Due to licensing rights, Marvel Comics has never directly stated that either of these literary figures are related to Clive Reston, but the various implications leave little doubt as to their true identities." His great-uncle is London's most notorious detective, Sherlock Holmes. His father, though never referenced by name, is British secret agent, James Bond. The cite for that, though, was ComicBookDb, and the actual quote at that site was, "There have been numerous allusions over the years of Clive Reston's rather infamous family tree.
In this case, though, the Clive Reston Wikipedia page states, "Originally, Reston's father was intended to be James Bond, and his maternal granduncle was intended to be Sherlock Holmes, however due to copyright laws Marvel was forced to abandon this." Wikis are tremendous resources, but they, in and of themselves, can't step in in place of sources, as they're intended to be the place that shows you THEIR sources. This frequently happens when people rely on WIkis for sources. The second is what I call "Ourobros linking," which is when an iffy source is relied on by people and then other people link to the person who relied on the iffy source and then other people link to that person and you get this big circle of everyone repeating the same piece of information without anyone really checking to see that the original piece of information was, you know, true.
One is the "telephone" game, where Person A makes statement B and then Person C repeats statement B, but slightly alters it so that it is now statement D and over time, people either repeat statement D or make even further alterations (it's based on party game of the same name where people whisper a phrase to a person who has to then do the same to another person and if you have enough people, there is a decent chance that the phrase will have been altered by the time it gets to the final person in the chain). Now, here's where we get into two of the most common pitfalls that lead to the creation of legends.
RELATED: Jack Kirby's Fourth World Almost Had a Completely Different Debut In any event, this connection between Reston and Bond and Holmes (which continued to be referenced by Moench for years after this introduction) has led to an interesting legend, which is that Marvel was originally going to be explicit about the connection but had to abandon this plan due to copyright laws and a lack of licensing for those two characters. This would explain why Reston was smoking a distinctively Sherlock Holmes-esque pipe earlier in the issue. That same issue introduced a new cast member to the series, a British agent named Clive Reston, who is introduced smoking a distinctive pipe. The estate complained to Marvel and so the then-new writer on the series, Doug Moench, had to explain away the death of the character in Giant-Size Master of Kung Fu #3. Last month, I wrote about how Jim Starlin accidentally had Shang-Chi kill off a character in the very first Shang-Chi story that he was not supposed to kill and it irritated the Sax Rohmer estate, as the character was one of the ones that Marvel had licensed from Rohomer's Fu Manchu novels. Marvel wanted to make James Bond and Sherlock Holmes related to Shang-Chi's supporting cast member, Clive Reston, but were prevented by legal rights. Great deal, right? So go follow my Twitter page, Brian_Cronin! COMIC LEGEND: NOTE: If my Twitter page hits 5,000 followers, I'll do a bonus edition of Comic Book Legends Revealed that week. Click here for the first part of this installment's legends. As usual, there will be three posts, one for each of the three legends. Welcome to Comic Book Legends Revealed! This is the eight hundred and sixteenth installment where we examine three comic book legends and determine whether they are true or false. In the latest Comic Book Legends Revealed, see why Marvel couldn't confirm that a Shang-Chi cast member was related to James Bond and Sherlock Holmes.
0 kommentar(er)
