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From: albert@chain.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu (Rick Jones)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Did Ya' Notice in Future Imperfect
Date: 3 Jan 1993 17:17:43 GMT
Organization: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tx
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In article <1993Jan3.163456.20908@afterlife.ncsc.mil> acadams@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Arthur C. Adams) writes:
>Looking very closely at the double-page spread of the "archive" in
>Future Imperfect, I noticed a very interesting item.
>
>Look just above the bulletin board on the right-hand page.
>There, you will find 
>SPOILER ALERT

>
>I want to know if that was put in there by PAD or George Perez.


	Beats me.  But DYN in the jars of ashes, PAD and Perez's 
urns.  (Not to mention Jean Grey "again?")

	For the real eagle eyes, perhaps you can find some things I 
missed.
	Crow (from MST3000)
	something that's in young Rick's apartment as well as the archive.
	
	And I did find Waldo (after someone mentioned where he was, sigh).
Waldo would've been in color, if not for the legal bean counters.

-- 
Rick Jones		"People come back from the dead all the time.  I mean,
albert@bcm.tmc.edu	 I've come back from the dead.  I bet you have to!"
Systems Support Center	"Well... Yes, I have.  But I AM a professional."
Voice: 713-798-7352	       -Rick Jones and Dr Strange, Incredible Hulk #399
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From: panda@Micor.OCUnix.on.ca (Elizabeth Holden)
Subject: Re: "Sunk the Lowest" Award for 1992
Organization: M.B. Cormier INC.
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 08:53:51 EST

> hunter@cse.uta.edu (David Hunter) writes:
> 
> > Now that the end of the year is upon us, how about some nominations for
> > the book that has sunk the lowest for this past year?  That is, the


...I forgot to mention the *character* whom I think has sunk the lowest.

Valor.

He went from being  a universal hero in LSH to being a snotty and 
obnoxious kid with an ugly costume in his own series.

I was disappointed.

Namaste,
Elizabeth


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From: dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig)
Subject: LSH#40
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 22:42:04 GMT

The meeting between the two Legions was Too Short.  I would definitely have
preferred to have the pages devoted to it that were spent on that pointless
fight.

Whaddayaknow, New Earth really *does* hold just fifty million people!
So when the entire escape network was functional, they could have
rescued some 200 million out of a population of fifty times that number.
Talk about Titanic syndrome!

And Nura's obviously been on a crash diet these last few weeks.

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

Roses red and violets blew
  and all the sweetest flowres that in the forrest grew -- Edmund Spenser
From: rogerk@queernet.org (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Squiddies: I Lied
Date: 2 Jan 93 04:59:25 GMT
Organization: QueerNet

It's been a tired, do-nothingy kind of a day.  Look for award categories
and instructions over the weekend.
-- 
ROGER B.A. KLORESE                                              +1 415 ALL-ARFF
rogerk@unpc.QueerNet.ORG              {ames,decwrl,pyramid}!sgiblab!unpc!rogerk
"Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from."
                                                                   -- J. Foster
From: jamesc@bassclar.Eng.Sun.COM (James Langdell)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: The Uncanny Malcolm X-Man
Date: 23 Dec 1992 02:05:20 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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In article 15029@netcom.com, solovay@netcom.com (Andrew Solovay) writes:
>In article <1992Dec22.040622.7608@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> conty@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (E. Kontei) writes:
>>Anyway, back to my point.  I'm one of those weird people who just won't
>>leave the theather until all the credits have rolled off the screen (you
>>always find some interesting stuff in there).  Among all the listings and
>>acknowledgements, I saw the following (paraphrased):  "All Marvel
>>Characters Copyright 1992 MARVEL COMICS GROUP (etc...)"
>>
>>What gives?  Did Marvel finally manage to copyright the letter "X"?
>
>Nahh... it's because of all those churches in the early parts of
>the movies. Remember how they all had pictures of Jesus(TM)? Yup,
>Jesus(TM) is now a Marvel superhero.
>
>I'm psyched for the Jesus(TM)--John the Baptist(TM) crossover
>("My Apostle--My Enemy"(TM)).  They spend the first five pages
>fighting, then they realize they're both good guys, and go off
>and trash Satan(TM).  Good solid Marvel fare.

At least Jesus(TM) is a Marvel character who, when he's killed off
and returns from the dead, will do so for a good reason.

--James Langdell       jamesc@eng.sun.com
  Sun Microsystems     Mountain View, Calif.
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From: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons)
Subject: Re: Mr. Peanut sigs
Organization: Inland Sea
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 12:32:45 GMT

silbrmnd@acf3.nyu.edu (Darkmage) writes:

>I don't get it.  

>I just don't get it.  

>*DM ponders for a moment*

>Nope, I still don't get it.

Who said you were supposed to?
-- 
"When Dexter's on the Internet,    | "In all your future dealins with me, you
 can Hell be far behind?"          |  will conduct yourself as a dead nut."
   scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us	   |	      Mr. Peanut in "The Legumeists"
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From: panda@Micor.OCUnix.on.ca (Elizabeth Holden)
Subject: Re: "Sunk the Lowest" Award for 1992
Organization: M.B. Cormier INC.
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 09:07:09 EST

mcmahan@cs.unca.edu (Scott McMahan -- Genesis mailing list owner) writes:

> I think LSH got the rug yanked out from under them. The 
> second series should *never* have started sans Levitz.
> The appalling trash they publish under that name is an

But I happen to love that "appalling trash" better than anything I've 
ever seen in the Legion previously.  Chacun a son gout and all that.  
It's one of my favourite comics.  

Unfortunately, even when you talk about the worst of the sunk (a category 
in which of course I am *not* including LSH) there are some comics who 
were that bad to start with.

> on lameness. Neither does the X-Pantheon, since they're
> Marble's cash cow and have been for a long, long time...

Yes, and occasionally by some accident they have a good issue with a good 
story.  Too bad it doesn't happen more often.

> The lowest, lamest, and dumbest publicity stunt has to be
> the death of Superbman. Poor guy died to bolster Dee See's

Agreed.  Dumb but effective.


Namaste,
Elizabeth
From: intruder@cats.ucsc.edu (Isaac N. Truder)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Harvey does Ultraman (recommended!)
Date: 3 Jan 1993 21:28:34 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
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 > Ultraman is a 3 issue miniseries and issue number 1 comes in two
 > formats. Regular and Gimmmick (with awesome Japanese monster card
 > and special  poly-bag design). 

Yeeeow!  WHEN??

And I think another important question here is -- what KIND of Ultraman
are we talking here?  I've seen a lot of the latest Ultraman series
(ULTRAMAN: TOWARDS THE FUTURE in syndication in the US, ULTRAMAN GREAT
in Japan) and it's pretty weak compared to the old stuff.  I'll bet this
is the series from which the comic will be taken.  I detect some
high cheese-factor potential here.

The BEST way to do Ultraman would be to reprint some manga from Japan
(though I dunno if there ever was any) or to do a manga-styled comic.
Where the new series falls flat is because it was filmed in Australia
with a notably caucasian cast, so it lacks that "goofy" factor of the
70's ULTRAMAN and ULTRA SEVEN series, or of GODZILLA movies.  Everything
is trying to be too polished and appealing to the American mass
audience.  REAL Ultraman is DUBBED!

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From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (The Napoleon of Crime)
Subject: Re: Death of Moriarty double-back limited issue SPOILERS!!
Keywords: Oh, the humanity!
Reply-To: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (The Napoleon of Crime)
Organization: The Institute for Criminal Science, Gizmonics Control
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 02:57:44 GMT

In <1992Dec22.011730.907@lokkur.dexter.mi.us> scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons) writes:

>moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (The Napoleon of Crime) writes:
>
>>Napoleon of Crime, Inc., and the personnel dept. of the John Fluke Mfg.
>>Company, Inc., have announced that, later this week, the (faintly) popular
>>(perhaps) net.personality, Moriarty, will *die*.
>
>Yet another cheap hack to sell a few more MultiMeters (TM).  What next,
>holographic displays that are different for every meter?  I strongly urge
>all right-thinking and left-standing fans to boycott this entire sequence.

No, we're hiring Rob Liefield to do Windows desktop bitmaps for our PC
applications tools.  Gosh, we're just thrilled!  And he really does wear 501
jeans!

                           "Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K."
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From: jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Joel Furr)
Subject: Re: Question about LSH #40
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	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
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Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 14:37:17 GMT

In article <IfERI1m00WDKQGYWsa@andrew.cmu.edu> vh00+@andrew.cmu.edu (Vernon H Harmon) writes:
>Excerpts from netnews.rec.arts.comics.misc: 30-Dec-92 Question about LSH
>#40 Elizabeth Holden@Micor.O (194)
>
>> Have we ever seen Squire before?  Who is he?  And who is the 
>> yellow-skinned Dominator-linked woman with the mind control powers?

Squire Burroughs has appeared before, energy powers and all.  Don't have
issue numbers handy.
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From: dml@athena.mit.edu (David M LaMacchia)
Subject: Re: Sam & Max
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:39:32 GMT

In article <lsmith.725415939@mega> lsmith@mega.cs.umn.edu (Lance "Squiddie" Smith) writes:

>Just a plug, the pins are very nice. My Max pin is presently seeing duty as
>a cap badge. I wonder why there is a Max pin and a Sam and Max pin, but no
>Sam pin? 

Yeah I wondered that, too.  I talked to my local dealer about the pins,
shirts, etc. and he said he wasn't scheduled to get them until *February*.
Time to head back to Million Year Picnic, and if worse comes to worse
order them direct.  I was surprised they came out with this stuff at all.

>Orange Circus Peanuts are things I thought looked great when I was a kid,
>but every time I had one, I'd get sick. Still I kept buying them

But do you eat them when they're soft or after a few weeks have passed?? :-)

>Anyway, the good news out of Cap City is the following:
>
>"The Sam & Max Show #1              $2.95
> Color. [Of 3] Purcell/M. Mignola/Art Adams/
> C-Painted cover by Steve Purcell
> Shipping March 18 from Ronalds.
> The side-splitting new limited series by cult-favorite Steve Purcell
> premieres! In the lead story, Max is shot, and Sam finds a new partner.
> Skullboy and Rusty Razorclam demonstrate bizarre antics in the second
> feature. Recommended."

Wow.  I suppose this will be about the size of the S&M go to the moon
issue?  Looks good, although these characters sound like something out
of Flaming Carrot (is it time for a cross-over?  Or maybe a Sam & Max/Cerebus
issue?)

Thanks for this info...can't wait until it ships.

--dave
From: MJV@brownvm.brown.edu (Marshall Vale)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Sam & Max
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 15:47:08 EST
Organization: Brown University - Providence, Rhode Island  USA
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In article <1992Dec22.230836.10686@news2.cis.umn.edu>, lsmith@atto.cs.umn.edu
(Lance "Squiddie" Smith) said:
>Weasel on a Stick! (Not to be confused with Mrs Murphy's Original Fried
Stoat.)
>It makes an appearance in one of the issues. The shirt also includes a fly
with
>a Cheez-It and a rat stealing auto parts. Plus some other images from previous
>issues. (What? No Orange Circus Peanuts?)

  Right! Its been too long since I read my Sam & Max's, so for such a
blasphemous error, I'll force myself to read them all when I move
my comics this weekend. BTW, so of you might not have seen the
wonderful ad for the stuff that appeared in Capitol's Advance Comics:

"Wreck the Halls"
Sam & Max have strong words with Santa concerning their Christmas lists
Scene: Sam & Max going through Santa's bag. Santa lying next to tree
       tied up in popcorn trimmmings.

Sam: "Good thing Saint Nick didn't forget to order a heap of colorful
      Sam & Mac geegaws for the holiday season!"

Max: "Sam--if all the world gave their loved ones precious gifts such as
      these--we'd be up to our puffy white butts in ill-gotten royalty
      dough!"

Sam: "You choke me up when you get sentimental, little buddy"

Marshall
mjv@brownvm.brown.edu
From: jwlr@escher.cc.rochester.edu (James Willer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Marvel copies DC... again
Date: 3 Jan 93 21:44:28 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

jdelisle@udel.edu (J. G. Delisle) writes:

>	Why is it every time DC does something, Marvel tries to imitate it?
>Next summer's DC annuals will be introducing new heroes and villains. So will
>the Marvel annuals. DC has success with the Hellblazer title. Marvel will be
>starting Hellstorm in February (it's about demons and magic in the Marvel
>universe. Very orginal.)

Ummm, I don't want to sound like a zombie, but Marvel already has *several*
titles about "demons and magic in the Marvel universe". There's _Darkhold_,
_Morbius_(sort of), the occasional _Dr. Strange_, and the entire MySTech group
to name a few.

>	And, DC is launching its Vertigo line of mature titles. So as not to
>be left out, Marvel's Epic line is releasing the "Heavy Hitters" titles, 
>apparently to try and capture more of the market, using big names (TM) like
>Joe Kubert, Ron Lim, Gerard Jones, Howard Chaykin, etc.

As I recall, this was the original impetus behind the Epic line. ("using big
names" to do "mature titles" and other creater owned stuff.)

>	Of course, Marvel isn't cancelling any titles to make room for the
>new ones. Somebody said they'd have over 150 titles per month by summer '93.
>If that's the case, I'm starting to dread 1994 already.

Now *this* is going to be a major pain!
						Jamesa Willer
["don't blame me, i just wrote it, put it on a record, wrapped it up, and then
 i sold it" Prince <Horny Pony>]
From: cwagner@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Christian Wagner)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: SANDMAN:Lucien's Library
Date: 27 Dec 92 04:05:47 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

In article <26DEC199213552896@rigel.tamu.edu> ted4646@rigel.tamu.edu (cartoon boy) writes:
>In article <8248@news.duke.edu>, eja@carr3.acpub.duke.edu (Eric Akawie) writes...
>>What books do YOU want to read out of Lucien's Library.  Let's assume
>>he's got a comic book section and an AV department too.
>comics:
>Zot! #37 onwards.  (by Scott McCloud)
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - <thumbs up>
Cerebus #300
Mage : The Hero Defined and Mage : The Hero Denied 
Buck Godot - Zapgun for Hire Volumes 3 & up
D'Arc Tangent - anything, anything at all. :)
The rest of A Distant Soil

>movies:
>a  *GOOD*  Captain America movie.

A good X-men cartoon (Claremont - Byrne era stuff, mebbe the Phoenix saga)
The animated ElfQuest.
3x3 Eyes #5 and up
A decent adaptation of _Dune_
The complete Doctor Who episode "Shada"
The original Star Trek, seasons four and up

Misc: 
The rest of Coleridge's "Xanadu" poem..... (can't remember it's real title)
The missing Nixon tapes
Bill Casey's memoirs

-- 
    "Well, do you ever get the feeling that the Story's too damn real
                        and in the present tense?"
               Christian Wagner - cwagner@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
From: jdelacr@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Jorge DeLaCruz)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: New releases scheduled for March, 1993 (LONG)
Date: 30 Dec 92 14:08:21 GMT
Organization: The Great Beyond

In article <1992Dec29.061943.15310@sol.UVic.CA> jcowling@sol.UVic.CA (Scowling Jim Cowling) writes:
>

   I Like it

   
>	Next Men Collection
>	Next Men Collection Limited Edition

    what exactly is the Collection, anyone know?


DC

>	Blood Syndicate 2
>	Hardware 2
>	Hardware 3
>	Icon 1

    anyone know anything about the new Milestone (besides being Black Heros
    drawn by Black Artists with Black Writers and Black Editors.



>Marvel Comics
>	Cable 1      (He's Back)


>	Invaders 1
>	Mad Dog 1
>	Dragon Lines 1
>	Lawdog 1

    Has anyone heard anything about these guys, are they more Marvel UK?

>	Comics Interview: The Many Lives of Superman   (and Deaths)
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From: tyg@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Tom Galloway)
Subject: LSH: Legionnaires method of determining the Leader
Organization: Interleaf
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 03:49:59 GMT

According to the Legionnaires and LSH article in the most recent CBG,
Legionnaires' leaders after the first one will be determined via vote
of the readers ala the old series.

All together now...Tenzil. Tenzil. Tenzil. Tenzil. Tenzil. Tenzil. Tenzil.

"Trust me, I'm a senator." --Tenzil Kem
tyg   tyg@hq.ileaf.com
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From: panda@Micor.OCUnix.on.ca (Elizabeth Holden)
Subject: Re: Sandman - A Thought
Organization: M.B. Cormier INC.
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 09:00:56 EST

arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee) writes:

> Sandman, basically, works only if you ignore the existence of other planets
> except for a few references like the Martian Manhunter one, and ignore the
> existence of most other cultures on Earth.

Huh?  No, I still gon't get it.  We've seen the Endless interacting on 
other planets (rarely, but we've seen it).  I don't see your point: the 
more destruction we see, the more the likelihood that Destruction was 
around because he was needed.

These characters don't *cause* the attributes they represent, they just 
deal with them.  Death doesn't kill people, she sort of supervises their 
demise.  Dream doesn't create the effects of dreaming, he rules the 
Realm.  

Namaste,
Elizabeth


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From: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
Subject: Re: The Uncanny Malcolm X-Man
Keywords: This is NOT an xbooks question...
Organization: Johns Hopkins University CS Dept.
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:23:51 GMT

In article <1992Dec22.184621.15029@netcom.com> solovay@netcom.com (Andrew Solovay) writes:
>Nahh... it's because of all those churches in the early parts of
>the movies. Remember how they all had pictures of Jesus(TM)? Yup,
>Jesus(TM) is now a Marvel superhero.

Question:

Why has nobody in the Marvel universe ever (seriously) considered the
possibility that Jesus was really a mutant?

In a world where people fly around, control magnetism, or shoot beams from
their eyes, and never stay dead, it seems quite reasonable to believe that
Jesus did "miracles" but had no supernatural help, a position untenable in the
real world.  One might even expect some (non-Christian) groups to have this
as an official part of their doctrine....
--
"the bogosity in a field equals the bogosity imported from related areas, plus
the bogosity generated internally, minus the bogosity expelled or otherwise
disposed of."  -- K. Eric Drexler

Ken Arromdee (arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu, arromdee@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu)
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From: naam@cecer.army.mil (Ramez Naam)
Subject: Re: SANDMAN:Lucien's Library
Organization: US Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Labs
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 06:49:38 GMT


>In article <1992Dec31.042645.7577@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> conty@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (E. Kontei) writes:
>>In article <1992Dec31.001958.2356@lokkur.dexter.mi.us>, scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons) writes:
>>> OK, since two different folks [in rec.arts.comics.misc] have asked about
>>> Fermat's Last Theorem, it's time to tell this told-to-me-as-true story:
>>
>>But you didn't explain what the theorem was:
>>	Fermat was an 18th Century French mathematician who had the
>>	tendency to write annotations at the margins of the books he
>>	read.  Well, in one of his annotations, Fermat claimed that he
>>	had discovered a "remarkable proof" that there do not exist
>>	three numbers x, y, and z such that x^3 + y^3 = z^3.
>>	The problem is, he never wrote down what the blasted
>>	"remarkable proof" was, and mathematicians are still trying
>>	to solve that 200-year-old conundrum.  (There is a theory
>>	which says that Fermat *didnt* discover a proof, he just
>>	though he had.  Then again, no one has been able to come with
>>	three numbers that fit the bill, so the problem is still open.)

It's a bit stronger than that.   Fermat claimed that he had proven that
no three number x,y,z fit x^N + y^N = z^N where N is an integer larger
than 1.


--
Ramez Naam
naam@terra.cecer.army.mil
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From: conty@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (E. Kontei)
Subject: Re: SANDMAN:Lucien's Library
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:26:45 GMT

In article <1992Dec31.001958.2356@lokkur.dexter.mi.us>, scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons) writes:
> OK, since two different folks [in rec.arts.comics.misc] have asked about
> Fermat's Last Theorem, it's time to tell this told-to-me-as-true story:

But you didn't explain what the theorem was:
	Fermat was an 18th Century French mathematician who had the
	tendency to write annotations at the margins of the books he
	read.  Well, in one of his annotations, Fermat claimed that he
	had discovered a "remarkable proof" that there do not exist
	three numbers x, y, and z such that x^3 + y^3 = z^3.
	The problem is, he never wrote down what the blasted
	"remarkable proof" was, and mathematicians are still trying
	to solve that 200-year-old conundrum.  (There is a theory
	which says that Fermat *didnt* discover a proof, he just
	though he had.  Then again, no one has been able to come with
	three numbers that fit the bill, so the problem is still open.)

Now, Fermat obviously though about the problem, so a copy of the theorem
would be in Lucien's library.  Remember, Lucien will have the book ONLY
if the author thought/dreamed about it.
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Organization: Washington University, St. Louis
Date:         Mon, 28 Dec 92 10:09:36 CST
From:         Garrie Burr <X82217GB@WUVMD>
To:           NETNEWS@WUVMD
Subject:      Re: Annotated Stanley & His Monster
Newsgroups:   rec.arts.comics.misc

Andrew Solovay writes:

>       Panel 3: "Camp Wack-a-Boy": Many east-coast camps have
>Indian names. "Wack-a-boy" is a spoof on that.

Yes, it is.  But it was also a regular resort in DC humor comics -- can't
remember if it was in the Jerry Lewis or the Bob Hope book, but my money's
on Jerry since the little boy with the uncle is undoubtedly Renfrew, Jerry's
nephew from the mid-to-late-1960s issues of "The Adventures of Jerry Lewis".

Anyone else out there remember these??  I seem to recall an aunt who was
also a witch...or am I confusing this with Bob Hope's monster brigade?

Whatever the case, Foglio's been doing a great job on these DC revivals.
Anyone who hasn't read his Plastic Man or Angel & the Ape series should
do so at once.

Now if only DC would come out with a Plastic Man archives edition...

                                --Garrie
                                  X82217GB@WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU
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