In the early 70's, Marvel Comics teamed up with The Electric Company kid's television series and released Spidey Super Stories upon the world. It was published well into the early 80's, and just like the tv show, SSS was produced specifically for children, and typically included age apro good / bad moral messaging. The inclusion of various other Marvel characters throughout its popular print run also proved to be a good starting point for young'ins who were now dabbling into the inevitably addictive, allowance annihilatin' world of comic book collecting-- thanks Stan! So okay, we already saw one fun example over at THOIA last week (HERE!), now today as promised, we have a few more featuring two of the silliest villains to ever spring forth from the more madcap side of the 'ol Marvel U! BEHOLD-- the sickly sweet, lovelorn Wallflower, and the hilariously horrible Hum Dinger! The latter, aside from becoming a huge internet meme superstar thanks to one very funny, isolated panel forever taken out of context (see the last panel on page 3 below), The Hum Dinger also made the live action leap (and with better hair) onto the small screen in one rather memorable Electric Company episode. CLICK HERE for it! The Wallflower, unfortunately, didn't quite make the TV syndicated grade, and I suppose maybe she'll have her revenge for that someday as well! NOTE: If someone's up for writing it, we'll post it here! Humbugged is from SSS #24, while Flowers of Evil comes to us via SSS 28.
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