Friday, December 31, 2021

CRYPTO-CONTINUITY AND DOPPELGANGBANGERS PT. 2

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  I ended Part 1 on this observation: that even though it was possible for raconteurs to use the name of a famous literary character for a...
Tuesday, December 28, 2021

CRYPTO-CONTINUITY AND DOPPELGANGBANGERS PT. 1

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In CONVOCATION OF CROSSOVERS PT. 2 I introduced the notion of "crypto-continuity," using the term to describe the way the second ...
Monday, December 27, 2021

NEAR-MYTHS: THE JUDAS CONTRACT (1984)

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         I referenced this TEEN TITANS story-arc in my essay NO FOOL LIKE AN OLD PRO , where I talked about the futility of imposing m...
Saturday, December 25, 2021

THE READING RHEUM: JIREL OF JOIRY (1934-39/1969)

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This 1969 paperback was one of my "gateway drugs" to the super-genre of fantasy, and as I remember I purchased this along with my ...
Friday, December 24, 2021

DEPARTMENT OF COMICS CURIOSITIES #7

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 From CAPTAIN AMERICA COMICS #32: almost certainly the first "Mole Man" at Timely, though the character is so forgettable, I doubt...
Thursday, December 23, 2021

NEAR-MYTHS: “SANTA IN WONDERLAND,” SANTA CLAUS FUNNIES #2 (1943)

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  This Santa-tale, which might have been crafted by the same creator(s) of “ Santa Claus in Trouble ,” isn’t nearly as strong in the myt...

MYTHCOMICS: “SANTA CLAUS IN TROUBLE” (SANTA CLAUS FUNNIES #1, 1942)

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  I had picked out my last mythcomic for the year of 2021 when something occurred to me: of all the 300 comics-stories I’ve analyzed, ...