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From: barnejd@wkuvx1.bitnet
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: Super-Hero Lists
Date: 15 Sep 92 19:53:19 CDT
Organization: Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY

Anybody out there think of:
   1) Cajun (sp?) heroes?
   2) Hispanic heroes?
   3) American Indian heroes (esp. ones who don't pray to the 
         Great Spirit)

I'll do my part
   1) Gambit (of couurse)
       ummmm....
   2) ummm... _maybe_ Shadowhawk ('course we can count him anywhere)
      of course - Espirita!
   3) Thunderbird
      Warpath
      Puma (until recently)
      Wyatt Wingfoot
        But for the life of me, I can't find any non-Great Spirit
           worshipping ones!

Additions?
                                 -Drizzt
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From: wkaufman@us.oracle.com (William Kaufman)
Subject: Truly original comics (was Re: Grendel and Spawn)
Followup-To: rec.arts.comics.misc
Organization: Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores CA
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 04:59:55 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by an unauthenticated user
              at Oracle Corporation.  The opinions expressed are those
              of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.

In article <VcPZqB8w165w@Micor.OCUnix.on.ca> panda@Micor.OCUnix.on.ca (Elizabeth Holden) writes:
] maguire@copland.jpl.nasa.gov (Kevin Maguire) writes:
] 
] > In article <22334@galaxy.ucr.edu> zeus@watserv.ucr.edu (Zeus) writes:
] > >
] > >Tell me of an idea that is entirely original, within RECENT memory!
] > 
] > Tales From The Beanworld.

    Well, it owes a big debt to _Krazy_Kat_,... but I guess I'd still
call it original.

] Bone.  

    Right, no mistaking it for _Pogo_, say.

    Having just (re-)read Daniel Clowes' _Lout_Rampage_, I'd say
_Eightball_.  And one I'm starting to get into is Julie Doucet's
_Dirty_Plotte_.  Can anyone think of anything these might be rip-offs
of?

    (Followups to rac.misc--see ya over there.)

                                           -- Bill K.

Bill Kaufman,          | "Hush my darling / Be still my darling /
Corporate Lackey       |  The lion's on the phone,..."
wkaufman@us.oracle.com |              -- "The Guitar", They Might Be Giants
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From: dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig)
Subject: Re: RAC
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 22:43:14 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Followup-To: rec.arts.comics.misc

hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke):
>So do I... but at the beginning of the summer, the people wanting a
>superhero/misc pushed for a vote, apparently thinking they could pull it off
>since the majority of r.a.c. readers were gone for the summer... it failed,
>but it prevented the more useful marvel/dc/indy split from taking place.

I'm not going to let this go by.  First, most r.a.c. readers were
*not* gone for the summer -- check the readership statistics.  Second,
the reason the publisher-based split didn't take place was that polls
showed a strong majority *opposed* to having it on the ballot.  

Don't make unwarranted accusations.  People have been proposing a
marvel/dc/indy split for years -- and consistently failing to garner 
enough support for it.  The proposal hasn't kept failing because of
political chicanery, but because for many readers it would cause
more problems than it solves.

-----
Dani Zweig
dani@netcom.com

   God helpe the man so wrapt in Errours endless traine  -- Edmund Spenser
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 15:22:03 EDT
From: <JVI100@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Blandman

     This parady for DC's mature titles was very funny I thought. But you have
  to be a fan of all the mature titles to understand it. My girlfriend, who
  only likes The Sandman, didn't find it very funny at all. I recommend it.


                                 The owls are not what they seem....

                                              The Jimothy
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From: aoki@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Bishonen Senshi Sailor Paul)
Subject: Re: Sam and Max:  Freelance Police
Originator: aoki@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU
Organization: Sailor Senshi of San Diego
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 01:13:38 GMT

robert@askinc.ask.COM (Robert McMullen) writes:
>Can someone please e-mail me or post a listing (pref.) of all titles
>containing Sam and Max comix?

This should be a FAQ here ..

There have been three color specials:
	S&M FP Roadtrip Special (Comico, 1989)
	S&M FP (featuring "Bad Day on the Moon") (Epic, 1992)
	S&M FP Special Color Collection (Epic, 1992)
The last one collected up all of the old b&w stuff and reprinted it in
color, so there isn't much point to trying to find the old b&w stuff
(unless you're an anal-retentive completist fanboy like me).

There have also been bit appearances and cameos aplenty, ranging from
Lucasfilms Games pamphlets (Steve Purcell did some cover art for them)
to some AMAZING HEROES swimsuit specials (oh, yeah, the cover of #178
features S&M).  They also tend to make appearances in some really
bizarre places, like the "Max" merchandise that appears all over
Eclipse's THE DIRTY PAIR.
-- 
     Paul M. Aoki  |  aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU  |  ...!uunet!ucbvax!aoki
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From: kogutt@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (SCAVENGER)
Subject: Re: r.a.comics to be rmgrouped Sept. 30
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 04:52:47 GMT

In article <18k24cINNg2f@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bn510@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Matthew L. High) writes:
>
>21 days and counting until this newsgroup disappears!  Bug your 
>sysop today about getting the new heirarchy.
>
OH G-D, 21 more days of the LNH.  I am soooo sorry I started this....
Oh well, might as well let insanity rain.

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           isn't it?                            |      (Internet/Usenet)
CHEKOV:  But, I wasn't in that episode!!!       | No matter where you go, there
     (from MST3K:The Wrath of Kahn)             |    you are."-Buckaroo Banzai
Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Monday, 7 Sep 1992 18:46:14 EDT
From: <IO20738@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: HAVE YOU HEARD OF GHOST SCUM?

     This may sound very stupid, but I heard from a reliable source
that Marvel is working on a comic or something about a guy called
Ghost Scum!?!?  My reliable source is probably trying to play a joke
on me, but I want to know for sure.
   ================================
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From: thau@engin.umich.edu (David Michael Thau)
Subject: Buying Comix
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 11:21:05 EDT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Summary: Where should I post a wanted ad? 
Distribution: usa
Keywords: wanted, Akira

Hi All,
  I know this isn't the right place to post this but...
  I'm looking for the last few issues of Akira, does anyone know of
    a good place to get them, or where to look?  
  And... where is the right place to post a want ad like this anyway?
Dave.
From: cen@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: Batman: Neil Gaiman
Date: 9 Sep 92 00:22:23 GMT
Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620


 tgt33358@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Deus Imperator) writes:

[Batman by Gaiman & Bisley]

> I don't think it's gonna happen, as Bisley was _fired_ from DC recently.
> Maybe with a different artist.  (Yes, Virginia, the penis was really there).

Nah. Apparently Bisley signed an exclusive contract with Tundra. That put paid
to work for DC. I say Good Riddance after the transvestite pic of poor
Delirium.

Tanaqui 
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From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Re: Superman dead?!!!!!!
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 92 16:53:35 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

The LA Times had an AP blurb about the top 10 other ways that Superman
could bite the big one:

10 - discovered with Wonder Woman by Lois Lane
9 - Gets bad vectors from harried air traffic controller
8 - loses drunken Russian Roulette game with Batman
7 - beaten to death by crazed "entrepreneurs" after using X-ray
powers in Times Square Peep Show
6 - Undercooks pork with heat vision
5 - bungee jumping tragedy at Daily Planet building
4 - crazed Jimmy Olsen opens fire on newsroom
3 - enters "George Hamilton Tanning Competition" in red sun solar
system
2 - commits suicide after playing Judas Priest album backward
1 - mistakenly orders "Happy Meal" with kryptonite shake


-- 
John Switzer               | 50 years from now, nobody will
                           | remember Candace Bergen or Murphy
74076.1250@Compuserve.com  | Brown, but every school kid will
jrs@netcom.com             | be taught about President Quayle.
From: dv52151@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Axly)
Subject: Re: Death of Superman
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 16:02:24 GMT

jogle@nrao.edu (Jim Ogle (Ks. Jim)) writes:

>It does, doesn't it?  Oh yeah, to add fuel to the fire, Blue Beetle supposedly
>gets put into a coma when the JLA tries to take on Doomsday and they
>are supposedly going to be revamping the JLA's lineup as a result of that
>battle....

Obviously this Doomsday guy isn't all bad.

Axly
From: aph016@cch.coventry.ac.uk (ozzy)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: Superman dead?!!!!!!
Date: 8 Sep 92 10:30:13 GMT
Organization: Cov. Uni. ABusenet

In article <Bu334M.EJ2@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> sarwate@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Sanjiv Sarwate) writes:
>jogle@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Jim Ogle (Ks. Jim)) writes:
>
>>In article <mumble> das@voodoo.boeing.com (Deb Schwartz) writes:
>
>>>I just heard on the radio this morning that DC Comics is going to kill

[stuff about supermans death deleted]

I think it would be good if superman dies. The comics always portrayed him as
some kind of invulnerable hero. Personally I think he should die of old age
or something really freaky. The concept of time catching up with everyone
appeals to me in this way. Am I right or was Captain Marvel (not sure) died
of cancer. I thought that it was really well done, but i have heard that they 
are bringing him back, which I think is silly.


>If DC does Superman's death and the subsequent issues of rememberance, etc.,
>in a dramatic and meaningful way, his resurrection will not bother me so
>much.  What Marvel did wrong in the resurrection of Jean Grey was to destroy
>a dramatically appropriate death with an elaborate retcon many years later,
>after too much was based on the fact that she was dead.  
>

I'm still a little confused over the Jean Grey / Madelyne Prior /Phoenix
affair. She 'almost' dies again when the Sentinels attack the hellfire
club, she avoids death this time by transferring consciousness?!???
>
>>-- 
>>Kansas Jim (Jim Ogle, TORG guru)
>>jogle@aoc.nrao.edu (NRAO-VLBA, Socorro New Mexico)
>>"I'd be apathetic if I cared."
>
>-- 
>Sanjiv Sarwate			| "I git weary and sick of tryin'
>sarwate@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu	|  I'm tired of livin' and scared of dyin'
>SANJIV@UIUCVMD.BITNET		|  But Ol'Man River,
>                      		|  He just keeps rolling along..."


ozzy
-- 
ozzy :)
aph016@uk.ac.cov.cch
From: lf7z@ellis.uchicago.edu (glenn alan carnagey jr)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: RAC
Date: 14 Sep 92 18:05:32 GMT
Reply-To: lf7z@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <1992Sep13.145851.1@fnalo.fnal.gov> morrow@fnalo.fnal.gov (An Elmo of Their Own) writes:
>In article <BuHJHr.GBp@news.udel.edu>, lmlc@brahms.udel.edu (Carolyn M Chandler) writes:
>> Why would anyone vote NOT to have new newsgroups, someone mentioned 
>> the hasle of more crossposts but can this measure up to having to
>> read endless post about Marvel and image? I still dont see what/who 
>> would be hurt by forming new newsgroups. I would like to hear from someone
>> who would vote aganist a newsgroup rac.(vatlint+dark horse+image) and why?
>> -morgan
>
>	I would vote against any company-based split under any charter or
>combination of companies.  Would you seriously want to follow a Frank Miller
[good argument from Elmo against company split deleted]

It was more than clear from the last RFD and CFV (and was clear a long
time before that to those paying attention) that any split along
company lines is doomed to fail due to a severe lack of partisans.
Even a super-hero split failed, and there's a whole lot more support for
that.  'Course that won't stop it getting discussed again and again.  Won't
change the vote though.  I for one tire easily of split noise, it's 
particularly annoying because you can't totally ignore it because "things
change".  We just had one split with it's accompanying endless noise, let's
relax a while before we start it up again, shall we?

Pax ex machina,
Glenn
......................................................................
"I don't want another one of your rational explanations"
    --- My Life with the Thrill Kill Cult
g-carnagey@uchicago.edu, if you must know
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From: jogle@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Jim Ogle (Ks. Jim))
Subject: Re: In what issue does the Superman "death" start.
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 00:31:07 GMT

In article <mumble> torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair) writes:

>A new Superman T-Shirt, designed for this event, will ship November 10 and
>retails for $14.95.0

The design is of a "weeping" Superman S-emblem (though I think it
looks more like its bleeding than weeping).  


>Any guesses as how Superman comes back?  I favor the old "hibernation while 
>the body heals itself" trick, with a weakened Superman slowly regaining his
>powers.  

Sounds likely, unless they go into something hokey involving the
afterworld.  

>It's a good thing Lois can cover for him while he's dead.  That is, if she
>doesn't tell the whole world who Superman really is.  I don't think she will,
>since Ma and Pa Kent would be adversely affected by the revelation.  

Well, Pa Kent supposedly has a heart attack or a stroke when he hears
the news so I think they're already going to be adversely affected.  

Also, the battle with Doomsday supposedly wrecks large portions of
Metropolis so Clark Kent is considered to be one of the many
casualties of the battle (but they never do find the body of course).


-- 
Kansas Jim (Jim Ogle, TORG guru)
jogle@aoc.nrao.edu (NRAO-VLBA, Socorro New Mexico)
"I'd be apathetic if I cared."

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From: praxis@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Laura L Perkinson)
Subject: Re: >>>The Trouble With Sandman
Keywords: death sandman goth siouxsie
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 21:47:22 GMT

	I believe Gaiman has stated in more interviews that Death >is< based
on Siouxsie Sioux. (Visually, that is.) But while there is a resemblance,
Dream isn't modeled after the lead singer of the Cure.

	Cities in Dust,
	Praxis
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Tuesday, 8 Sep 1992 10:52:24 CDT
From: <U58402@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: Superman dead?!!!!!!
 <Bu44w1.A0F@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <lahu1hINNk5l@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM>

In article <lahu1hINNk5l@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM>, khale@camilla.Eng.Sun.COM
(Abhijit Khale) says:
>
>The question is not whether, but how Superman will be brought back.
>
>Some ideas tossed around (with various degrees of seriousness) were :
>
>[ideas 1-12 deleted]
>


13) Superman is killed in the presence of Cerebus.

Wilbur Pan
(aka u58402@uicvm.uic.edu
 at the ever so friendly and personal univ. of ill. at chicago)
From: kbos@carina.unm.edu (Kurt Bose "of Biscayzee")
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: Please put Mutant threads in rec.arts.xbooks (was Re: Excalibur #54)
Date: 8 Sep 92 19:15:27 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <1992Sep8.170251.8926@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> conty@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (OtakuRoach) writes:
>In article <1685CCE0.MHART00@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>, MHART00@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU (mason hart) writes:
>> In article <1992Sep3.214427.10983@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
>> conty@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (Conty III) writes:
>>  
>> I no longer care about anything touched by Bob Harras or Scott Lobdell,
>> and so do not care to read the X-board.  Alan Davis, however, remains
>> one of my favorite writers and artists, and Excalibur does not deserve
>> to be included with the "x-books".  It belongs here.
>
>I don't care whether it deserves to or not.  People like Peter David's
>work on X-FACTOR.  Is that reason enough to bring X-FACTOR out of
>r.a.c.xbooks?  I SAY THEE NAY!!
>
>The decision was made, now live with it.  And if you insist on bringing
>X-books in here, expect to be flamed by Yours Truly.

Fine.  What the hell is New Warriors crap diong in .xbooks, then?  We don't need
that junk in a perfectly good newsgroup!!!!!


-- 
Kurt Bose (as in Daisy, not Rose) *  kbos@carina.unm.edu * Make outs, not walks!
Keeper of the R.S.BB FAQ, and Junior Stathead {tm} * OK, so I AM the AntiChrist.
Be kind...don't disillusion the RBI-lovers. * Net.Agent, "Doublin" David Rossing
Less widely published as Noel Steere; less likely to rampage than Gary Huckabay.
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From: jondr@sco.COM (Karen Silkwood's car)
Subject: Re: Milk & Cheese
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 21:16:20 GMT


w95_cook@wums.wustl.edu writes:
>So far, Slave Labor has produced three "one-shot" issues of this title:
>Milk & Cheese #1, Milk & Cheese Other Number One, and Milk & Cheese Third
>Number One.  

There is a two-page M&C story in "Slave Labor Stories" #2.  They are also on
the cover, saying "HEY SAPS!  Milk & Cheese (R) only appear in this drivel
as a cynical marketing ploy! (C)(TM) WE ARE COMIC BOOK SUCKER BAIT (C) (TM)
and you are DUPES!!! (C)"

Good story too.  M&C run amok at an SF/Comics con!

-- 
Jon Drukman (God's personal DJ)                 uunet!sco!jondr   jondr@sco.com
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From: vcf1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Victoria C Fike)
Subject: Re: LNH : some questions
Organization: Columbia University
Reply-To: vcf1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Victoria C Fike)
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 16:53:17 GMT
X-Posted-From: cunixa.cc.columbia.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <BuKI0K.7M6@acsu.buffalo.edu> v129j6ed@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (This is F.U.N.) writes:
>
>Do we have the scripts from last semester lying around, and if we do, can
>they be reposted?

Yup.  I saved all the original posts.  (Hopefully, the Powers that Be didn't
nuke them during the summer...)  I'll do my best to repost them once I get my
own computer hooked up.

Tori
aka Lurking Girl

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From: m23364@mwunix (James Meritt)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: Superperson
Date: 14 Sep 92 17:39:04 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: MITRE Corporation, McLean VA

In article <92258.105159U16244@uicvm.uic.edu> U16244@uicvm.uic.edu writes:
}I noticed this little list, and see a few inconsitencies.  Some people should
}be excluded for using other people's technological stuff.  Like for
}example, Tony Stark (die you fucking playboy bastard) could be considered a
}self made man
Huh?

}That would make Bats and the Beetle more legal in this regard since they brew
}their own gadgets.

I was thinking non gadget...

}However, I would consider Daredevil as one of the self made dudes.  Granted,
}his heightened senses are wonderful, but even if he had had sight, and his
}father was murdered, he'd probably still have been able to wage a war on
}criminals due to his youthful self training and law school experience.  If
}DD had never had the accident, he'd still have devoted himself to fighting
}crime.  So I'd consider Daredevil as self made.

Perhaps.  But in combat he seems to rely on it (esp his super hearing) a LOT.
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From: lmlc@brahms.udel.edu (Carolyn M Chandler)
Subject: Test
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 14:35:51 GMT

.sig Test

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From: dvandom@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (David VanDomelen)
Subject: Re: Cerebus #300 (was Re: CRISIS IN INFINITE (well, several) NEWSGROUP
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 00:38:01 GMT

No, it's not a joke.  You must have fallen asleep at the terminal once too 
often.  Didn't you *know* it was 2004?
     Dave Van Domelen, "September 7, a day that will live in infamy" G. Bush
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From: hutch@hutch (Stephen Hutchison)
Subject: Re: LNH, another Net.Hero emerges! (Againnn...?)
Organization: Intel Corp., Hillsboro, Oregon
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 08:16:45 GMT

In article <1992Sep12.013519.19215@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu+ dvandom@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (David VanDomelen) writes:

+     The mysterious figure chuckled softly.  "You are all right, yet all wrong.
+I am all of those Net.beings at more!  I am DIAL "D" FOR DVANDOM!!!!!!"  He 
+dramatically held up his Dvandom-dial, made of unobtainium, guaranteed 
+unbreakable and unstealable!  "With this device, I can become or split off any 
+Net.entity I desire, usually for only one issue!  [...]

And now, I shall become the latest Net.Villain
+from the Dorm Room Of Ideas!"  Dial "D" for dvandom menacingly dialed his dial 
+as all the other heroes and villains stood stupified, unable to figure what to 
+post.  There was a burst of Comic Rays, and there stood...
+                         X-CHEQUER!!!!!!!
+     Mutant Accounts Payable clerk, who decided whose royalty checks got signed
+and whose didn't!  No crossover would occur unless he ordained it, for without 
+a steady stream of money, comics writers die in less than a month!  "Bwahahaha!
+ You can have your silly story if you want, but you *won't get paid*!  This 
+whole place will shrivel up and die by Sept 30 now, and there's nothing you can
+do about it!"

Invisible/Incendiary (who's been watching, invisible) decides that this
is too fine an opportunity to miss...

"Anyone interested in a call-for-votes about re-structuring the group,
 now that everybody is back from vacation?  Any suggestions?"

And vanishes again...
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