STAN LEE'S MOST PRETENTIOUS TITLES!

STAN LEE'S MOST PRETENTIOUS TITLES!

Aye, pilgrims! Thou hast come to a place powerful--a sphere stupendous beyond... words! Here there shall be ineptness... overstatement... pure puffery... misplaced grandeur! So it was for the Stan Lee story titles, lo, those yearning years of 1965 through 1967! Masterworks of overkill... zeniths of malarkey! Verily--here be the hogwash! Let it reign--ETERNAL!
If it be thy will, send thee your humble submissions. Let them be reviewed--let them be judged! And let the lucky ones--be... published!
... AND A MAN SHALL SEND THEM HENCE...!

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

"Enter...The TUMBLER!" (Tales of Suspense #83, 1967)

Greetings, pilgrims! Let's face it--this one is a hoot! Stan the Man dug slappin' the superlatives on his passel of passe super-villains! This one's no exception!
"Enter... The TUMBLER!" is, verily, a jolting joule of dazzling drama. These very words send tingles down the spine--nay, they electrify your ever-lovin' soul!
I don't know 'bout you, effendi, but this reporter has a hard time gettin' excited about anyone who dares call himself "The Tumbler!" Sheesh--Stan coulda tried just a little bit harder, eh?
Or mebbe this crackpot character came from the panicky pencil and manic mind of "The King" himself! Let's never forget to give Kirby the props for creation of characters, concepts, plots--sheesh, the whole ever-lovin' shebang!--in his Marvel stories.
Here at Pretentioustan HQ, we get a big bang outta the misplaced drama in this titanic, tremulous title.
May it brighten your day like a stack of high-falutin' dynamite! Excelsior!

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