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I'm enjoying the review of "AICFAD", and still have the copy I bought years ago across the street from UConn's main…"
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"I'm still waiting for a collection of Superman/Action Comics Supes stories that pick up after the last Showcase Presents volume, and I'm getting old."
"Cap, could you tell us what "Friend of George" means?"
"I'm guessing that "FoG" means George Harrison...maybe...sort of..."
"There used to be an English actress named Hermione Gingold, but I'm not quite sure how she pronounced her name; the little pronunciation guide in Wikipedia suggests, if I understand it correctly, that she said it "Ging (hard g) old".…"
"I found a site that includes many of the Adventure Comics letter columns--it's called Days of Adventure, run by a guy named Booksteve, who reproduced the covers of apparently the entire run of A.C. and included some notes about each issue; its…"
"I found a slightly different answer to question number 2 (about who belonged to the Legion Espionage Squad). The Commander listed Invisible Kid, Shrinking Violet, Phantom Girl, and Saturn Girl; in Adventure 363's letter…"
"I should have asked this before, but is it considered dirty pool to look up the stories? I would have tried to answer the all the questions off the top of my head, but I didn't do so well."
"6) Excellent catch by those who thought of Sunboy: in Adventure #302, Cosmic Boy, putative leader,addresses Sun Boy as "Dirk Morgna" one panel before CB tells him that he must be expelled; it happens on page 5 of the story in 302, and on…"
"6) When Timber Wolf joined the Legion at the end of Adv. 372, he was known as Timber Wolf, not Lone Wolf, and to the best of my knowledge maintained that soubriquet for the duration of the Adventure Comics run, so I don't think that he should…"
"Does that mean a woman purporting to be his mother merely made occasional visits to him after telling him that no one else existed?"
"Does he see a photograph of himself with a woman (his actual mother) that he resembles strongly?"
"Thanks, Commander, but you really had me confused when I went to the header again, and I noticed it was different--I thought that I had hallucinated the whole thing; most embarrassing!"
"SPOILER ALERT The really weird thing about that picture is that Superboy's image was lifted from the cover of Adventure 318, which in turn was, I believe, taken from Superboy 105, in which red kryptonite gave him 5 fingers and a thumb on…"
"Not a coincidence, I was trying to give a small laugh to fellow comic book fans knowledgeable about Silver Age Comics...I guess it's not as funny now, I'll have to think of a new one."
"Fraser, I'm not sure what you're talking about, but it has nothing to do with Ultra Boy."
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- What are your five favorite comic characters?
- 1. George W. Bush
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- At 1:56pm on April 8, 2018,
KATE KWAME said… Welcome to the Comics Round Table,
Glad you are still here.I picked interest on you after going through your short profile and deemed it necessary to write you immediately. I have something very vital to disclose to you, but I found it difficult to express myself here, since it's a public site.Could you please get back to me on ( mrs.katekwame5@gmail.com ) for the full details.
Have a nice day
Thanks God bless.
Kate Kwame.
- At 6:37pm on April 13, 2012,
Runt Hipper...Time Waster said…
I've never actually read an I5 comic--I merely free-associated the first nom du blog that came to mind, like any good analysand.
- At 6:01pm on April 13, 2012, PapaLouANowNow said…
Th' I5 still in the 21st where that B&B Legion-team-up left 'em?
- At 5:39pm on April 13, 2012,
She prefers to be called "Intellectually Challenged Lagomorph". Yes, I am a nerd--how did you know?
(And today I learned how to accurately spell "Awkward Man", though when you think of it, misspelling "Awkward Man" is kind of apropos
- At 4:46pm on April 13, 2012,
Captain Comics said…
Say, how's Dumb Bunny doing these days?
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