Luke Blanchard replied to Captain Comics's discussion Comics for Jan. 28, 2026
"-It's been speculated that Chayney's London After Midnight makeup was devised for The Man Who Laughs, which early in its production was going to star Chaney.
-Images show his costume had bat-wing-like flaps under the arms.
-Novelisations of the film…"
Jan 24
Luke Blanchard replied to Steve W's discussion A Cover a Day
"If anyone doesn't know, this is after the cover of Superman #240 (also by Adams)."
Jan 23
Luke Blanchard replied to PowerBook Pete, the Mad Mod's discussion Anything, Everything, or Nothing At All
"Orson Welles guested in a story in Superman #62, "Black Magic on Mars!" This advertised the movie Black Magic.
Ann Blythe appeared in "Superman and the Mermaid" in Action Comics #130. This advertised the movie Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid.
Pat Boone…"
Jan 23
Luke Blanchard replied to PowerBook Pete, the Mad Mod's discussion Anything, Everything, or Nothing At All
"Young Davy Crockett guested in stories in Tomahawk.
Richard Dragon fought a pupil of Bruce Lee in Richard Dragon, Kung-Fu Fighter #14. In the story this means he's a super-capable fighter.
Benjamin Franklin seduced Clea in Doctor Strange #18 (1976),…"
Jan 22
Luke Blanchard replied to Philip Portelli's discussion My Mother Is At Peace.
"My condolences."
Jan 20
Luke Blanchard replied to PowerBook Pete, the Mad Mod's discussion Anything, Everything, or Nothing At All
"I thought the AI scored hits with Merritt/"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", and Austin/"The Rape of the Lock". Possibly also Dickens/"The Deserted Village", but I haven't read that one. Bond/"The Rape of the Lock" is a wild miss: the work is a…"
Jan 20
Luke Blanchard replied to Captain Comics's discussion The Massive, Extravagant, Over-the-top Golden Age JSA Re-read
"At its start All-Star Comics was an early top-feature anthology, preceded by New York World's Fair Comics #1, and released at the same time (according to Mike's Amazing World) as New York World's Fair Comics #2. Some number of other companies did…"
Jan 19
Luke Blanchard replied to PowerBook Pete, the Mad Mod's discussion Anything, Everything, or Nothing At All
"I've been thinking of reading some poetry, and I thought there might be some good long stuff by authors I've never heard of (I'm disinclined to believe only the most famous writers are any good) so I asked Google AI
>what is a good seventeenth or…"
Jan 18
Richard Willis replied to Luke Blanchard's discussion Tips on using the board
"In addition to the "following" option, the first casualty was to be alerted to brand new threads. That stopped working a long time ago. Since I have confirmed that the "Forum" tells me both things, I will be unfollowing the threads I previously…"
Jan 4
Luke Blanchard replied to PowerBook Pete, the Mad Mod's discussion Anything, Everything, or Nothing At All
"Comics and Opera Dept .: one of the better-known 20th century operas is The Cunning Little Vixen by Leoš Janáček. (Wikipedia says the Czech title translates as Tales of Vixen Sharp-Ears.) This was based on an illustrated Czech newspaper serial,…"
Jan 3
Richard Willis replied to Luke Blanchard's discussion Tips on using the board
"Following in this way was what I did for years. Lacking the emails, I had been using the "Forum" column on the home page and reading all the ones with recent dates. If I decide to stick with this method I'll probably unfollow to stop the emails."
Jan 3
Luke Blanchard replied to PowerBook Pete, the Mad Mod's discussion Anything, Everything, or Nothing At All
"God give you all strength."
Jan 2
Luke Blanchard replied to The Baron's discussion Movies I Have Seen Lately
"Way back when a contributor to the Captain's board noted that Galactus was designed to look like a Roman man of action, in contrast to the Watcher's philosopher or senator. Hence he has a skirt and bare legs (originally).
Galactus is an alien who…"
Jan 2
Luke Blanchard replied to PowerBook Pete, the Mad Mod's discussion Anything, Everything, or Nothing At All
"I've not seen the 1995 story. In "The Death of Clark Kent!" from Superman #42 Superman has to abandon his Clark Kent identity because Lois has seen him apparently killed in a "sewer gas" explosion. The story is handled comically: he tries to…"
Jan 2
JD DeLuzio replied to Luke Blanchard's discussion Tips on using the board
"I registered with a now rarely-used email, and hadn't checked for a little while.
Yep, we're back to receiving alerts."
Jan 2
Luke Blanchard replied to Luke Blanchard's discussion Tips on using the board
"I'm the opposite: I don't want to get them. There's a "follow" button top right above the replies. Clicking on it sets it to "following"."
Jan 2
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