But let's face it--Marvel wasn't immune from that particular problem.
Still, when 1960s Marvel rolled out the gobbledygook, they didn't just lay it out in 6 panels of exposition on the last page of the story that brought everything to a grinding halt. Nah, Marvel just rolled with, made the explanation part of the action, and publicly laughed at themselves while doing it.
Case in point: Forgettable villain The Exterminator has trapped Daredevil in some kind of "time continuum" thingie. Let's watch:
Seriously, if this had been in Action Comics, Superman would have spent 5 of the last 6 panels of the story explaining to Lois or Jimmy how he did something scientifically impossible.
Sadly, we don't have a colorist credit for this issue, and obviously that went a long way towards selling the sequence. So props to Gene Colan and John Tartaglione, and a big shout-out to Colorist Unknown. And to Stan for just relaxing and having fun with it.
From Daredevil #41 (1968)
That is one crazy, fantastic sequence - thanks for sharing it! Writers really should just throw shameless nonsense at us, and sell it.
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