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I think that Obnoxio the cigar-smoking clown was a character created in the late 1970s by… was it Paul Kupperberg ? There was indeed an Obnoxio vs X-Men special, which featured the X-Men looking on in horror as the clown held a dead-looking Kitty Pryde, in costume, in his arms, and asked ‘What’s yellow and black and don’t breathe no more ?’ (The answer, hidden elsewhere on the cover, was ‘a school bus’, I think).
I think that I’ve seen the character elsewhere – possibly in National Lampoon or Spy magazine, though he may have been used in house ads… (I know that Marvel UK used Batroc the Leaper in this way in the 1980s, re-doing speech balloons on strips to make him boast about ‘breaking weend een leefts’).
DBC
Edit PS - And no, the Macchios aren't one and the same. I think this was established in a 'Bullpen Bulletins' column written during the Shooter era.
[ 12-02-2002: Message edited by: DaveBCooper ] |
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