Welcome to the 908th installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed, a column where we examine three comic book myths, rumors and legends and confirm or debunk them. This time, in honor of the passing of the great Arleen Sorkin, all three legends will be Harley Quinn-related. In our first legend, we explore the surprising influence that The Princess Bride had on the creation of Harley Quinn.A truism about comic book history that i often write about is that when one comic book company begins to have success with an idea, then the other companies try to follow suit with their own versions of that same idea. This isn’t even always just when comic book companies have successes, of course, as the same thing is true when movies or TV have hits, then comic book companies will often try to do comic book versions of those hit TV shows and/or movies. For a particularly notable (and amusing) example of this monkey-see/monkey-do behavior, look no further than the hit Andy Hardy films of the 1930s and 1940s about a “teen everyman” that turned Mickey Rooney into one of the world’s biggest movie stars. So MLJ Comics then came out with its own version of Andy Hardy, Archie Andrews, and when Archie became a success, every other comic book company launched its own Archie knockoff.RELATED: Did DC License Out Its Characters to Other Companies During World War II?
Welcome to the 908th installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed, a column where we examine three comic book myths, rumors and legends and confirm or debunk them. This time, in honor of the passing of the great Arleen Sorkin, all three legends will be Harley Quinn-related. In our first legend, we explore the surprising influence that The Princess Bride had on the creation of Harley Quinn.
A truism about comic book history that i often write about is that when one comic book company begins to have success with an idea, then the other companies try to follow suit with their own versions of that same idea. This isn’t even always just when comic book companies have successes, of course, as the same thing is true when movies or TV have hits, then comic book companies will often try to do comic book versions of those hit TV shows and/or movies. For a particularly notable (and amusing) example of this monkey-see/monkey-do behavior, look no further than the hit Andy Hardy films of the 1930s and 1940s about a “teen everyman” that turned Mickey Rooney into one of the world’s biggest movie stars. So MLJ Comics then came out with its own version of Andy Hardy, Archie Andrews, and when Archie became a success, every other comic book company launched its own Archie knockoff.
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