Line #5 ComicBook/NineteenSixtyThree


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3	''1963'' is a six-issue miniseries written by Creator/AlanMoore, with art by Rick Veitch and others, published in 1993 by Creator/ImageComics. A {{Retraux}} work, it invokes MediaNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks (specifically early Creator/MarvelComics), complete with spoof advertisements in the style of the day. This last item was repeated with a period-appropriate twist by Moore's later project with Kevin O'Neill, ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen''. It ends on a [[LeftHanging never-to-be-resolved]] CliffHanger.
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5	!!This comic book series contains examples of:
6	* AcidTripDimension: When they go through the Maybe Machine in Mystery, Inc.
7	* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: It ''is'' a parody of Silver Age Marvel comics, so it's naturally everywhere, right down to the creative team receiving Marvel Bullpen-style alliterative nicknames ("Affable Al", "Sturdy Steve", etc). Of note, Rick Veitch would continue to use his "Roarin' Rick" nickname long after his work on the comic.
8	* AffectionateParody: This miniseries is loaded with playful jabs at Marvel cliches.
9	* AnthologyComic: Issues 3 and 4--"Tales of the Uncanny" and "Tales From Beyond"--homage old Marvel anthology comics like "Journey into Mystery" and "Tales to Astonish".
10	* ArchEnemy: The Red Brain is the only confirmed one.
11	* ArtisticLicense: Parodied in the letters page for Issue 5, where a young Creator/NeilGaiman writes in to point out the various inaccuracies in the depiction of England in a recent Johnny Beyond story, including showing the Queen living in Big Ben and putting thatched cottages in Trafalgar Square. Affable Al is unamused by this.
12	* ArtShift: In the last issue, when they enter the final parallel reality, complete with LampshadeHanging.
13	--> Everything's so harsh and vivid!
14	* AlmightyJanitor: Or the Omniscient Maintenance Staff.
15	* BreakingTheFourthWall: The pandimensional being the Hypernaut battles peels down the panel so the the energy bolt he fired comes back and hits ''him'' instead.
16	* CaptainErsatz: Pretty much everyone. Mystery, Inc is [[Comicbook/FantasticFour the Fantastic Four]], the Fury is ComicBook/SpiderMan and Comicbook/{{Daredevil}}, U.S.A. is ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, Hypernaut is ComicBook/IronMan with some ComicBook/SilverSurfer and ComicBook/GreenLantern thrown in, Horus is ComicBook/TheMightyThor, N-Man is the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]], and Johnny Beyond is ComicBook/DoctorStrange as a {{beatnik}}. And those are just the main heroes.
17	* ContinuityNod: Though when they reference previous issues, [[RuleOfFunny most of them do not actually exist]].
18	* {{Catchphrase}}: "No one escapes the Fury!"
19	* [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil Covers Always Spoil]]
20	* {{Crossover}}: The characters from different superhero teams are appearing together. They also turned up in one issue of an almost completely forgotten ''ComicBook/{{Shadowhawk}}'' story, where JimValentino indulged himself in a scathing TakeThat at those who worship the old school Silver Age approach to super-heroes. (Shadowhawk's own unexamined NinetiesAntiHero values wouldn't get a similar jab until Creator/KurtBusiek got a hold of the character.) There was also a crossover in ''ComicBook/BigBangComics'' #35, pitting the Silver Age Marvel Ersatzes against BB's Silver Age DC Ersatzes.
21	* CutShort: The series has never been finished as initially intended. It was meant to be followed by an 80-page annual, in which the ''1963'' characters are catapulted forward 30 years to meet with the [[MediaNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks Dark Age]] characters of 1993.
22	* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The sexism, the heavy-handed anti-communism, etc.
23	* EvilCounterpart: In the last issue.
24	* EvilGloating
25	* EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily: In the alternate universe, at least.
26	* EvilLaugh
27	* EvilUncle: Set to Horus.
28	* TheFantasticFaux: Mystery Incorporated is obviously based on the Fantastic Four.
29	* GoshDarnItToHeck: Goldarn the blamed thing, for cripe's sake.
30	* GratuitousRussian
31	* HypocriticalHumor: The Fury tells one of the {{Mooks}} that he hates name callers, "especially a slope-browed, knuckle-dragging, garbage-brained name caller like you!"
32	* IntentionalEngrishForFunny: The spoof ad [[https://indevelopment.org/2002/1963/shamed_l.htm "Shamed By You English?"]]
33	* IronicNickname: Affable Al who is anything, but affable.
34	* KindaBusyHere: The Fury absolutely ''has'' to call [[MyBelovedSmother his mom]] in the middle of a fight with a psychic dinosaur. Luckily, there's a phone booth nearby, since cell phones haven't been invented yet...
35	* LegacyCharacter: The Fury is the son of the original Fightin' Fury.
36	* NonHumanSidekick: The Hypernaut has a mutant pink [[SillySimian monkey]] with two faces named [[PokemonSpeak Queep]].
37	* NoodleIncident: Characters often allude to past adventures they've had, which is always accompanied by an annotation from Affable Al referring to the (non-existent) issue where it happened.
38	* PokemonSpeak: Queep
39	* RedScare: A recurring theme.
40	* ShoutOut: To ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' and Creator/MarvelComics.
41	** Also, when the Voidoid is scanning the Fury in Issue #2, you'll notice that in one part, the name of a certain ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' character from the fifth dimension appears in one of the panels.
42	** "No one escapes the Fury!” is reminiscent of Alan Moore's ''other'' Fury, the world-slaughtering HeroKiller from ''ComicBook/CaptainBritainACrookedWorld''.
43	** And in the final issue, when the heroes are transported into another world, panels from various other independent comics are seen in the background - including one of ''ComicBook/{{Normalman}}''... in reference to ''normalman'' having a Mystery, Inc. cameo under similar circumstances.
44	** The N-Man can be seen reading a copy of Creator/JackKerouac's ''Literature/OnTheRoad.''
45	* ShowDontTell: [[RuleOfFunny Often]] {{averted}}.
46	* TakeThat:
47	** Not so much to early Creator/MarvelComics, but the people behind them; especially poking to Creator/StanLee. In fact "Affable Al" is depicted as pretty much a completely horrible human being in every way, personal and professional.
48	** Johnny Beyond's story includes a more subtle shot at Creator/SteveDitko with the older, alternate universe version of Johnny delivering some Objectivist-tinged rants about "bottom feeders" and "welfare deadbeats" as he attacks Johnny.
49	** The "Magic Art Appropriator" ad takes aim at the practice of [[TracedArtwork art tracing]] and includes an additional shot at Marvel's notorious swimsuit issues.
50	* TechnoBabble
51	* ThoseWackyNazis
52	* TokenMinority: Parodied mercilessly in one of Affable Al's columns; as part of their comics' supposed commitment to racial brotherhood, a character "colored a light and inoffensive gray"[[note]]From the 40's through the 60's, black skin was occasionally rendered as closer to lavender than a recognizable human shade, due to the the limits of four-color printing and this exact kind of squeamishness.[[/note]] has been introduced in a "minor supporting [role]" in one of the titles. He plans to slowly make the man completely black over a ''few years'' (provided that their retailers don't object), is quite proud of himself for it, and uses this opportunity to tell his readers to buy two of every issue to "end bigotry twice as fast".
53	* VillainTeamUp: The Voidoid talks about how he teamed up with other villains in the past.
54	* WhamShot: The end of the Tomorrow Syndicate issue, which would've led into the planned eighty-page annual, reveals that the mysterious intruder who kidnapped Kid Dynamo in Mystery Incorporated's issue is none other than [[spoiler: [[ComicBook/YoungbloodImageComics Shaft.]]]]
55	* WhoShotJFK: USA actually saves Kennedy, but the shooter was Leo Harley Osborne, who was brainwashed by the Red Brain. And there were also two men on the grassy knoll.

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