Each week, the pop culture website Pop-A-Looza shares some posts from my vast 'n' captivating Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) archives. The latest shared post is a look back at my first exposure to a funny-animal version of the original Captain Marvel: Hoppy the Marvel Bunny.
I think this was the only time I ever wrote about the World's Mightiest Lagamorph, and possibly the only thing I've ever written about funny animals. For the love of Carl Barks, I really oughtta write about Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge, the Beagle Boys, and the Junior Woodchucks, Huey, Dewey, and Louie. Those ducktales are among the greatest comic books ever published.
But--SHAZAM!--I have written about Hoppy's human forebear Captain Marvel. There was my introduction to Captain Marvel, my Notebook Notions piece about an imaginary second Captain Marvel serial (as well as Charlie Chaplin meeting the Marx Brothers), an account of my comics letterhack career (which included a missive published in Power Of Shazam!), a report about DC Comics issuing a cease-and-desist regarding '40s and '50s Cap and company comics previously thought to be public domain, and a wish for what sort of Captain Marvel adventures I'd like to see on the big screen. Cap was also part of my movie serial recollections and my appreciation of the late writer E. Nelson Bridwell.
The popularity of the original Captain Marvel--the best-selling comic book superhero of the 1940s--spawned spinoffs, perhaps the first ongoing effort to recapture magic lightning in a bottle by creating new variations of a familiar character. Captain Marvel Jr. Mary Marvel. The Marvel Family. All of these became stars of their own comic book features, and of their own individual titles. The same could be said of a magic bunny named Hoppy. My introduction to Hoppy the Marvel Bunny is the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.
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