An Additional Thought on Agent Carter
Jan. 25th, 2014 07:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineLooking back at what I know of the character of Peggy Carter, it's a bit of a surprise to see her achieve such commercial stature with Marvel's film and TV operations. And yet, such commercial success for a property deemed "obscure" by modern lights is hardly unknown to comics, is it?
(I use that phrasing for a reason. When Peggy was introduced in 1966, she was as high-profile as Pepper Potts, Sue Richards, or Betty Brant. No longer, at least in the comics, though...)
Take a look at DC's Animal Man. When Grant Morrison and Chas Truog turned their attention to Buddy Baker back in the late 1980's, "A-Man" was about as obscure as it got. Sure, there was that gathering of "Forgotten Heroes" in DC Comics Presents a year or two before the first Crisis maxi-series. But did anyone expect the book that Morrison and Truog started to last a decade and become a cornerstone of one of DC's most acclaimed lines of product?
Hope, yes. Expect? Probably not.
And yet it did.
Not quite sure how it happened, but there were enough happy coincidences to make it work.
And now it looks to be happening again, to Marvel's benefit.
Curious to see where and how this goes...
(I use that phrasing for a reason. When Peggy was introduced in 1966, she was as high-profile as Pepper Potts, Sue Richards, or Betty Brant. No longer, at least in the comics, though...)
Take a look at DC's Animal Man. When Grant Morrison and Chas Truog turned their attention to Buddy Baker back in the late 1980's, "A-Man" was about as obscure as it got. Sure, there was that gathering of "Forgotten Heroes" in DC Comics Presents a year or two before the first Crisis maxi-series. But did anyone expect the book that Morrison and Truog started to last a decade and become a cornerstone of one of DC's most acclaimed lines of product?
Hope, yes. Expect? Probably not.
And yet it did.
Not quite sure how it happened, but there were enough happy coincidences to make it work.
And now it looks to be happening again, to Marvel's benefit.
Curious to see where and how this goes...
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