Talk Like a Pirate Day 2006

September 19th, 2006

Filed under: Comics, General

cover, Little Max #23

Once again it’s time for my favorite holiday of the year: Talk Like A Pirate Day!
Being the good buccaneer that I am, I looted last year’s post (which was itself plundered from the year before that), and I’m reposting and updating it — and new additions are always welcome!

Comic-book pirates (and pirate comic books) off the top of me head (to be updated as I think of more):

  • Crossbones
  • The Psycho Pirate
  • Occulus from Fantastic Four
  • And in the Fantastic Four’s first encounter with Dr. Doom (FF #5), The Thing ended up becoming Blackbeard.
  • Pirate Club
  • The evil pirates from My Monkey’s Name is Jennifer
  • The Starjammers
  • The hilarious Scurvy Dogs (”The cow says moo…”)
  • The abandoned Barbarossa and the Lost Corsairs
  • El Cazador
  • Street Angel #2
  • Long John Silver and the Pirates (Charlton comic from the 1950s)
  • Belit (and Conan, for a time) from the Conan comics (older Marvel volumes)
  • The Black Pirate appeared in some of the 1940s issues of Action Comics
  • There was the pirate comic-within-a-comic in Watchmen (Tales of Black Freighter)
  • Buccaneers from the 1950s
  • The similarly named Buccaneer, also from the 1950s
  • The Golden Medallion, a pirate comic book put out by LEGO
  • The Pirates of Dark Water A kids comic put out by Marvel based on the Hanna-Barbera cartoon.
  • Terry and the Pirates. Sure it was a comic strip, but it’s been reprinted in comic book form several times
  • Then of course there’s Colonia (pointed out to me last year by Laura, the “Scourge of the Seattle Seas”)
  • Pirate Corp$
  • Even Mickey Mouse is getting in on the act: Air Pirates Funnies
  • Metrokitty (the “Feline Felon”) reminded me that there was a pirate as a suporting character in the Starman series (and in one of the Talking with David issues).
  • Speaking of Disney, we can’t forget air pirate Don Carnage from Talespin
  • Pirates appeares in at least one Spirit story
  • EC’s Piracy
  • Indiana Jones and the Sargasso Pirates
  • Some pirates appeared (briefly, before being slaughtered) in Grendel: War Child #4
  • Polly and the Pirates
  • The Aquaman villains Cutlas Charlie, Captain Squid, and Captain Blackjack
  • The subway pirates from Seven Soldiers: Manhattan Guardian

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6 Responses to “ Talk Like a Pirate Day 2006 ”

  1. Greg Burgas
    September 19th, 2006 at 3:43 pm

    In The Spectre (the Ostrander/Mandrake one), Jim Corrigan loses his memories for a few issues and ends up on a damned pirate ship helmed by Captain Fear, and they fight a naval battle floating above the streets of Manhattan. Cool stuff.

  2. Keith
    September 19th, 2006 at 8:47 pm

    There was a Thor mini-series not long ago where Zombie pirates conquered NYC. And about time.

  3. Dizzy D
    September 20th, 2006 at 6:29 am

    Those were Zombie Vikings (but granted: there is not much of a difference between pirates and vikins really).

    If you go outside America, there is Barbe-Rouge (Redbeard):
    http://www.zilverendolfijn.nl/zd/zd.pl?a=fc&c=1&kt=EN&s=c&k=ROODBAAR&f=ss

    and the character based on him and his cast-members in Asterix.

    Another European comic is Ouwe Niek en Zwartbaard (Old Nick and Blackbeard):
    http://www.zilverendolfijn.nl/zz/fc/1/EN/zd.html?f=gi

    Gen13 had a story with pirates in its early days, Roxy and Burnout joined them to save their friends.

    You mentioned Crossgen’s El Cazador. Crossgen’s Meridian also had pirates (air-pirates though).

  4. Dizzy D
    September 20th, 2006 at 6:34 am

    Apologies, messed up the link for Old Nick:

    http://www.zilverendolfijn.nl/zd/zd.pl?a=fc&c=1&kt=NL&s=c&k=OUWENIEK&f=ss

  5. SanctumSanctorumComix
    September 20th, 2006 at 2:53 pm

    In the 1st and 2nd MAN-THING series, he gets involved with CAPTAIN FATE – a GHOST PIRATE!

    And his GHOST PIRATE CREW!

    And his GHOST PIRATE SHIP!

    Add to all that a REINCARNATION of his FEMALE (non-Ghost) PIRATE QUEEN!

    AND a BONUS of a lecherous satyr named KHORDES!

    FIRST time around was MAN-THING (1st series) # 13-14

    SECOND time was MAN-THING (2nd series) # 7 – 11 (it was a running storyline towards the end there. Until EVERYONE dies: MAN-THING, DR STRANGE, CHRIS CLAREMONT …everyone).

    Good (bad) cheese!

    ~P~
    P-TOR

  6. Steven L.
    September 25th, 2006 at 11:21 am

    C’mon — The Phantom (The Ghost WEho Walks). The Pirates thing is his whole gig since the 30’s.

    Don Carnage but no Phantom love?

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