XPost: rec.arts.anime.misc   
   From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com   
      
   On 8/21/11 11:22 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
   > On 08/21/2011 06:42 PM, Travers Naran wrote:   
   >> On 21/08/2011 11:10 AM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
   >>> So that is why I say that it is too bad you   
   >>> had to wait for the Dirty Pair to get interested in   
   >>> comics.   
   >>   
   >> Heh. That's some memory. You're remembering the Proterozoic eon of comic   
   >> books. When those titles you mentioned ran mostly in newspapers then   
   >> were collected into "books".   
   >   
   > But I left out the Big Red Cheese aka Captain Marvel alter-ego   
   > of newsboy Billy Batson, enemy of the Worm and Dr.Sivana last protege of   
   > the mighty Wizard Shazam. He got into copyright problems with Superman   
   > last child of mighty Kypton aka Kal-El. How many people picked up   
   > that "El" is a suffix denoting divinity? Check out the old Semitic   
   > divinities. Shazam stands for the list of pagan divinities & heroes who   
   > are lending their powers to Captain Marvel.   
      
   	My mother was a member of the Captain Marvel fan club when she was a   
   kid. Startled the hell out of me when she mentioned it.   
      
      
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