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From: pautler@ils.nwu.edu (David Pautler)
Subject: MARVEL: printing improvements
Organization: The Institute for the Learning Sciences
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 22:14:12 GMT

In article <1992Nov12.090600.1@gallua.gallaudet.edu>, pjharris@gallua.gallaudet.edu writes:
> 
> Marvel moves...it's printing. No longer done in Illinois, now it's hot off
> the presses in Alabama.  Please keep an eye out for material quality changes.

Marvel is moving out of Spartan Printing, the same company DC dropped
earlier this year just after giving Spartan the short-term boost of
printing some "Silver Age Classics".  You will see some improvement
in quality because Marvel is switching to a new printing method, but
the irony (for the local folks, Spartan's in my hometown) is that
the new plant doesn't have the right presses, either.  They now have
to buy them.  I don't know if that means the improvement in quality
(printing, that is :^) ) will come late or not.

Dark Horse, a new customer, is expected to take up the slack, but
don't worry about a drop in quality there.  Spartan is buying the
presses Marvel wanted anyway.

(I guess I had to post about Marvel somehow eventually.)

	-dp-
From: c60b-3fe@e260-3f.berkeley.edu (Coffee)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: LSH: Elizabeth in lettercol!
Date: 7 Nov 1992 19:48:52 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <1992Nov7.175718.12691@netcom.com> dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig) writes:
>>Now I wonder: does this lend any credence to the theory that they only
>>publish positive letters? };>
>
>Don't be silly.  It tells us that if you want to appear in the letter
>column, your name/id should begin with an 'e'.

So, what would be a cool way to switch Mikel
around so I can get printed?  :)


Mikel B.
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From: gwangung@carson.u.washington.edu (Roger Tang)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Hulk
Date: 10 Nov 92 00:24:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov10.002426.23256
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

In article <1992Nov9.160506.3826@wkuvx1.bitnet> barnejd@wkuvx1.bitnet writes:
>In article <69160@cup.portal.com>, Peter_A_David@cup.portal.com writes:
>> In regards to Delphi's vision of the Hulk's mental state, laughing with blood
>> on his hands...why,it was right there in Hulk #400, page 46, panel 1.  I'm
>> surprised no one has commented on it.
>Yeah, I wondered if that was the way that panel was supposed to be. 
>Too bad; I was kind of hoping that would stay off in the future for a
>while...

	Why are you so sure it isn't?

-- 
Roger Tang, gwangung@u.washington.edu
Producer Emeritus, Asian Theatre at the UW
	"The definition of balls is for a non-singer to go karaoke singing
with the cast of a musical revue."
From: bxp1628@hertz.njit.edu (Brian Perler)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Hulk
Date: 10 Nov 92 00:42:17 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Nov9.160506.3826@wkuvx1.bitnet> barnejd@wkuvx1.bitnet writes:
>In article <69160@cup.portal.com>, Peter_A_David@cup.portal.com writes:
>> In regards to Delphi's vision of the Hulk's mental state, laughing with blood
>> on his hands...why,it was right there in Hulk #400, page 46, panel 1.  I'm
>> surprised no one has commented on it.
>
>Yeah, I wondered if that was the way that panel was supposed to be. 
>Too bad; I was kind of hoping that would stay off in the future for a
>while...
>                                     -Drizzt

In which case, it would probably get added to a dangling plot line
list.  *Sigh*  There's just no pleasing some people.   :)

-- 
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"I wanna decide who lives and who dies"
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From: jjfink@skcla.monsanto.com
Subject: Re: SUPERHEROES FREEZE OFF THEIR BUMS!
Organization: Searle, Skokie, IL
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 13:31:58 GMT

In article <fletch.721385230@camelot>, fletch@camelot.bradley.edu (Alan Lurie) writes:
> 
> 	Okay, recently I was perusing a copy of Spiderman.  Now, I noticed
> that he went out late in the evening to see if everything was okay.  Suddenly,
> a thought hit me (OUCH!).  What are these costumes made out of to keep these
> guys from freezing their super-nipples off?  I mean, it would have to be
> something that's REALLY warm, not just something that keeps off a mild chill?
> I go to school in Illinois and at night it gets C-O-L-D!!!!!!!  I don't want
> to hear crap about some "scientifically advanced" adamantium insulator or
> anything.  I want the real deal here!

They've got comic books stuffed inside to keep them warm :)

Hey, warmth ain't the half of it -- how does something form-fitting stop
bullets (see UX-Men when recent costumes were intro'd), and why is it that the
groin and breast areas seem to have the strongest fabric :)

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From: acadams@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Arthur C. Adams)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: X-Men: The MovieOkay, since there's been plenty of talk about the
Date: 6 Nov 92 20:46:11 GMT
Organization: The Great Beyond

In article <1dckdlINNip2@male.EBay.Sun.COM> zombie@redeye.EBay.Sun.COM (zombie) writes:
>In article <92310.172212SMM130@psuvm.psu.edu> SMM130@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>>Personally, I would prefer Julia Roberts as Jean Grey, or Mary Jane in the
>>Spider-Man movie.  Also, how about Clint Eastwood as Wolverine (Snappy patter,
>>smokes cigars, kills bad guys as soon as looks at them....)
>
>Clint Eastwood??  WAY too tall.
>

Hey, here's a twisted idea:

Danny DeVito as Wolverine.

Thank about it: he's the right height, not very attractive, used to
playing obnoxious characters, and he can do psychos (a la the Penguin.)
-- 
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From: morrow@fnalo.fnal.gov (St. Elmo's Fire)
Subject: Re: Sandman #1
Organization: Man in Motion
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 00:31:14 GMT
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In article <naam.721079011@lorax.cecer.army.mil>, naam@cecer.army.mil (Ramez Naam) writes:
> I started re-reading my old copies of Sandman yesterday (I've been
> buying it since issue #1), and I noticed something.  In either issue
> #1 or #2, 

	I believe it's in the summary published in the Doll's House tpb...

> when talking about dream's capture, the narration says
> something to the effect that Dream was under terrible pressures, and
> had been pushed beyond the limits of even his endurance by other forces,
> which is why Hodges summoning spell was able to capture him.  
> 
> Looking through the rest of the series, I have no idea what these
> forces and pressures might have been.  Anyone out there have any
> ideas?
> 
	God, I wish I knew!  That's probably the single biggest Sandman dangler
there is, with the possible exception of Delerium/Delight.
-- 
"A narcissist is someone better looking than you are."                         
--Gore Vidal                                                                   
  
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From: pstrem@the-flea.East.Sun.COM (Paul Strem)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: The Seventh Endless: David (was Re: San
Date: 9 Nov 1992 14:27:17 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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In article QeyTRVO00VIG0DLMEY@andrew.cmu.edu, "Seth D. Kadesh" <sk2f+@andrew.cmu.edu> () writes:
> 
> i believe the song is called lavender.  or at least, there is a song
> called lavender on the album _misplaced childhood_ by marillion.  the
> song is based on a previously written poem (which may or may not have
> been a song).  hope i didn't make things more obscure.....
> 

	Burl Ives sang this very song on an old Disney movie, which for 
the life of me I can't remember; about a boy and his sheep believe it or 
not (all right, stop snickering).
					    ^
			 Paul @ The Flea   / \^.
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From: tyg@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Tom Galloway)
Subject: Re: Comics Mailing Lists ...
Organization: Interleaf
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 02:08:00 GMT

In article <1992Nov11.001955.12395@news.columbia.edu> ejs16@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Eric Jaron Stieglitz) writes:
>In article <angus.721430427@well.sf.ca.us> angus@well.sf.ca.us (Angus P. MacDonald) writes:
>>In <4NOV199212104807@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov> sewon@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (WAYNE WONG) writes:
>>>Can someone please E-mail me the names of the available comics-related 
>>>mailing lists?  A few people have mentioned "Comics-L" (?), are there any 
>In fact, why not post this info to the net. I'm sure a lot of people would
>appreciate it.

Apparently not, since it was just posted a few days ago as part of the 
Welcome to r.a.c. posts in rec.arts.comics.info. I'd suggest reading the
rest of the Welcome posts as well.

"Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen
to weather forecasts and economists?"  --Kelvin Throop, III
tyg   tyg@hq.ileaf.com
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Subject: Bloodwynd is . . . .
From: <JMC162@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:32:38 EST
Organization: Penn State University

I apparently made a mistake when posting this the first time (And I wondered wh
y it was taking so long to get posted) so here goes.  The top three candidates
in the True Identity of Bloodwynd Contest are.  In my opinion and in no particu
lar order.

1)  Red Tornado - Who cares whether or not RT comes back to the league.  He was
n't interesting when he was there in the original League.  Things change and th
e League changes, which seams to be why the Atom hasn't stayed on like some peo
ple orignally thought he would.  Sure an elemental would have a lot of the same
 powers as Bloodwynd but I believe if it were going to be an elemental it would
 have to be . . .

 2)  Firestorm.  He is a character that people always loved, in both his orgina
l and later forms.  He is an interesting character that has the raw power that
Starbreaker mentioned.  Problems . . . Firestorm never took me as one who would
 want or have to keep his identity a secret.  Truly, it would be interesting to
 have this particular old Leaguer back with the new League.  The changes that F
irestorm has gone through would make for interesting storylines.  But I have to
 go with the gut feeling that I have had ever since, the shapeshifting incident
, Bloodwynd has to be . . .

3)  Jo'nn.  I only have one logical reason that no one has mentioned about Bloo
dwynd having to be Jo'nn.  Jo'nn is the only one of the three candidates that I
 have mentioned that would be capable of taking over the League when Superman b
ites the dust.  League leadership has always been an issue with the new League.
Unless everyone is completely off and Bloodwynd is just a mysterious new charac
ter of his own, Bloodwynd must be Jo'nn.

Joe Calabrese

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From: yngvar@imr.no (Yngvar Foelling)
Subject: Re: Tintin Cronology
Organization: Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 15:45:43 GMT

Oops, looks like my English failed me -- "manor" should be "mansion."

BTW, what is its name in different languages?  The Norwegian translators have
been a bit confused, calling it either Moulinsart (probably the original), and
"Mllenborg" (Lacking ISO 8859-1: Mollenborg with a slash across the first "o"),
which means something like "The Mill Castle."

How could I possibly forget:

The Italian Nightingale -- Bianca Castafiore

Presumably that name remains across all translations, but I don't know that
for sure.
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From: vanyel@camelot.bradley.edu (Alan Williams)
Subject: Re: lsh back issues
Organization: Bradley University
Date: 10 Nov 92 18:10:22 GMT

"donald simmons" <donald.simmons@canrem.com> writes:
>     I have been thinking of picking up some back issues of Legion of
>Super-Heroes, after all the recent traffic on how good it used to be. Is
>there any particular place I should start (ie. good storylines) in order
>to get a feel for the series?

I recommend the stories featuring the first appearance of Mantis Morlo (I
forget the ish numbers--somewhere around _Adventure_ 355-65).  It's a
two-part story that gives us first glimpses of Orando, Naltor, and Daxam.

Besides, I just think the story's neat.  8-)

--

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From: lucke@plains.NoDak.edu (Kyle Lucke)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: LSH 38:  Da Big One
Date: 5 Nov 92 04:11:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: ns1.Bx86Bo.F5u
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

In article <1992Nov5.025101.29922@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> dvandom@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (David VanDomelen) writes:
>                 Interlac used (they said they wouldn't)  Someone translate it 
>for me...I'm too lazy to dig up my #311.
>
>     Dave Van Domelen, animals mark territory with urine, primitive humans with

You mean you don't have the Interlac alphabet memorized? :-)  As soon as I
receive the most recent issue here in the Northern wastes, I'll post a
translation, if someone else hasn't already done it.

Interlac.  Makes me think back to when the LSH deluxe series was first
starting, when I first started reading the LSH, and I went combing through
all the back issues I had purchased from a friend, just finding little
instances of Interlac, and making my own little chart of the alphabet. 
Ah, to be that age again when you could find such pleasure scouring comic
art for such things.  And then finding out that there already was a
published alphabet in #311, which I hadn't found in back issues yet.  Ah,
those were the days...

I enjoy the current version of the LSH, but a part of me will always miss
those good old days... <sigh>



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From: dvandom@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (David VanDomelen)
Subject: Batman vs Lobo
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 04:52:25 GMT

Unfortunately, accd to Diamond Previews, this series does exist.  Sigh.
     Dave Van Domelen, doesn't trust Pitt's release date considering that the 
cover shown in Previews was uninked pencils....
From: balbes@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Curiosity:  what kind of deals do y'all get?
Date: 8 Nov 92 11:02:28 EST

In article <1992Nov7.032018.6598@sol.UVic.CA>, jcowling@ophelia.UVic.CA (Scowling Jim Cowling) writes:
> I'm really curious.  Most of us here buy a fair number of comics.  I'm inter-
> ested to know what kind of deals other netters get.  Do you get a discount on
> new issues?  Does your retailer give out a lot of freebie stuff?  Does he
> offer bulk preorder deals?  This kind of stuff.

In North Carolina, I got 30% off books that I preordered and paid
cover price for anything off the shelves.

In Columbus, OH, I get 20% off preordered books and 10% off the
price of comics I pick up off the racks.

What surprised me most when I moved to Columbus was that most stores
seem to charge a fee to join their subscription services.  However,
the store that I decided to favor with my copious business waived the $10
fee citing that people that transfer their service from other stores
got the service free.  I think they knew that I thought the fee was
ridiculous and that I wouldn't join if it cost me money.  After all,
preordering is doing the store a big favor.

Mark Balbes
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Thursday, 5 Nov 1992 10:22:37 CST
From: <U16244@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: BTAS: The Grey Ghost
Distribution: rec.arts.comics.misc,world

In article <HARRES.92Nov4200204@sundance.uwyo.edu>, harres@sundance.uwyo.edu
(John M. Harres) says:
>
>Did anyone notice who did the voice for the Grey Ghost?  It was none other
>than
>Adam West.  Pleasantly ironic seeing (hearing) him play a middle-aged actor
>who
>can't get work because he was typecast as a superhero.  Good episode too!

Yes.  I've been waiting for this particular episode ever since I heard that
Adam West would be a guest star on the series.  I didn't know how they'd handle
the old actor bit, but they did well in handling his character.  I also
enjoyed seeing that all the inspirations for the Batman weren't all dark and
negative, at least in this universe.

Actually, all things considered, you'd almost have to have a similar origin for
the Batman in the regular series.  After all, the Modern Age Batman has all
those Golden Age heroes to look up to, and the Golden Age heroes are probably
the ones who provided enough inspiration in the back of the current guy's mind
not to have gone over the edge like a Frank Castle, and to actually seriously
consider hiring on a sidekick (Robin). (Kind of ironic, since Batman and Robin
preceded all other non-powered heroes and their sidekicks except for the
Crimson Avenger- who didn't get Wing until Robin joined the act.)  In fact,
a nice touch would be for the Crimson Avenger to have somehow influenced or
even met the very young Bruce Wayne (Sandman would be an appropriate
alternative, indeed possibly a better one, considering their views).  And then,
have Batman meet up with the man who truly inspired him while he's on the verge
of a breakdown, or suicide because of (it'll have to be Sandman, I see) the
death of Sandy the Golden Boy.

Oh, by the way, any cartoon show which could have brought a tear to my eye
for more than one episode is a great series.  Let's see X-crement, er, X-men
try and do a story like that.

Douglas P. Wojtowicz, Lost Cause Boy.
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Date: Fri,  6 Nov 1992 11:10:05 -0500 
From: "Joe Nathan Haralson, II" <jh20+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Messner-Loebs and Sam Keith to Image

 Messner-Loebs, the name sounds familiar, what has he written other than
the Maxx.


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From: debg@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (ginsberg deborah)
Subject: Re: -I KNOW WHERE GOTHAM CITY IS--
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 10:27:55 GMT

I wish I could remember which issue, but there was one Batman issue
where they did a progressive close up onto Gothem, starting w/ a planet
view and working down over several panels.  It looked like the final panel
focused around the area of Providence RI (which looks like Gothem in the
movies.  And you can be reasonably assured there will always be clouds
around to use the Batsignal.)

Debbie 


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From: jjfink@skcla.monsanto.com
Subject: Re: Tarzan by Malibu
Organization: Searle, Skokie, IL
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 13:38:28 GMT

In article <92314.154347IO20441@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>, IO20441@MAINE.MAINE.EDU writes:
> Well, to get off the common day comic theme, I'm posting this article on
> the Tazan series by Malibu. Why? Because I like it, I like it alot. 

I've also been enjoying Malibu's Tarzan series', but I have one serious
quibble: cursive lettering in black on dark backgrounds with no "t"s crossed
make for REALLY REALLY tough reading.  Change any of the three (cursive, dark,
uncrossed t's) and it'd be much more readable.

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From: afarrell@maths.tcd.ie (Andrew Farrell)
Subject: Re: JC: Hellblazer, and crossovers of same
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 09:25:03 GMT

In <1992Nov6.041008.1327@news.arc.nasa.gov> emery@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Scott Emery ACF) writes:

>In article <1992Nov6.032324.25168@reed.edu> jcherney@reed.edu writes:
>>
>>   I'm delighted to see posts about my favorite comic here! (It's been a  
>>while since I have read news.)  Constantine has to be one of my favorite  
>>characters of all time; the man has attitude!
>>   However, I have a question for you. From reading the letters page for a  
>>while, it seems to me that nobody wants JC to cross over.  How do you  
>>folks feel about it?  For instance...
>>   JLA: What does Guy Gardener need?  He needs Constantine to show up with  
>>his attitude and to leave a trail of death in his wake.
>>   So, what do you think?  Ideas?

>	Nope, I can't get past the (pre- (or better during) Breakdowns)
>Guy and Tara (ra-boom-de-ay, uhh, that is Ice's name right?) suddenly
>having John's reality thrust on them. Ice (much safer) has enough
>psuedo magical connections (and is still sorta firmly grounded in
>reality [heh]) to make the bridge to Guy who personifies the dumb brute
>superhero... put them on relatively neutral ground (A city, not London,
>say, Copenhaven or Oslo) and give them something a little gritty to deal
>with. (sadly most of the things I can think of at this moment start with
>threats to Tara, just to keep Guy interested) the cheesiest plot would
>be a yellow demon that gives JC fits... (Jason Blood's little problem
>comes to mind... Etrigan). The thing that actually gives me the bright
>glow inside is letting one of the Hellblazer people artists do this
>UberFrau and Ubermensch-as-schmuck. Say, the guy that did "hold me".
>They could bring off the whole "Nine-foot-Tallness" that superheros
>exude while documenting the little problems that those two wear on their
>sleeves (can you say 'co-depedant', well please don't and forget that
>I did, I am really ashamed to bring it up). In fact, I would be curious
>to find out what Ennis' Kit would have to say to Tara.
>	I didn't think much of the characterization that was done in
>the JL Entertainment until I saw the Superman-led league. I have stopped
>buying. I really loved the old characters damn-silly as they were. Ah
>well, we all grow up and move on. All save the comic characters who get
>dumber, never die and never grow old. Maybe it is time to get into
>novels. 

This is the most incoherent post I've seen in a *long* time, and I'd just like
to thank Scott for brightening up my Monday.

Andrew (Listening to Bone Machine, if that helps explain things)