Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Late last night I heard the screen door slam/And a big yellow taxi took away my Ben Grimm

Wodehouse on Thursday this week, True Bullievers! And tonight? Well, why not hail down The Cabbies of the Marvel Universe?:

A cabbie of the Marvel Universe
Panels from Fantastic Four #1 (November 1961), written by Stan Lee, art by Jack Kirby and George Klein (?)


A cabbie of the Marvel Universe
Panels from Fantastic Four #111 (June 1971), written by Stan Lee, art by John Buscema and Joe Sinnott


A cabbie of the Marvel Universe
Panels from Fantastic Four #176 (November 1976), written by Roy Thomas, art by George Perez, Joe Sinnott, and Michele Wolfman


A cabbie of the Marvel Universe
Panels from Fantastic Four #239 (February 1982), written by John Byrne, art by John Byrne and Glynis Wein


A cabbie of the Marvel Universe
A cabbie of the Marvel Universe
Panels from Fantastic Four #181 (April 1977), written by Roy Thomas, art Ron Wilson, Joe Sinnott, and George Roussos


A cabbie of the Marvel Universe
Panels from Fantastic Four #17 (August 1963), written by Stan Lee, art by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers


And let us not forget...the Cabbie who drives Thinking Yellow Taxi from Clor #1:
A cabbie of the Marvel Universe


Every man jack of them white as cabbie Jack Lockley's superhero uniform.


7 comments:

JdR said...

Long time reader, first time commenter.

What about the Byrne issue where the cab Ben is in is torn in half by Terrax? About #259 off the top of my head.

Keep up the good work.

Anonymous said...

I think my favorite "jaded Marvel New Yorker" bit is the cabbie with:

"Y'ask me, it's all a publicity stunt!"

I swear, some variation of this one must have appeared in every other Marvel comic for years! And to this day, Stan makes frequent use of it in the Spider-Man comic strip and his various special comic projects.

And I love it! Even better is the typical refrain of the cabbie who actually *does* see, oh, a battle between the FF and the Red Ghost's Super-Apes first-hand: "Ah, they're just on location filming some nutty new sci-fi picture!"

SallyP said...

Actually my favorite part of the Thor scan, is that Thor wanders off and forgets to pay him!

Haw!

But for an ethnic Cab driver, I'm afraid you'll have to go and read last month's Birds of Prey, wherein Lady Blackhawk basically kidnaps a nice cabbie and has him drive her from Metropolis to California, and they end up hijacking the Amish.

Jayunderscorezero said...

I don't have it to hand to check right now, but didn't Busiek & Ross' Marvels feature a NY cabbie who was actually Stan Lee or Jack Kirby or someone like that? I can't quite seem to recall off of the top of my head.

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Velocity DeWitt said...

Doesn't Ben Grimm weigh like 1500 pounds? I think cabs are within their rights not to pick him up, since he'd be bad for the suspension.

Anonymous said...

Actually, Monty, Byrne had a cute picture in an issue of FF (I want to say #259; should be the issue after the "All Dr. Doom" issue) which shows the Thing sprawled out in the back of a cab and he's definitely demolished it just by getting it.

Anonymous said...

Hell with Ben's weight: how the heck can he FIT into a cab, much less not hitting its ceiling, much much less with plenty of room for other people?