. I was buying Teen Titans too and it's without question one of the greatest team books ever, if not the greatest. This was a great video! Thanks for making it!
Superb video and highly informative. Wolfman has been a favorite of mine since the 70's. This is a very well researched video and extremely entertaining. Great channel. Looking forward to your video on Shooter. I met him at a comic convention in the early 80's, back in his heyday at Marvel. He was doing great stuff at Marvel, but, in person, he gave off an arrogant, negative vibe that I could literally feel dripping off of him--at least IMO at the time.
1000% YES. You should check out The Titans Companion by Glen Cadigan. Excellent interview with Wolfman where he lays out how he constructs his team dynamics. Priceless!!
Thanks for doing a piece on Marv Wolfman. I also read a lot of his run on 'Teen Titans' in the early-mid 80s and regard the Wolfman/Perez work on that book as the master class on how to do a superhero team-up book. I always felt they took the basic idea of Claremont's X-Men and kind of amped it up to this whole other level. Again, thanks for promoting the work of one of the true masters of the genre.
I met Wolfman once, but I was only around 12 or 13 years old. It was at a comic book convention, which in the 70s weren't a "thing" like they are now. He gave me a third place prize in a self made little comic I made.
There are actually three TEEN TITANS DRUG AWARENESS comics, the second one was drawn by Ross Andru and the third one by Adrian Gonzales. And all feature The Protector.
I was pretty late to the Wolfman/Perez Titans. It was the Terra storyline in the animated Titans that got me into it (I LOVE the animated Judas Contract, despite Damian Wayne). Surprised you didn't mention the creepy author-inserted character Terry Long which was pretty much the only blemish in an otherwise excellent run, and was it's fall from epicness once Wolfman, I mean Terry, married Donna Troy, coupled with Perez leaving the book.
It annoys me that back then the paper pushers up top gave themselves credits in every issue even though they had little to do with it existing and the creators had to actually fight for credit. Like with Carl Barks.
This is fantastic, Chris! I must admit I only really knew Wolfman through the Crisis and Teen Titans stuff from when I was growing up--I love those old DC horror comics, though. This is some impeccable research. I hope someone writes an equivalent to Sean Howes' Marvel: The Untold Story.
Cool vid as always, but I think it was Deacon Frost Marv was suing Marvel over and not Blade. I think. Heard about it in a comic shop in the 90s. Any way can't wait to see your next vid.
It is definitely true that the movie Blade is a far, far cry from the character Wolfman and Colan created. I mean, one of the interesting things about Tomb of Dracula's Blade was that he was NOT a vampire and lacked their supernatural firepower. He got by on his skill, ruthlessness, determination and luck, for the most part. Every time Blade took on a vampire, he was risking everything; skilled as he was, one mere backhand by a vampire could possibly KO him and sometimes did. Blade was a huge underdog and throughout his history, he was constantly losing friends and allies and enduring setbacks. Plus, he totally hated vampires to the point that he initially couldn't work alongside his future best friend, Hannibal King, upon first meeting him. The movie Blade is almost a Bizarro-world version of the original Marvel Blade. Way, way more powerful than almost any vampire, not to mention, rather than a human with immunity to vampire-bites and a hatred of the undead, he's a vampire himself. I mean, classic Blade wouldn't even be able to coexist in a room with movie Blade.
CruderQuotient1 My rationale is that rather than list every creation by a creator, I try to pick several points that define their overall work and try to tell a story about their life. In this case, focusing on a lot of his large cast/team type of work. My goal is to make people curious and hopefully they discover stuff like Nova on their own.
(6:01) I really enjoyed Tomb of Dracula. The introduction of Blade, Lucas Brand and Doctor Sun. Doctor Sun story arc was creepy awesome. First his side story in #13,14 and #16 (Only voice). Then in #17 his subordinates were in the main plot, Doctor Sun (only voice) himself was testing Lucas Brand. In #19 is another subplot of him. In #20 -21 he was part of the main plot and Doctor Sun was shown for the first time in #20. Then he appear in the plot of the Chimera in #26-28 (Only voice), but his sinister presence gave the reader a terror experience. And his plot in #36-42 showed how dangerous and evil was Doctor Sun, in fact Doctor Sun rivals if no surpasses Dracula himself in evil and cruelty. The scene with Juno's corpse beheaded was great. The scene was partially shown, but the characters described the corpse.
5:24 . Holy shit! Two months back I was in London and i was exploring the comics section of a library there. And then A House Of Secrets omnibus issue caught my eye, out of sheer curiosity I picked it up( It had the famous Swamp Thing first appearance cover on it) it had black and white print inside. I borrowed it and got it home. I was a bit disapointed but continue to read through I found Abel's Wolfman reference and understood it as a homage to Marv Wolfman. Happpy to see panels from the comics I read or own show up in your videos like the daredevil & spider-man team-up [they fought the mad hatter(Stan Lee wrote it)].
Ummm... in regards to your intro... Wolfmen only come out at night.... LOL ... J/K, I recently joined your channel and have been enjoying your videos for some time now. Another great video on comic creators. Thanks for sharing all of your knowledge. Keep up the good work!
According to his Wikipedia page he is DC's first African-American, however, while Mal Duncan does first appear in Teen Titans #26 (cover dated April, 1970) I'm not sure what we're counting as a superhero. Because, while he does join the team he doesn't technically get a costume or "secret identity" until Teen Titans #44 (cover dated November, 1976) when he takes the mantle of The Guardian. Whereas, Tyroc first appears in Superboy #216 (cover dated April, 1976) as a full fledged superhero with costume and name to go with it. A full 7 months before Mal assumed the name of The Guardian. Mal does have the credit, along with Teen Titan Lilith Clay, of having the first interracial kiss in comic books form that original first appearance though, which is pretty neat.
Wait, one thing: Jon Stewart. I know they introduced him and let it be, a while- but Adams is instrumental in his creation in GL/ GA ( #86 I think.) I included him in my blog's retrospective of Denny O'Neil in 2020.
As a kid anytime I'd encounter Marv's name I would pronounce it "wolf man" in my mind. What's funny is than I was still sounding it out that way in my head until I heard you say it out loud for the first time on this video. Reminded me that the first time I saw that old ad in comics called "Attack of the Mutants" I pronounced it "mutt-ants." Lol
It's kinda hilarious DC's attitude in '69 about Black superheroes. Especially with Black Panther over at Marvel popping up in FF in '66... and as a member of the Avengers in the late 60's.
Wolfman worked for other companies, like when he wrote Total Eclipse for Eclipse Comics and Sable: Return of The Hunter for First Comics, amongst others.
I'd forgotten about Total Eclipse. That series was a strangely-enjoyable mess of characters who had no business co-existing! It was Eclipse trying to force their square pegs into the round holes of a shared universe. Wolfman gave a valiant effort, but it's certainly no Crisis. lol
that Nabisco and Keebler story was so interesting! good stuff. I think Wolfman and Claremont are my biggest fave writers... WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL THE FAN ARTS???? C'MON GUYS! GET WITH IT! can't believe there was only one this week....WEAK, guys.
Marv Wolfman had a pretty short run as the writer on the adventure of Superman in 1986 and I'm kinda bummed he didn't get to Collab with John Byrne more than he did on that short run. Byrne gets the lions share of the credit as THE guy who reinvented Superman but I personally think DC put Wolfman on the 3rd book to get him to Collab on the reinvention to help give it that in house 80s DC style instead of strictly being a copy of his Marvel work. After Byrne left, they got George Perez as a writer on Superman as well and my greatest what if is Marv Wolfman being on Adventures of Superman til Perez showed up and them collabing on Superman as a partnership. For the record, I think the Post Crisis Superman books from 1986-99 is one of the great overlooked runs of a character with a continuous story, supporting cast and some of the best events ever. Albeit the main writers were Dan Jurgens, Louise Simmenson, Roger Stern and Jerry Ordway after Perez, Wolfman and Byrne left in 87-89 and those four stayed around until 1999. It's a STACKED 13 year run across 3 titles that masterfully weaves almost 600 issues into a great story. It really deserves to be spoken about in the rarefied tones of shorter runs with less issues like Peter Davids Hulk or Mark Waids Flash but I think Superman just kinda isn't everybody's vibe. You can get basically the entire run in the original print for pretty cheap and I'd vastly suggest it if you've never read it and just want a consistently good run of post crisis late 80s-90s goodness ala the Flash.
(6:15) In #10, was Blade first appearance, but Clifton Graves apparent demise. Oddly, Clifton Graves has dark hair in that issue, while his natural hair color was brown.
Quiro They had something like 4 variations on the title. It makes it a little confusing. But one rule of thumb is that if it says “Tales of” that meant it was made for the Direct Market. There was also a book called “Tales of the Legion of Superheroes” for example.
I may be wrong, but my old brain remembers that the "Tales..." titles were reprints of the original titles, so "Tales of the Teen Titans" were reprints of "Teen Titans", and the same goes for LoS-H. I used to read all these avidly (sorry for the speeling...not sure...) when I started collecting in the early 80's. I cannot say how long the delay was between the 2 publications...might have been about 1 year, maybe a bit more. Marv Wolfman was always one of the few writers that I'd pick up without even verifying what the content was, as I trusted and loved the guy (same went for Roy Thomas, John Byrne, who I loved in Fantastic Four and Man of Steel, and a few others). If I'm wrong, please correct me someone.
The Tales comics were reprint books, like Marvel did with Spider-Man in Marvel Tales. IIRC , the originals were on the top quality paper (Baxter?) and the reprints came out later on newsprint.
Wolfman & Perez were a force of nature! The Judas Contract is every bit as good as the Dark Phoenix Saga and the Crisis on Infinite Earth's story, is DC's Magnum Opus! Far, far better than ANY of Marvel's, Forgotten Wars series!
In that month, it did. I should have said on average the best selling titles were X-Men and Teen Titans. But yeah, some other stuff would sneak up there. The sales charts in the 80s also have a lot more indie books than you might expect.
As someone without much knowledge regarding the history of the comics industry, I really enjoy this style of video. Being given an overview of an influential creator's career is fascinating, and your obvious passion and knowledge really makes this series engaging. Please, keep 'em coming!
I had no idea Marv Wolfman created Blade! I knew about his Titans work, but wow.... great video.
Marv Wolfman is also credited as the writer who first "humanized" Hal Jordan. He took over writing Green lantern after his dispute with Jim Shooter and after Green Arrow was dropped from the title. He was given the task of returning Green lantern to his roots after the whole "hard Traveling Heroes" run. Marv Wolfman was the first to try and give Hal Jordan actual character traits. Hal's personality as we know it was really born during this period rather than during the Silver Age.
You're absolutely correct, I've heard about his tenure on Green Lantern but I've never seen it compiled in a TRADEPBK! I guess it's because Neal Adams didn't draw it!
How much did he create about the character? I’m not as familiar with him.
You, by far, have one of the best shows in entertainment history. I have been reading comic books for over 45 years and your episodes are informative with the right amount of humor. Keep going strong.
1969. The year I graduated from high school. The generation gap was DEFINITELY big.
Love the Wolfman. He's the inspiration for everyone who wants to do a proper team comic.
Marv Wolfman wrote one of the most beloved episodes of Jem, too! The Bands Break Up is one of the most important episodes, probably the most important that wasn't written by Marx or Slifer
You know so much about the history of comics. You should write a book. I'd buy it.
The super hero comic of the 80s, New Teen Titans, with the ultimate team writer in Marv Wolfman and the ultimate team artist in George Perez.
Absolutely!
Just another awesome vid, Chris. I love learning about the behind-the-scenes, political/cultural landscapes of Marvel and DC. Their histories always sound so rocky...it's a wonder anything ever got done. Marv Wolfman was a name I always saw in the credits in different comics I read as a kid, but never had a face to the name, or an understanding of his history. And I agree...Jim Shooter would be an interesting character to spotlight soon. Lots of stories in the industry that don't paint Shooter in a favourable light...that guy always seemed like such a dictator. Many thanks for educating us, Chris!
MARV WOLFMAN was just a great writer, PERIOD and is easily my favorite writer of the 1970s! And while he was exceptional on team books, his "solo hero" comics were among my favorites: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, DAREDEVIL, 8 wonderful issues of BATMAN around 1980, a handful of ACTION COMICS from the same year and of course, TOMB OF DRACULA, my favorite horror series of all time! Marv was adept at depicting Drac as the villain and sometimes--as an anti hero!
I take issue with one thing you said: Marv EXCELLED at character development which he aptly demonstrated numerous times, especially if he was on a book for longer than a few issues; often with such subtlety, some may not have noticed, at least not immediately! (Example: Rachel Van Helsing\Tomb of Dracula or Domini from the same series!)
Overall, I loved this video so much, a tear came to my eye! GREAT JOB!
NOTE I'll let you in on a little secret: Marv uses a DRYERASE BOARD to work out his stories! He positions characters and plot points like a football coach or military general!
The Wolfman-Gil Kane run on Action (which is had to exactly pinpoint because Wolfman was there first with stories illustrated by Joe Staton and others before Gil Kane, who then continued onto a writer-artist stint that even spilled over into a series of annual-sized specials) was lost gem from the early 80s. They basically did a soft reboot of Superman that modernized him for the 80s at least three years before Byrne did his own revamp. Had this run gotten more notoriety and support from DC (like having the main Superman title also reflect those changes), it might have made the later reboot unnecessary.
@@wtk6069 So the Wolfman & Kane stories were from '83? I thought they were earlier! Makes sense because I think the issue in which the New Brainiac and Luthor appeared was some kind of anniversary issue of Action Comics! It also contained Joe Shuster's last Superman drawing because the editor said Shuster's eyesight was failing!
Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan with Tomb of Dracula are one of my chief inspirations for my own comic "Karl Vincent: Vampire Hunter." Marv has always been one of my favorite writers along with Roy Thomas, Len Wien, Steve Gerber, all great '70's writers. I also loved his Kiss '70's comic
I know this is unrelated but i caught your live stream of you drawing All Might, and you got me into My Hero Academia and in 2 days i finished all the episodes that there are; im hooked and i thank you for broadening my horizons. also that was a really good drawing.
Transformers G1 fans also know him as a co-writer of the classic two-part Return of Optimus Prime.
Good video, I can listen to you talk about Wolfman all day long...BUT, (you understand...) you need to do a COMPLETE video on 'Judas Contract' now (Book, not the film)...
Probably one of THEE Best comics/stories ever created!
Love the video. Reading New Teen Titans, I would say character work is underrated bc of he ties his intricate plotting to character development for his characters
Like the progression of Nightwing is prob. best Nightwing work I’ve seen
I remember seeing "Marv Wolfman" in Dracula comics as a kid and thinking it was a joke... amazing to learn that someone using his name as a pun actually led to DC totally changing their policy on crediting writers.
I didn't know Shooter had killed Tomb of Dracula, but am not surprised. Wolfman and Colan did a wonderful job of recreating Dracula as a villain/anti-hero.
DC editors from the 60s looked like monsters
According to former DC writer BOB HANEY the editors were real dictators! "We writers were seen as sh** and we were treated like sh**!" I think that interview was printed in either The Comics Journal or an issue of Hogan's Alley!
Marv Wolfman Is an exceptional writer, and an even more exceptional man. He is a great person.
I grew up in the 80's and I bought Crisis off the newstands or bookstores! I took for granted how great he is. I was buying Teen Titans too and it's without question one of the greatest team books ever, if not the greatest. This was a great video! Thanks for making it!
A great video as usual. I love Marv. Keep up the good work and I have learned so much about comics through your videos.
Great video. Marv Wolfman is such a great writer. He also did great work on the John Carter: Warlord of Mars comic book.
I loved his run on with Tomb of Dracula with Gene Colan.
Such a underrated title.
Superb video and highly informative. Wolfman has been a favorite of mine since the 70's. This is a very well researched video and extremely entertaining. Great channel. Looking forward to your video on Shooter. I met him at a comic convention in the early 80's, back in his heyday at Marvel. He was doing great stuff at Marvel, but, in person, he gave off an arrogant, negative vibe that I could literally feel dripping off of him--at least IMO at the time.
His run on Amazing Spider-Man is still the best ever.
I like this trend of cold openings you have started!
1000% YES. You should check out The Titans Companion by Glen Cadigan. Excellent interview with Wolfman where he lays out how he constructs his team dynamics. Priceless!!
Thanks for doing a piece on Marv Wolfman. I also read a lot of his run on 'Teen Titans' in the early-mid 80s and regard the Wolfman/Perez work on that book as the master class on how to do a superhero team-up book. I always felt they took the basic idea of Claremont's X-Men and kind of amped it up to this whole other level. Again, thanks for promoting the work of one of the true masters of the genre.
Really enjoyed that. Loved Teen Titans and Crisis back in the day. Thank you for the video!
I met Wolfman once, but I was only around 12 or 13 years old. It was at a comic book convention, which in the 70s weren't a "thing" like they are now. He gave me a third place prize in a self made little comic I made.
There are actually three TEEN TITANS DRUG AWARENESS comics, the second one was drawn by Ross Andru and the third one by Adrian Gonzales. And all feature The Protector.
Great video spotlighting an amazing writer. You should do a similar one for George Perez, he's an awesome artist!
Wouldn't John Stewart, Green Lantern created by Denny O'Neil in 1971, predate both the black superheroes you mentioned?
Actually, yes. Black Lightning was the first to have his own title but John Stewart was first, then Tyroc, then Black Lightning.
I was pretty late to the Wolfman/Perez Titans. It was the Terra storyline in the animated Titans that got me into it (I LOVE the animated Judas Contract, despite Damian Wayne). Surprised you didn't mention the creepy author-inserted character Terry Long which was pretty much the only blemish in an otherwise excellent run, and was it's fall from epicness once Wolfman, I mean Terry, married Donna Troy, coupled with Perez leaving the book.
Love the mileage you've gotten out of that wolf mask!
I actually like his work on Vampire Tales the best
Yess marv wolfman is one of my favorite writers!
I can belive marv wolfman created some of favorite comics
Had a nice run on Amazing Spider-Man for a few years too.
It annoys me that back then the paper pushers up top gave themselves credits in every issue even though they had little to do with it existing and the creators had to actually fight for credit. Like with Carl Barks.
This is fantastic, Chris! I must admit I only really knew Wolfman through the Crisis and Teen Titans stuff from when I was growing up--I love those old DC horror comics, though. This is some impeccable research. I hope someone writes an equivalent to Sean Howes' Marvel: The Untold Story.
I knew where things where going as soon as I heard the howl, yet I still loved the pun.
Found your series months ago, I love how informative you are :)
I always learn something when I watch one of these videos. Am working through every single one. Subscribed.
Didn't knew Mark created Tim Drake I was a huge fan of the original Tim Drake comic run ....yet another awesome comic tropes episode
Cool vid as always, but I think it was Deacon Frost Marv was suing Marvel over and not Blade. I think. Heard about it in a comic shop in the 90s. Any way can't wait to see your next vid.
It is definitely true that the movie Blade is a far, far cry from the character Wolfman and Colan created. I mean, one of the interesting things about Tomb of Dracula's Blade was that he was NOT a vampire and lacked their supernatural firepower. He got by on his skill, ruthlessness, determination and luck, for the most part. Every time Blade took on a vampire, he was risking everything; skilled as he was, one mere backhand by a vampire could possibly KO him and sometimes did. Blade was a huge underdog and throughout his history, he was constantly losing friends and allies and enduring setbacks. Plus, he totally hated vampires to the point that he initially couldn't work alongside his future best friend, Hannibal King, upon first meeting him. The movie Blade is almost a Bizarro-world version of the original Marvel Blade. Way, way more powerful than almost any vampire, not to mention, rather than a human with immunity to vampire-bites and a hatred of the undead, he's a vampire himself. I mean, classic Blade wouldn't even be able to coexist in a room with movie Blade.
Not a single mention of Nova!? Shame! Just kidding, great video as always.
CruderQuotient1 My rationale is that rather than list every creation by a creator, I try to pick several points that define their overall work and try to tell a story about their life. In this case, focusing on a lot of his large cast/team type of work. My goal is to make people curious and hopefully they discover stuff like Nova on their own.
ComicTropes I completely understand. That’s actually something I love about your vids. They have a theme that connects a creator’s lifetime of work
Another excellent video from you! I'm really looking forward to your video on Jim Shooter.
Hi from Romania! Love your videos! Keep it up!
Wolfman created a of of my favorites.
New Teen Titans is definitely one of my favorite comic runs of all time, somehow I still haven't read Crisis on Infinite Earths though
Read it, it's good!
(6:01) I really enjoyed Tomb of Dracula. The introduction of Blade, Lucas Brand and Doctor Sun.
Doctor Sun story arc was creepy awesome. First his side story in #13,14 and #16 (Only voice). Then in #17 his subordinates were in the main plot, Doctor Sun (only voice) himself was testing Lucas Brand. In #19 is another subplot of him. In #20 -21 he was part of the main plot and Doctor Sun was shown for the first time in #20. Then he appear in the plot of the Chimera in #26-28 (Only voice), but his sinister presence gave the reader a terror experience. And his plot in #36-42 showed how dangerous and evil was Doctor Sun, in fact Doctor Sun rivals if no surpasses Dracula himself in evil and cruelty.
The scene with Juno's corpse beheaded was great. The scene was partially shown, but the characters described the corpse.
Yay, Dragon-Lord! I still remember buying that comic off of the comic racks.
5:24 . Holy shit! Two months back I was in London and i was exploring the comics section of a library there. And then A House Of Secrets omnibus issue caught my eye, out of sheer curiosity I picked it up( It had the famous Swamp Thing first appearance cover on it) it had black and white print inside. I borrowed it and got it home. I was a bit disapointed but continue to read through I found Abel's Wolfman reference and understood it as a homage to Marv Wolfman. Happpy to see panels from the comics I read or own show up in your videos like the daredevil & spider-man team-up [they fought the mad hatter(Stan Lee wrote it)].
Giant-size Man-Thing was huge!
Oh so thats why that godzilla animated series was so good. Didint know that someone who already did godzilla adaptations was writing it.
Ummm... in regards to your intro... Wolfmen only come out at night.... LOL ... J/K, I recently joined your channel and have been enjoying your videos for some time now. Another great video on comic creators. Thanks for sharing all of your knowledge. Keep up the good work!
Given how they worried about the black superhero not doing well in tge south. How did Black Panther and Luke Cage do upon their releases?
Wait a second, Mal Duncan shows up in the early 70s in the original Teen Titans run. Predates both your examples of Black DC heroes.
According to his Wikipedia page he is DC's first African-American, however, while Mal Duncan does first appear in Teen Titans #26 (cover dated April, 1970) I'm not sure what we're counting as a superhero. Because, while he does join the team he doesn't technically get a costume or "secret identity" until Teen Titans #44 (cover dated November, 1976) when he takes the mantle of The Guardian. Whereas, Tyroc first appears in Superboy #216 (cover dated April, 1976) as a full fledged superhero with costume and name to go with it. A full 7 months before Mal assumed the name of The Guardian. Mal does have the credit, along with Teen Titan Lilith Clay, of having the first interracial kiss in comic books form that original first appearance though, which is pretty neat.
Wait, one thing: Jon Stewart. I know they introduced him and let it be, a while- but Adams is instrumental in his creation in GL/ GA ( #86 I think.) I included him in my blog's retrospective of Denny O'Neil in 2020.
As a kid anytime I'd encounter Marv's name I would pronounce it "wolf man" in my mind. What's funny is than I was still sounding it out that way in my head until I heard you say it out loud for the first time on this video. Reminded me that the first time I saw that old ad in comics called "Attack of the Mutants" I pronounced it "mutt-ants." Lol
It's kinda hilarious DC's attitude in '69 about Black superheroes. Especially with Black Panther over at Marvel popping up in FF in '66... and as a member of the Avengers in the late 60's.
Absolutely loved Dracula.
With the closure of many local comic shops, Marvel and DC should look at the newsstand market once again and get comics in grocery and drug stores.
Hunh. ... I dated a Stripper for a few months in '95, that was named "Cookie Rival".
Wolfman worked for other companies, like when he wrote Total Eclipse for Eclipse Comics and Sable: Return of The Hunter for First Comics, amongst others.
I'd forgotten about Total Eclipse. That series was a strangely-enjoyable mess of characters who had no business co-existing! It was Eclipse trying to force their square pegs into the round holes of a shared universe. Wolfman gave a valiant effort, but it's certainly no Crisis. lol
Love these history videos! Please keep it up! Could we see a Mark Gruenwald video in the future, please???
Yeah, at some point. In the meantime, I have a video about CapWolf.
Tomb of Dracula is fantastic and New Teen Titans by Marv Wolfman and George Perez is in the Top 5 comic book runs of All-Time.
Very cool and informative video on a legendary writer!
that intro
that Nabisco and Keebler story was so interesting! good stuff. I think Wolfman and Claremont are my biggest fave writers... WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL THE FAN ARTS???? C'MON GUYS! GET WITH IT! can't believe there was only one this week....WEAK, guys.
Marv Wolfman is my favorite writer period.
He's a person, not a stretch of time. Using proper punctuation makes a statement understandable!
Sorry the lack of a comma confused you.
As always, another good episode :)
Marv Wolfman had a pretty short run as the writer on the adventure of Superman in 1986 and I'm kinda bummed he didn't get to Collab with John Byrne more than he did on that short run. Byrne gets the lions share of the credit as THE guy who reinvented Superman but I personally think DC put Wolfman on the 3rd book to get him to Collab on the reinvention to help give it that in house 80s DC style instead of strictly being a copy of his Marvel work. After Byrne left, they got George Perez as a writer on Superman as well and my greatest what if is Marv Wolfman being on Adventures of Superman til Perez showed up and them collabing on Superman as a partnership.
For the record, I think the Post Crisis Superman books from 1986-99 is one of the great overlooked runs of a character with a continuous story, supporting cast and some of the best events ever. Albeit the main writers were Dan Jurgens, Louise Simmenson, Roger Stern and Jerry Ordway after Perez, Wolfman and Byrne left in 87-89 and those four stayed around until 1999. It's a STACKED 13 year run across 3 titles that masterfully weaves almost 600 issues into a great story. It really deserves to be spoken about in the rarefied tones of shorter runs with less issues like Peter Davids Hulk or Mark Waids Flash but I think Superman just kinda isn't everybody's vibe. You can get basically the entire run in the original print for pretty cheap and I'd vastly suggest it if you've never read it and just want a consistently good run of post crisis late 80s-90s goodness ala the Flash.
I never noticed the moon in the background lol
Anyone else preorder the Crisis on Infinite Earth’s box set?
Excellent video!
You're forgetting Nova (Richard Rider) and Robot Sherlock Holmes.
(6:15) In #10, was Blade first appearance, but Clifton Graves apparent demise. Oddly, Clifton Graves has dark hair in that issue, while his natural hair color was brown.
Great video! Question: Why the change of the title from The New Teen Titans to Tales of the Teen Titans?It was the same series, right?
Quiro They had something like 4 variations on the title. It makes it a little confusing. But one rule of thumb is that if it says “Tales of” that meant it was made for the Direct Market. There was also a book called “Tales of the Legion of Superheroes” for example.
I may be wrong, but my old brain remembers that the "Tales..." titles were reprints of the original titles, so "Tales of the Teen Titans" were reprints of "Teen Titans", and the same goes for LoS-H. I used to read all these avidly (sorry for the speeling...not sure...) when I started collecting in the early 80's. I cannot say how long the delay was between the 2 publications...might have been about 1 year, maybe a bit more. Marv Wolfman was always one of the few writers that I'd pick up without even verifying what the content was, as I trusted and loved the guy (same went for Roy Thomas, John Byrne, who I loved in Fantastic Four and Man of Steel, and a few others). If I'm wrong, please correct me someone.
The Tales comics were reprint books, like Marvel did with Spider-Man in Marvel Tales. IIRC , the originals were on the top quality paper (Baxter?) and the reprints came out later on newsprint.
Woah, I didnt realize destiny had an origin outside of sandman!
Thank s for doing this man
Wolfman & Perez were a force of nature! The Judas Contract is every bit as good as the Dark Phoenix Saga and the Crisis on Infinite Earth's story, is DC's Magnum Opus! Far, far better than ANY of Marvel's, Forgotten Wars series!
Honestly I read the suicide squad novelisation without knowing who he was, only now looking him up realising why it’s good
10:05 Where can you find comic sales charts like that? Also Alpha Flight outsold Spider-man? Damn.
In that month, it did. I should have said on average the best selling titles were X-Men and Teen Titans. But yeah, some other stuff would sneak up there. The sales charts in the 80s also have a lot more indie books than you might expect.
ComicTropes do you remember where you found that chart? I’m very interested in how certain titles were doing back in the day.
Nice work Mr. Chris. 😄
great video on marv wolfman man ;)
excellent episode.
Marv Wolfman is great and all... but I think we can all agree that he'd be 1000 times better if he were a literal wolf man
Marv graduated from my alma mater Queens College.
poor pun-wolf, he was killed before he got to see capwolf on screen in the MCU :(
Anyone remember Skull the Slayer?
Have Marv Wolfman or George Perez commented on this new streaming Titans series? I’d love to hear their thoughts on it.😏
i actually own...the keebler drug comic :V
If you include both New Teen Titans series it includes 200+ issues and then some cuz the raven,cyborg, starfire series too
Oh wow I always thought Tim Drake was created by Chuck Dixon
No mention of Marvel's Nova (Richard Ryder)?
The New Teen Titans was my first and favorite comic book series as a youngster and it was all thanks to Wolfman and Perez.