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Post by Rob Allen on May 23, 2023 13:58:26 GMT -5
Red Sonja's outfit is one of the few comic book costumes that has a book named after it. Chainmail Bikini
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Post by Rob Allen on May 23, 2023 11:21:06 GMT -5
I'll be here for certain, the question is whether I'll be awake.
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Post by Rob Allen on May 18, 2023 11:58:04 GMT -5
We've just set a new record for the most consecutive days over 90 degrees in May. Yeah, I've heard about it from my sister, who lives just south of Salem - she sent me pics of the flowers and vegetables flourishing in her back yard and can't believe she has to water the plants this early (that's usually a mid-summer thing). I never remember temps getting that high in May when I was growing up in the Willamette Valley back in the '70s and '80s. The forecast says today will not reach 90, so the worst of this heat wave is over. It's been tolerable because the overnight lows have stayed in the 50s. It's only hot in the afternoon.
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Post by Rob Allen on May 18, 2023 11:21:49 GMT -5
Slam-Bang Comics #1, March 1940. That's one month after Captain Marvel's debut. A Green Lantern prototype by Gus Ricca:
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Post by Rob Allen on May 17, 2023 18:55:54 GMT -5
This question is for anyone, I have been looking for this certain comic for ages, all I can remember is I believe it was published by marvel, but I could be wrong, I believe between the years 1970-1980, it was in the horror/supernatural genre. What I do remember exactly is the story, I believe there were more than one in these comics at the time, like a mini anthology. The story goes like this, A famous animal trainer is severely injured, it's so bad that the doctors say he will never train again. A few years pass and a new trainer shows up with his manager, the trainer is wearing a helmet which he never removes. He is hired after showing exceptional training skills. Months go by and the new trainer is the hit of the circus, until one night by a quirk of fate, as they say in comic, the trainer's helmet is knocked off and it is reveled the trainer is actually a Gorilla and the manager is the trainer whom they said would never train again in disguise. If anyone remembers this story and knows what comic it was in please let me know. This is also kind of a challenge between man and machine. Even ChatGPT couldn't find it lol. Thank You I tried a few keyword and story title searches in the GCD but came up empty. Marvel published a lot of horror/supernatural anthologies in the 70s but most of them were all or part reprints from the pre-superhero years. Do you have any memory of the art? Anything distinctive about it?
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Post by Rob Allen on May 17, 2023 17:36:06 GMT -5
We've just set a new record for the most consecutive days over 90 degrees in May.
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Post by Rob Allen on May 17, 2023 3:38:20 GMT -5
You just woke up? I'm about to go to bed. And I have to get up at 7.
Life is way too busy.
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Post by Rob Allen on May 16, 2023 22:40:25 GMT -5
Seconding the Hourman thread.
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Post by Rob Allen on May 14, 2023 4:12:29 GMT -5
Reviving this thread to share my latest discovery - cider with bitters. My favorite so far is Scrappy's Lavender bitters. A few shakes of that in a glass of hard cider really livens it up. "it's not bitters, it's Parkay." Hmm, cider with margarine? Not sure about that. Why don't you try it and let us know how it is?
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Post by Rob Allen on May 13, 2023 23:57:57 GMT -5
Bad Houses, by Sara Ryan and Carla Speed McNeil, was totally up my alley and catapulted its way into my top 10 for the year. I read it a few years ago and liked it as much as you did. The next year I met McNeil at a con and had a great conversation as she signed my copy.
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Post by Rob Allen on May 13, 2023 12:22:41 GMT -5
On May 3 the temperature went above 70 degrees for the first time since October 19. Yesterday it went over 80 degrees for the first time since October 16. And today the forecast says we'll go over 90 degrees for the first time since September 6.
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Post by Rob Allen on May 13, 2023 12:05:40 GMT -5
Reviving this thread to share my latest discovery - cider with bitters. My favorite so far is Scrappy's Lavender bitters. A few shakes of that in a glass of hard cider really livens it up.
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Post by Rob Allen on May 11, 2023 17:54:46 GMT -5
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Post by Rob Allen on May 11, 2023 17:33:28 GMT -5
Kate Beaton on The Enchantress: "When I was signing books in Frankfurt, someone asked me to draw The Enchantress, and I had never heard of her, so he produced a picture, and I asked questions about her while I drew. It turns out I think she is pretty great." No cartoon boobs here, but posting the image doesn't seem to work. Link: www.harkavagrant.com/nonsense/enchantresssm.png
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Post by Rob Allen on May 11, 2023 12:54:16 GMT -5
I know a lot of people will have what Roy's looking for here.
Would this thread get more responses in the Classic Comics forum instead of Community?
ALTER EGO #184 will present a long-awaited Tom Palmer interview conducted by Alex Grand and Jim Thompson. I'm about to start work adding art to it, and could use both DC and Marvel interior pages, both from his 1960s-1970s work and from his later return to AVENGERS, etc. He also did one short Charlton story before his late-60s Marvel work, if anyone can find that... I'd appreciate it!
Thanks,
Roy
The Charlton story is in Jungle Jim #22.
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