Early Installment Weirdness/Comic Books: Difference between revisions

** [[The Joker]] originally had [[No Sense of Humor]]

* The Brazilian distributor of Disney comics released in 2000 a special celebrating the 50th anniversary of their [[Donald Duck]] magazine. The description of the first issue listed all that could be found weird: differences in language/spelling (apart from the 1950s version being quite formal, Portuguese underwent several orthographic reforms) and character names (biggest one was [[Goofy]] being called Dippy - though the story has him being called "a goofy guy"), unfinished stories (it was published across 3 issues as movie serials were popular in those days), only eight pages in color, and a trivia section filled with [[Values Dissonance]] (telling stories of animals suffering accidents, such as ''j''iraffes being decapitated by telegraphic wires). 10 years later, the collection released to celebrate the 60th anniversary had its first issue come with [[Embedded Precursor|a facsimile of Donald Duck #1]], letting readers experience Early Installment Weirdness firsthand.

** Also, Rotor Walrus was named 'Boomer' and Sally was pink. Later on Sally had blonde hair before changing to a brunette.

*** The reprints of the early issues have been subjected to a bit of [[Orwellian Retcon]]; the plots are obviously unchanged, but the design and naming continuity errors have been edited.

* ''[[Usagi Yojimbo (Comic Book)|Usagi Yojimbo]]'' had a bit of unevenness in the beginning: in addition to being a bit more violent than it is now, non-mammals and humans are seen in crowd shots and two human/oids have speaking roles [[Humans Are Bastards|(they're both villains)]]. Currently the only non-mammal characters are Lord Hebi, [[Snakes Are Evil|a giant snake]], and his human boss Lord Hikiji, [[The Faceless|whose face hasn't been seen in ages.]] I can only speculate what foreigners could look like since [[Misplaced Wildlife|lions, tigers, and rhinos]] already live in Japan.

** Stan Sakai has stated that he regrets having made Hikiji human.

** In addition, while the comic was always very dark, the first story arc was closer to a straight-up horror comic.

* First two [[Nemesis the Warlock]] stories - ''Terror Tube'' and ''Killer Watt'' - refers to Torquemada as chief of Tube Police, while later he is referred to as "Grand master Of Termight". Nemesis spends both stories inside his ship, with no clue about his identity or appearance, saying nothing but his [[Catch Phrase]] ''Credo!'', which he tends to use at odd moments. A lot implies it wasn't even established that Nemesis is even an alien back then, with narration referring to him as "not ordinary man" at best.

* Notably, Bruce Banner originally turned into the [[Incredible Hulk (Comic Book)|Incredible Hulk]] at night. He was also originally coloured grey, but this changed to green, as grey was hard to reproduce consistantly in the 1960's.

* [[Captain America]] has a different shield and costume in his first issue.

* [[Knights of the Dinner Table]]: The series started as a comic strip in the back of SHADIS gaming magazine and as such, the character were flat and Sara had not been added yet. The Knights were simple gamer stereotypes shifting to fit the gag of the strip (for example, Dave, Bob and Brian all knowing the stats for a monster whereas in later strips, only Brian had stats and charts memorized like that.)

* This can be applied era to era in comics but especially the [[Silver Age]] which generally has the silliest and most over the top plots and really sticks out from the other eras with many of the most popular characters of today being invented or taking on their most recognizable forms in that era.