Simpsons' Best Ever Marvel Parody Has Nothing To Do With the MCU
In the midst of their '90s popularity, The Simpsons' made the leap to the comic format, carrying out a pitch perfect parody of Marvel in the process that puts all future MCU call-outs in the shade. The 1990s was a high point for television's most famous animated family. Not only was The Simpsons in its prime with seasons that people still look back on today as classics, but fans could also find the characters (namely Bart) everywhere: video games, lunchboxes, magazines, clothing, etc. There was no escaping the show's influence, but it still wasn't until 1993 though that The Simpsons found a new outlet with comics.
Understandably, there were some concerns about whether or not The Simpsons would translate well to the medium. For starters, a lot of the humor of the show derived from the delivery of the actors combined with the writing. On top of that, comics are an entirely different medium with their own sense of pacing and joke delivery. However, buoyed with its success elsewhere, The Simpsons declared its intentions by lovingly ripping off «the World's Greatest Comics Magazine.»
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The first issue of Simpsons Comics features an overgrown Homer to advertise the main plot of the comic, where Homer gets hit by a growth ray. He's bursting through the ground with Marge in one of his hands and Bart bouncing off his head. On the ground, Lisa is standing in shock and Maggie is staring in awe while tied to the ground by what appears to be a yo-yo. This is a direct parody of the very first issue of the Fantastic Four comics, one of the most famous covers in comic history. Going in order, Homer is clearly Giganto with Marge being the Invisible Woman in
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