The House of Substance: Another Great Marvel Idea

Sunday, November 29, 2009

Another Great Marvel Idea

19 comments:

ckc (not kc) said...: ..you know who else read comic books?; November 29, 2009 at 9:32 AM
J— said...: That's HITLER, not to be confused with Hitler.

Do you know who was next in the series?; November 29, 2009 at 9:50 AM
Another Kiwi said...: "Shocking pages of actual History will come to life before your eyes"
"Boom Biff, Keraaaaaang Take that Krauts!!!" said Churchill; November 29, 2009 at 9:59 AM
zeppo said...: Godwin's comic books.; November 29, 2009 at 10:16 AM
Substance McGravitas said...: Do you know who was next in the series?

Nope, first I've heard of it and my Google-fu is weak this morning.

I'm sure it's tasteful.; November 29, 2009 at 11:55 AM
mikey said...: Actually, I'm thinking this might be the last, best hope of teaching americans about their own history, not to mention the history of the rest of the world that isn't the one and only bestest nation in the history of history.

If they could get actual information out of a comic book, they would end up knowing stuff without even knowing they knew stuff. Which would be almost as great as ignorance and "faith".; November 29, 2009 at 12:22 PM
Smut Clyde said...: "Shocking pages of actual History will come to life before your eyes"

Cactus juice will do that, or so I am led to believe.; November 29, 2009 at 1:03 PM
tigris said...: I did find a picture of the cover: http://www.amazingco.com/amazingco.com/comics/marvel/items/ma362.jpg; November 29, 2009 at 2:12 PM
tigris said...: oops; November 29, 2009 at 2:13 PM
MagicBee said...: "shocking pages of actual history"...should be lifted and pre and post-ceded by enough verbal marmalade as to render the Bulwer-Lytton contest moot

perhaps you can combine it with "rictus of appalled bafflement" to make some double haiku fizz; November 29, 2009 at 2:57 PM
Substance McGravitas said...: I did find a picture of the cover:

Thanks!

I cannot imagine the drugstores I frequented in my comic-buying youth being at all willing to stock that.; November 29, 2009 at 6:44 PM
zombie rotten mcdonald said...: interesting that one had to go to DRUG stores to get comic books.; November 30, 2009 at 2:48 PM
Smut Clyde said...: Sometimes the way stores are labelled in the US makes it very difficult to buy what one wants, and cultural-conflict hilarity ensues.

It's like when I was in London a few months ago, and all the sports bars had signs outside offering "Large Plasmas Inside". SO I go in and order a large plasma, and suddenly the bar staff are all "We don't serve your sort round here".; November 30, 2009 at 9:27 PM
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tigris said...: Interestingly, the RSS feed compresses those comments so you don't know what's going on unless you actually click. Wait, that's not actually very interesting.; December 2, 2009 at 8:51 AM
Substance McGravitas said...: I use Firefox's RSS display usually, and the whole game is as irritating that way as it is here. So, um, BORINGER.; December 2, 2009 at 9:59 AM

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