Organic Tales staring Beanman. Organic Tales is a fantasy comic strip about a teenager who inherits a strange suit from outer space to become the superhero Beanman. Beanman was created in 1976 by William Mitchell and Kimball Thorpe. All material © William Mitchell and Kimball Thorpe. All rights reserved.
Classic Beanman-Organic Tales #3
Introduction to Organic Tales #3
Beanman meets the Molten Man.
All I can remember about Organic Tales #3 is that I was a freshman at Oneonta State College at the time. Kimball and I were having a hard time continuing Beanman because of the distance between us. Because of this, I was trying to crank out what I could with Kimball coming in and drawing certain sequences. Looking at the story now, I am amazed we were able to get anything done at this point in our lives.
The story lines swipes material from all over the place. The Molten Man was inspired by "The Lava Men" and "The Infant Terrible" from issues of Thor and The Fantastic Four. I also think we borrowed from the original Star Trek episode "The Squire of Gothos". In the episode Captain Kirk's strange advisory Trelaine is finally revealed to be a naughty alien youth, scolded by his alien parents.
I see a little of King Kong in the story too. Strange creatures are often misunderstood as monsters in literature.
Organic Tales #3 was the only issue colored.To this day I get Beanman's costume colors wrong when I am coloring him! Looking back I am left to wonder"Where did we find the time to do all this?"
Bill Mitchell -February 2008
Well what can you say after reading Molten Man? The idea was good and we did what we could with it. It's always interesting and funny to look back at stuff you did as a kid. I remember some of it. Like I remember talking about coloring it. But as corny as it seems and as naïve as a lot of it is, it still is a difficult job to write and draw a complete story. So I look at it that way and laugh my rear end off.
It's weird how we left the suit out of it.
Kimball Thorpe -February 2008
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Beanman meets the Molten Man.
All I can remember about Organic Tales #3 is that I was a freshman at Oneonta State College at the time. Kimball and I were having a hard time continuing Beanman because of the distance between us. Because of this, I was trying to crank out what I could with Kimball coming in and drawing certain sequences. Looking at the story now, I am amazed we were able to get anything done at this point in our lives.
The story lines swipes material from all over the place. The Molten Man was inspired by "The Lava Men" and "The Infant Terrible" from issues of Thor and The Fantastic Four. I also think we borrowed from the original Star Trek episode "The Squire of Gothos". In the episode Captain Kirk's strange advisory Trelaine is finally revealed to be a naughty alien youth, scolded by his alien parents.
I see a little of King Kong in the story too. Strange creatures are often misunderstood as monsters in literature.
Organic Tales #3 was the only issue colored.To this day I get Beanman's costume colors wrong when I am coloring him! Looking back I am left to wonder"Where did we find the time to do all this?"
Bill Mitchell -February 2008
Well what can you say after reading Molten Man? The idea was good and we did what we could with it. It's always interesting and funny to look back at stuff you did as a kid. I remember some of it. Like I remember talking about coloring it. But as corny as it seems and as naïve as a lot of it is, it still is a difficult job to write and draw a complete story. So I look at it that way and laugh my rear end off.
It's weird how we left the suit out of it.
Kimball Thorpe -February 2008
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