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Tuesday, December 30, 2025
NEAR MYTHS: [LI'L ADAM"], THE SPIRIT (1947)
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This seven-page SPIRIT strip, dubbed "Li'l Adam" in reprints, was one of many clever parodies Will Eisner produced in the pos...
Thursday, May 4, 2023
MYTHCOMICS: '"THE GURU OF OURS" (MAD #128, 1969)
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Some critics sneer at everything MAD Magazine printed after the departure of Harvey Kurtzman. I'll admit that there were some features ...
Thursday, January 19, 2017
MYTHCOMICS: "EYE EYE SIR" (WITCHES' TALES #24, 1954)
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Though the word "mythic" is sometimes used as shorthand for seriousness and importance, there's no reason mythic works can...
Friday, December 11, 2015
MYTHCOMICS: "SUPERDUPERMAN" (MAD #4, 1953)
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Looking through the seminal early MAD issues, one often finds a lot of clever puns and inversions of pop-culture tropes. However, the famous...
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Monday, June 6, 2011
MYTHCOMICS #13: MAD #19 (1955)
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...though we are repelled by the sight of man turned beast... we revel to see beast turned man!" PLOT-SYNOPSIS FOR "...
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