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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Nov 2019

      1. I have to say, I thought I'd never want to read another word on Scorsese & Marvel movies. I was wrong. This Scorsese op ed is excellent. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/opinion/martin-scorsese-marvel.html#click=https://t.co/LjH5BF1qdE …

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Nov 2019

      2. Scorsese's real concern (obvious from his original remarks) wasn't about Marvel movies but about the diminishing theatrical spaces for non-franchise movies. That's a legitimate concern -- one that you don't have to dislike Marvel movies (or like Scorsese movies) to share

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Nov 2019

      3. In terms of the dilemma of directors like Scorsese, Coppola, Bill Forsyth etc. in the age of franchise, it strangely mirrors the experience of artists like Don Heck (1929-1995) & Gene Colon (1926-2011) in the comic book industry as superheroes came to dominate.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Nov 2019

      4. Heck & Colon started off as comic book artists in the 1940s, when superheroes were one genre among many. The industry cycled through romance comics, horror, crime, funny animals, westerns, etc.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Nov 2019

      5. As journeymen artists, Colon & Heck were among the first artists Stan Lee brought on when the superhero line was expanding beyond even the prolific abilities of Jack Kirby & Steve Ditko.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Nov 2019

      6. Anyways, Colan (Sp!)& Heck were fine artists but they weren't natural superhero artists like Kirby & Ditko. Colan in particular seemed constrained by superheroes, since his shadowy style suited horror & gothic stories more. He did find a niche in Daredevil, Batman & Dracula.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Nov 2019

          7. The point is that Colan & Heck adapted (as other artists did) to the new domination of superheroes as best they could. Marvel made Kirby their "house style." Some artists could adapt to that, some couldn't. But ideally there would have been greater genre diversity for artists

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Nov 2019

          8. Another artist who came to have doubts about the dominance of a single genre owned by two companies was Jack Kirby, who did more to create the superhero genre than anyone else.

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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Nov 2019

          9. Late in life Kirby (working with Steve Gerber) created a series called Destroyer Duck which parodied Marvel Comics as GODCORP LTD. It had the slogan: "Grab it all, own it all, drain it all." That could be Disney 2019.pic.twitter.com/iHNayQRxcl

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        1. AGoodQuestion‏ @Benjones2Jones 4 Nov 2019
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          Oddly he was perfectly suited to Howard the Duck too.

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        2. The Spy Command‏ @TheSpyCommand 4 Nov 2019
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          I thought I read that Colan's family name originally was Cohen and it got changed somewhere along the way. In the '70s, Colan started doing Dracula, a title he was born to draw. His version of Daredevil remains my favorite.

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        3. Peter Key‏ @PeterLKey 4 Nov 2019
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          During Marvel's first decade or so, I thought he was the best artist on Daredevil, Dr. Strange and Iron Man and arguably the best on Sub-Mariner.

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        2. Nick's Baseball Fireside Chat‏ @nicktalksstuff 7 Nov 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          that's not really a fault of DC or Marvel but because of Wertham and his stupid crusade against comic books and then the Comics Code coming in and not allowing anything edgy anymore. This isn't that. There is no big bad guy saying no one can make a certain kind of film.

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        3. Nick's Baseball Fireside Chat‏ @nicktalksstuff 7 Nov 2019
          Replying to @nicktalksstuff @HeerJeet

          Either you're woefully ignorant of that time frame in comic history or you're just trying to skew your point. There's a difference. It's not that Marvel, EC, etc wanted to shut down those Weird or Horror, they were told they couldn't. Not in the way those guys were accustomed.

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