Who can know?
All we can know is that, thanks to that fact, this is going to be a very short post.
It's that noticeably odd Spider-Tale in which Mary Jane witnesses a murder and our hero comes up against a man pretending to be the Vulture.
It's a tale packed with logic holes and people not acting quite as they would be expected to in such circumstances.
I seem to remember that, not much later than this tale, we also got a story in which the wall-crawler meets an impostor pretending to be Mysterio.
We can only conclude that writer Gerry Conway had a thing for fake super-villains.
I think that cover gives a clue to the third and most famous Conway attempt at replacing a classic super villain, Steve.
ReplyDeleteIt does indeed, dangermash. He was clearly obsessed with it.
ReplyDeletei can't think of a super-villain in the whole Marvel firmament who hasn't been imitated or impersonated at one point or another. Pretty standard and hackneyed plot device. Even Doc Doom had some punk kid in an armored suit impersonating him, and Thanos had a couple of rogue clones running around. There was even a Lady Stiltman. Is nothing sacred?
ReplyDeleteAs for me, my attempts at impersonating Dracula when I was five years old are regarded as an amusing story at family get-togethers and has made me the subject of mirth. Despite jumping off chairs with a towel fastened around my neck with a safety-pin, I fooled no one.
I no longer attend those gatherings, as the small amount of dignity I retain has become precious to me.
M.P.