How cool is this? Andrew Farago found an unusual Spider-Man comic from the 1970s while browsing in San Francisco, a comic with the brilliant title of “Stan Lee presents: A Special Planet Parenthood Issue Of The Amazing Spider-Man”. Our scheming bad guy is planning to tell impressionable teens that they should have wild, unprotected, care-free sex and thus destroy youth and create lots of unwanted babies the Prodigy can scoop off to Intellectia! The dastardly swine!
I remember the AIDS and safe sex awareness mini-comic DC had in several Vertigo lines back in the 90s with Death and John Constantine and a banana giving advice, but I’ve never seen this. Funny, usually we are told comics rot kid’s brains and corrupt impressionable use, yet here we are with a cheesy but well-meaning attempt at health education, comics doing their civic-minded duty. Mind you, to some religious fundamentalists planned parenthood is utterly evil too, just proving you can’t please everyone… (link via Boing Boing)
Thu, Jul 26, 2007
Comics and cartoons