A friend linked me to a post on FB, showing a panel from an old Marvel Comics panel, indicating that some long ago slang was unintentional salacious in a modern context. I never heard this particular slang, even back in the old days, but that doesnt mean it wasnt real. I simply dont know. And Marvel writers when I was reading their comics in my early days occasionally did use slang, like java for coffee, that seemed pretty outdated to me as a college student at the time. So maybe its true. Except it isnt. And comics take enough flak as it is. A little web research enabled me to locate the actual source of the panel. The version on the left is the purportedly unintentionally salacious version, of which there are numerous copies on the web. The version on the right, scanned from my own copy of Captain America 176 (when it was called Captain America and the Falcon) is the same panel as originally printed in 1974. I will grant you that the correct panel is rather less interesting than the altered version. But apparently, not everything posted on the web is true. Im stunned. I need to go sit down. PS: Its also worth noting that the letter spacing around the word, dick in the first version is noticeably different from the letter spacing in the rest of the balloon.
Posted on: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 02:14:45 +0000
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