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Bob McLeod Gets A Changed Credit In New Mutants
So when she appeared briefly in the first Deadpool movie, Lobdell and Madueria were denied that credit too, in favour of Loeb and Brewer. But someone who did get a credit on the Marvel 616 documentary series for Disney+ was Dave Thorpe, the originator of the term 616 as a designator of a shared universe reality, from[...]
What Does Marvel 616 Actually Mean? We Explain Again
There's being self-deprecatory and there's self-assassination. Screencap from Marvel 616 on Disney + But what does the Marvel 616 term actually mean? You will find lots of explanations online, but only one website, Bleeding Cool back then, actually thought to ask the man who invented it, Dave Thorpe Even though he never actually put it into print…[...]
Jim Jaspers And The Fury In Today's X Of Swords: Stasis
The Crooked Market has, reigning, Sir James Jaspers, Mad Jim Jaspers. Mad Jim Jaspers And The Fury Appear In Today's X Of Swords: Stasis The first Alan Davis/Dave Thorpe Jim Jaspers stories began using Alice In Wonderland imagery, and you can see a giant teapot behind his throne, resembling a clerk's writing desk Is a raven like[...]
Marvel 616 Is Named After A Town In Siberia
But what does it actually mean? You will find lots of explanations online, but only one website, Bleeding Cool, actually thought to ask the man who invented it, Dave Thorpe Even though he never actually put it into print… Once upon a time, in 1981, Dave Thorpe was writing original Captain Britain comic strips for Marvel[...]