Give Me Freedom!

This interview is from Comics Interview #77, from 1989.

I have this miniseries, but it's been more than a decade since I last read it.  Shame on me!

But, tell me:  Have we become more or less free from surveillance in the 35 years since this was published?  See you Thursday, fellow self-imprisoned!

    

Curt Swan Knows His Super-Faces!

This one-page feature appeared in the February 1966 issue of Action, issue #333.

I mean, wow!  A couple of these images I recognize from other places.  Specifically, the laughing Superman seen just to the right of the DC mailing address.

It also appeared on this Super Cheese!  Read the story of this box here.

How many expressions can YOU identify?  See you Monday!

  

I Still Like the Silver Age Reality

This article is from the October 1990 Issue of Amazing Heroes, number 184.

Do you agree with Sanderson that DC's Silver Age menagerie of Superman accretions did not transfer to other DC titles because of editorial insularity?  And that Marvel's success in building "one" reality was because good ole Stan Lee sort-of oversaw their whole line of superheroic scribblings?

Or, did Barry Allen marry Iris West only because Marvel's Reed and Sue Richards broke the matrimonal comic-book ice?

I do not agree with the people who hail "Superman Red and Blue" as a wonderful story.  It's simplistic, and has all the faults which Sanderson points out.  Several Silver Age Imaginary Stories are much better IMO, such as Superman #175's "Clark Kent's Brother" -- covered in depth in a 2007 post.

I must confess to your disappointment and mine, me buckos, that I DO NOT own the issue of Amazing Heroes which contains a f further installment of Sanderson's article.  Boo-hoo!

OK my friends, since we don't have the luxury to switch realities by picking up a different comic book, let's work together to make THIS one better by vowing to practice a little tolerance and compassion.  That's ALWAYS a super virtue!

  

These Directions Aren't Hard Either

A week ago, on July 4th, I preached a little about mutual aid and assistance for all participants in this grand ole country of ours.

Now I've got a different set of instructions for ya.

This is from 1972, handed out by our wily American Lit teacher Ruth White.

Can you follow directions?  DID you?

See you Monday.

  

Some Super Reflections

These brief thoughts upon the Man of Steel were prompted by his 50th birthday.

These comments were published in Amazing Heroes #136, cover-dated February 29, 1988.

See you Thursday, fellow Super-fans!

  

The Directions Aren't That Hard

Lift the cry of Freedom!

As citizens of the glorious but sometimes imperfect United States of America, let's resolve to keep the Union Forever!

Come on friends, treat other people and their choices and beliefs with respect.  Don't deliberately provoke others.  Be thankful that the nation which makes allowance for YOU likewise makes allowances for someone NOT LIKE YOU.

Our heritage is that mutual respect, a resolve to treat others fairly, aspirations to preserve choice and respect for ages to come.

Let's avoid the whole finger-pointing, name-calling thing.  And get along.  Don't be morons!  You're acting like that when you denigrate someone else's upbringing or ancestral source.  In humility, acknowledge that you yourself ain't a pinnacle of perfection.

We're just trying to make things better, TOGETHER.  Try it!

The Union Forever!  Or as someone said, "Out of many, one."

  

There's No Crisis Like an Old Crisis

You youngsters (50 or younger, maybe) have NO IDEA of the hearts a-flutter caused by DC's decision to *gasp* restart the whole dang universe!

This is one of the features in the March 1, 1985 Amazing Heroes, issue #66.

I heard the author of this piece later got a job in comics.

Where were you when the universe was rewritten?

See you Thursday!

  

Don't Put Them in the Dishwasher

Here are four glasses dated 1976, which I bought at the time as released. I think from Dairy Queen, here in OKC???

Here is the promo poster in situ in the Comics Closet of the Fortress of Markitude.

A little more detail in CUs of top and bottom halves.

And a CU of the corner.

Finally, here are those glasses on one of the shelves in the Fortress.

PS this person's post shows the backside of the glasses and transcribes the text from same.

You must admit, many might have the glasses, but who has the poster????  See you Monday, campers!

   

Blame the Initials

From my deep investigative work into JFK's assassination, lots o' folks and factions have been assigned blame.

Jim Garrison had a tunnel-vision laser sight pointed at the CIA.  You'll remember that his trial of Clay Shaw in New Orleans was dramatized in the pot-stirring Oliver Stone film JFK.  The above clipping is from the January 29, 1989 Tulsa World. 

The above article likewise slams the secret spies of the CIA.  It's from the Star tabloid, August 28, 1990.  The big picture of the guy aiming at the camera emulates the Badge Man, who of course would have been standing up (not sitting down) behind the Grassy Knoll's retaining wall.

In this article from the March 3, 1992 Oklahoman, we learn that the IRA did it.  Or might have.

Boy, weren't all of these sneaky guys tripping all over each other?  I imagine a few dozen guys standing behind the wooden fence atop the Grassy Knoll, rifles or fancy handguns raised, elbowing each other out of the way to get the best angle at the Lincoln carrying a Kennedy as it approached down Elm Street.

See you Thursday!