FEATURING THE MONSTROUS HERO FROM THE CULT FILM SERIES BY LLOYD KAUFMAN.
This is an ORIGINAL COMIC BOOK featuring the one and only TOXIC AVENGER in original stories. A Hideously Deformed Creature Of Superhuman Size And Strength
The Toxic Avenger is a hero for our polluted times. A lightning bolt and a barrel of toxic waste transformed nerdy Melvin Junko into a muscle-bound mass of walking sludge, a defender of the weak and defenseless. Now, with his trusty mop in hand, the Toxic Avenger is cleaning up his city, and there’s a lot that needs to be cleaned up: environmentally, politically and justice-wise. His mop wipes up much of it, though it surely doesn’t hurt that Melvin’s new body absorbs flying toxins—like bullets—without any effect. With lavish, detailed full color artwork!
This is an extremely rare issue published by MARVEL COMICS in 1991.
All I Need to Know about Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger (Paperback) by Lloyd Kaufman (Author), James Gunn (Author), Roger Corman (INTRO)
GREAT BOOK!
Product Description Imagine Roger Corman and John Waters crossed with Howard Stern--and you'll have an idea of the demented genius behind Troma studios, one of the oldest (and most successful) independent film studios in the world. Lloyd Kaufman's spirited, outrageous, no-holds-barred look at low-budget, guerilla filmmaking is truly an inspiration to young filmmakers, a delight for movie buffs, and an absolute must for Toxic Avenger fans everywhere. This is the true story of the moviemaking maverick who co-founded an independent studio twenty-five years ago in a humble broom closet...who used raw hamburger, Karo syrup blood, and Bromo-Seltzer vomit to create films of questionable artistic and moral value...who is responsible for a string of cult movie hits...who was the first to reject Madonna for a part...who defied the Hollywood system and slapped the face of the industry...and who built a B-movie empire filled with Chopper Chicks, Surf Nazis, Kabuki Cops, Nymphoid Barbarians, and a lone hero known as The Toxic Avenger.
* Paperback: 352 pages * Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc. (August 1, 1998) * Language: English * ISBN-10: 0425163571
"When in doubt, vomit green foam" is the motto of the B-movie empire, Troma Studios, the brainchild of Kaufman and Michael Herz, whose exploitation hits, Toxic Avenger, Class of Nuke 'Em High and Tromeo & Juliet, today clutter the midnight movie section of most video rental shops. Here, Kaufman traces his lifelong dedication to big-screen gore, disfigurement, mutation and raunchy sex from his days in the Yale film society as a disaffected undergrad in the mid-1960s (where he made a feature-length film that consisted mainly of a braless woman jogging) to his present career as a leading impresario of bad taste. After a stint with Cannon, a low-budget studio in New York City, Kaufman launched Troma out of a broom closet he rented from McCall's magazine in 1974, while taking mainstream Hollywood jobs on the side, including acting as pre-production supervisor on Rocky. The Toxic Avenger, produced in 1982, catapulted Troma into the international limelight and has since become an icon of fringe cinema, spawning merchandise, a Saturday morning cartoon and hours and hours of ongoing late-night cable exposure. Not content to recount his story in linear fashion, Kaufman free-associates on such topics as the pitfalls of Hollywood cinema. Kaufman's gross-out humor and rambling style will thrill the most devoted Troma fans, and his perspective on independent film production stands to benefit low-budget auteurs everywhere.
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