Men in Black was one of the biggest feature film sensations of 1997. Most people don't know the property started as a lowly black-and-white comic book, from a very minor publisher. It's the biggest hit to come out of that publishing category since Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Like Gremlins, Men in Black (no relation) have their origins in modern folklore. They're associated with UFOs. Like the larger phenomenon, there is so much rumor, eyewitness reportage, disinformation, scientific evidence, speculation and just plain craziness attached to them that it's hard to separate reality from fantasy, if those words have any meaning at all in this context. One thing that's pretty generally agreed is that anyone having a close encounter with a UFO would probably do well to avoid a close encounter with the MIB. Hopeful comic book writer Lowell Cunningham saw story possibilities in the Men in Black, and wrote one about a pair of them. Kay was hard-nosed, merciless, utterly unconcerned with the idea that anyone he was after might have a point of view. Jay was a newbie in the organization, and ready to learn all that Kay had to offer. Cunningham shopped it around to several publishers. It wound up at Aircel, one of a cluster of interrelated companies putting out black and white comics at the time, other parts of which had names like Malibu and Eternity. Aircel published a three-issue Men in Black mini-series dated January through March, 1990. The artist was Sandy Carruthers, a graphic designer by day, who later did some work on Captain Canuck. The following year, Aircel published a second mini-series, also by Cunningham and Carruthers, and collected the first into graphic novel form. Malibu/Aircel/Eternity/whatever publisher Scott Rosenberg had his fingers in a variety of entertainment pies. By 1992, the company was sewing up airtight rights to such properties as Dinosaurs for Hire, Ninja High School and, of course, Men in Black. That same year, Columbia Pictures acquired film rights to the latter. In 1994, Malibu was acquired by Marvel Comics, which placed Men in Black in the portfolio of America's largest comic book publisher. By that time, Columbia's plans for the film version were well advanced. The movie, with Tommy Lee Jones as Kay and Will Smith as Jay, was released to theaters on July 2, 1997, and all of a sudden Men in Black was an international phenomenon. In fact, it quickly became the all-time highest-grossing movie based on a comic book, a record it held until the 2002 release of Spider-Man. To celebrate, Marvel (Namor, Human Torch, Spider-Man, Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, The Incredible Hulk, X-Men, Wolverine, Captain Marvel, the Avengers, X-Men, The Fantastic Four, Guardians of the Galaxy, Daredevil, The Punisher, Silver Surfer, and licensed properties including Conan, Star Wars, Rom: Spaceknight, The Micronauts, Shogun Warriors, G.I. Joe, Indiana Jones, Transformers, Transformers: Generation 2, Heathcliff, Police Academy, Count Duckula, RoboCop, Camp Candy, Barbie, Barbie Fashion, The Toxic Avenger, Toxic Crusaders, the Bill & Ted's series, NFL Superpro, Ren & Stimpy, Darkman, ALF, The Pirates of Darkwater, Zorro, Mighty Mouse, Captain Planet & the Planeteers, Kid 'n Play, Fievel, James Bond Jr., Hook, Defenders of Dynatron City, WCW, Fish Police, Meteor Man, Mad-Dog, William Shatner's TekWorld, Biker Mice From Mars, King Arthur & the Knights of Justice, Disney, Beavis and Butt-Head, Rocko, Coneheads, Skeleton Warriors, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Phantom 2040, Earthworm Jim, Casper) put out four one-shot comic books about them, including a reprint of the first issue of the original Aircel miniseries, a prequel, Far Cry, a movie adaptation, Men in Black: The Movie, and a sequel, Retribution, all written by Cunningham. That Fall, Men in Black became an animated TV show. The producer was Adelaide Productions, which seems to specialize in cartoon versions of movie properties like Jumanji, Extreme Ghostbusters, Godzilla, and Starship Troopers. Kids WB began airing it on November 10, 1997. Ed O'Ross (Itchy in Dick Tracy) started out as the voice of Kay, but was replaced in the second season by Gregg Berger (several voices in Smurfs). Keith Diamond (Transformers) did Jay. 53 episodes were made. Video games came out in 1997, '99, 2000, and 2001, and a role-playing game in 1998. In 2002, a video game partially based on the second film was released, titled Men in Black II: Alien Escape. A video game published by Activision entitled MIB: Alien Crisis was released in May 2012, around the time when the third movie was released. Videos about various aspects of the making of Men in Black littered the landscape during most of the late 1990s. Books, toys, and all sorts of other merchandising abounded. A feature-length sequel was released July 3, 2002, a second sequel, was released May 25, 2012, and a spin-off fil was released June 14, 2019; so the property appears viable well into the new century. And it all started as three issues of black-and-white comic books, from an off-brand publisher.
If the MIB lacks space flight capability, then how do they have a super max prison on the moon? All the materials needed to build and maintain such a facility, not to mention transporting prisoners and rotating staff and security personnel? surely MIB has at the very least aliens re-purposed still functioning alien vessels into a small fleet, lol
Silence Earthling... I mean, a fellow resident of Earth. The MIB have extraterrestrial treaties, they go beyond the simple Earthling perceptions. That prison was planted by "the Greys" on Earth's moon for that purpose, the super-max aliens on Earth.
Sorry to tell you, but it counts regardless if you skip it or not, as long as it popped up. And you watch more than 30 seconds of the actual RUclips Video.
@@LanMandragon1720 it could also be due to the fact that thr time-travel agent j did is only known to 2, maybe 3, people and mib wants to keep it that way.
Like number 710. I like Alan and Ben but American Ben is a little abrasive, whenever I watch one of his videos I still enjoy them but it takes away from the over all enjoyment of the video, because of that I tend to skip his videos, however I am fully aware that what I think may be wrong so if I'm not seeing it right I apologise after all it's just my opinion. Oh and lastly, Humanity First!
Men in Black was one of the biggest feature film sensations of 1997. Most people don't know the property started as a lowly black-and-white comic book, from a very minor publisher. It's the biggest hit to come out of that publishing category since Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Like Gremlins, Men in Black (no relation) have their origins in modern folklore. They're associated with UFOs. Like the larger phenomenon, there is so much rumor, eyewitness reportage, disinformation, scientific evidence, speculation and just plain craziness attached to them that it's hard to separate reality from fantasy, if those words have any meaning at all in this context. One thing that's pretty generally agreed is that anyone having a close encounter with a UFO would probably do well to avoid a close encounter with the MIB.
Hopeful comic book writer Lowell Cunningham saw story possibilities in the Men in Black, and wrote one about a pair of them. Kay was hard-nosed, merciless, utterly unconcerned with the idea that anyone he was after might have a point of view. Jay was a newbie in the organization, and ready to learn all that Kay had to offer. Cunningham shopped it around to several publishers. It wound up at Aircel, one of a cluster of interrelated companies putting out black and white comics at the time, other parts of which had names like Malibu and Eternity.
Aircel published a three-issue Men in Black mini-series dated January through March, 1990. The artist was Sandy Carruthers, a graphic designer by day, who later did some work on Captain Canuck. The following year, Aircel published a second mini-series, also by Cunningham and Carruthers, and collected the first into graphic novel form.
Malibu/Aircel/Eternity/whatever publisher Scott Rosenberg had his fingers in a variety of entertainment pies. By 1992, the company was sewing up airtight rights to such properties as Dinosaurs for Hire, Ninja High School and, of course, Men in Black. That same year, Columbia Pictures acquired film rights to the latter.
In 1994, Malibu was acquired by Marvel Comics, which placed Men in Black in the portfolio of America's largest comic book publisher. By that time, Columbia's plans for the film version were well advanced.
The movie, with Tommy Lee Jones as Kay and Will Smith as Jay, was released to theaters on July 2, 1997, and all of a sudden Men in Black was an international phenomenon. In fact, it quickly became the all-time highest-grossing movie based on a comic book, a record it held until the 2002 release of Spider-Man. To celebrate, Marvel (Namor, Human Torch, Spider-Man, Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, The Incredible Hulk, X-Men, Wolverine, Captain Marvel, the Avengers, X-Men, The Fantastic Four, Guardians of the Galaxy, Daredevil, The Punisher, Silver Surfer, and licensed properties including Conan, Star Wars, Rom: Spaceknight, The Micronauts, Shogun Warriors, G.I. Joe, Indiana Jones, Transformers, Transformers: Generation 2, Heathcliff, Police Academy, Count Duckula, RoboCop, Camp Candy, Barbie, Barbie Fashion, The Toxic Avenger, Toxic Crusaders, the Bill & Ted's series, NFL Superpro, Ren & Stimpy, Darkman, ALF, The Pirates of Darkwater, Zorro, Mighty Mouse, Captain Planet & the Planeteers, Kid 'n Play, Fievel, James Bond Jr., Hook, Defenders of Dynatron City, WCW, Fish Police, Meteor Man, Mad-Dog, William Shatner's TekWorld, Biker Mice From Mars, King Arthur & the Knights of Justice, Disney, Beavis and Butt-Head, Rocko, Coneheads, Skeleton Warriors, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Phantom 2040, Earthworm Jim, Casper) put out four one-shot comic books about them, including a reprint of the first issue of the original Aircel miniseries, a prequel, Far Cry, a movie adaptation, Men in Black: The Movie, and a sequel, Retribution, all written by Cunningham.
That Fall, Men in Black became an animated TV show. The producer was Adelaide Productions, which seems to specialize in cartoon versions of movie properties like Jumanji, Extreme Ghostbusters, Godzilla, and Starship Troopers. Kids WB began airing it on November 10, 1997. Ed O'Ross (Itchy in Dick Tracy) started out as the voice of Kay, but was replaced in the second season by Gregg Berger (several voices in Smurfs). Keith Diamond (Transformers) did Jay. 53 episodes were made.
Video games came out in 1997, '99, 2000, and 2001, and a role-playing game in 1998. In 2002, a video game partially based on the second film was released, titled Men in Black II: Alien Escape. A video game published by Activision entitled MIB: Alien Crisis was released in May 2012, around the time when the third movie was released. Videos about various aspects of the making of Men in Black littered the landscape during most of the late 1990s. Books, toys, and all sorts of other merchandising abounded. A feature-length sequel was released July 3, 2002, a second sequel, was released May 25, 2012, and a spin-off fil was released June 14, 2019; so the property appears viable well into the new century.
And it all started as three issues of black-and-white comic books, from an off-brand publisher.
If the MIB lacks space flight capability, then how do they have a super max prison on the moon? All the materials needed to build and maintain such a facility, not to mention transporting prisoners and rotating staff and security personnel? surely MIB has at the very least aliens re-purposed still functioning alien vessels into a small fleet, lol
because it is an homage to alcatraz and people complained that they are save from murderers.
They could of used the spacecraft at the world fair.
Silence Earthling... I mean, a fellow resident of Earth. The MIB have extraterrestrial treaties, they go beyond the simple Earthling perceptions. That prison was planted by "the Greys" on Earth's moon for that purpose, the super-max aliens on Earth.
"No human has been to the moon, so they cannot have built it there *UHLREDDY.* "
@@deoxysoverlord8710 except there's been 6 manned missions to the moon with 12 astronauts walking there and leaving their shit on the moon.
So, basically, MIB is the Syndicate from X-Files with less cigarette smoke and better lighting
They came before The xfiles actually
I am speeceist
And I'm proud
He had a reverberating carbonizer, it will turn you into ashes pretty fast, and it can mutate to look like other weapons.
I just watched two really bad ads so you guys would get ad revenue. Great video.
Sorry to tell you, but it counts regardless if you skip it or not, as long as it popped up. And you watch more than 30 seconds of the actual RUclips Video.
You forgot the animated series
5:47 I turned on my tv and MIB is on and they were in the lift at the same time
4:00 Mass murderer for sure
I am a big MIB fan. Nothing beats Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith. 1, 2 and 3. Then MIB stops with me. The other successors are weak.
Same here. I'm a big MIB fan
True but Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth are best.
Not including the animated series, so this isnt all the history of MIB
Or the comicbooks
The movies were better. I'm satisfied
The series was good
Men In Black was only good because of the way Tommy and Will's chemistry was shown
Hello Allen. I hope you're having a great day
Mib 3 is still the best one I fucking love boris the animal
Awesome video/review 👍☯️👍
I'm surprised that SJWs still haven't demanded to change the name to "Women in Black"
People in Black
Tessa Anderson has been talking about a name change in one of her interviews. So unfortunetly the SJW's will
definitely try to change the name.
Nobody:
Victor: LoOk WhAt An AwEsOmE cHaD i Am! LeT mE tElL yOu AbOuT mY pOlItIcS!
Agreed they already made Ghostbusters all women
@@selfmadetray5836 , that's not a bad thing . Are you behaving like them, merely considering something bad on the ethnicity?
A Christmas true in june? Classy. 😂
Naw Elvis is not dead he just went home
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Except K didn't recruit J because he was keeping tabs on him, it was because "He chased down a cephalapod on foot".
That clip easily just be some bull**** he told Zed. Because he wasn't supposed to keep tabs on neutralized people.
@@LanMandragon1720 it could also be due to the fact that thr time-travel agent j did is only known to 2, maybe 3, people and mib wants to keep it that way.
Question - Did the Baltians participate in establishing M.I.B organizations across the world or only in the 🇺🇸
Like number 710.
I like Alan and Ben but American Ben is a little abrasive, whenever I watch one of his videos I still enjoy them but it takes away from the over all enjoyment of the video, because of that I tend to skip his videos, however I am fully aware that what I think may be wrong so if I'm not seeing it right I apologise after all it's just my opinion. Oh and lastly, Humanity First!
what alien do you want to be
None! I rather like a Terran!
Griffs species
You sound like pete davidson
Dab
hUmAnS iN bLaCk Is MoRe InCluSiVe!
Weird to hear a son of inmigrants speaking that way.
This guy's voice is unbearably annoying
Skip 6:18-22 and 9:15-18...not worth remembering
Fictional? Really? Hmm....🤔