Crazy #3
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeMarvel's 1973 humor magazine turns up the absurdity with this "Special Awesome Origins Issue," and the cover by Marie Severin and Herb Trimpe delivers a wonderfully chaotic scene: a Superman-styled parody figure labeled "Stupor-Man" takes a hammer to the head from a stretching blue-suited hero, while a rocky orange bruiser swings below and a flame-wreathed figure blazes in the background — all clearly riffing on Marvel's own Fantastic Four as "The Fantastical Four." Roy Thomas and Marie Severin are behind the inside laughs, spoofing superhero origin stories with the kind of gleeful irreverence that made Marvel's humor titles a genuine treat in the early seventies.
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The infant Twink-Ell is jettisoned from the planet Kreepton before it explodes. After being kicked out by the Kettles, he names himself Stuporman, the Man of Steam, and decides to fight crime. Further empowered by the Natural Comics Publications Inc, he conquers all crime. Changing their mind about Stuporman being so powerful, Wienieburger and Birdwell develop Kreeptonite as a challenge. They also develop a long line of "stupor"-sidekicks. Stuporman ships the sidekicks, Wienieburger and Birdwell off in a rocket.
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