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Comment on Marvel Comics by Marc Burkhardt

Marc Burkhardt — Sun, 05 May 2013 23:37:20 +0000

A Christmas Story 2: They’ll Only Take My Daisy From My Cold Dead Hands!

Comment on Marvel Comics by Richard

Richard — Sun, 05 May 2013 23:20:31 +0000

I may have missed out on observing Free Comic Book Day, but this more than makes up for it!

That inside back cover ad mythologizes the Second Amendment to move product in a way that wouldn’t seem out of place today. However, the line “If he abuses this right and privilege, his Daisy Air Rifle should be taken away from him” clearly wouldn’t pass muster with today’s NRA.

Comment on Carmine Infantino, 1925-2013 by Michael Allan Leonard

Michael Allan Leonard — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 22:22:57 +0000

Great article. Always loved Carmine’s work, and I was never aware he’d gone to Marvel for a while, always associated him with DC.

Comment on Carmine Infantino, 1925-2013 by Dan

Dan — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:25:23 +0000

Very nice tribute, Marc. An excellent overview of Carmine’s work. Thanks for posting this.

Comment on Hedy Lamarr by Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 09:09:18 +0000

About 1980, I had an idea for an encoding system. A friend who worked for Bell Labs looked into it, and discovered that, about 1960, some engineers had had the same idea, and that when they’d looked into it, they discovered that, about 1940, Hedy Lamarr had had the idea.

(I’d earlier heard of her invention of a bomb-sight, so the news was more of a happy amusement than a shock.)

Comment on April’s Fool by Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 09:04:29 +0000

Lovely art in the style of the early golden age!

And, really, it’s grossly wrong to treat vagrancy as a crime, so I’m glad that the genuine hoboes were allowed to flee.

Comment on Luck Be A Lady by oeconomist

oeconomist — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 21:15:01 +0000

I note the cheese-cake-ism in the final panel of page 3. I don’t think that they would have been able to get away with quite that much using the device of a gust of wind or a drop.

Comment on Bros Before Bots by oeconomist

oeconomist — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 10:11:57 +0000

Ah! No! At least one golden-age comic-book publisher, Fawcett, had a hero named “Dr. Voodoo”!

Comment on The Man Of Steal by Bros Before Bots | The Time Bullet

Bros Before Bots | The Time Bullet — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 05:08:20 +0000

[...] fact that DC sued Victor Fox’s Wonder Man out of existence didn’t stop another enterprising publisher from claiming a variation of the name a few years [...]

Comment on The Amazing Everett by Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:31:27 +0000

Funny little narrative detail in 9:7 — “save one, who slips away silently beneath the surface”.

Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, American comic book writers seemed to be divided into two camps. One camp saw the war as a struggle amongst wicked leaders (who were not clearly identified with real heads of state or of government) and stoked by amoral, profiteering munitions producers; this camp fantasized about a super-hero who would clobber all these people and bring the warring states to negotiate a peace. The other camp specifically saw the Axis powers as the villains; this camp especially wanted Hitler given a beat-down. But neither camp seemed to have a clear idea of just what awful things were being done, let alone what awful things would be done, by any of the parties involved. So the fictional interventions now seem trivializing.