# RDJ signed for next 2 Avengers movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 20, 2013, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rdj-signed-for-next-2-avengers-movies/661510 "2013-06-20T21:34:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rdj-signed-for-next-2-avengers-movies/661510/21 "2013-06-21T15:20:16Z")
The Secret Service might take issue with him, as this is clearly a license to print money. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rdj-signed-for-next-2-avengers-movies/661510/22 "2013-06-21T17:15:20Z")
> [@epbrown01](#): > > It was actually the point of Marvel under Stan Lee - comics where everyone wasn’t Zorro: someone from the upper classes who deigned to help the little guy as a hobby. But Spidey’s troubles were always sit-com style troubles - getting home in time for curfew, dealing with that bully Flash Thompson. …accidentally killing his girlfriend… ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rdj-signed-for-next-2-avengers-movies/661510/23 "2013-06-21T17:19:56Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > …accidentally killing his girlfriend… We’ve all been there! ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rdj-signed-for-next-2-avengers-movies/661510/24 "2013-06-21T18:57:34Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > …accidentally killing his girlfriend… C’mon, that was during Marvel’s “very special episode” phase. They made Harry a heroin addict, for goodness’ sakes. Wasn’t there an issue about demonstrations or civil rights as well? ---
**Author:** ![irritant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@irritant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irritant)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rdj-signed-for-next-2-avengers-movies/661510/25 "2013-06-21T20:35:35Z")
> [@epbrown01](#): > > C’mon, that was during Marvel’s “very special episode” phase. They made Harry a **heroin** addict, for goodness’ sakes… Amphetamines. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rdj-signed-for-next-2-avengers-movies/661510/26 "2013-06-21T22:02:06Z")
> [@irritant](#): > > Amphetamines. He was injecting amphetamines? I remember a big to-do at the time because they showed a needle. It’s been 40 years, I could be mis-remembering… ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2013, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rdj-signed-for-next-2-avengers-movies/661510/27 "2013-06-22T00:30:08Z")
> [@FlyingDragonFan](#): > > Seriously. _Tropic Thunder_ kills, and RDJ is a lot of the reason. When the rumors of him doing “black face” in that film came out I had to quirk a skeptical eyebrow. But really it is a pretty awesome acting job, probably one of his best in a fairly substantial career. As extremely silly comedies go, that one is pure gold. ---
**Author:** ![irritant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@irritant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irritant)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2013, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rdj-signed-for-next-2-avengers-movies/661510/28 "2013-06-22T03:23:15Z")
> [@epbrown01](#): > > He was injecting amphetamines? I remember a big to-do at the time because they showed a needle. It’s been 40 years, I could be mis-remembering… I assume this is what you’re talking about: [QUOTE=Wikipedia’s entry on Spider-Man] An early 1970s Spider-Man story led to the revision of the Comics Code. Previously, the Code forbade the depiction of the use of illegal drugs, even negatively. However, in 1970, the Nixon administration’s Department of Health, Education, and Welfare asked Stan Lee to publish an anti-drug message in one of Marvel’s top-selling titles. Lee chose the top-selling The Amazing Spider-Man; issues #96–98 (May–July 1971) feature a story arc depicting the negative effects of drug use. In the story, Peter Parker’s friend Harry Osborn becomes addicted to pills. When Spider-Man fights the Green Goblin (Norman Osborn, Harry’s father), Spider-Man defeats the Green Goblin, by revealing Harry’s drug addiction. While the story had a clear anti-drug message, the Comics Code Authority refused to issue its seal of approval. Marvel nevertheless published the three issues without the Comics Code Authority’s approval or seal. The issues sold so well that the industry’s self-censorship was undercut and the Code was subsequently revised. [/QUOTE] [Addendum:](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Goblin_Reborn!) > [@](#): > > Weeks later, DC Comics published a two-issue story in the series Green Lantern in which Green Arrow’s teen-aged ward, Speedy, starts using heroin when his mentor leaves him to travel across America with Green Lantern. GL/GA # 85 has a hypodermic needle on the cover. Maybe that’s what you’re remembering? [Here.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowbirds_Don%27t_Fly) ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2013, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rdj-signed-for-next-2-avengers-movies/661510/29 "2013-06-22T04:41:40Z")
> [@irritant](#): > > I assume this is what you’re talking about: > > GL/GA # 85 has a hypodermic needle on the cover. Maybe that’s what you’re remembering? Could be. Speedy doing heroin just because the Green Arrow is away says so much about American attitudes towards drugs. :rolleyes: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rdj-signed-for-next-2-avengers-movies/661510.md?page=1)