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The Trouble with Crediting Creators
Some creators and fans crusade for attribution, which is fair, but often nuanced.
How do you credit Adam Strange?
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Nabisco's cereal mascot Buffalo Bee appears, not on a giveaway or boxtop premium, but a regular 10c kids humor comic from Dell.
Hey Kids! Send your money to us!
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#SilverAgeComicMonth The Charlton Lettering
According to https://t.co/6fvnAkTu9u Charlton used a variable typewriter to save money on lettering.
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To appease the scolds, there will be no kissing ... ahem, no kissing...oh for crying out loud, will you two stop before we get a telegram?
Okay. So obviously kissing is still okay in the Silver Age.
But Ixney on the Ounguetay.
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Hey 1990s! You think your "Death of Superman" with a Cyborg Superman was all that and a bag of chips?
The Silver Age has got you beat, complete with Robot Superman, and they didn't wrap their version in black cellophane as a 'collectors item'
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The Adventures of Big Boy
Published by the owners of Big Boy and Shoneys, the title began in 1957 and ran 562 issues!!!
Trivia: There *were* 2 Big Boys
Left: West Coast Big Boy
Right: East Coast Big Boy (Extinct)
And for those #spiderman fans, Amazing Fantasy 15 was published by Atlas Magazines, Inc, while The Amazing Spider-Man 1 was published by Non-Pareil Publishing Corp. (Kirby/Ditko covers).
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And as for winning a trivia contest - Fantastic Four number 1 (Cover credits: Jack Kirby pencils, George Klein Inks, Stan Goldberg color) was actually published by
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Canam Publisher's Sales Corp
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In Search of... Secrets of the Silver Age
Did you know Aquaman gets weaker the longer he is without water?
Of course you did - but did you know that *any* liquid restores that strength? Any liquid.
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Ex Argentum ad astra!