In 1976, Stan Lee presented a special Planned Parenthood edition of The Amazing Spider-Man, in which our friendly neighborhood webslinger battled the Prodigy, an evil alien from the planet Intellectia. With the aid of his “destructive propaganda” the Prodigy planned to brainwash teens and twentysomethings into having babies “left and right,” so he can harvest their offspring as child slave labor for his distant home planet! ‘Nuff said?

This twenty-page special explained how to avoid the Prodigy’s “pernicious pap” and offered information on where to find good and useful advice on love, sex, sexuality, dating, pregnancy, contraception, abortion, VD and even masturbation.

Something new old for the reichwingers to get up in arms about…
 

 

 

Read the rest of The Amazing Spider-man vs. The Prodigy, after the jump…

 
While there’s some humor in this witty PSA by David Cross and Amber Tamblyn about ‘Gynoticians,’ it’s actually no laughing matter and somewhat scary to think about, actually.

Tamblyn writes:

Can you imagine if this actually happened to you? If you’re one of millions of American women, it has. It is happening not in an exam room, but in a room with marbled floors, expensive pens and numerous symbols of “freedom,” populated by men and women in crisp suits whose ideas about “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” are rooted in illogical double-standards and hypocrisies that boggle the mind. These people are making decisions about you, for you, but not by you. They are passing wildly unpopular laws everyday that dictate the choices you can or cannot make, the health care you may or may not be afforded, the rights you can or cannot enjoy in regards to your very own body. Tell Gynoticians like Rick Perry, Trent Franks, Pat McCrory and the Pat McCrorys of women like representative Jodie Laubenberg and Marsha Blackburn that enough is enough: We aren’t just coming for their laws, we’re coming for their JOBS

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Via Huffington Post

 
Image by Lian Amaris.

Via Laughing Squid

 
(via the delightful Tumblr Keep Your Boehner Out Of My Uterus)