Anything, Everything, or Nothing At All

[PowerBook Pete, the Mad Mod]

Leopard v Crocodile!

[Richard Willis]

Chris Browne, long time cartoonist of Hägar the Horrible, has died

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[Richard Willis]

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[Tracy of Moon-T]

Here's the flea market in Fort Worth Jeff and I went to yesterday. Quite the variety of things but I came home with a pink hat and an office lamp. 

[Tracy of Moon-T]

[JD DeLuzio]

This local True Crime podcast featured a notorious local case that happened a short walk from where I live. I am one of the unnamed sources, though I provided only one rather banal fact that numerous people could have provided.

[Jeff of Earth-J]

"Cattlebarn Flea Market" was more of a junk shop, but items were priced accordingly. Tracy wanted to go someplace we had never been to before (or will ever again), and that qualified. We went to a "Knick Knack" mall today that was more what I would call a boutique... nothing a man would be interested in. One stall had comics of recent vintage (i.e., 1990s forward) that were reasonably priced, good condition, below cover. A good selection but nothing I needed.

[The Baron]

[Jeff of Earth-J]

We went to an antique store yesterday... not one we had never been to before but one we hadn't been to in several years. Neither one of us found anything even remotely interesting; we didn't even find anything to take pictures of. We did find something noteworthy, however: a number of comics (from the early '70s, not the '90s) that weren't ridiculously overpriced. They were somewhat expensive, but not more than I would change for mine. (I had them all.)

On the way home we stopped in at a HPB up north we don't usually go to and found about two feet of Doctor Who audios from Big Finish, early ones. I bought all of the Sixth Doctor ones (my second favorite audio Doctor); now I have them all (all the Sixth Doctor ones, I mean) except one. 

[Luke Blanchard]

Unofficial crossovers dept.:

In the lead story in Challengers of the Unknown #42 the Challs face a team of villains made up of former foes. Multi-Man was their recurring foe. There had been two Volcano Man stories, in #27 and #32. Kra and Drabny were both one-off villains from #8, the last Kirby issue.

That same month the FF met a team of villains made up, mostly, of former Human Torch villains. 

According to Mike's Amazing World the issues both went on sale in Dec. 1964, the FF one a week later. That looks to me not a coincidence. 

The Challengers story is attributed by the GCD to Ed Herron (=France Herron). He had a history working with Kirby, so perhaps Herron and Kirby covertly cooked it up. But as I explained recently, I think DC writers ghost-plotted for Marvel in the earlier 1960s. If I'm right it could be the figure on the Marvel side was one of those ghost-plotters.

Medusa's power recalls Spider Girl's. She was a Legion reject who appeared in Adventure Comics #323 about half a year earlier, in a story by Jerry Siegel. But I suppose if you started with the name "Medusa" that's the power you might come up with.

The Wizard and Paste-Pote Pete had previously teamed-up in Strange Tales #110, in one of the stories attributed to H. E. Huntley.

Images from the GCD.

[Jeff of Earth-J]

"But as I explained recently..."

The post you reference led me to research a possible "Challengers of the Fantastic" discussion from the angle of "who did what" on the Fantastic Four. I did not go beyond the Kirby issues of Challs, but here is what i came up with:

Showcase #6 - Sorcerer - Dr. Doom

Showcase #7 - Robots - FF #7 (Kurrgo's robot)

Showcase #11 - Aliens - FF #2 (Skrulls)

Challengers #2 - Monster Maker - FF #3 (Miracle Man)

Challengers #4 - Time Cube - Dr. Doom's Time Machine (FF #5)

Challengers #6 - Slaves - FF # 19 (Rama Tut)

Challengers #7 - Shrunk - FF #16 (Mircro-world of Dr. Doom)

Challengers #8 - [?] - FF #20 (notes incomplete)

[David Warren]

I used to think it would be fun to have a job, but not have to work. Well...

My work had a ransom-ware attack.

I had 2 weeks of forced vacation, now followed by being on stand by.

Need to check email to see if any testing is needed so systems can be turned back on.

This could be better if my wife was also pn vacation, but 3+ weeks of not working is starting to be boring.

[Irma Kruhl]

Don't forget the  "Bits of Legionnaire Business", the reader-submitted entries in Adventure Comics.  A  "Spider Lass"  was suggested by a reader in Adventure #310's letter column with these details: "She has the power of converting her hair into a super web and casting it around opponents." This is from 1963, and Mort Weisinger encouraged his Legion writers to use the best of the suggestions, so we get a Spider Girl with super-hair in 1964. 

 And I've wondered if  someone at Marvel was watching  these "Bits Of Legionnaire Business" and was making notes of the more interesting suggestions.   For example, a pair of suggestions caught my eye from awhile back is from Adventure #308 (also 1963), namely "JINX BOY . . . he can 'hex' criminals so that they encounter bad luck." 

and

"MIRAGE MASTER . . . he can create fantastic mirages merely by will power."

These remind me of the earliest incarnations of  two members of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, namely the Scarlet Witch ("Wanda! Don't point your finger! You know it causes bad luck!")  and Mastermind, who debuted in X-Men #4 in 1964.  

Trivia: Don Heck and Stan (and Larry Lieber) had a "Medusa" in Tales to Astonish #32 (1962); but this was a different Medusa, not the Inhuman; this one was purported to be the "original", the one with snake-hair who could turn people into stone.

Luke Blanchard said:

Medusa's power recalls Spider Girl's. She was a Legion reject who appeared in Adventure Comics #323 about half a year earlier, in a story by Jerry Siegel. But I suppose if you started with the name "Medusa" that's the power you might come up with.