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Indicative of Hollywood's interest in promoting actual comic books in superhero movies: Grand Central newsstand in SUPERMAN (1978) is stocked with issues of Gallery, Club, Penthouse, Chic, etc. not a comic in sight.

They made a movie about Venice 13 and cast Robby Benson

Stan Lee endorsement for plaid shirts, 1976.

This Tues, May 13 @ 5 pm ET in the Popular Music Books zoom series: Benjamin Tausig on 60s-70s Thai nightlife in the shadow of the Vietnam war, via the tale of queer Black pianist Maurice Rocco. Talking w/ Kanjana Thepboriruk and Elliott Powell. Join us! iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...

So it seems the provocateurs behind the campus violence were...commie cops! (Detective Comics # 395, January 1970) Art by Gil Kane and Murphy Anderson; story by Frank Robbins

Rip Kirby by Alex Raymond

Manhunter by Alex Kotzky, Police Comics #9, 1942

Holy shit, they made Merrick Garland the Pope?

Leonard Starr

Mickey "The Pope of Pot" Cesar, photographed by Mary Ellen Mark in 1991

Hey, Peter Sanderson has a comics newsletter! substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Plastic Man for the Ascot Textile Corporation, 1964

PARENTS magazine sidebar (to the article "Clean Up the Comic Book Badlands, Now," 1977)

Chicago Seed, October 1970

Big news for a 53-year-old alt-weekly! "Last week, ownership of the Ithaca Times was transferred to Pathways to Equity, Inc., a​n ​​Ithaca-based non-profit organization."

Adventure Comics #92, June 1944 Art by Emil Gershwin; words by Joe Samachson

Some gorgeous superhero art by George & Ira Gershwin's cousin Emil.

Sometimes when I’m watching an older movie and see an older actor in it, I feel this very positive notion that I’m witnessing the continued presence of a person born in the 1880s. Somebody born during the advent of electric lights, immortalized forever on a DVD that I enjoy to this day.

Banshee by Gary Leach, 1978

"Very intolerant in a lot of ways" Storm illustration in Comic Media News International, 1978

"A thousand bucks for a Chagall? In this economy?" VOGUE gasps at soaring prices in the modern art market, 1957

In light of the DC raids we want to reshare our ICE watch 101 graphics. Reminder to verify, document, and then report to our hotline.

Here, see Kurt's insane ideas for a December 1978 Superman revamp.

Oh, wow!

As also happened last spring, *two* people I like a lot published memoirs! This year it's ‪Matthew Spectkor's THE GOLDEN HOUR and Laurie Woolever's CARE AND FEEDING. Buy them! Read them! Discuss them! Rejoice.

John Dillinger has raised the profile of bank security