tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post8167558988818537122..comments2024-03-27T08:49:38.786-03:00Comments on Siskoid's Blog of Geekery: One Panel #114-115: A Couple of FirstsSiskoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-77429945741278351602016-11-02T18:02:09.273-03:002016-11-02T18:02:09.273-03:00And related, of course, English Poet laureate Ted ...And related, of course, English Poet laureate Ted Hughes's 1968 story "The Iron Man" which was renamed for the US. Apparently adding a "The" to the name didn't allay confusion enough (I still know STRANGE people who confuse THE Flash and Flash GORDON. I bet that's not the only example. Superman and Nietzsche's Ubermensch, perhaps? Not even a THE on that one!) <br />Iron Man predated the extraterrestrial metallovore by 5 years (dang, why can't the Ancient Greeks and Romans come up with a more original word for Metal???) but I don't think in '68 the name was a copyright issue, it was just so as not to confuse dummies.<br /><br />In the original story The self repairing monster landed in the English countryside. <br />It was recommended reading in the primary schools of New Zealand, so I'd heard of THE Iron Man a cupla years before I knew Marvel Existed... <br />...even so, when I first heard of Iron Man, the absent "The" was readily understood.<br /> Brendoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10913031340103600964noreply@blogger.com