Golden Age Superhero The Puppeteer MAKES NO SENSE!
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Golden Age superheroes are always entertaining. They're fun, they're pure adventure. But also? It was an era where everything was selling so artists and writers were rushing out ideas without always pausing to check the logic. That's the case with The Puppeteer by Fox Features Syndicate and artist Alvin Hollingsworth. This is a superhero whose name changed, he never had any real supporting characters, or a love interest, or interesting enemies. What he did have was weird powers, a talking bird, and a name that made no sense at all.
Can’t believe this didn’t start with “Oh, Hi! You caught me playing with my organ. Speaking of organs, let’s talk about the Puppeteer.”
It wouldn't make any sense at the beginning of the video, before that part of the comic has been shown in the video.
@@KasumiKenshirou It’s just a joke based on earlier episodes.
what could have been...
@4:40 "He also has a puppet of himself just lying around?" says the guy with a puppet of himself sitting in the background
That line was delivered so perfectly…it slayed me.
So he took his name from his profession? Hm. "I am vengeance, I am the night, I am BILLIONAIRE!" "Your friendly neighborhood Photographer!" Yeah... they just don't roll off the tongue, do they.
“It’s the fastest man alive! Crime scene forensics.”
Suoerheroes were basically early 90's pro wrestlers at the time. They all worked day jobs and used it as a gimmick.
Chris: between this show and “Pros and Cons” you are - by far - the best comic video maker. I’m a 74 year old hippie who has enjoyed reading comics since I was a child, and so your material is pure entertainment: informative, and - like in this episode - hilarious. I’ve read about The Puppeteer before, so I was excited to see it covered by you. I enjoy these little forays into Golden Age lunacy. Thanks for the fun!
I agree. It's a darn shame his channel hasn't grown as fast as some of his imitators 😢
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@@dalehoustman4737 he and Casually Comics are all I turne in for, these days.
S-Tier channels!
I nearly cried with laughter at that panel with raven the eagle brandishing a baseball bat..
Just one olive branch away from the Ramones logo.
Eat your heart out, Peacemaker! (He has a pet eagle named "Eagly"...that never carried a bat)
Hilarious - clearly an artist who had never seen a raven and couldn't even be bothered to look it up. If the superhero was a cheap copy of another IP, why bother
@@zootopiawilsonor spoke
"Playing with his organ".
Beavis and Butthead would be proud.
uhhh hu-huh, hu-huh ... he said "organ".
Alan: "I have a date with a couple of kids to show them how to manipulate puppets."
Ed:
Who can't relate to a puppeteer with a magic organ that turns you invulnerable when you play Beethoven's fifth?
For how many golden age superheroes who came and went, it feels like golden age superheroes are still being made today. There's just such an abundance of them.
His real name should have been Marion Ettist. 🤷♀
Commissioner Gordon: turns on the signal atop the Police Headquarters
The criminals of Gotham: _"Holy crap! It's Billionaire Man!"_
"Uh oh, Butler, it's the Dollar Sign. The police need my help."
@ 6:55 - Having edited many videos, I really like how you display the comic book panels and move them along with the story! Editing takes a lot of time, and theses extra touches take even longer, nice job!
Ha! It goes to show that I am not the only one with this opinion. I saw you were nominated for an editing award for your TH-cam Channel!
"Vanishes into the ether like knockout gas in a strange girl's hair" is my favorite line in this whole video. As always, your look at these Golden Age superhero comics is illuminating. Thank you for sharing.
It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's The Reporter!
I love your deep-dives into comics and creators, but these looks at the goofier superheroes make me laugh out loud. I nearly spat out my tea at the eagle with a bat.
Abe Sapien: Is that an eagle?
Hellboy: HE'S GOT A BAT!!
*"The talking eagle named raven reading the newspaper"* is a sentence that could only exist in the Golden Age of comics😂
An eagle with a baseball bat i know what my next tattoo is gonna be
I went back and watched all your videos in order, I cant get enough of comictropes!
I was wondering if V-Man and D-Man ever had a crossover?
I'm sure it would've been pretty catchy! 😂
Digital Video Man, Away!
I like that the colorist was so patriotic they couldn't help but turn that raven into a bald eagle.
I really think that that’s what happened because it would explain why it’s so small for a Bald Eagle, and let’s be honest, without color it would just be generic bird #3 to even the most knowledgeable of ornithologist
I don't know, it definitely looks less corvidlike than raptorish to me.
Maybe he is a raven wearing an eagle mask....
I think the eagle's NAME is Raven. You don't refer to your pet dog as "dog", do you?
@@KasumiKenshirou In the golden age, I wouldn't put it past them.
Also, why would you name your pet eagle, 'Raven'?
(Full disclosure: I once had a cat named 'Ghost Dog'.)
I think the Puppeteer would have worked better if instead of a pipe organ, he played a stringed instrument like the violin or the cello that released his costume, since he works with puppets on strings.
A hurdy-gurdy.
But dude, a freaking organ, how cool is that? If he played a wimpy ass violin, wouldn't be the same
Piano/Organ counts as string, they're under/behind the keys...like how kryptonians hide under glasses
@@Superlad9494 you're right, the strings are hidden into the piano, in its tail
They missed a trick. The Puppeteer as a superhero with powers to animate his creations to stop the evil machinations of evildoers would have so much potential.
In the Beano (UK comic) there was a young lad called General Jumbo who had a radio controlled army, and later he was Admiral Jumbo with a RC navy and it was totally fab. Which child aged 9 to 90 doesn't want their own animated model army to solve crimes with? lol
We did have access to US comics in the UK back in the 60s and 70s of course, but we only saw the superhero publications, so I have no idea if the British style of comics, like the Beano, Dandy, Sparky etc were published in the US? There were also comics like the Victor aimed more for boys with war and sports stories, like the Valiant and Victor.
The closest British comic to a US style comic was probably Dan Dare, which was essentially the Royal Air Force in space.
Wacky old comics are always my favourite episodes of yours!
Absolutely brilliant! We need more baseball bat wielding, organ playing, misnamed avians in our comics. Golden Age comics really were bonkers, weren't they? Love 'em...More please, Chris!
I have an idea for a dumpy Golden Age Hero........Man-Rat. He is a music instructor that has mastered the flute. He uses the flute to make Rats do his bidding. He does this by playing patriotic music.
He also dresses like a low rent Green Arrow with a splash of red.
“What does the V stand for?”
“On my world, it means Beethoven”
“Well, it means puppets here, so..”
Chris, thanks so much for the Kickstarter plug! I greatly appreciate it, buddy!
Every time i get a “Comic Tropes posted a new video “ notification i know it’s going to be awesome! Love your content!
Can't believe you Neil Breened us. It was both painful and hilarious.
All hail Neil Breened, the G.O.A.T. of cringe B films! LEGENDARY!!! lol
This episode won me immediately with a talking eagle that everyone calls a raven.
It really doesn't get much better than that. 😆😆
Edit: I was wrong. Da dad da da! Transforms by playing with his organ. 😶😶
Excellent video thanks, Chris.
I almost spit my water when you shared about the morris code and then again with the talking eagle named Raven getting itself a drink!?! 😂😂😂😂
Even the great Stan Lee wasn’t always consistent with his alliterative names. Bruce Banner was once ‘Bob’. Scott Summers was called ‘Slim’.
Scott is still called by the nickname Slim sometimes.
There is an early Spider-Man comic where he is referred to as “Peter Palmer.”
Slim was Scott's nickname
They are still alliterative.
@@justinc.5591 And another where he's referred to as "Superman".
To quote Ralph Waldo Emerson “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds”😊
YES! Another Golden Age goofball hero! The best kind of hero!
As for puppets being popular. maybe not in the 40's, but in the 50's and 60's ..Howdy Doody, Kukla,Fran and Ollie and my Favorite Topo Gigio and The ThunderBirds!!
Absolutely brilliant episode the cut away for organ was hilarious
😂😂😂😂 Hahaha!!! That Neil Breen cameo just made my day!! Well done, Chris!! ❤
This is the best comic tropes trope. Golden age superhero series is an American treasure 🎉😊
I need more super late night uploads like this
I do think a puppeteer themed superhero could be cool if they really leaned into it. It's true that it's normally seen as more of a villain thing but that's part of what could make a hero with manipulation powers interesting. An examination of the morality of their power, where does controlling bad people to stop them cross over the line?
Another idea is that he can control his puppets, like make them come to life as a little army of minions. Could have Raven the bald eagle actually be a puppet made of wood that's like his right-hand.
Do you think Savage Street Vigilante took his name from his day job as a savage street vigilante?
(Thanks for the plug, Chris!)
My new favorite comic character, Raven the talking bald eagle
Love this shorter video, not everything needs to be a deep dive. This was hilarious! And perhaps your greatest intro yet - beautiful!
Brilliant. These Golden Age comic book reviews are just...gold. You just can't make this stuff up, but they did.
Love the late night episode. Always appreciate your videos, they're so cozy!
Great ep!!! If you follow up with the TJ bibles, don't forget the mention in Watchmen. My uncle worked as an independent publisher for traveling salesperson s, he said he printed 500 owners manual s a year, but 1500 TJ bibles for guys on the road. any popular comic, film or radio star were printed
I heard that Jack Chick based the size of his Chick Tracts on those "bibles".
"I enjoy a nice cup of tea every morning. It's an omen! I shall become The Teabagger!! ...Oh, wait."
Since The Puppeteer is Public Domain, make him more of a Puppet guy.
Oh, I just realized, V is also the roman numeral for 5, which also would've been thematic for Beethoven's 5th.
I wonder how many Capt. V stories they already drew out and had ready to shove in a blank spot if some other more popular story was running behind, and only afterwards did they feel pressured into changing the name.
Extremely late night upload. Man I just love the sheer amount of lunacy and creative output time that was the golden and silver age. An era where every thing was still bright eyed and bushy tailed, rushing out a bunch of stuff.
I know of at least one other Golden Age character who got a change in their name, The Press Guardian, though I forget what his other name was. Timely character if memory serves.
You should do a video on the 2-3 characters who went by the name, the Green Mask. I believe they were all Fox characters.
Thanks Chris! I really enjoy when you find an obscure Superhero from the Golden Age! Always so much fun !!!😅
These shorter videos are fun! Bring on more obscure heroes and comics! We love you, Chris.
Lol. This episode nearly killed me. It was hilarious. I love that Bald Eagle. Nearly gagged on my sandwich when the eagle started reading.
Someone needs to bring back the Puppeteer, especially with his eagle friend. :)
Brilliant and I especially love these golden age tropes and stories. Takes a lot of work and passion for these old stories to dig these up but absolutely hilarious on this one. Super impressed with your artwork as well...thank you!!!
I'm the puppeteer!!! Ha ha ha ha ha! I carry puppets in my pocket! To foil my arch enemy the ' fondler!' ha ha ha !❤😂
Great video as always, interesting hero! I also appreciate that they went for something different, even if that ended up coming off campy, and strange to majority of readers. Kids most likely didn't even question the talking bird, or that an Eagle was named a Raven. LOL All in all, very interesting stuff, thanks for the video about Puppeteer. I look forwards to your new stuff coming soon.
Babe wake up, Chris just uploaded a new comic trope video on a golden age superhero.
The character design would have lended itself perfectly to a hero named Victory, with his bald eagle sidekick, who's a nerdy organist at a ballpark and transforms when he plays the opening to the Star-Spangled Banner. They should have dropped the whole puppet angle altogether. Makes you really wonder what the thinking was behind this guy.
Kudos for the Neil Breen insert!
Great vid, as usual.😉
We need another Tales from the Crypt comic video for Halloween!!
Thanks for the episode, Chris! I love when you cover the obscure golden age heroes!
Always love these videos, thank you for making them
Sounds like they saw Pinocchio and were like “That Geppetto seems like a cool guy” and made him a superhero 🤣
Great intro as always! Entire video was awesome. Hope all's good Chris. 👍🏻🫡
I’ll be your patron again when I can afford it because I still believe in what you do 😊
Me "Wake up, babe, new comics tropes video just dropped"
Her "Go away, aI need to sleep"
Me "It's a golden age hero."
Her "Am up"
I believe "Capt. V" was still the character's name, and both he and Alan were known to the reader as "The Puppeteer"..to avoid confusion.
I also believe that he's the first superhero to have TWO secret identities: one as "Alan DALE" and then a second as "Alan HALE".
I believe the woman with the knockout gas in her hair was The Puppeteer's arch nemesis "Knockout".
And the two men who used dolls to hide bombs, I believe they worked for the evil mastermind "The Doller"!
I also believe the Puppeteer's bird sidekick was actually a half eagle, half raven puppet.
Never mind. I just made all that up.
"Knockout": that's good!
I also had the same thought that the eagle was actually a sentient robot.
4:07 The shape of that word balloon and the hyphenated word 😂
@7:38 Book of All-Comics has a hero named Pussy Katnip. I looked her up and apparently she gains powers when she liquors up on “katnip fizz.” Might deserve an episode. 😂
Great to see you excited about upcoming projects, Chris. Can’t wait to see what you eventually put together for Alan Davis.
That is hardly the craziest comic you've talked about, but it is… Strange.
I would've liked to see more of V-Man to see how similar or dissimilar the characters are, apart from their costumes. I'm kind of wondering if the "Capt. V/ Puppeteer" stories were just reworked stories for V-Man (or vice-versa).
V-Man had an origin and different super powers.
11:37 To the writer's credit, the quotation mark, to me, imply that "Pops" is a friendly nickname Alan has for the friend he knows well.
Episodes about bonkers Golden Age superheroes are always a treat.
7:13 that's the exact opposite of what happens when you explode a bomb in water. The denser material makes the explosion way MORE deadly.
I love all the topics you cover, but I do think wacky golden age heroes might be my favorite. And the Puppeteer does not disappoint!
**CHRIS** If this character is now in the public domain, which I fully suspect it is, you should bring it back! You're an excellent artist and have great character and writing sensibilities!!
My favorite hair-deployed weapon in comics is Natasha Romanov pulling a shotgun from her completely inconspicuous two foot tall wig in Black Widow Strikes (2012), an official MCU tie-in.
Neil Breen is a marvelous addition to any video. Well done, Chris
So instead of saying a magic word, like a half dozen heroes did back then, to turn into his superhero ID, he uses a magic organ instead? Okay, I will give that a point for originality.
"I'm hitting the V-Beam road back home!"
"We get it Captain V. You're getting laid tonight. We don't want to hear about it."
Someone needs to come up with an origin story for this guy. How did he get the organ and the talking eagle?
I love when Chris finds some insane golden age hero to tell us about.
4:49 puppet of himself lying around... is that a trope of a trope? Jk... 🤔🤣
I love when you feature bad old comics…hilarious!
Calling a Bald Eagle "Raven" is smart forward thinking. If Alan Dale ever has to kill Raven, he's got a defence if they arrest him for killing a protected species.
"A Bald Eagle, you say? No, Raven was a Raven, officer"
Sometimes some of these shorter videos about obscure comic characters can be just as fun and interesting as the longer videos about more well known comic characters.
I'm just here to support the algorithm and voice my support for more episodes about Superman being a royal jerk. I feel like that era is really under represented on the Comic Tropes channel.
I love that stuff. I just don’t want to do too much of the silver age dc stuff that Sasha covers so well on Casually Comics.
@@ComicTropes
You and Sasha make the best comic book content on TH-cam, I would to see you guys do a collaboration some time!
@@ComicTropesyou and Sasha are my two favorite comic book TH-camrs
Well, in Harvey Birdman, his pet eagle called Avenger, serves coffee.
I kept waiting for Puppet Chris to jump out from the background...
Tijuana Bibles were shouted out in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
I'd love to know more about Alan Davis. He's a terrific creator and your profile videos are always awesome.
My guess when they where creating the character someone said "Hey kids like puppets let's make a hero that deals with puppets in some way"
6:00 It’s impossible but it’d be really funny if Moore copied that idea for his V
As a Ravenclaw, I am totally used to an Eagle being called a Raven 🤣
16:45 Yay! I love tte TBibles! I have a book of reprints about them. Looking forward to this
The Organ, Skidmark - this is why I'm here!
Puppets were a lot more common in children's entertainment back then. As television started to take off in the late 1940s, children's shows often used puppets, though television sets weren't particularly ubiquitous at the time. Anyway, the idea of a man with superpowers called "The Puppeteer" is great and yet they use nothing related to it!? How do you miss such an opportunity.