XPost: rec.arts.anime.misc   
   From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   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.   
        S The wisdom of Solomon;   
        H The strength of Hercules;   
        A The stamina of Atlas;   
        Z The power of Zeus;   
        A The courage of Achilles;   
        M The speed of Mercury.   
      
   	So all the supermen of whatever title are   
   simply redaction of ancient heroes and gods in modern   
   dress and wearing tights to get around the prurient thoughts   
   of puritans and censors of the Comstock mode.   
   	   
   	bliss   
      
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