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Saturday, July 29, 2023
THE LAST TIMELY-ATLAS CROSSOVERS?
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My earlier essay THE FIRST MARVEL CROSSOVER remains accurate, given that it describes the first encounter of starring icons since the publi...
DEPARTMENT OF COMICS CURIOSITIES #25: SUN GIRL #2-3 (1948)
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From 1948 here are two separate Sun Girl stories in which she faces off against colossal monsters. The first one is seen here ripping up a ...
Thursday, July 27, 2023
MYTHCOMICS: ["THE DEMON DOORWAY"] (DOORWAY TO NIGHTMARE #2, 1978)
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In the comment-section for my 2021 analysis of Gerry Conway's SUB-MARINER story "A House Named Death," I said, somewhat tongu...
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
ICONIC BONDING PT. 2
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My entire formulation of bonded ensembles is oriented upon trying to discern which subordinate icons are, or are not, bonded to which supero...
Tuesday, July 25, 2023
DOORWAY TO XANADU
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I don't remember what drew my attention to DC's seventies spiritualist Madame Xanadu, but I found myself wondering how much, if at a...
Friday, July 21, 2023
ICONIC BONDING PT. 1
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So in GLAD TO MEET YOU FOR THE FIRST TIME AGAIN , I sketched out three types of "bonded ensembles" in which fictional icons coul...
NEAR MYTHS: "BUS FUSS" (ARCHIE AND ME #50, 1972)
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In this essay I spoke of the ARCHIE franchise as "damn close to being anti-epistemological." I don't believe it's impossi...
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