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1964-04-01 00:07:11
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Tales Of Suspense #52 (Watcher)

Issue(s): Tales Of Suspense #52 (Watcher story only)
Cover Date: Apr 64
Title: "The Failure
Credits:
Stan Lee - Plot
Larry Lieber - Script
Larry Lieber - Penciler
Paul Reinman - Inker

Review/plot:
The Watcher tells a story from the Earth's future...

...where the one man on Earth who hasn't been brainwashed by the the disciples of Ayn Rand...

...is abducted from Earth and made president of an alien empire.

Quality Rating: C

Historical Significance Rating: 2

Chronological Placement Considerations: N/A

References: N/A

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: Marvel Collector's Item Classics #13

Characters Appearing: Uatu the Watcher

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Comments

I wasn't there, so I probably shouldn't be inadvertently starting an Internet myth, but I wonder if part of this story was a light rebuttal to conversations Lee had with Steve Ditko.

Posted by: Jay Patrick | September 10, 2013 3:48 PM

Excuse me. I just realized that Lee's brother scripted this, not Lee himself. Interesting.

Posted by: Jay Patrick | September 10, 2013 3:52 PM

If Stan Lee wanted to take a dig at Steve Ditko and get away with it, this would be a great way to do it. Provide a thumbnail plot, and get someone else to write and draw it. This was around the same time as "How Stan Lee and Steve Ditko Created Spider-man," in one of the early annuals (S-M 2?), which gently (actually not so gently) parodied their working relationship.

Posted by: haydn | March 9, 2014 9:19 PM

I don't know about a dig at Ditko but I personally think Ayn Rand was full of hooey.

Posted by: Bobby Sisemore | October 28, 2016 8:15 PM

I'm disappointed the cigar-chomping proto-Claremont in the final scan didn't throw a "body and soul" or a "bang, you dead" in there.

Posted by: Mojonuts | November 9, 2016 3:59 PM

Dear lord, Stan Lee & Larry Lieber predicted the election of Trump! :P

Posted by: Ben Herman | November 11, 2016 10:58 AM




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