Sunday, April 30, 2023

ASPIRIN FOR ANTHOLOGIES PT. 3

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 At the end of 2020's  EQUAL AND UNEQUAL VECTORS OF AUTHORIAL WILL PT. 2 , I wrote: The same dynamic also applies to those serials that ...
Saturday, April 29, 2023

DEPARTMENT OF COMICS CURIOSITIES #14

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 While scanning through issues of JUMBO COMICS to chart the progress of the character Sheena, I came across a "weird western" feat...
Thursday, April 27, 2023

STRENGTH TO DREAM, THE SEQUEL

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 In the first two parts of STRENGTH TO DREAM, STRENGTH TO AWAKEN, respectively here  and here , I pursued a comparison between Samuel T. Col...
Wednesday, April 26, 2023

NEAR-MYTHS: "RESURRECTION NIGHT" (BATMAN #400, 1986)

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I discussed the most ambitious arc in Doug Moench's BATMAN run here , but as it happened the writer continued to script Bat-tales until ...
Tuesday, April 25, 2023

THE READING RHEUM: THE EMPEROR OF AMERICA (serialization 1927, book 1929)

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  In  my review of DAUGHTER OF FU MANCHU , I quoted Wikipedia's "Sax Rohmer" essay, which alleged that Rohmer's novel THE ...
Monday, April 24, 2023

MYTHCOMICS: "LAND OF THE TOTEM POLES" (FOUR COLOR #263, 1950)

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  In my somewhat scattered re-reads of the two Disney titles wherein Carl Barks created his most distinctive work, UNCLE SCROOGE and DONALD ...
Thursday, April 20, 2023

LEGENDS OF YESTERYEAR

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In COSMIC ALIGNMENT I addressed the way certain real-life historical figures generated innominative characters based on them, but I didn...