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Happy Anniversary to Marvel Super-Heroes #3, released 30 years ago.
Featuring a Speedball story by writer Fabian Nicieza, penciler Steve Buccellato, inker Mickey Ritter, colorist Mike Rockwitz, letterer Michael Heisler, editor Mark Gruenwald and cover artist Kieron Dwyer!
#NW30
Featuring a Speedball story by writer Fabian Nicieza, penciler Steve Buccellato, inker Mickey Ritter, colorist Mike Rockwitz, letterer Michael Heisler, editor Mark Gruenwald and cover artist Kieron Dwyer!
#NW30
This was the first issue of the quarterly relaunch of Marvel Super-Heroes with a Speedball story not plotted and/or drawn by the character's co-creator, Steve Ditko.
Ditko wasn't without a gig though, as he contributed a Hulk story elsewhere in the issue.
Ditko wasn't without a gig though, as he contributed a Hulk story elsewhere in the issue.
This issue's Speedball story was a 1-page gag called “How Speedball's Powers Work!” It's a fun bit that gets across the pure fun of Speedball, and also suggests we shouldn't think too hard about the science behind his powers. Nova appears as well to hammer home the point.
Thanks to @novaprimepage’s Xandar Radio, we now know Mark Gruenwald had a hand in the New Warriors' creation. He and Tom DeFalco felt Marvel needed an answer to Teen Titans (and New Mutants wasn't it). DeFalco selected the line-up from Marvel Handbooks. https://anchor.fm/xandar-radio/episodes/Xandar-Radio-Episode-1-eg97e2
I wonder if Gruenwald kept including Speedball stories in the new Marvel Super-Heroes anthology he was editing as a way to help New Warriors out.
The story ends with the fitting tag "The ever-loving furshlugginer end”.
“Furshlugginer" is a Yiddish word popularized by Harvey Kurtzman in the 1950s era of MAD (before it became MAD Magazine). Basically “battered piece of junk" or generally “foolish".
https://www.yourdictionary.com/furshlugginer
“Furshlugginer" is a Yiddish word popularized by Harvey Kurtzman in the 1950s era of MAD (before it became MAD Magazine). Basically “battered piece of junk" or generally “foolish".
https://www.yourdictionary.com/furshlugginer
