So today we will have our four-for-a-dollar challenge with plenty of books to choose from as even I was surprised by just how prevalent the theme is. It seems that Lois Lane and Superman explored wedded bliss rather consistently throughout their existence and Spider-Man and Mary Jane had their share of covers. Archie had some options with Betty and Veronica. And many other characters were also depicted on the important day. Brides and grooms are everywhere from the Golden Age to the modern era of comics.
Without further ado, because there is so much to look at, let's get started! Pick your favorites, consider what you find most interesting, and share your thoughts. Have fun as we explore superhero and comic book nuptials. Raise a glass...and cheers!
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I think you could have made the entire selection with covers that solely feature Superman (or Clark Kent) and/or Lois Lane. Here's another one you missed, and then there's a few more of the ones with a 'twist,' like Lois marrying Bruce Wayne or even, I kid you not, Satan.
And there's two more X-covers, featuring Kitty and Caliban, and, of course, a more recent one (that I never read) which got a lot of press.
Oh, by the way, you double-posted Girl's Love #177.
Thanks, Marti!
Wonderful selections. Of course the one I was most interested in at the time of publication was ASM Annual 21 - and naturally I bought both covers (didn't we all back then?).
I loved the Popeye cover, and as Edo remarked, all the various Superman covers are... interesting. Several examples of Superdickery!
Doug
Doug,
1. Congratulations!
2. To answer your parenthetical question: nope, I didn't...
There will soon be a bunch more wedding covers available, as Batman and Catwoman are tying the knot. Actually, a couple of those covers I've seen are pretty nice.
Katy Keene, from Archie Comics, has had some beautiful wedding themed covers. credit due to the talents of Barb Rausch and Bill Woggon...
I will say this about that:
The wedding of Reed Richards and Susan Storm never got a cover!!! Shameful!!! I bet it was because Stan and Jack got turned away...
Thankfully, for me, I had stopped reading Spider-Man before the wedding, so there's that...
I do believe with Wolverine and Lady Mariko, they ended up not getting married. She had clan duties and what not and Logan was a loner, a rebel, a blah blah blah... but still bonded in their hearts. Which, according to my standards, if I didn't eat cake, you didn't get married!
If I remember that Fantastic Four storyline, Reed and Victor were locked in a Death Match, and just as Doom's suit was about to blow, Reed switched his consciousness with Victor's so Victor/Reed got sent somewhere and Reed/Victor stayed but trapped in the body and armor of Victor Von Doom. Reed had two problems, how to convince his teammates and wife that he was Reed and how to get out of the armor. He eventually solved both problems. Bonus, since Victor was never exposed to the radiation that Reed was, Reed/Victor was able to, um, er, well, "bless" Sue with a baby. It was a girl... these were real storylines, people!!!
Lastly, the Marvel Unplugged line was an attempt to tell one off stories aimed at new readers. They were non-continual, printed on cheap paper and usually done by "newer" talent. The Avengers and the Fantastic Four each had a title. That issue had the wedding of Titania and the Absorbing Man. If you remember, they started their relationship during the first Secret Wars. She-Hulk saw all the villains together and thought they were up to no-good. After several false starts, they finally get married. Another thing from Secret Wars was the ongoing feud between She-Hulk and Titania. Speaking of Secret Wars, I've finally finished with the twelve issue limited series and will probably start posting them soon over at my thing... Did I just do a commercial!?!
(Woah! Spring is here and the sky is so very blue.
Wo-o-o-oah, birds all sing as if they knew,
today's the day we'll say, "I do,"
and we'll never be lonely anymore.
Because we're goin' to the chapel
and we're gonna get married,
goin' to the chapel
and we're gonna get married,
gee, I really love you
and we're gonna get married,
goin' to the chapel of love.
Bells will ring and the sun is gonna shine.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna be his, he's gonna be mine.
We're gonna love until the end of time,
and we'll never be lonely anymore.
Because we're goin' to the chapel
and we're gonna get married,
goin' to the chapel
and we're gonna get married,
gee, I really love you
and we're gonna get married,
goin' to the chapel of love.
One more time around, oh.
Goin' to the chapel and we're, oh, gonna get married,
goin', goin' to the chapel, baby; we're gonna get married, married,
oh, gee, I really love you, c'mon baby,
we're gonna get married, married,
goin' to the chapel of love.
Oooh, a one more time,
we're goin' to the chapel of love.
C'mon, c'mon and let me hear it,
goin' to the chapel of love, love, love).
Wow, I've actually read a lot of these ... Pete and MJ, Wolvie and Mariko, Hank and Jan, Vision and Wanda, the Spidey What Ifs, Rick and Marlo, Bruce and Betty, the fake Legion weddings, Shulkie ... that Liberty Meadows one with Brandy ended on kind of a cliffhanger if I remember right, but I don't know if it was ever followed up on. It's amazing how many of these weddings were interrupted or called off.
I'll go with some I haven't read:
New Titans (another one that didn't go through if I recall correctly), Deadpool (because it looks incredibly zany), Scott and Jean (which I missed at the time and never got around to reading), and Avengers Unplugged (because I've heard about Titania and Absorbing Man's wedding, but never read the story).
Got to go with Avengers 60 as I recall my Grandmother giving it to me as a gift for some reason. (Sick?) Admittedly I could not understand the whole Yellow Jacket = Giant Man / Goliath context. But I did LOVE that full-page spread of all the heroes enjoying a high ball!
Of course a Golden Age Captain Marvel (Holey Moley indeed!) is a must!
And, since I've been binging on Mark Waid's Archie run of the last few years, I'll take the issue(s) where Archie marries Veronica and then Betty from about 5 years ago. (I got those for my kids as they came out and they went bat sh!t crazy when they learned it was all a dream sequence / hypothetical run of stories. They never heard of such a stunt, LOL.)
You have to wonder if, b/c Super Man was invincible, the writers had to do a disproportionate number of hypothetical marriages to find something to write about?
I dunno about Supes' invincibility, there, CH47--- judging from the cover of Action #143, he may have been PERILOUSLY vulnerable to too many Super-EarlyBird visits to the Super-Buffet. . . knowwhatI'msaying? (Man, paint him grey, and he could be Lead from The Metal Men-!)
I do have about 12 of the issues shown here, but whereas I usually rule those out, I'm still going to pick:
Avengers #60- It's, like, the perfect comic book, isn't it? And smack in the middle of my own personal "Best run of all time" choice. And the cover-- John Buscema! (Pre-Conan) Giant Snake! Floating Heads! The very first time I read this run (#57-#66) I had NO idea who about half of these Avengers were at all. . . and I was completely, completely sucked into this team's world. Still get tingly remembering how cool that felt. . .
Amazing Spider-Man #131- so many fans lost track of the fact that this book was still good (and eventually even fun again) after Gwen's death. And this was a particularly enjoyable, ya-gotta-be-kiddin'-me, arc. Granted, May's nigh-incomprehensible obtuseness could make you want to tear the book in half, sometimes. . . (GREAT final sequence with Hammerhead getting his-- ha!-- head jammed into an unstable nuclear reactor!)
And then-- hey, let me have both of those Flash issues! That book was so oddly dark and cool in the Silver Age (sometimes)-- if I were ever to go back and attempt to collect a whole old run, it would probably be the Flash. . .
HB
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