Beetlemania: The Origin of the Beetles & Mach-X | Abner Jenkins, Leila Davis, and Janice Lincoln

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  • Опубліковано 21 лип 2020
  • On this episode of History of the Marvel Universe we're looking at the origin and history of the various Beetles, including Abner Jenkins, Leila Davis, and Janice Lincoln!
    Sources:
    Strange Tales #123 (1964)
    Amazing Spider-Man #21 (1965)
    Daredevil #33-34 (1967)
    Amazing Spider-Man #94 (1971)
    Iron Man #126-127 (1979)
    Spectacular Spider-Man #58 (1981)
    Avengers #228-229 (1983)
    Amazing Spider-Man #280-281 (1986)
    Captain America #319 (1986)
    Deadly Foes of Spider-Man #1-4 (1991)
    Lethal Foes of Spider-Man #1-4 (1993)
    Onslaught: Marvel Universe (1996)
    Thunderbolts #2 (1997)
    Spider-Man Team-Up #7 (1997)
    Thunderbolts #3 (1997)
    Thunderbolts #-1 (1997)
    Thunderbolts '97 Annual (1997)
    Thunderbolts #12 (1998)
    Thunderbolts #20-23 (1999)
    Thunderbolts #26 (1999)
    Thunderbolts #33-38 (2000)
    Thunderbolts #48-51 (2001)
    Thunderbolts #56-58 (2001-2002)
    Thunderbolts #75 (2003)
    Avengers/Thunderbolts #6 (2004)
    New Thunderbolts #1 (2005)
    Thunderbolts #103-104 (2006)
    Captain America #607-608 (2010)
    Superior Spider-Man #1 (2013)
    Superior Foes of Spider-Man #1 (2013)
    Superior Foes of Spider-Man #7 (2014)
    Thunderbolts #1 (2016)
    Thunderbolts #12 (2017)
    Additional information from the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe.
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  • @sonpanchan
    @sonpanchan 3 роки тому +47

    The Thunderbolts are pretty underrated and the idea of supervillains playing the role of superheroes either for personal gain (like Karla Sofen and Fixer do) or because they genuinely like being superheroes is an interesting one. Both Abe and Melissa are my favorite Tbolts and I love their relationship.

  • @puffpuffpassmako
    @puffpuffpassmako 2 роки тому +13

    For such a low villain, Abner Jenkins has a REALLY good story. He goes from being a failure as a small time villain to finding his true purpose as a well respected hero

  • @Ayham4002
    @Ayham4002 4 роки тому +111

    stan lee basically turned every animal into a human super villain

    • @swslwatts
      @swslwatts 4 роки тому +6

      Except spider-man

    • @jackrudolf1745
      @jackrudolf1745 3 роки тому +4

      @@swslwatts Spiderman should have been a villain. Because spider. XD

    • @PatrolOfficer161
      @PatrolOfficer161 3 роки тому +10

      You give Lee too much credit. His style of comic book production was to have the artist plot, draw and include footnotes on the proposed dialogue of the story. He famously let the cat out of the bag one day when he wasn't taking credit for birthing HIMSELF and said of Ditko and Kirby, "I didn't even know what the issue was about until it arrived". How else could he have "WRITTEN" twenty-plus comics a month? The proof is in the pudding. Check out how many new characters were created after Ditko and then Kirby left. The number is zero! And when he actually found himself having to script something, he handed off the chores to three or four other "writers" and stopped "writing" altogether within a couple of years. Lee WAS a good salesman though.

    • @Ayham4002
      @Ayham4002 3 роки тому

      @Mark Allen Don’t worry 1940s Marvel has that (Even though he wasn’t created by Stan Lee)

    • @archangel5627
      @archangel5627 3 роки тому +2

      Pretty much for Spider-Man’s Rogues Gallery and other Spider-Man supporting characters. You gotta love Stan!

  • @arkinyte13
    @arkinyte13 3 роки тому +37

    Beetle is pretty damn cool.

    • @antonissa8345
      @antonissa8345 3 роки тому +4

      I hope he appears in the MCU.

    • @Honestlynothingelse
      @Honestlynothingelse 3 роки тому

      @Anton Issa I doubt it

    • @cybrid37
      @cybrid37 6 місяців тому

      ​@@antonissa8345 Beetle is technically already in the MCU. See the Spider-Man Homecoming tie-in comic.

  • @mikewilson3581
    @mikewilson3581 3 роки тому +30

    I love Marvel's B-List villains like The Beetle, Speed Demon and Crimson Dynamo. Ever think of doing an episode on The Golden Age Whizzer or Nova's original series? I loved The Comet and Diamondhead.

  • @alancarnell2747
    @alancarnell2747 3 роки тому +21

    I started reading comics in the early 70s and as lame as Beetle was, I loved him. If buy any issue he was in for a while. I wanted that suit.

  • @devonjohnson5871
    @devonjohnson5871 4 роки тому +16

    thanks some much merry I love watching the origins of this these technological villains like fixer the the phalanx

  • @yeah_yeahwhatever
    @yeah_yeahwhatever 3 роки тому +12

    Damn, that was thorough. I'm an old school 90s dork and well-versed in comics, but my kid bought the Mach 1 figure and asked me, who is this guy? I didn't know and looked it up. I love Marvel, but their storylines get so convoluted that it makes me appreciate what the cinematic universe has done to wrangle the storylines. But you nailed it with the research. Thanks.

  • @frogmouth2
    @frogmouth2 3 роки тому +4

    I like how they got so tired increasing the number on his armour they just said “fuck it he’s mach X now”

  • @Artisan1979
    @Artisan1979 2 роки тому +12

    Janice Lincoln is truly an example of someone so smart behaving so galactically stupid. Clearly the apple didn't fall far from the tree. But of course when your dad is a man who is a crime boss and believes in the "might makes right" principle, I can see where the moral ambiguity comes from.

    • @DIEGhostfish
      @DIEGhostfish Рік тому +1

      She's smart in many ways, but mostly dumb and violently entitled.

  • @user-yw9bs1cl3c
    @user-yw9bs1cl3c 3 роки тому +5

    What memories it brings, Beetle was one of my favorite Spidey villains! Great work Marvelite!

  • @williammiller4768
    @williammiller4768 3 роки тому +12

    The Beetle.
    He ain’t a villain. He’s just tryin’ to get paid.

  • @DangerousMoonwalkerOfficial
    @DangerousMoonwalkerOfficial 3 роки тому +2

    Beetlemania: **exists**
    The real beetles: Do We MeAn NoThInG tO yOu?!

  • @matthewk822
    @matthewk822 4 роки тому +11

    Can you talk Taskmaster origin

  • @jalenikezeue4114
    @jalenikezeue4114 4 роки тому +7

    Can we please have The Origin of the enforcers

  • @ryecallan6095
    @ryecallan6095 4 роки тому +4

    Yay! My favorite Spider-Man baddie.

  • @johnnygyro2295
    @johnnygyro2295 2 роки тому +6

    Abner Jenkins and Janice Lincoln are underrated. I hope they show up more in the future...
    Also, given how he was mentioned a few times in this video, any chance for an origin of Graviton?

    • @watershipfalls5520
      @watershipfalls5520 Рік тому

      Janice showed up in Spider Man Far from Home, I'm hoping she returns as the Beetle.

  • @jackrudolf1745
    @jackrudolf1745 3 роки тому +4

    ...man throughout the vid I got the feeling there are more "The Beetle(s)" than the amount of Iron Man suits Tony Stark has! XD

  • @twtfilmproductionthenametw1791
    @twtfilmproductionthenametw1791 4 роки тому +2

    Amazing

  • @TheSpellShell
    @TheSpellShell 2 роки тому +1

    OMG comics are really "No One's Ever Really Gone"

  • @aarontaylor2808
    @aarontaylor2808 3 роки тому +4

    Even though I know the origin of both villains known Baron Zemo (and his son aka Phoenix and later Baron Zemo of the Thunder Bolts)I think marvelites would like to know the difference between the two Zemos. This is my 4th MM today. Excelsior.

    • @DIEGhostfish
      @DIEGhostfish Рік тому

      Yeah, the younger one looks up to his father but doesn't seem to be an actual Nazi, after all, Songbird's Jewish and he only got mad at her *after* she and the other backed out of his plan.

  • @gcrosheffielduk
    @gcrosheffielduk 2 роки тому +2

    I have a comic in my loft that shows The Hulk killing The Beetle without a second thought. He just squished him. Which incarnation of The Beetle was that then? 😊

  • @DocChristiansen
    @DocChristiansen 7 місяців тому

    Question: Have you done a video on The Scourge yet...would love to see that one

  • @dragonballtalk8527
    @dragonballtalk8527 2 роки тому

    We want a hour video of this bubs

  • @danoleary7184
    @danoleary7184 4 роки тому +3

    Could you please do Hydra?

  • @nigelcrudge3824
    @nigelcrudge3824 3 роки тому +3

    wow that 2nd beetle died a gruesome death

  • @SuperBadspeller
    @SuperBadspeller 3 роки тому +2

    Do the purple man next

  • @jalenikezeue4114
    @jalenikezeue4114 4 роки тому +1

    Can we also please have some more legacy Villain

  • @thonysrnsen5104
    @thonysrnsen5104 3 роки тому +1

    the spot

  • @eyeseer1
    @eyeseer1 9 місяців тому

    Janice Lincoln could been a better Daredevil or Moon Knight villain.

  • @CieJe.Alexander
    @CieJe.Alexander 3 роки тому +1

    Please. Do FireStar, Angelica Jones.

  • @kingbong8261
    @kingbong8261 3 роки тому +1

    Can yoi do Count Nefarious?

  • @jaydenhuy
    @jaydenhuy 4 роки тому +1

    nice can you do sliver surfer next

    • @MerryMarvelite
      @MerryMarvelite  4 роки тому +3

      I've got you covered.
      ua-cam.com/video/IYRH8xgKV_k/v-deo.html

    • @jaydenhuy
      @jaydenhuy 4 роки тому +1

      Thank You!

  • @brewmaster2912
    @brewmaster2912 2 роки тому

    My favorite Beetle is Janice Lincoln

  • @LoneCanadianPoet
    @LoneCanadianPoet 2 роки тому

    LOL can you do a video about The Walrus? He is a bad guy based on The Walrus from The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour

  • @blueb6815
    @blueb6815 Рік тому

    I like Janice lincoln

  • @garyjones1688
    @garyjones1688 3 роки тому +1

    I have this figure

  • @thonysrnsen5104
    @thonysrnsen5104 3 роки тому +1

    Greyston

  • @DIEGhostfish
    @DIEGhostfish Рік тому

    2:50 Zemo Jr's not really a Nazi like his dad was, or wasn't until Nic Spencer shoved hik back in with Hydracap and Red Skull.

    • @DIEGhostfish
      @DIEGhostfish Рік тому +1

      You will note that he wasn't ever overly cruel to Songbird despite the fact she was Jewish.

  • @luis_zuniga
    @luis_zuniga 3 роки тому +2

    Didn't knew about this character.

  • @lord711
    @lord711 4 місяці тому

    watching this cuz of spider man 2

  • @SuperBadspeller
    @SuperBadspeller 3 роки тому +1

    Then machine man

  • @matthewschwartz6607
    @matthewschwartz6607 2 роки тому +2

    Jenkins is back, right?

  • @DIEGhostfish
    @DIEGhostfish Рік тому

    Did Jenkins get his vocal chords changed?

  • @charleslamb5963
    @charleslamb5963 3 роки тому +1

    What about speed demon

  • @thonysrnsen5104
    @thonysrnsen5104 3 роки тому +1

    i Can like mouvies

  • @andrewt6338
    @andrewt6338 3 роки тому +6

    It was so cringeworthy when they swapped his race. They did the same with the Punisher years ago.

    • @GhostlyPhantom
      @GhostlyPhantom 2 роки тому

      Man if they did something like that nowadays you know there'd be riots about it lol.

  • @smoothskin1372
    @smoothskin1372 4 роки тому +2

    Let's See All Females Origins Sinister Syndicate.

  • @thonysrnsen5104
    @thonysrnsen5104 3 роки тому +1

    Luke cade

  • @lild6216
    @lild6216 3 роки тому +1

    So like 8 ppl have been the beetle

  • @OfficiallyNathan
    @OfficiallyNathan 3 роки тому +1

    Oof comic book writers are wild. What if we made him an angry black man? That’s fine right? 🤦🏽‍♂️

  • @jaydontsay
    @jaydontsay 4 роки тому +1

    we be first

  • @garyaveryii995
    @garyaveryii995 3 роки тому +2

    People stop buying comics because the stories and writing just got horrible 😩