kurtbusiek.bsky.social
Writer, mostly of comics. MARVELS, ASTRO CITY, ARROWSMITH, AUTUMNLANDS, FREE AGENTS, THUNDERBOLTS, SUPERMAN, AVENGERS, UNTOLD TALES OF SPIDER-MAN, more. NYT bestseller, Harvey & Eisner Awards, yaddita yaddita. My head hurts.
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Very glad you enjoyed it, Peter!
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It looks more like Hackman than like 1979 Luthor, at least.
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huh.
anything am happen.
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i am sing!
you dance.
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—art by Jeremiah "Caesar's Ghost" Ordway, 1979. Not fully two months after the premiere of SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE.
Full wraparound cover:
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Bridwell Shazam in WFC, Bridwell Mr. & Mrs. Superman in SUPFAM. Both worth the dollar on their own, but if you were lucky there was something else good, too.
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Maybe I did!
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I have all the WORLD'S FINEST, the BATMAN FAM/DETECTIVES and SUPERMAN FAMILY, too. I think WORLD'S FINEST was usually pretty junky, but as long as it had Bridwell Shazam in the back, I got it.
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Hmm. I’m thinking maybe that should be
Warner Brother and Brother Discovery.
And Dot (Com?)
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Warner Brother and Discover Brother.
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Happy birthday at you!
Enjoy the pachyderms.
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And it’s never worked.
Money trickles up. It always has. When labor does well, almost everyone does well. When the rich do well, they look for ways to get everyone else’s money and keep it.
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“…their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them.”
—William Jennings Bryan, 1896
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Starro Takes A Holiday
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They're just a street gang.
Their main distinction is that Bill Carver, who'd infiltrated the gang, became the superhero Thunderbolt, taking the name. He died, in POWER MAN/IRON FIST, but I liked the name, and used it for my Thunderbolts.
So in a roundabout way, they're the source of the name.
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I think you're remembering right. The others might have been DICK DUCK, DUCK DICK and BULLET CROW, FOWL OF FORTUNE.
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I know Matt a little, but not terribly well. I think your best bet would be to write him a letter and send it c/o Dark Horse.
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—art by Kerry Gammill, 1978
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The UK one is basically what we know as a Three Musketeers bar.
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You're probably not an American in 1954.
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They've been discontinued in the US for 23 years, aside from brief revivals and specialty sales.
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We won’t hold that against you, Chad.
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Me too, sort of. They were called Three Musketeers bars here.
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—by Roz F'n Chast
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Shaggy candy corn.
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Mars Bars led a dual existence.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_bar
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—artist unknown, 1954
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Thanks. I don't think a story about someone through the metaphor of being a "Superman" would be a downer. Superman's a very positive character.
BATMAN: CREATURE OF THE NIGHT is much darker, but then, so is Batman.
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Very glad you liked it, Jordan. Thanks for the note.
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There have been more characters revealed to be bi since, so the companies have done that, too.
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Thanks, glad you liked it!
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In any case, though, we're talking about Brian Bendis and either James Robinson or Paul Levitz (or both?) here. I don't think any of them are biphobic.
I don't know any of them so well as to say so definitely, but you asked me, so that's my opinion.
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In the GA GL's case, I haven't read any of that material, but it's not uncommon for someone to have a successful marriage and then only come out in their older years. Doesn't mean they didn't love their wife as a person, but the sexual part was them doing what they felt they were supposed to.
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...actually doing anything physical, to the point where she feels neglected and is open to the more passionate Havok.
There was someone in X-FACTOR as well, which I never read all of, but based on Zelda and Lorna, it's easy to read him as gay but in the closet even to himself.
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Bobby dated Zelda, but it never seemed serious, and then he dated Lorna, and he seems to have taken that seriously but she didn't ever think she was his girlfriend -- you can read their relationship pretty directly as him wanting to have a girlfriend because he thinks it's important, but then not...
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Also, that's a fantastic logo.
As I look back on my comics buying habits of back then, I keep noticing that really good logos made me want to like a book. I didn't think about it then, but it had a real effect.
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The Deadman, JSA and New Gods material has all been collected in book form. I would hope they someday do collections of the 70s FLASH and include the Adventure stories with them. They could do the same for GL and WW, but those stories weren't all that great, so I don't much care about those.