Once Upon A Time The Super Heroes (10 of 10)

Once Upon A Time The Super Heroes

This is a documentary made in 2002 about the creation and evolution of comic book superheroes (with a greater leaning towards Marvel comics.)

It show us superheroes such as Batman, Superman, The Flash, The X-Men, Captain America, Silver Surfer, The Fantastic Four, Hulk, Daredevil; with more of a focus on Spider-Man because of the movie released at the time.

The documentary features the creators, writers & artists behind the superheroes such as Dave Gibbons, Alex Ross, Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, Travis Charest, John Romita, Joe Kubert, Jim Lee, Carmine Infantino, Joe Simon, Mark Evanier, Paul Dini, Neal Adams, Joe Quesada, John Buscema, Bill Sienkiewicz and radio interview with Jerry Siegel.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• superheroes
• comic
• book
• superman
• batman
• spiderman
• hulk
• x-men
• artist
• writer
• fantastic
• dc
• marvel
• new
• york
• spider-man

[rfbnielsen]

What a bad image to end the documentary with

[firekind1980]

great doc. shame there was no alan moore or british comics but that would be another doc worth

[actarusmlt]

Excellent documentary, and I'm proud that I'am comic collector and illustrator! Thanks

[WarriorSmurf]

That Spider-Man image at the end of the closing credits looks like Vin Diesel, lol.

[KyrenS64Gotham]

It was nice but I think, they were too much concerned about Marvel Comics. They didn't really speak of the others. For example they only speak about Superman and Batman in DC Comics.

[shakthemighty]

i hope this doc becomes available for purchase again. The last part of this film is very moving.

[Paul07791]

Echoing what other people have said; strange that no one mentioned the subversion of the super-hero genre. From serious stuff like Watchmen to the comedic TV series "The Greatest American Hero" to The Tick and a whole host of comedic spoof comics like Bazooka Jules with her expanding *ahem* jugs. (also, let's not forget children's classic Banana Man for fellow Brits)

...Though maybe if The Incredibles were made before this documentary, they may've picked up on it.

[FiswaT]

great doc, thx for puttin it up!

[cha5]

@ephasm Well a whole COMPLETE documentary on Comics as a medium would have alot more to cover, like the history of the comic strip (which goes all the way back to 1897), Manga, Tezuka, Miyazaki etc, The British influence 2000 A. D. Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison etc The European influence Mobius, Herge, Pratt,

Humor Comics, Carl Barks, Walt Kelly, George Herriman, Basil Wolverton, Jack Cole etc.

The Undergrounds, Robert Crumb etc.

You'd need at least a ten hour documentary for it all

[jdenicholls]

@MrGeorgeSears It implies that Spiderman (and by extension, superheroes in general) has hung up his costume and retired, while the last 3 minutes of the documentary emphasise that people are still interested in superheroes. It's a poor choice for that reason.

[ephasm]

@Armistance That'd be fine and fair enough but to basically bill it as a history of comics and superheroes is completely misleading when it's only about AMERICAN comics or superheroes.

[Armistance]

@ephasm The doc purposely looked only at American comics.