XPost: rec.arts.anime.misc   
   From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 08/21/2011 08:55 PM, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
   >   
   	Well if my socio-economic status had been higher I might have   
   been a Marvel fan club member.  By the way the current Shazam story   
   was written by DC not the original Enando Binder or even Alfred Bester   
   and should be regarded as dubious in the opinion of someone who lived   
   through more of the Golden Age than most.   As the 1950s began I started   
   spending my quarter on paperback SF which i had previously only looked   
   at the covers of on the racks.  DC you know killed off Cap to save   
   competition with their own less magically inspired version of superman.   
   The writers original idea was for a bald telepathic villain superman   
   and were suddenly hit with the idea of making him a hero.   
   	Spent a lot of time last night with Wikipedia checking facts   
   bit in fictional universes the real facts are hard to come by.   
      
   	In case you think I exhibit too much concern I was thinking   
   the other day that organized religion is a Union for Storytellers but   
   they have to stick with one story per religion and there are signs   
   of retcon in the various scriptures.  IMO.    ;^)   
   	Maybe it had to do with the death and resurrection of Hal   
   Jordan, aka the Green Lantern?  Better since it is all magic anyway   
   to revive Alan Scott whose appearance as GL was confused in my mind   
   with the original Flash. The Power Ring in GL set me up for the   
   Rings of Power in LOTR just down the chronological pike as I   
   started to live for SF in the 1950s and on.  A lot of the Pulp   
   SF writers also did Comic Book stories and a few still do that   
   stuff.   
   	bliss   
      
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