The new Google Chrome web browser was published yesterday and Scott McCloud illustrated the event in forty pages. Sometimes it reads like an addendum to his own "Reinventing Comics".

http://www.maelmill-insi.de/UHBMCC/FRAMES00.HTM

Hey remember that meme a while back about the #1 song the week you were born? This site lets you find marvel comics released the month you were born.

Final issue of "Not Brand Ecch." Could be worse, I suppose...

(I sure hope somebody knows a DC version of this)

With this article from Wired about Comic Book tattoos in mind, what kind of comic book tattoo would you get? As you probably already know, I've got a hooded, kneeling Angel of Death tattooed on the underside of my wang and a supine Captain Mar-Vell tatooed across my balls, so that I can recreate the classic cover in intimate moments. Hey, who wouldn't, you know?

Fuckin' finally.

All bringing back Tangent and the MLJ Heroes, and no Static or Icon in sight. Psh.

PS: If Dwayne McDuffie asks, I was that white kid who bought Milestone every month...

Its likely many of you have already seen this as its getting crossposted by more than a few. Still crossposted from Bully Says...

Hello, everyone. John here. I "help" Bully out with his blog, but there's some things can't be said in the voice of a little stuffed bull.

A couple weeks ago at San Diego Comic-Con incidents of sexual harassment were confided to me and I overheard others. I wanted to write about it but was uncertain whether Bully's blog was the proper place. After much thought and discussions with friends and colleagues I've decided to post it here:

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Overheard at San Diego Comic-Con while I was having lunch on the balcony of the Convention Center on Sunday July 27: a bunch of guys looking at the digital photos on the camera of another, while he narrated: "These were the Ghostbusters girls. That one, I grabbed her ass, 'cause I wanted to see what her reaction was." This was only one example of several instances of harassment, stalking or assault that I saw at San Diego this time.

1. One of my friends was working at a con booth selling books. She was stalked by a man who came to her booth several times, pestering her to get together for a date that night. One of her co-workers chased him off the final time.

2. On Friday, just before the show closed, this same woman was closing up her tables when a group of four men came to her booth, started taking photographs of her, telling her she was the "prettiest girl at the con." They they entered the booth, started hugging and kissing her and taking photographs of themselves doing so. She was confused and scared, but they left quickly after doing that.

3. Another friend of mine, a woman running her own booth: on Friday a man came to her booth and openly criticized her drawing ability and sense of design. Reports from others in the same section of the floor confirmed he'd targeted several women with the same sort of abuse and criticism.

Quite simply, this behavior has got to stop at Comic-Con. It should never be a sort of place where anyone, man or woman, feels unsafe or attacked either verbally or physically in any shape or form. There are those, sadly, who get off on this sort of behavior and assault, whether it's to professional booth models, cosplayers or costumed women, or women who are just there to work. This is not acceptable behavior under any circumstance, no matter what you look like or how you're dressed, whether you are in a Princess Leia slave girl outfit or business casual for running your booth.

On Saturday, the day after the second event I described above, I pulled out my convention book to investigate what you can do and who you can speak to after such an occurrence. On page two of the book there is a large grey box outlining "Convention Policies," which contain rules against smoking, live animals, wheeled handcarts, recording at video presentations, drawing or aiming your replica weapon, and giving your badge to others. There is nothing about attendee-to-attendee personal behavior.

Page three of the book contains a "Where Is It?" guide to specific Comic-Con events and services. There's no general information room or desk listed, nor is there a contact location for security, so I go to the Guest Relations Desk. I speak to a volunteer manning the desk; she's sympathetic to the situation but who doesn't have a clear answer to my question: "What's Comic-Con's policy and method of dealing with complaints about harassment?" She directs me to the nearest security guard, who is also sympathetic listening to my reports, but short of the women wanting to report the incidents with the names of their harassers, there's little that can be done.

"I understand that," I tell them both, "but what I'm asking is more hypothetical and informational: if there is a set Comic-Con policy on harassment and physical and verbal abuse on Con attendees and exhibitors, and if so, what's the specific procedure by which someone should report it, and specifically where should they go?" But this wasn't a question either could answer.

So, according to published con policy, there is no tolerance for smoking, drawn weapons, personal pages or selling bootleg videos on the floor, and these rules are written down in black and white in the con booklet. There is not a word in the written rules about harassment or the like. I would like to see something like "Comic-Con has zero tolerance for harassment or violence against any of our attendees or exhibitors. Please report instances to a security guard or the Con Office in room XXX."

The first step to preventing such harassment is giving its victims the knowledge that they can safely and swiftly report such instances to someone in authority. Having no published guideline, and indeed being unable to give a clear answer to questions about it, gives harassment and violence one more rep-tape loophole to hide behind.

I enjoyed Comic-Con. I'm looking forward to coming back next year. So, in fact, are the two women whose experiences I've retold above. Aside from those instances, they had a good time at the show. But those instances of harassment shouldn't have happened at all, and that they did under no clear-cut instructions about what to do sadly invites the continuation of such behavior, or even worse.

I don't understand why there's no such written policy about what is not tolerated and what to do when this happens. Is there anyone at Comic-Con able to explain this? Does a similar written policy exist in the booklets for other conventions (SF, comics or otherwise) that could be used as a model? Can it be adapted or adapted, and enforced, for Comic-Con? As the leading event of the comics and pop culture world, Comic-Con should work to make everyone who attends feel comfortable and safe.

So, neverminding the multitude of sins committed by the Big Two comics companies right now, I'm actually of late impressed by something going on with the latest chapters of their seemingly unending chain of company-wide crossover events.

Just as an aside, I should mention that I have nothing against the company-wide crossover. I even like them to some degree. To me they're a payoff for decades of obsessive reading, mentally cataloging a thousand obscure third stringers and backup characters, bizarre locales, sub-plots and sub-threads. I know that a lot of readers hate the big crossovers for those very same reasons, that they get left out of the loop because they're not reading every single title the company has put out for the last twenty years. To you people I say that these crossovers ain't for you, they're for us, so leave the god-kings of nerdsville their eddas and gotterdammerungs, okay? We leave you Amazing Spider-Girl.

Anyway. I was looking at Secret Invasion and Final Crisis, (one of which I'm predictably enjoying more than the other, obviously). I'm enjoying both of them, even though Secret Invasion has been moving at five kinds of a snail's pace over a thousand books this month. The reason I'm enjoying them is because - in Secret Invasion's case, up until yesterday's issue - for the first time since I was a wee kid I actually don't see how the heroes can win.

I mean, I know they will, obviously, and Secret Invasion tipped their hand last issue by suddenly having all the advantages in the heroes' hands. BEFORE that issue, though, they had created a network of shape-changers who'd infiltrated every inch of Earth's power structures, half the characters we were reading about were actually Skrull agents. In Final Crisis, we flat out know that Evil has won and the baleful Gods of a dire underverse are hiding in superhuman souls. The book OPENS with heroes turning to the dark side and getting offed or captured, it's kind of amazing.

I know they're gonna reorient everything to the status quo at the end of the books, they always do. What impresses me is that they've effectively created the illusion of threat and menace, a thing which is generally missing from superhero comics, even though their conflicts largely hinge on these things.

So yeah, DC and Marvel do a lot of things wrong, but I have to admit I appreciate how right they've handled their latest big events...

So, here's today's nerd brain teaser - I was thinking about comic book acronyms for super-spy organizations - mostly because of the villainous organization D.E.A.T.H. from Charlton Comics' Fightin' Five book, whose acronym stood recursively for Dedicated Enemies of And Traitors to Humanity.

There is, of course, SHIELD, which I think has had forty or so acronyms. So here's your dual challenge, first off - let's hear some great comic book spy organization acronyms. Second part of the challenge? MAKE SOME UP, either for organizations which don't have 'em (ludickid's got a good one for GIJOE, but I'll let him share it with you) or for made up ones you think sound good.

You'll have to go far to beat DEATH, though, those fuckers all call themselves Traitors to Humanity, that shit is badass.

So I've been busy this week and just have not had time to compile my response to the Hembeck Challenge. Now that it's Saturday of course I have free time and the challenge is over, so in the interests of being both a day late _and_ a dollar short I have put together a list of FORTY-NINE things I love about comics.

In no particular order, and from memory so excuse any errors:

1. When Spider-Man shoots a web into thin air and swings from it
2. Ben Grimm's Aunt Petunia
3. The miniature Abraham Lincoln homunculus that only says "Su Su Sudio!"
4. The KGBeast
5. The NKVDemon
6. Batman singing "Am I Blue?" to Wonder Woman
7. Harry the Pillow
8. "Kirby is here!"
9. "A startling look into the world that's coming!"
10. "That's 'Slant-Eye' and his gang. All tough babies!"
11. An underworld filled with clones of Andy Warhol
12. Quisp
13. The silent issue of GI Joe
14. Madvillain's "All Caps" video
15. The cover of Can's _Monster Movie_ album
16. William Moulton Marston
17. I-Ching
18. Shang-Chi
19. Comet the Super-Horse
20. The Anatomy Lesson
21. Lettercols
22. Holofoil covers (yes, seriously!)
23. That "Life" magazine comic where Superman takes out Hitler
24. Sleepwalker
25. 8-Ball
26. Jim Steranko double splash pages
27. Miscolorings
28. The Sentinels
29. The Wisdom of Zehuti
30. J. Fred Muggs saying "Vootie!"
31. The Death of Captain Marvel
32. Kite-eating trees
33. Mr. Mind
34. Robin, the Teen Wonder
35. Superman, back when he crusaded against unsafe working conditions by hitting people
36. Power Girl's breasts
37. Mark Gruenwald's U.S. Agent miniseries
38. That issue of Cerebus where he plays hockey for 30 years straight
39. Count Vertigo: "Men have killed gods before."
40. The War That Time Forgot
41. Morgan Edge
42. Beta Ray Bill
43. The Eye of Agamotto
44. Cut-away maps of superheroes' secret lairs
45. Heroes Against Hunger
46. "This is an imaginary story- aren't they all?"
47. The Great Joker-Clayface Feud
48. Ben Urich
49. Green Arrow and the Warlord meeting, comparing mustaches

1. Dramatic Stan Lee titles ("If This Be My Destiny!")
2. John Romita Jr's rooftop stovepipes in Amazing Spider-Man
3. The many mutations of Jimmy Olsen
4. The way Alan Davis draws people with their hands outstretched and their middle and ring fingers always, always put together.
5. The incredible density of Snapper Carr and Mary Jane Watson's loopy 60s slang.
6. Dr. Doom's ego
7. Panels packed to the brim with references in Top 10.
8. Mignola shadows
9. Kirby monsters wearing underpants
10. Superheroes beating villains with Hostess Fruit Pies
11. Mentally filling in the action between panels
12. Artists who, when Peter Parker is thinking about the impact that being Spider-Man has had on his life, draw the Spidey mask on half of his face.
13. Talking Gorillas
14. Villains with an intense devotion to a theme
15. Dogs wearing capes
16. Benjamin J. Grimm
17. Kochalka's "Peanut Butter & Jeremy"
18. Characters bursting out over the edges of a panel.
19. Villains who never think to try pulling one of their schemes in a different city than the one where the same hero is always catching them.
20. logos
21. The Cosmic Treadmill
22. Incredibly powerful beings who can fly, lift several tons, and are impervious to harm but are still gracious enough to team-up with guys who are just good with a bow and arrow.
23. Flash Thompson hating Peter Parker while worshiping Spider-Man
24. Bond girls (PHILLIP Bond girls)
25. The Sandman
26. Crickets, eyeballs, crystal people, and blobs that show up wearing the Green Lantern logo whenever the corps is called upon.
27. Paul Smith's run on Uncanny X-Men
28. Ditko's vision of other dimensions
29. "On Bizarro World..."
30. Mr. Mind
31. Bendis on Daredevil
32. Mr. Hyde theorizing about what became of Dr. Jeckyl and revealing what happened to The Invisible Man over dinner in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
33. Art Adams
34. the Frog of Thunder
35. Spider-Man being hopelessly outmatched by, but eventually overcoming by a combination of ingenuity and relentless determination, the Juggernaut
36. Spider-Man being hopelessly outmatched by, but eventually overcoming by a combination of ingenuity and relentless determination, Firelord
37. The Bat-signal
38. Team-ups
39. unstable molecules
40. Captain Marvel is really a little boy named Billy Batson
41. Jill Thompson
42. Modern day Luke Cage
43. Old school Elfquest
44. Boxing-glove arrows
45. Nightcrawler
46. Spider-sense
47. A month of anticipation after a good cliffhanger
48. Tiny comics in the gutters of other comics in Mad Magazine
49. The feeling I sometimes get when the sky is wide open and a wind suddenly picks up that I really ought to be able to fly.
50. Hembeck knees.

1. Dreadstar and Company #4- you never forget your first
2. Wasp as chairperson of the Avengers
3. Mark's Remarks
4. The fact that Mark Gruenwald's ashes were mixed with the ink for the first trade of Squadron Supreme
5. Larry Hama took a book based on action figures and turned it into 155 issues of awesome.
6. Captain America as the moral center of the Marvel Universe
7. Sandman
8. Alan Scott
9. Nightwing
10. Spoiler
11. Runaways
12. Superman wears a cape because as a kid, Alan Scott was his hero.
13. Avengers Under Siege
14. A trio of Kangs from various times once summoned other Kangs to Limbo to kill them and remove their embarrassment from the name, Kang.
15. Hawkeye beat an Elder of the Universe with a carnival trick.
16. Justice Society of America
17. Legion of Super Heroes
18. Editor references in comics
19. Jarvis- the Last Avenger!
20. Multipart ads telling a story month to month
21. No-prizes
22. The Serpent Society
23. Roxxon Oil
24. Comic book based movies like Iron Man and Dark Knight
25. Colossus vs. Juggernaut, while Logan and Kurt watched.
26. Magik
27. Walt Simonson's run on Thor
28. Doom 2099 (up to the invasion of America)
29. Circuit Breaker
30. The Wake
31. "Point of View"
32. Master Pandemonium
33. HYDRA, THEM, AIM, and SHIELD
34. MODOK
35. Ultimate Spiderman
36. Knights of the Dinner Table
37. Letter pages
38. The annual Wackos and Echos baseball game
39. Sue Richard's dream of Dr. Doom leading an army of super villains against a similar army hired by Kristoff
40. Taskmaster
41. The end of Stargirl and Captain Marvel's relationship
42. Power Girl
43 Iron Man
44. Black Adam
45. The Hedge Knight
46. Batman, Year One
47. The Golden Age
48. Hawkman
49. Watchmen
50. Superman done right.

1. Marvel and DC's encyclopedias, official and from Dorling Kindersley.

2. Alan Grant and Norm Breyfogle on Batman.

3. The Hal Jordan version of the Spectre, the only one I wasn't terrified of.

4. Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics.

5. Ann Nocenti.

6. Keith Giffen.

7. Simon Bisley.

8. Comic Book Database--shows you how many comics you have.

9. Nostomania--shows you how much they might be worth, if you ever need to sell them.

10. Avalon.

11. 2000AD.

12. Ken Reid.

13. True Brit.

14. Mark Evanier.

15. The fact that it's okay to hate Groo.

16. Dilbert, until you realize it's better to get a new job than project your anger onto the characters.

17. Critters.

18. Adventures of Captain Jack.

19. Furrlough.

20. Webcomics in general.

21. Kevin and Kell.

22. Polymer City Chronicles.

23. Dave Kelly's Batman cartoons on Something Awful.

24. Dave Kelly's Purple Pussy.

25. Deep Fried.

26. The little comics conventions in Nashville I used to go to.

27. Handmade props.

28. Superhero RPGs--great for research!

29. Good books on writing comics.

30. Good legal advice on keeping your own characters.

31. You can actually keep characters you create and still be able to publish them yourself on the web.

32. Artist commissions.

33. DeviantArt.

34. Fanfiction/art.

35. Laughing at bad fanfiction/art.

36. The comics of David Gonterman, the Internet's Rob Liefeld.

37. Making fun of old Image creators.

38. Simpsons comics.

39. The original Superman movies up to #3.

40. Postmodernbarney.

41. Polite Dissent.

42. Progressive Ruin.

43. Mightygodking.

44. Alan Moore.

45. Alan Moore likes South Park.

46. Grant Morrison.

47. Neil Gaiman.

48. The Great Escape in Nashville and Madison, TN, where I first saw underground comics.

49. The (dead) Secret Lair in Murfreesboro, TN, where I hung out for years. (It's now a tattoo parlor.)

50. The fact that there were comics of Talespin, Chip'n'Dale Rescue Rangers, Ren and Stimpy, and Beavis and Butthead.

http://benzilla.com/beckett_bushmiller_sm.pdf (8.15 mb)

The hoax by A.S. Hamrah and R. Sikoryak, wherein Samuel Beckett requests to collaborate on "Nancy" with Ernie Bushmiller

I love a great many more things than this about comics, but here are fifty. Some are repeats from other folks' lists, but oh well.

1. Jack Kirby energy splotches
2. Will Eisner buildings
3. The two Flashes running to the corner of the building to save that guy
4. Charlie Brown's depression
5. Single panel gag strips
6. Ineffectual milquetoast wealthy playboy as secret identity
7. Rob Liefeld as ever-dependable punchline
8. Swinging sixties Marvel Manhattan
9. Jack Cole's Plastic Man
10. Spider-Man as a smartass/Peter Parker as a mope
11. Wondering who Casper was before he died
12. Henchmen in themed costumes
13. Radiation causing wondrous super-powers rather than fatal cancer
14. Kevin Maguire faces
15. "Good lord- choke!"
16. Guys without superpowers, just in suits and masks, punchin' thugs
17. Old letter columns
18. Cosmic treadmill
19. Heading down to the basement, going through the longboxes and grabbing a nice stack of issues you haven't read in awhile
20. Wheatcakes
21. Bloom County
22. A new Earth every time you buy someone's characters
23. Elseworlds
24. Insane British writers who aren't just fans who get to write, but who genuinely seem to love the medium
25. The Haunted Tank
26. Stan Lee cameos in Marvel films
27. Ask the Defenders!
28. Evan Dorkin's cram-packed table of contents pages
29. "Bwa-Ha-Ha-Haaa!"
30. Don't ask- Just buy it!
31. Aunt May thinking Doc Ock is a fine gentleman
32. Elaborate Chris Ware layouts
33. Trophy rooms
34. Drunk Iron Man
35. Woozy Winks
36. Carmine Infantino's 8-mile long city skylines waaaay off in the distance, even in the middle of downtown
37. Chick Tracts
38. Harvey Pekar hanging around Cleveland
39. Keith Giffen's sarcasm
40. Scores of vaults just sitting around Richie Rich's massive estate
41. Respect of continuity, not slavish devotion to it
42. Scrooge McDuck's money bin
43. Windsor McKay's horrible nightmares
44. All of the varities of kryptonite
45. Crooks who wear domino masks and ski-caps
46. Dan Clowes' misanthropy
47. Giant props
48. Phone book-thick B&W reprints
49. Hating comics
50. That comics is such a huge darn tent that it can accomodate just about everything

I know I'm a little late to the party... Here are my top 50 favorite things about comics.

1. Stan and Jack Fantastic Four.
2. Teaching myself how to read with a Read-A-Long record and comic featuring Captain America.
3. Getting a three pack of Dell/Whitman comics at the grocery store as a kid.
4. Robinson's Starman.
5. The Ever-loving blue-eyed Thing.
6. Legion of Super Heroes voting in new members.
7. When Doc. Doom yells, "Richards!"
8. Tom Strong.
9. Barrel chested, squinty-eyed Superman who smiled.
10. All of the detail put into the backgrounds in Mark Shultz' Xeonic Tales.
11. The GI Joe comics being so much better than a toy line tie-in.
12. Kirby Dots.
13. Eisner's sense of irony.
14. Casey Kassum as the voice of Robin.
15. The Marvel family costumes.
16. Green Arrow's beard and 'stache.
17. Thor speaking like Shakespeare.
18. Judge Dredd working better as satire than grim and gritty comics.
19. Sandman Mystery Theatre.
20. MODOK!
21. Madman fighting mutant beatnicks.
22. New Frontier.
23. Hostess Pie ads.
24. Reed Richard's gray sideburns.
25. Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen.
26. Human Torch/Spidey issues.
27. Mother Boxes
28. The Jim Shooter issues of Valiant.
29. Max Flesher Superman cartoons.
30. J. Jonah Jameson hating Spidey but loving Cap.
31. The dialog in Powers.
32. The 60s Batman tv show.
33. Turk, Son of Stone.
34. Super Hero Clubhouse.
35. Jarvis standing up to the Wrecking Crew with a vacuum cleaner.
36. Casting actors as my favorite heroes.
37. Colossus, Wolvie and Fuzzy Elf.
38. League of Extraordinary Gentleman and making new teams.
39. Utility belts.
40. Hellboy being in over his head.
41. "As if the world is made of paper..."
42. 5th Dimensional imps.
43. Photo covers from the 60s.
44. "In brightest day..."
45. Bone.
46. Dean Motter's Mr. X and Terminal City.
47. Mego dolls and Pocket Heroes.
48. Tintin.
49. Searching for naughty words in pools of water or Scrabble boards.
50. Invincible.

1) Grendel (all iterations)
2) The Multiverse
3) Eagle
4) Assistant Editor's Month
5) What If?
6) Elseworlds
7) Yearly (Pre-Crisis) JLA/JSA crossover
8) Fastball Special
9) "In brightest day, in blackest night,
no evil shall escape my sight!
Let those who worship evil's might,
beware my power.. Green Lantern's light!"
10) Grimjack
11) Excelsior!
12) The Earth X saga and how it came about
13) Kingdom Come
14) The Golden Age
15) The Joker's rationale for keeping The Batman around
16) The Bottled City of Kandor
17) Letters pages
18) Getting your letter published in a letters page
19) George Perez insisting he sign every print in our Batman portfolio, in addition to the ~15 issues of Teen Titans and other comics
20) 1980's Teen Titans
21) X-angst
22) Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles
23) How The Batman always has something in his utility belt that fits the situation...
24) The soap operatic aspect of superhero comics, especially when it comes to dying and coming back
25) Angry minority superheroes
26) Witty banter, pompous grandstanding and other conversations in the midst of a fight
27) Reinventing characters
28) Red Kryptonite
29) "Avengers Assemble!"
30) Super team alumni reunions that number 30+ to fight one baddy
31) Contest of Champions
32) General Zod
33) "Hulk Smash!"
34) The Grey Hulk
35) First Comics
36) Dark Horse Comics
37) Bone
38) Conan comic books
39) Raven writing a wrestling story
40) Mythological beings in modern society
41) Justice League of America - the funny years
42) Super-teams shake ups
43) One Year Later
44) Super villain team comic books
45) How costumes in the comic books look so cool but cannot translate to live action visual media
46) Nazi Super Villains
47) Vampires in superhero milleu
48) The days when annuals were really cool and fit into ongoing story lines, often to wrap them up
49) Giant Sized X-men #1
50) Hero team up series (Marvel Team-Up, Marvel Two-in-One, Brave and the Bold)

(At the behest of thebitterguy, who pointed this group out to me.)

1. Bamf!
2. "Prankster, Toyman, do you know what radio waves look like?" "No, why?" "BECAUSE I DO!"
3. Who is Donna Troy?
4. "I waste him with my crossbow!"
5. Earth-2
6. Kirby Dots
7. *Editor's Note: Due to a necessary impurity, Green Lantern rings are powerless against the color yellow.
8. The Titan Presidents of Bismoll!
9. Elementals
10. "Sweet Christmas!"
11. The Goodwin/Simonson Manhunter
12. The Englehart/Rogers run on Detective
13. "Professor Xavier Is A Jerk!"
14. "E equals MC squared, gosh I love Sue!" (Not an actual line from a comic, but it sums up so much.)
15. "Like unto a thing of iron!"
16. "Spoon!"
17. Interlac
18. All-Star Squadron
19. The Real Infinity Inc.
20. The Legion of Super-Heroes
21. Vathlo Island
22. Any double page spread that George Perez fills with characters.
23. OHotMU and Who's Who
24. These two panels.
25. The Rocketeer
26. 3X2(9YZ)4A
27. The Executioner's last stand.
28. The Great Darkness Saga
29. The Judas Contract
30. Mad, beautiful ideas
31. Fabian Stankowicz
32. Extremely Silly Comics, which contain my only published work in the field, crappy as it is.
33. "Criminals are a superstitious and cowardly lot."
34. "Pick a number."
35. MODOK and Karl
36. Savage Sword of Conan
37. Gorillas
38. Runaways (probably the best new superhero comic of the past ten years)
39. Morrison's run on New X-Men
40. "How would you feel about life, if Death was your older sister?"
41. "No deal, no how, Kent!  Not you, buddy boy!  The "Hairies" who inhabit the Wild Area -- Trust Nobody over twenty-five!  It's a Generation Gap type of scene, you know! (Also, the fact that Morgan Edge refers to Jimmy Olsen as "Our young Lochinvar" on the same page.)
42. The fact that, before the late 70s, the only punctuation mark used by Marvel and DC letterers was the exclamation point!  Seriously!  I'm not kidding!
43. That back in the day, you could sell a comic called "Son of Satan" at the local comicbook rack and no one batted an eye.  I miss the 70s sometimes.
44. Giant-sized treasury editions.  Some day, I will own the LSH Lightning Lad/Saturn Girl one.
45. Marvels
46. Astro City
47. Wolverine versus the Hellfire Club
48. "I Am Curious (Black)"
49. Superman
50. The Justice Society of America