{"id":1247,"date":"2018-09-05T16:12:34","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T22:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chriswisniaarts.com\/blog\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2023-02-10T15:57:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T21:57:28","slug":"doris-danger-vol-1-page-002-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chriswisniaarts.com\/blog\/archives\/1247","title":{"rendered":"Doris Danger (vol. 1, Chpt. 1), page 002 – Script"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Well, this is a little bit of a cheat, calling this page the “script”, because the published page is just a big picture of a monster.  However, I had to come up with the kind of monster, and its name, and the setting where we would see it, and what it was doing, and who was there with it, and what they were doing, and so on, before I could draw it, and that’s all a script is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click “brainstorming” below to see how the page came about, and then click “Jack Kirby’s Monsters” to see my inspirations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brain-Storming Giant Monster Stories<\/h2>
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This is how this first five page story was done. I pulled out all my seventies reprints of Kirby giant monster comics for reference, and just flipped through them. When things caught my eye, or sparked ideas, I made notes of them. I made lists of \u201cmonster splash pages\u201d, and here’s a scan of it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In case my hand-writing is difficult to decipher, here are some highlights (click the links to see how some of these wound up in later Doris Danger stories!):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Number 3 on the list. Mt. Rushmore<\/a>
5. Underwater, scuba divers, fish<\/a>
6. India – pagoda<\/a>, Buddha statues<\/a>
7. in space<\/a> – monster wearing astronaut clear dome over head
8. Egypt – pyramid, sphinx<\/a>
9. army attacking<\/a> – full battle
10. one lone shirtless commando vs. monster<\/a>
14. laboratory – giant monster with head hooked up<\/a> – breaking free!
19. Africa<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Again flipping through books, I made a list of different kinds of giant monsters Kirby had drawn: ape, ant, crab, abominable snowman, big foot, mummy, spider, cyclops, bee, robot, blob, Easter Island, reptilian, tiki, hairy, caveman, big forehead, striped, bird, 2-headed, and I would reference issue and page numbers so I could find them if I decided I wanted to do one of these kinds of monsters. I made lists of settings and elements – jungle, desert, lake, swamp, outer space, carnival, police officers, army men, hillbillies, again with issue and page numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now I had a bunch of options for making different splash pages of monsters.  When I made this first story, I don’t think I knew there would be more than one story, so this whole list thing I just said I do, I think I probably didn’t actually do it until these Doris Danger stories became “a thing.”  But even though I probably didn’t make the list yet, I DID flip through all the comics to decide what kind of monster I wanted to draw, and a jungle seemed like the perfect “exotic place,” and if it were on the shore of the ocean, even better!  And since Kirby’s monster splashes ALWAYS had people running around, cupping one hand to their mouth to shout their fears, and pointing frantically with the other – “tribesmen” or maybe army guys seemed necessary – so I did both.  (Notice there’s also an Australian Outback guy here!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

YOU can read more about this list and the creation of the finished page on page 018-019 double-page spread – Script<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Jack Kirby’s GIANT MONSTERS<\/h2>
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As for the monster itself, I found, I believe, THREE giant goopy slime monsters in the Kirby reprints I had in my possession at the time.  Here are some of them:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Strange Tales 75 (1960), “I am Taboo” cover by Jack Kirby<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Strange Tales 75 (1960) splash page with a new title, “The Thing from the Murky Swamp”
by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Strange Tales 77 (1960), “Taboo Returns” cover by Jack Kirby<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Strange Tales 77 (1960) splash page, basically identical to the cover, and again with a slightly different title,
“The Return of Taboo” by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Strange Tales 82 (1961), “It” cover by Jack Kirby<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Strange Tales 82 (1961) splash page, “The Thing Called…It” by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Journey into Mystery 70 (1961) “The Sandman Cometh” cover by Jack Kirby<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Journey into Mystery 70 (1961) “The Sandman Cometh”
splash page by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Journey into Mystery 72 (1961) “The Glob” cover by Jack Kirby<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Journey into Mystery 72 (1961) “The Glob”
splash page by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I loved the goopiness of all of these guys, so I took the goopy elements I loved most from each, such as whether it should have eyes and mouth, and created my Spluhh monster. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Ok, that’s a lot of how I got to creating the published page.  I’ll share with you the ACTUAL SCRIPT on page 005 \u2013 Script<\/a>.  See you over there!<\/p>\n\n\n

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