Marvel Comics to release Pro-Homosexual Comic Book.

CNN.com ^ | December 9, 2002 | staff

[TheBattman]

Excerpt: NEW YORK (CNN) -- Marvel Comics plans to break new ground in the comic book industry by introducing the first openly gay title character in a comic book.

The character will appear in a revival of the 1950s title, "The Rawhide Kid." Marvel expects a February debut.

The new series pairs the original artist, John Severin, now 86, with Ron Zimmerman, a writer for the "Howard Stern Show."

The Rawhide Kid has been a Marvel character since the 1950s both as a main and a secondary character. However, it was not until Zimmerman approached Marvel with his idea of a homosexual Rawhide Kid that sexuality was mentioned in the discussion of the character.

Although shy with girls, the original Rawhide Kid was not intended to be gay. The new version uses double entendres and euphemisms to reveal his homosexuality without saying anything explicitly. Based on a blurb on Marvel's Web site, the tone may be campy.

[weegee]

I guess that they couldn't license the rights to trash the Lone Ranger (and Tonto) this way.

Marvel has already had a gay superhero (and the Rawhide Kid wasn't a superhero anyway).

The "House Of Ideas" is out of them.

[weegee]

The Bareback Kid?

[Malcolm]

That's how to do it, appeal to kids. I heard the commies used the same method. We live in an evil time. Very much so.....

[csvset]

What a revolting development!

[mlbford2]

I guess he walks up to the bartender in the saloon and asks for a flaming orgasm shot. I don't see how the bartender wouldn't shoot his ass. Or if the town tries to organize a possie, he would say, "I don't like 'possie'". Or if the town wants to lynch somebody he would get a boner because they are going to tie someone up. I don't know, just a few things that would make it difficult to be a gay gunslinger.

[strela]

Is that a Colt Peacemaker in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

[weegee]

Didn't some writer at DC create a homosexual Green Lantern?

[weegee]

What next? We'll find out that American Flagg was really gay and all of those nekkid ladies were really just beards?

[Celtjew Libertarian]

The Rawhide Kid? This is going to be pro-gay like a Mel Brooks movie or the Britcom Are You Being Served?

Actually, it sounds like a fun read.

[weegee]

I knew there was something about Sitwell. You don't think that he and Fury uh, you know?

John Severin also drew Sgt. Fury and His Howlin' Commandos; next we'll be hearing rumors about them as well. < /sarcasm >

Marvel lost me when they turned Iron man into a murderer. Unforgiveable.

Yeah but that happened long after his bout with alcoholism. Ever since the "realism" of the late 1960s, the private lives of comic book characters have gone in the toilet. Even Spider-Man was molested as a kid by his babysitter (in a promotional comic on child abuse).

For those who would say "That didn't really happen because it was made up for something outside of the continuity", all of the stories are made up.

[mlmr]

I thought we already had these guys:

Who said "we" Kemosabe???

[weegee]

Something ain't right about that boy.

He should have read more of the right kind of comics as a kid:

Scott Shaw (the director of the Flintstones cereal commercials, creator of the Rhino Records' rhino, cartoonist, and comics historian) may have unearthed an example of the "wrong" type of comics though. There was one promotional series titled "Manuel Pacifico, Tuna Fisherman". The fishermen never have sexual relations but they seemed overtly homosexual.

[JoeSixPack1]

It took 30 years of unrelenting homo propaganda to understand those comics had an underlying secret msg of homosexuality.

Or maybe the world was not so attuned to toughguy/niceguy/homo type thinking?

[IronJack]

That's the end of Marvel for me. No more of their comics, no more of any of their products. If they want approval from the homos more than they want my money, hey, it's a free country!

[weegee]

[Bars4Bill]

"Ah'm lookin for some Rawhide Kid."

[weegee]

"We keep the porno comics in the backroom, sir."

[weegee]

If that one wasn't bad enough, here's Toni Gay and Butch Dykeman in a comic from the 1950s (Popular Teenagers).

[weegee]

Here's a cover for an old Rawhide Kid comic. While he wasn't a super-hero, Stan Lee did have him fight a super-villain: