It's no secret comic book fans complain about anything and everything, but the complaint of Anne Greco printed in Fantastic Four #95 (1969) took it to an entirely new level of nit-pickery. According to Ms. Greco, there just weren't enough ugly superheroes populating Marvel comic books!Stan (or Roy) explained Marvel's apparent anti-ugly policy...
By this point, it's clear that Anne of Ontario was getting more of an
explanation than she ever bargained for. But wait...there's more!
...and more...
'NUFF SAID!
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How great would it be if Marvel still only published 21 comics in a month instead of 21-or-more mutant books and 40 or so others?
Posted by: JJ | March 26, 2009 at 12:25 AM
Back in Uncanny's 80s heyday, I was always very proud of one of my favourite comics characters, Logan/Wolverine, who -- let's face it -- had a mug only a mother could love... and the personality to go with it!
Posted by: Aldous | March 26, 2009 at 01:01 AM
The Thing had a cute nose? Actually Ben as Ben and not Thing was still a pretty homely guy.
If you watch TV shows, you'll notice that the villains always have some sort of deformity--scars, receding hairlines, pock marks, broken noses, etc.
In fact, some major Marvel villains had that trait as well--the Mole Man and Dr Doom.
Posted by: Pat Curley | March 26, 2009 at 12:18 PM
... Of course, this was all before the debuts of Deadpool (rotting), Rorschach (homely, smelly), and Hellboy (demonically craggy).
Posted by: Mr. Shiny | March 26, 2009 at 02:47 PM
Originally, Peter Parker was kind of a gawky, nerdy, high-forehead skinny guy/pencil neck geek before he got turned into Rob Lowe.
Posted by: zubzwank | March 26, 2009 at 05:05 PM
Kirby was great at drawing normal-to-ugly villains. And the best ones weren't really villains, just misunderstood. And they were OLD as well. I love old, ugly misunderstood characters. Some examples: http://enterthestory.com/images/ff_old2.jpg http://enterthestory.com/images/ff_old3.jpg
http://enterthestory.com/images/ff_old4.jpg http://enterthestory.com/images/ff_old5.jpg
Posted by: Chris Tolworthy | March 26, 2009 at 06:15 PM
Of course, you can't forget the KING of ugly himself: MODOK
Posted by: Mark Engblom | March 26, 2009 at 08:13 PM