“I only pick on big guys”
In one of the comics industry’s weirder chapters, Jack Kirby left Marvel in the early 1970s to create a new set of heroes over at the Distinguished Competition. In a burst of fevered imagination, Kirby gave birth to Darkseid, Mister Miracle, and the New Gods — and he tied all of them back to the DC universe via one existing title. For some reason, that title was Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen.
All of Kirby’s DC output was profoundly bizarre, but it was about to get even stranger. Turns out that two of Kirby’s assistants, Mark Evanier and Steve Sherman, were huge fans of put-down comic Don Rickles. There’s was something about Rickles’ insult philosophy — “I never picked on a little guy, I only pick on big guys” — that made him seem like a comic book natural.
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Don’s people signed off on the comics rights, and Kirby got to work. For some reason, he created two Rickles — the original Mr. Nice Guy and a superpowered hero named Goody who “caused more problems than the villains!”
What comes next makes even less sense — let’s call it punch-punch, space-battle, space-battle — and eventually Rickles meets his doppelganger, who really should be a member of The Eternals.
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The two-part story follows no logical throughline, but it is a lot of fun to see Rickles and Jimmy Olsen yukking it up. Even if Kirby’s goofy Rickles caricature makes him look like an actual hockey puck.
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The next comedian to cameo in a comic book was one of the biggest stars around: Johnny Carson. The appearance made sense, says Romanek, since Stan Lee always insisted that Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four existed in the reality of New York, not the comic-book blandness of Superman’s generic Metropolis. And if that’s where the web-slinger hung out, why wouldn’t Carson (who was taping in New York at the time) try to boost ratings with an appearance?
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Source: Pinoy Daily News
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