On an episode of THAT 70's SHOW, the character "Michael Kelso", played by Ashton Kutcher, is holding a comic book while talking with his friends.
That comic book featured a guest-starring role by Doctor Strange and he is also featured on the cover.
Before I give it away, I'll show the clip so you can check it out for yourself.
(I'll show JUST the few seconds where the comic is featured - so FOX lawyers, cut me some slack. I promise to totally make it worth your while at the end of this post.)
Ahhhhh!!!!... Did you see how he man-handled that comic?
The episode should have had an "parental guidance" tag for "Violence against Comics"!
The comic in question was AMAZING SPIDER-MAN # 109 from 1972.
Strangely enough, they could just as easily used an issue of the reprinted version in MARVEL TALES # 88 from February 1978!
That would still be correct from a continuity standpoint, since the show takes place after the release of Star Wars in 1977 (as evidenced by all the Star Wars mania of Eric Foreman - as played by Topher Grace).
Such a swap would have been especially good because, while the original John Romita Sr. cover is nice, it fails in one major design aspect by having a major character with his BACK facing the reader!
The Marvel Tales version is "corrected", (albeit poorly,) so that Dr. Strange is now front-facing.
Besides, a copy of Marvel Tales # 88 would have been a much cheaper find and would be more acceptable for the kind of rough treatment given by Kutcher/Kelso.
...I'm just saying.
For those of you who came here while searching for some "sexy" images of Ashton Kutcher on a bed (that should bump up the google-search engine tally) here ya go:
That's the male version of a similar scene I featured with Megan Fox lying half-naked while reading an issue of Doctor Strange (pic [HERE]).
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Hey, FOX legal department! Here's some "pay for play" for letting me use that clip:
That episode; "Who Are You?" is episode # 15 from Season 6 and can be purchased from this very blog (via AMAZON)!
So, hey readers... support your 70's flashbacks with more than just weed and old comics... buy a DVD boxed set today!
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"Tamam Shud!"
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3 comments:
I had no idea there was a new-ish cover for the reprint. Onto the want-list it goes! Any information on who re-drew the Strange figure?
hahaha, this post is fun. thanks.
I never liked that show but i still think that's pretty cool that they had an appearance of a Marvel comic in an episode.
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