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Post by foxley on Dec 31, 2019 23:54:26 GMT -5
I remember a Bullpen Bulletins where they gave pronunciations for various staffers by saying what they rhymed with. David Michelinie (one that also stumped me) was given as "rhymes with pickle-my-knee (sort of)".
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Post by Farrar on Jan 1, 2020 14:11:42 GMT -5
Anyone here know anything about Debby Ackerman and her relationship with Marvel in the Sixties? According to J. Ballmann's article in Alter Ego #153 (Flo Steinberg tribute issue): Flo pre-screened readers' letters and passed on the better-written and/or interesting ones to Stan. As we know Stan was interested in cultivating a more mature audience (older teens and college students) and so "letters from college students were additionally forwarded to Debby Ackerman, Marvel's college liaison, who was in charge of college surveys." Ackerman kept track of which colleges had students who were reading Marvels. She also helped arrange Stan's appearances at colleges.
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Jan 1, 2020 14:14:20 GMT -5
Thanks Farrar - gotta get that issue!
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Post by Farrar on Jan 1, 2020 14:17:26 GMT -5
That's all that issue says about Ackerman, though there's (obviously) plenty on Flo. It's a great issue!
Unfortunately Ackerman seems to have left Marvel, Steinberg too, when the next round of Bullpen photos were issued, in Fantastic Four Annual #7 (1969).
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2020 7:01:43 GMT -5
Has a story ever dealt with how certain characters avoided the draft (WWII and Vietnam)? Did anyone like Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent or Bruce Banner ever receive draft papers?
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 2, 2020 7:53:47 GMT -5
Has a story ever dealt with how certain characters avoided the draft (WWII and Vietnam)? Did anyone like Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent or Bruce Banner ever receive draft papers? Too much reality.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2020 7:56:25 GMT -5
I agree, I was just curious if any writer had tackled it. I don't have any desire to see it ever mentioned, just like I don't particularly want real-life elections featured in comics.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 2, 2020 9:03:00 GMT -5
In The 80 years of their history some writer must have added a throw away line somewhere.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2020 9:13:03 GMT -5
Has a story ever dealt with how certain characters avoided the draft (WWII and Vietnam)? Did anyone like Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent or Bruce Banner ever receive draft papers? Read LinkHe was declared 4-F after failing the eye exam; this picture (in yellow) was found in Superman #25 during the Golden Age Era.
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Post by Cei-U! on Jan 2, 2020 9:34:10 GMT -5
Has a story ever dealt with how certain characters avoided the draft (WWII and Vietnam)? Did anyone like Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent or Bruce Banner ever receive draft papers? As an industrial chemist, Jay "Flash" Garrick received a deferment because his work was deemed critical to the war effort. The rest of the JSA all volunteered for military duty (as did Hawkgirl and Doiby Dickles), but served in uniform very briefly, returning to civvies after the War Department reorganized the team as the Justice Battalion. Even The Spectre served in a way, after Jim Corrigan was resurrected and Spec given independent existence. Over at Fawcett, Captain Marvel enlisted until Shazam convinced him he could serve the country better on the home front. In fact, lots of Golden Age superheroes donned the colors, including Blue Bolt, The Target, Airman, The Face, Cat-Man, Spark Man, et al. And that's not counting the characters like Captain America and Minute Man who started out as soldiers.
That's World War Two. I think the closest anyone came to dealing with the draft in the Vietnam War era was when Flash Thompson was drafted.
Cei-U! I summon the super soldiers!
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Post by MDG on Jan 2, 2020 9:57:26 GMT -5
Has a story ever dealt with how certain characters avoided the draft (WWII and Vietnam)? Did anyone like Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent or Bruce Banner ever receive draft papers? ...
That's World War Two. I think the closest anyone came to dealing with the draft in the Vietnam War era was when Flash Thompson was drafted.
Cei-U! I summon the super soldiers!
There's this, but I've never seen the story:
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Post by beccabear67 on Jan 2, 2020 13:04:05 GMT -5
That looks like a tie-in with a song The Archies released in 1970, A Summer Prayer For Peace... it was a single A-side and also on the LP titled 'Sunshine' (beccabear has 'em all).
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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 2, 2020 13:28:49 GMT -5
Has a story ever dealt with how certain characters avoided the draft (WWII and Vietnam)? Did anyone like Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent or Bruce Banner ever receive draft papers? As an industrial chemist, Jay "Flash" Garrick received a deferment because his work was deemed critical to the war effort. The rest of the JSA all volunteered for military duty (as did Hawkgirl and Doiby Dickles), but served in uniform very briefly, returning to civvies after the War Department reorganized the team as the Justice Battalion. Even The Spectre served in a way, after Jim Corrigan was resurrected and Spec given independent existence. Over at Fawcett, Captain Marvel enlisted until Shazam convinced him he could serve the country better on the home front. In fact, lots of Golden Age superheroes donned the colors, including Blue Bolt, The Target, Airman, The Face, Cat-Man, Spark Man, et al. And that's not counting the characters like Captain America and Minute Man who started out as soldiers.
That's World War Two. I think the closest anyone came to dealing with the draft in the Vietnam War era was when Flash Thompson was drafted.
Cei-U! I summon the super soldiers!
I forget. Did this mean that FDR or somebody in the government knew all of their secret identities?
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 2, 2020 15:01:44 GMT -5
As an industrial chemist, Jay "Flash" Garrick received a deferment because his work was deemed critical to the war effort. The rest of the JSA all volunteered for military duty (as did Hawkgirl and Doiby Dickles), but served in uniform very briefly, returning to civvies after the War Department reorganized the team as the Justice Battalion. Even The Spectre served in a way, after Jim Corrigan was resurrected and Spec given independent existence. Over at Fawcett, Captain Marvel enlisted until Shazam convinced him he could serve the country better on the home front. In fact, lots of Golden Age superheroes donned the colors, including Blue Bolt, The Target, Airman, The Face, Cat-Man, Spark Man, et al. And that's not counting the characters like Captain America and Minute Man who started out as soldiers.
That's World War Two. I think the closest anyone came to dealing with the draft in the Vietnam War era was when Flash Thompson was drafted.
Cei-U! I summon the super soldiers!
I forget. Did this mean that FDR or somebody in the government knew all of their secret identities? In All-Star Squadron, yeah.
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Post by zilch on Jan 2, 2020 15:58:54 GMT -5
Hop Harrigan joined up right after Pearl Harbor, and a lot of stories afterwards dealt with his time in training to become a fighter pilot. Lots of jargon explained and a real insight to the process. Hop was really pissed when he finished school, all ready to shoot up the JapaNazis when word came down he was to remain behind and become a trainer. He was pushed up, becoming both a fighter and a bomber pilot trainer, finally getting in to the real fighting in '44 and '45. The text features had him and Tank fighting Japanese directly after Pearl Harbor, so i consider most of those stories not in continuity (along with the radio show, and his movie (serial?))
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