Interesting historic coincidence 0

[shadroch]

In the days before the US entered World War 1, this section of Arizona and New Mexico was overrun by both American and Mexican outlaws who used the border to great benefit. In 1916, the US Army deployed the 9th US Calvary to the area, and Troop K was assigned to a campground about five miles from my house. They were deployed for about ten years and built up an stockade just north of the border.  The barracks and stables were abandoned sometime in the 1930s and today they sit in ruins.  I was down at the bar on the border and looking at the historic photos of the soldiers being deployed,( the bar was the tallest point in town so two maxim machine guns were installed on the roof), when I noticed something I'd never picked up before. There, staring me in the face, was a photo of a bunch of Buffalo Soldiers with their white commanding officer. That officer was Major Malcolm Nicholson Wheeler, the man who created the comic book as we know it and who founded the company we call DC.

[Ken Aldred]

35 minutes ago, shadroch said:

That officer was Major Malcolm Nicholson Wheeler,

The only key figure in comics history  to sound more upper class British than Basil Wolverton.

But, well spotted and interesting.

[innocuous]

Also the first guy in original comics to get shafted by the man.

If you have a picture, that would be nice to share.

[WolverineX]

25 minutes ago, innocuous said:

Also the first guy in original comics to get shafted by the man.

If you have a picture, that would be nice to share.

If he founded dc wouldn't he be the man 

[shadroch]

46 minutes ago, innocuous said:

Also the first guy in original comics to get shafted by the man.

If you have a picture, that would be nice to share.

The bar on the border doesn't allow indoor photography. I think they only ban flash photography but I was yelled at and chastised after my first time in there when I tried to take a photo.

[innocuous]

28 minutes ago, Wolverinex said:

If he founded dc wouldn't he be the man 

Easiest to just quote a quote from wikipedia

In early 1938, Harry Donenfeld send him and his wife on a cruise to Cuba to 'work up new ideas'. When they came home, the major found the lock to his office door changed. In his absence, Harry had sued him for nonpayment and pushed Detective Comics, Inc. into bankruptcy court. There a judge named Abe Mennen, one of Harry's old Tammany buddies, had been appointed interim president of the firm and arranged a quick sale of its assets to Independent News. Harry gave the major a percentage of More Fun Comics as a shut-up token and wished him well.

[WolverineX]

20 hours ago, innocuous said:

Easiest to just quote a quote from wikipedia

In early 1938, Harry Donenfeld send him and his wife on a cruise to Cuba to 'work up new ideas'. When they came home, the major found the lock to his office door changed. In his absence, Harry had sued him for nonpayment and pushed Detective Comics, Inc. into bankruptcy court. There a judge named Abe Mennen, one of Harry's old Tammany buddies, had been appointed interim president of the firm and arranged a quick sale of its assets to Independent News. Harry gave the major a percentage of More Fun Comics as a shut-up token and wished him well.

Damn. Good thing McFarlane and company learned from his mistakes

[Turnando]

23 hours ago, shadroch said:

I was yelled at and chastised after my first time in there when I tried to take a photo.

Sounds like a mission.  The bartender is probably a jerk.  Get drunk and fight him and then rip that picture off the wall and walk out with it.  

Watch Mickey Rourke in Barfly for inspiration.