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Jul 25 11 10:46 AM
Aug 12 11 7:44 PM
Scathach80 wrote:Tarzan started in prose, and he does not count. Therefore, neither should Indiana Jones. Otherwise, any property that ever gets adapted subsequently could count. The Guiness Book of World Records vulgarly stated once that Zorro was the most filmed cartoon character. Why they did not name Tarzan, I can only guess as resulting from Zorro's influence on the Batman.
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Sep 13 11 8:15 PM
hermanthegerm wrote:You are the one making the meaningless distinctions. I am saying comics heroes are comics heroes, precisely as stated in the title of this thread...................
You keep focusing on comics origin without qualifying why, yet you specifically state that sales for comics are down. I don't know what you are basing this on, as "comics" are now all over and distributed (not sold) in many different forms, including CD-Rom, video games, RPG or other table games, comic reprints, (plus reprinted collections in book or microfiche form,) online comics, emails, newspapers and comic magazines. Did you take all of these (and others I may be missing, for example, secondary and tertiary markets,) into account in your claim that they don't sell as well as they used to?
As a financial concern, comic book publishers are no longer in the publishing business: They’re curators of, and incubators for, extremely valuable intellectual property. To comic-book collectors, that’s very good news.
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Oct 1 11 1:33 PM
Scathach80 wrote:...For January 2010, all American publishers combined sold a total of 5.63 million comics...
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Oct 24 11 9:08 AM
Scathach80 wrote:Again, I find it odd that attempts to produce prolific film franchises based on prose adventure fiction written for adults has not panned out that well in recent, post-1950's, decades (e.g. only two Dirk Pitt films [PG and PG-13 at that, a compromise], no Tom Clancy films in theaters in the last ten years or so), yet these comic book based films have come out and produced sequels.
Oct 24 11 7:29 PM
HalLane wrote:Scathach80 wrote:Again, I find it odd that attempts to produce prolific film franchises based on prose adventure fiction written for adults has not panned out that well in recent, post-1950's, decades (e.g. only two Dirk Pitt films [PG and PG-13 at that, a compromise], no Tom Clancy films in theaters in the last ten years or so), yet these comic book based films have come out and produced sequels. Well that's not surprising. Prose adventure fiction, and the films they inspire (like Tom Clancy movies), are designed and crafted as self-contained, stand-alone units, even when referring to previous work. Comic books on the other hand are intended to be continuous, ongoing little dollops of serialized story, and recent films follow suit, by design. Seems a fundamental difference, to me. The trend to look at here is change in the nature of how we perceive the idea of film.
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delgadosaur wrote:Robert Downey Jr. will join this list after Iron Man 3, with the added Avenger film. Scarlett Johansson would then be right behind with three because she's going to be in Iron Man 3. Then also Chris Haimsworth and the captain america guy would be right behind after their respective sequels. Whew!
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BijouBob8mm wrote:But this board is not for everyone. Comic books are not for everyone.I guess I was thinking in terms of a broader audience than just Board members or comic book fans because of your mention of "cultural phenomenon," since we only represent a microcosm of all who are out there. (Had an English teacher who didn't think Burroughs' work qualified as literature when I was in junior high. Had to smile many years later when I found the first Tarzan novel got reprinted in a "Penguin Classics" edition.) Again, I was just trying to determine the criteria you were using. (Hence my bringing up real people who have had comics based on them. Would Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy or Jerry Lewis qualify as comic book heroes/characters because of their appearance in that medium?)
But this board is not for everyone. Comic books are not for everyone.
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