Il y a 20 ans : Août 1984

[Schmürz]

	Citation:			Posté par XXL
	Voici donc une sorte de real comics mais qui sera vite rattrapée par l'actualité du personnage dont elle s'inspire.

Ca veut dire quoi, exactement ?

Bon courage pour les suivants.

[XXL]

	Citation:			Posté par Schmürz
	Ca veut dire quoi, exactement ? .

Suspenssssssse! A suivre dans la pasionnante saga de l'Homme Mouuuuuche! Bzzzzz Bzzz

[Ivan Rebroff]

La couverture est d'Elias. Et rendons à César ce qui lui appartient: le vrai Human Fly était Evel Knievel, un cascadeur qui sautait par-dessus des véhicules enflammés, se jettait nu dans un tonneau du haut des chutes du Niagara, éteignait des pétards avec son rectum, le menu habituel...
Alors, une remarque perfide: l'apparition de Spidey dès le premier numéro semble un gage de qualité intrinsèque.
Ah oui, une deuxième remarque: XXL serait-il le fils de Bill Mantlo?

[XXL]

Damned, je suis découvert!
Il s'est vraiment appliqué pour la cover alors sur ce coup Elias!
Je ne peux m'empêcher de pouffer à l'avance quand le sfans du grand John Byrne découvriront qu'il a fait une cover pour human Fly!
T'as plus d'infos sur Even Knievel? il est encore vivant?

[Ivan Rebroff]

Ce Daredevil pour de vrai semble être devenu un produit très recherché. L'homme en lui-même s'est fait transplanter un foie en 1998. C'est affreux, je me mets à écrire des messages people.
Comment est Bill, dans la vie de tous les jours?

[XXL]

Echange de bons procédés: je ne sais pas si tu as remarqué mais Bill Mantlo a disparu d'un coup après être passé chez Dc vers 1988-1989 pour le crossover Invasion. En fait, il a eu un grave accident de voiture: il s'est fait renverser et s'est retrouvé à l'hôpital dans un état grave. Il en est ressorti très amoindri avec des séquelles neurologiques. Il semblerait qu'il se rapproche de plus en plus malheureusement de l'état de "légume". La denrière fois que j'ai demandé des nouvelles, on m'a dit que son cas empirait.
Sinon, voila ce que j'ai trouvé sur notre ami cascadeur:

Quues repères biographiques (j'ai beaucoup coupé), pris ICI
The quintessential American daredevil motorcyclist, Evel Knievel defied gravity as he rode his bike to the heights of international fame in increasingly challenging, thrilling stunts.

Knievel’s popularity transcended the world of motorcycling. During the early 1970s, Knievel was one of the best known celebrities in the world. His jumps attracted thousands of spectators and millions more watched on television.

Knievel reached the zenith of his popularity in 1974, prior to his ill-fated jump over the Snake River Canyon in Idaho in a jet-powered “Skycycle.” At least two feature films and numerous books were made on Knievel’s life. After years of relative obscurity, Knievel enjoyed a renewal of popularity in the 1990s and was featured in television commercials. A number of television specials retold the story of his life and times.

Born in the wide-open copper mining town of Butte, Montana, on October 17, 1938, Robert Craig Knievel was raised by his grandparents from the age of 6. At age 8, he saw Joey Chitwood's Auto Daredevil Show, which he later credited for his career choice. As a teenager, Knievel was always getting in trouble with the local police for petty crimes. Despite his mischievous reputation, the townsfolk and even the police liked Knievel.

In 1962, Knievel broke his collarbone and shoulder in a motorcycle race. While on the mend, he took a job as an insurance salesman. He later worked at a motorcycle dealership in Washington state, drumming up business by offering $100 off of the price of a motorcycle to anyone who could beat him at arm wrestling.

During this time Knievel’s mischievousness, which was endearing at a young age, turned into a life of crime as a young adult. He landed in jail for robbery more than once. When one of his partners was shot, he decided it was time to get his act together and turn his back on crime.

In 1965, he began his daredevil career when he formed a troupe called Evel Knievel's Motorcycle Daredevils, a touring show in which he performed stunts such as riding through walls of fire and jumping over live rattlesnakes and mountain lions. The name Evel came from one of Knievel’s early sponsors, who wanted to call him Evil, but settled on Evel after Knievel complained that he didn’t want to convey an image of a bad person.

In 1966, he began touring alone, saying that it was too much trouble having employees. Barnstorming the western states, Evel did everything himself, including truck driving, ramp erecting, promoting and performing his ever-longer and more dangerous motorcycle jumps. Knievel’s big break (literally and figuratively) came on New Years Day, 1968, when he jumped 151 feet across the fountains in front of Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. . After successfully clearing the fountains, his landing was a disaster and his injuries put him in the hospital, but the footage of the jump and crash landing did make ABC’s Wide World of Sports and thrust Knievel into the national spotlight.
With America in the midst of the Vietnam War quagmire, the country was looking for a hero, and Knievel’s heroic, death-defying feats and his popular messages to the world's youth, promoting abstention from drugs and a healthy lifestyle with a positive mental attitude quickly transformed him into a national icon.

In the mid-1970's, Evel Knievel Toys and other products such as pinball machines, bicycles, watches, radios and other accessory items sold millions. He appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine.
He is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as having broken 35 bones.
Knievel was diagnosed with hepatitis and had a liver transplant in 1999
He has been a generous contributor to charities and currently is promoting the work of the "Make a Wish Foundation," an organization that arranges the fulfillment of the dreams of children suffering from terminal illnesses.
© 2002, American Motorcyclist Association

[XXL]

En fait, l'histoire racontée dans Human Fly, son origine, est pure invention donc. Le seul point commun étant qu'il a eu effectivement beaucoup de fractures qui n'ont jamais remises en cause sa carrière.

[Ivan Rebroff]

Hum, ça m'apprendra à plaisanter sur la vie privée des créateurs de comic book

Oui, voilà. Avec un zeste de Steve Austin.

[XXL]

Tu veux dire qu'il avait réellement beaucoup de métal a la place des os? Dans les années 70, c'était encore le sbalbultiements des greffes comme ça, non? tu le connais d'où? Parce que moi, j'en ai pas souvenir de ce monsieur..

[Ivan Rebroff]

Un zeste de Steve Austin dans le comic-book .
D'où je le connais? De Google, évidemment...

[XXL]

Rhan...je suis con.....On m'appelle Credule Man.

[Rhodey]

le héros de mon enfance

[XXL]

Pfffff... ça vaut pas Super Jamie et surtout, ça vaut pas leur chien, avec les machoires bioniques!!! Comment il s'appelait déja?

[Ivan Rebroff]

Max the Bionic Dog.

[gillesC]

..je suis sur qu'XXL était amoureux d'Oscar Goldman et sa malette explosive..