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Post by Rob Allen on Jan 7, 2021 15:47:27 GMT -5
Wow. All that stuff happened on Christmas?! The answer to that depends on where you live.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jan 7, 2021 15:49:36 GMT -5
Wow. All that stuff happened on Christmas?! The answer to that depends on where you live. Yeah, that's the point of my, in retrospect, not very good joke...
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 7, 2021 15:58:18 GMT -5
The answer to that depends on where you live. Yeah, that's the point of my, in retrospect, not very good joke... I found it quite humorous.
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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 13, 2021 16:32:00 GMT -5
This might fit here as well as anywhere...
I realized that I've known lots of people over the years whose nicknames could have been just as easily used as the name of a Golden Age characters, sidekicks in particular. Some even were.
My friends and how I knew them:
Chip – Music store owner
Buzzy – Postmaster
Butch – Softball teammate
Whitey – Softball teammate
Stinger – Softball teammate
Junior – Softball opponent
Spike – Softball opponent
Doc – Softball teammate
Skull – Grammar school classmate
Chaz - One of my bosses at the gas station
Sandy – Former teaching colleague
Bucky – Former teaching colleague
Salvo – Kid I knew in grammar school
Rip – Kid in the neighborhood
Rogue – My best friend in high school; now teaches theology. (We’re still good friends.)
Bones - A kid I taught a million years ago, when bone was slang for a joint. (Is it still?)
Shark – High school buddy
Chief – Softball opponent
Ray-Ray- Grammar school friend
Dino- Teaching colleague
Sully – Teaching buddy
Spanky – Colleague who was a dead ringer for the kid from Our Gang.
Big Root - High school classmate. (Short for Rudy... let's keep this PG.)
Murph - another friend since high school. (Plus a couple of others... who doesn't know a Murph?)
I think there will be more I'll remember to add to this list.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jan 13, 2021 16:58:00 GMT -5
So, Prince Hal, did you live down the street from a family named the Cleavers? With that kid, what his name? Muskrat? (Although I have to say, Whitey, Skull, Salvo and Dino make me think the movie Goodfellas was based on your life...)
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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 13, 2021 17:17:11 GMT -5
So, Prince Hal , did you live down the street from a family named the Cleavers? With that kid, what his name? Muskrat? (Although I have to say, Whitey, Skull, Salvo and Dino make me think the movie Goodfellas was based on your life...) No Cleavers, but I did know a Wally. As for the crew there, I lived in a very Italian neck of the woods. Let’s just say that there was a substantial Mob presence in the area, though as with these kinds of things, you needed to want to be involved to be affected by most of it. Kind of like Earths One and Two vibrating in the same place, but at different speeds, so they rarely came into contact with each other. Emphasis on “rarely.”
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2021 6:47:45 GMT -5
I just started reading this via hoopla, likely to add it to my library when I get the chance...
but so far the historical presentation is fascinating and informative.
-M
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2021 4:41:59 GMT -5
More comic tangential than comic, but still an interesting tidbit... From Robert Beerbohm's FB page where he often shares anecdotes form comic history and comic conventions past... What a savvy bastard... -M
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Post by foxley on Feb 6, 2021 5:45:55 GMT -5
This might fit here as well as anywhere... I realized that I've known lots of people over the years whose nicknames could have been just as easily used as the name of a Golden Age characters, sidekicks in particular. Some even were. My friends and how I knew them: Chip – Music store owner Buzzy – Postmaster Butch – Softball teammate Whitey – Softball teammate Stinger – Softball teammate Junior – Softball opponent Spike – Softball opponent Doc – Softball teammate Skull – Grammar school classmate Chaz - One of my bosses at the gas station Sandy – Former teaching colleague Bucky – Former teaching colleague Salvo – Kid I knew in grammar school Rip – Kid in the neighborhood Rogue – My best friend in high school; now teaches theology. (We’re still good friends.) Bones - A kid I taught a million years ago, when bone was slang for a joint. (Is it still?) Shark – High school buddy Chief – Softball opponent Ray-Ray- Grammar school friend Dino- Teaching colleague Sully – Teaching buddy Spanky – Colleague who was a dead ringer for the kid from Our Gang. Big Root - High school classmate. (Short for Rudy... let's keep this PG.) Murph - another friend since high school. (Plus a couple of others... who doesn't know a Murph?) I think there will be more I'll remember to add to this list. You were a member of the Jets in West Side Story ?
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 6, 2021 14:04:34 GMT -5
Wow...we didn't get those kinds of nicknames until the military, where I was Buddha, in Supply Corps School, and Spider-Man, aboard my first ship. Buddha was less for philosophical reasons than anatomical.
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 6, 2021 16:49:16 GMT -5
I was called Spider-man in grade school cause I read comics. In recent years I've been called Mr. G and G-man.
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Post by tarkintino on Feb 6, 2021 16:52:21 GMT -5
I think the published cover has a tighter structure and Ka-Zar's pose is more dynamic. We can see all the better who the real star of this comic is - hint: not the X-Men! Agreed--the point was to sell the introduction of Ka-Zar, so having him as the dominant figure on the cover--which was not really the case of the rejected version--was the priority. That kind of insert must have worked for Marvel, as it was used on a number of Silver Age covers, like the examples posted below-- Visual language/sales gimmick of a bygone era.
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Post by brutalis on Feb 6, 2021 17:04:08 GMT -5
Egads nicknames.
Grandfather called me Mr. TV.
Friends called me Moose cuz it rhymes with Bruce and in my 1st school fight with a bigger than me bully in 5th grade I dropped my head down ramming full speed into his belly dropping him to the ground where I proceeded to kick his punk ass. After that, in school each morning several of my friends would pick me up using me as a human battering ram for knocking on the dozen metal classroom doors of our Junior High building before classes began.
Family and women/girls latch onto Brucey.
Bosses during my 11 years at Smitty's grocery working in the meat department had all kinds of variations. Brucester, Bruceroni, Brucezilla, Bruiser, Brews Man, Bruisecontrol, Bruczar, Banner (should be obvious) and such.
During D&D days my barbaric warrior was Brutalis and that one has hung on with several of my friends.
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 6, 2021 19:29:20 GMT -5
Egads nicknames. Grandfather called me Mr. TV. Friends called me Moose cuz it rhymes with Bruce and in my 1st school fight with a bigger than me bully in 5th grade I dropped my head down ramming full speed into his belly dropping him to the ground where I proceeded to kick his punk ass. After that, in school each morning several of my friends would pick me up using me as a human battering ram for knocking on the dozen metal classroom doors of our Junior High building before classes began. Family and women/girls latch onto Brucey. Bosses during my 11 years at Smitty's grocery working in the meat department had all kinds of variations. Brucester, Bruceroni, Brucezilla, Bruiser, Brews Man, Bruisecontrol, Bruczar, Banner (should be obvious) and such. During D&D days my barbaric warrior was Brutalis and that one has hung on with several of my friends. Just a few points: 1. Your " friends" ramming you head first into metal objects suggest that maybe the bully won after all 2. You had more names than Hank Pym.
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Post by berkley on Feb 7, 2021 18:27:18 GMT -5
I think the published cover has a tighter structure and Ka-Zar's pose is more dynamic. We can see all the better who the real star of this comic is - hint: not the X-Men! Agreed--the point was to sell the introduction of Ka-Zar, so having him as the dominant figure on the cover--which was not really the case of the rejected version--was the priority. That kind of insert must have worked for Marvel, as it was used on a number of Silver Age covers, like the examples posted below-- Visual language/sales gimmick of a bygone era.
I don't usually mind them, actually, even though I criticised the Zabu one as "clumsy". Like any device or technique, it all depends on how, when, and where it's used.
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