Fawcett, who created the original Captain Marvel, ceased publication rather than fight the lawsuit. Early 60s there was an obscure Captain Marvel by a new comic company that folded quickly. (Captain Marvel was an android whose body parts could split and fly around. I think I had them all.) DC had meanwhile purchased the old Fawcett characters. Marvel brought out a Captain Marvel comic. DC wanted to revive the character, but had to call the comic Shazam because Marvel had the title at that point.
We’ll leave Gomer Pyle and a college radio broadcaster out of the discussion.
I kind of divide Gil Thorp into the JB period and AJB. I am a snob who sort of considers the JB period as the ‘real’ Gil Thorp. I sort of don’t count that first year of losses ’cause young Gil was just starting. It was that 1982 season I was talking about.
I fear you may be replying to me. First I find it exceedingly rude to assume anyone’s nickname. That certainly is not mine. There is something known as suspension of disbelief. Some premise the reader must accept to move the story forward. However, unless one is writing absurdist slapstick, you limit the number of times you ask the reader to suspend disbelief and move forward in the manner normal people would under the circumstances. (see: Gilbert & Sullivan, topsy-turvy.) What next, will our cavemen compare the cigarette brands they smoke or drive around in Model-Ts? People who are described as Paleolithic don’t have tech that wasn’t developed until the late Iron Age (skipping Mesolithic, Neolithic, Calcholithic, Bronze I, II, & III, and Iron I & II) Hopefully an editor would scream if one of our cavemen was drinking a milk shake or wearing a wristwatch. This is as glaring (at least if one has spent years teaching ancient history and humanities courses on the evolution of the arts.)
And how many days/weeks, strip time, to get to that happy place?
If Warbucks was aware of Annie’s identity why wait until now to tell her? If he was unaware of her identity we need a new story of how he took her out of the orphanage, and he needs his people to do better background checks. And Bob Smith may be guilty of some breach of his legal responsibilities.
Fawcett, who created the original Captain Marvel, ceased publication rather than fight the lawsuit. Early 60s there was an obscure Captain Marvel by a new comic company that folded quickly. (Captain Marvel was an android whose body parts could split and fly around. I think I had them all.) DC had meanwhile purchased the old Fawcett characters. Marvel brought out a Captain Marvel comic. DC wanted to revive the character, but had to call the comic Shazam because Marvel had the title at that point.
We’ll leave Gomer Pyle and a college radio broadcaster out of the discussion.