Silver and Bronze Prototypes

[PovertyRow]

I've been on some months now but don;t recall seeing much on this. Just stumbled on this image - could be considered a Werewolf By Night prototype? Think it will be fun to start posting some of the precusors to the better known characters!

 

PS - this is a NEW new website - one created by a friend - bypassing the Yahoo. So again - please let me know if you see the image? If only one can see it then all can. Thank you!

 

Werewolf By Night Prototype

[Mushroom]

Image is fine.

[PovertyRow]

Image is fine.

 

THANK you! (I cannot believe it took 15 views to get a simple answer. Man this place can be frustrating!)

 

[Illiterati-migration]

Pov, just sit back and blink. You'll feel a LOT better.

[COI]

Image is good, and so is Veal in your marinade.

[blowout]

could be considered a Werewolf By Night prototype?

 

I should think so, its pretty close to being the exact same character. Time for Overstreet to revise the first appearance of WBN....better sell that Marvel Spotlight PDQ.

 

Usually, in my experience prototypes are considerably different from the characters they inspire.

My favourite is the reverse prototype of Spider-Man from Journey Into Mystery #73. In the ish a Spider gets the powers of a human (how useful ).

[Crowzilla]

Even though it has the same title, it would just seem tough to call a pre-code book a prototype for a 70s character. I just think too much time had passed for that to have any real influence.

 

Who wrote the story in the Marvel Tales?

 

[Altas_Fan-migration]

Im sure that very book inspired the 70s title. I can just see Stan sitting in his office at Marvel circa 1971, looking thru a stack of old pre-code titles, thinking: "what can I recycle from here now that we can do horror again...."

[Zonker]

This idea is not original with me: believe I saw it first in one of Gary Carter's CBM issues, but here goes for some DC Silver Age prototypes:

 

 

 

which morphed into

 

 

 

 

 

And then there was

 

 

later,

 

 

Julie Schwartz was never one to let a good idea go under-utilized!

 

Cheers,

Z.

[PovertyRow]

This idea is not original with me: believe I saw it first in one of Gary Carter's CBM issues

 

By no means an original idea. Magneto, The Thing, Aunt May/Uncle Ben and a host of others have been cited by Overstreet for some years as prototype characters.

 

What I found intriquing for this particular example was 1) it is a GA book 2) it reflects a Bronze Age character and 3) it is not mentioned by OS. So I'm hoping to hear from others who stumble upon obvious (and maybe not so obvious) examples of character prototypes hetetofore unsung in the annals of Overstreet.

[Zonker]

Hey pov, just to be clear, I was speaking of the similarities I posted between the MIS and JLA covers: it has either been featured in Overstreet or CBM or both, but others here may not have seen it yet, and your interesting Werewolf by Night find prompted me to post them.

 

 

Here's another pair (did Julius Schwartz edit Sensation Mystery, or did he do a friendly swipe from one of his fellow DC editors?)

 

 

 

Cheers,

Z.

[Crackandpresstoan11]

Those are considered cover swipes, not prototypes.

[Larryw7]

MENACE#5 has the story ZOMBIE, and the beautifully rendered splash panel was the inspiration for Simon Garth in TALES OF THE ZOMBIE. Marvel even used an updated version of that splash for their ads for TALES...