August 8, 2025

The Many Intros Of Iron Man

I wouldn’t do another Many Intros article this soon after the last one but the fewer distractions I have this week and next the better, and I can’t believe it took me this long to do an Iron Man intro-spective. Iron Man is my favorite Marvel superhero, so seeing him ruined with everyone else thanks to activists and “better idea” people makes me sad. Still, this is the world I live in.

The movie that started the Marvel Cinematic Universe may be the first live-action Iron Man, depending on your point of view with parade floats and Toys R Us appearances, but it wasn’t even the first Iron Man movie. Animation gave us that as well as a number of TV shows. For the purposes of this two-parter I’m not talking about the Avengers or their various duplications. Like the Superfriends/Justice League intros that deserves its own article. Just Iron Man alone has had a number of solo titled series, giving old Shellhead a new audience outside of the comics. In each of them Tony Stark was Iron Man, though Rhodey would be War Machine in another.

I have enough to split them into two parts, including the upcoming series, and I decided splitting them up into adult Tony and kid/teen Tony was the best way to go. That will make the next one kind of short, but a number of these intros are short, so it fits. Let’s start with the very first Iron Man cartoon. You might know this one.

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August 8, 2025

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Blue Ribbon Comics #3

I wonder if that’s what all those pouches were for in the 1990s?

Blue Ribbon Comics #3

M.L.J. Magazines, Inc (January, 1940)

Okay, Blue Ribbon Comics, you’ve got two strikes and the next ball is coming down the field. The last two issues have not had any really interesting stories, so this is kind of your last chance. If you don’t impress me with this issue’s stories I’m done with the comic. There’s a lot of Golden Age anthologies to go through and you’re really going to have to bring at least a B game to hold my attention. Will it? Let’s read and find out.

[Read along with me here]

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August 8, 2025

BW’s Daily Video> The Naked Gun – Are We Allowed To Laugh Again?

NOTE: Drunken Scotsman swears a bit. Also, minor spoilers for the rebooted Naked Gun movie

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August 7, 2025

Michael Eisner Vs. Bob Iger: Who Was Best For Disney?

A recent Forbes article made the case that Michael Eisner, former Chairman of The Walt Disney Company, did a better job at running Disney than Iger after him or whomever before him. Admittedly the article is, for some reason, clearly kissing Eisner’s rear, as it has nothing but praise for Eisner, but there’s a reason Eisner took shots from the fans. It’s just that Eisner didn’t make the mistakes that Bob Iger has, and even when he did make mistakes it wasn’t as bad as Iger’s nonsense.

I went to see when Eisner left Disney and Google AI (question the source) gave me this: “Michael Eisner stepped down as CEO of Disney in 2005, following a period of declining shareholder confidence and public criticism. Key factors included a perceived decline in Disney’s creative output, strained relationships with Pixar and key executives, and a sense of micromanagement that alienated employees and partners.” I highlighted that one part for a reason. Near the end of his time as CEO, Eisner made moves that got Disney fans as upset with him as they are Iger today. However, while I do believe that Eisner was better at some point in his time than Iger has been at any point, let’s not forget that he’s gone for a reason. If he were still making Disney money they would have kept him on. Meanwhile, Iger loyalists on the board may be the only thing keeping him in charge given the string of failures hurting not only the Disney brand, but his acquired brands of Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm.

So how did Eisner succeed in his failures better than Iger has in his? Let’s examine.

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August 7, 2025

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Legacy Of The Falcon #1

Nice logos all around. Nothing on the cover I can make a joke about, though.

Legacy Of The Falcon #1

Amaru Studios (April, 2012)

CREATOR/WRITER: George Amaru

“In Dreams”

ARTIST: George  Amaru

TONES: Jason Wojtowicz

LETTERERS: Daniel Chan

“Preludes Preview”

ARTISTS: George Amaru & Randy Silverman

LETTERERS: Franzisca Guedel & George Amaru

This should be quick for me. Most of what appears in this preview already showed up in Havoc 21 Presents #3. Instead of the third story we get character profiles and concept art. So since it’s a separate comic and time is not my friend this week, most of this is copy/paste from the older review, minus the story not appearing here.

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August 7, 2025

BW’s Daily Video> The Fantastic Four Sequel We Could Have Gotten

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August 6, 2025

Four Color Combat!> Gorilla With A Fist

In case you missed Sunday’s comicless update, I used to take part in a multiblog collaboration called Friday Night Fights. That’s no longer around but I’ve always missed doing those. So finally I decided to do my own take, only with just myself. Not wanting to use the name Bahlactus and Spacebooger used due to it being their title and not wanting this filler article series stuck on Fridays, I call mine Four Color Combat!, and I have a good one to start with.

If you saw last week’s comic reviews, you may already guess where our first arena is. I didn’t read the Ultraverse comics when they came out. They seemed too 1990s, and even after watching the Ultraforce cartoon I just wasn’t connecting with what I saw on the shelves. Recently, since Marvel probably doesn’t care if you pirate them or not if they even know/remember they own it after burying it since they only wanted Malibu for their coloring techniques,  I’ve been looking into the comics and there are some pretty good ones. Solitaire is one of my favorites thus far, though I’m only a few issues in. It has some good action and a good story of fighting against a criminal organization run by the hero’s father. A father willing to employ a monkey cult where a fat woman thinks the baboon on her shoulder is a god and commands a white gorilla god to attack our hero.

Jane Goodall would be so disappointed.

THE ARENA: Solitaire #4 (Malibu Comics/Ultraverse: March, 1994: “Bad Monkey”)

THE PROMOTERS: Gerald Jones (writer), Jeff Johnson (penciler), Barbara Kaalberg (inker), Moose Baumann & Foodhammer! (coloring) and Tim Eldred (letterer)

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