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seank

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  1. This arrived today:

     

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    It's an upgrade from the first Batman I ever bought (and the second comic ever in my collection). I still have the original, VG copy I purchased in the summer of 1976 from the spinner rack in my local pharmacy.

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    I don't remember the story but I thought that the guys hanging over the sharks were Chinese. If I remember correctly, the Japanese invaded the mainland during WWII and were in control of the country until the Allies defeated them and liberated the country. Brief freedom before the communist take over. I will go back and check the story one of these days.

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    Yes. Japan invaded China in the 1930s and perpetuated many atrocities upon the Chinese. China was on the side of the allies during the war and America fought to liberate the Chinese. JG Ballard's "Empire of the Sun" is about his family being captured by the Japanese at the start of the war and being forced to live in a prison camp. IIRC, his father was a British diplomat.

     

     

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    just a great book Ronaldo; gotta love the c.a.'s. hey, i'd love to have a c.a. c.a. now that i think about it; got a c.a. m.m. but no c.a c.a.. got my d.c. run going, so i've already got a lot of caca, would be another way of looking at it.

    huh (shrug)

    (Cosmic Aeroplane Captain America... definitely not caca, DC = caca :gossip: )

     

    Sez the guy who follows the Astros... :baiting:

    Astros = dookie

     

    lol

     

    I'm going through Blue Belle withdrawal, but I have a six pack of Shiner Bock in the 'fridge.

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    just a great book Ronaldo; gotta love the c.a.'s. hey, i'd love to have a c.a. c.a. now that i think about it; got a c.a. m.m. but no c.a c.a.. got my d.c. run going, so i've already got a lot of caca, would be another way of looking at it.

    huh (shrug)

    (Cosmic Aeroplane Captain America... definitely not caca, DC = caca :gossip: )

     

    Sez the guy who follows the Astros... :baiting:

  5. dead character for several decades and unsuccessful attempt to reintroduce in the 1970s,

     

    But, a feature film is in the works, with both writer and director signed on, and The Rock anxious to play Black Adam.

    Who will play Mr. Mind?

     

    Adam Sandler?

     

    Seriously, though, I think The Rock would make a great Black Adam.

  6. I really want a run of these. Isn't it true that Frazetta drew the cover of Weird Science-Fantasy #29 as the next cover for Famous Funnies?

     

    Oh, did I say, very nice. Frazetta :cloud9:

     

    Yes. And the Famous Funnies folk rejected it because they felt it was too violent. Gaines knew a classic when he saw one and printed it for WSF.

  7. Has the X-Men replaced the JSA as the team of choice? When comic fandom first really started in the early to mid 1960s, we had the FF with less than 100 issues out, the X-men who would go into reprints soon, and the JLA (Sekowsky, ewww) which was an extension of the JSA. I believe that Roy Thomas, an important and early fan, was a big promoter of the JSA.

     

    Skip forward 20 years to the 1980s and we have Byrne/Claremont doing great work on the X-men, FF is getting tired, and the JLA is near-extinct. New fans are going to go for the X-men as the team book of choice. I think that momentum has held out over the decades. New GA fans, who weaned their super-team teeth on the X books aren't likely to go back to JSA. They're likely to go to DC's big three, TImelys, or to veer off into other non-hero GA stuff.

     

    My speculative 2c on the whole thing.