{"id":33744,"date":"2023-04-17T21:36:27","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T01:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=33744"},"modified":"2023-04-17T21:36:27","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T01:36:27","slug":"once-upon-a-time-in-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2023\/04\/17\/once-upon-a-time-in-comics\/","title":{"rendered":"Once upon a time … in comics"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’ve followed me for any length of time, you know that whenever a comic book appears on screen in a movie or TV show set in the past, I’m immediately thrown out of the plot as I attempt to calculate whether the set decorator managed to get chronologically accurate comics.<\/p>\n

That happened again tonight with Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood<\/em>. The comics appear in a scene taking place February 8, 1969, which we know because we’re told that earlier in the day when we see Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio’s characters in Musso & Frank.<\/p>\n

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Later that same day, we get a quick upside down glimpse of a couple of comic books in the trailer of stuntman Cliff Booth (that’s Brad Pitt’s character). By freezing the frame, I was able to identify them as Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandoes<\/em> #66 and Kid Colt Outlaw<\/em> #134.<\/p>\n

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Kid Colt Outlaw<\/em> #134 is dated May 1967, and went on sale February 2, 1967, two years earlier. So … possible. But Sgt. Fury<\/em> #66 is dated May 1969, and went on-sale May 4, 1969, about 3-1\/2 weeks after the scene. Probably not possible \u2014 but this pedant declares it a good attempt.<\/p>\n

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I’m not 100% sure the Kid Colt<\/em> comic would have survived two years in a trailer with that ginormous pit bull \u2014 or that Cliff Booth would have hung onto a comic book that long even if it had. But I’ll allow it. (I did say I’m a pedant when it comes to these things, remember?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’ve followed me for any length of time, you know that whenever a comic book appears on screen in a movie or TV show set in the past, I’m immediately thrown out of the plot as I attempt to calculate whether the set decorator managed to get chronologically accurate comics. That happened again tonight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,20],"class_list":["post-33744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics","tag-marvel-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33744"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33750,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33744\/revisions\/33750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}