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They didn't exactly work on Thunder Agents together, but Schwartz was, IIRC, the editor-in-chief of Tower Comics. He handled their teen humor books while Wood was defacto editor of the Thunder Agents...

Hello everybody! I've been away for a while. It was a surprisingly exhausting vacation, with my wife being sick as well as emotionally fragile. We were at our usual place on the Oregon coast, and I...

My interpretation of that verse in Sweet Home Alabama has always been:

In Birmingham they love the governor - Boo boo boo
Now we all did what we could do (to defeat him, without success)
Now...

1. Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode (or Maybellene, or Nadine)
2. Elvis Presley - Are You Lonesome Tonight (or Blue Christmas, or Don't be Cruel, or Heartbreak Hotel, or Hound Dog)
3. The Beatles...

A neat bit of trivia I just found on Metafilter - What do the following people have in common?

Adolf Hitler
Leon Trotsky
Josip Broz Tito
Sigmund Freud
Josef Stalin
Erwin Schrödinger
Albert...

There was an early story in TOS - issue #44, just found it - where Tony goes back in time and meets Cleopatra. Seemed more like a Superman story from that era than a Marvel story - possibly because...

My wife likes Martin Heidegger.

Here's an incident from 1989 that has some similarities with the Steubenville case:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Ridge_rape

There's Steranko. And some early Barry Smith in his Kirby phase.

I was a huge fan of Wally Wood's Daredevil, but as someone mentioned, the Kirby/Romita issues didn't work as well. I drifted away...

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Question 1 - the Torch (later, Torch & Thing) series was like FF Junior. It seemed to be aimed at significantly younger readers. Jack only draws nine of the 34 issues, most of them early on - after...

I once listened to a Mahler symphony while reading Thor. It was incredibly appropriate.

I got some things signed at cons in New York in the 70s. Only a couple of stories stick in my mind; the rest are going to surprise me when I go thru my collection someday (probably when I retire).
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More details than usual this month, because doing this was more fun than working. Art credits for almost everything, writing credits if I felt like it.

In April 1973, toward the end of my junior...

From http://www.moneyfactory.gov/small1denom.html :

•The first use of George Washington's portrait on the $1 note was on Series 1869 United States Notes.

He thought Superman disguised himself as Clark Kent, just that one time. Brilliant fellow, that Luthor.

This may be of interest to many here: the entire history of Starlog magazine is now online:

http://archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3Astarlogmagazine

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Yes, that's what they say. What they're actually looking for is an excuse to stop the government from giving money to poor people.

The wariness is basically because people use Goodreads to read & post reviews of books, including negative reviews, and Amazon sells books. How independent will they let Goodreads be?

FYI, "Baby It's Cold Outside" is not about rape. Not even close. Here's one person's explanation; there are others online:
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Paging Cei-U! ... Cei-U! please come to this thread ...

This morning's news reports that Amazon has acquired Goodreads. Amazon already owns Shelfari and part of LibraryThing, two sites similar to Goodreads. Users of Goodreads are wary.
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There were three that I know of. Fawcett's Captain Marvel fought a villain by that name in 1948. Quality's Doll Man faced a similarly-named villain in 1953. The Marvel version was introduced here:...

Thanks for bumping this thread! I promised to post my February and March 1973 purchases, and here they are:

February:

Amazing Adventures (debut of Killraven), Spider-Man, Avengers, Beware,...

I heard a good idea on the radio this morning: save your pennies until you have around 95 of them. Scatter them in the yard and tell the kids to gather them up and don't come in until they have a...