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"The Monster Mash" was the biggest hit by Bobby "Boris" Pickett.
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The TV show M*A*S*H lasted longer than the actual Korean War.
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Auntie Beeb (related to Auntie Monitor) produced a radio drama that lasted the equivalent of the first world war it covered. Ironically, had such a broadcast been availabe during that war, the sheer tedium of it would have brought an unconditional surrender within a couple of months if transmitted over enemy lines.
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I've thought that an awesome idea for a comic would be a weekly All-Star Squadron-type comic that takes place in "real time", so that one issue of the comic would correspond to one week of the war.
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What could have been. or what could be.
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What could have been. or what could be.
In a word: fanfic.
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I've thought that an awesome idea for a comic would be a weekly All-Star Squadron-type comic that takes place in "real time", so that one issue of the comic would correspond to one week of the war.
Then you might like BBC's Homefront. I always got exercise when it was on. That race to the radio when they announced the Omnibus edition was next up.
I recall Roy Thomas noting in passing that All Star was still in the early part of the war after 50odd issues.
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Yeah, I don't think A-SS ever reached the end of 1942. So, less than a year for the whole series.
This seems like an appropriate place to plug the super-cool old time radio podcast
Adam Graham presents The War .
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I remember E-2 Superman making a joke about the abbreviation of the A-SS
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That seems a bit unbecoming for Golden Age Supes.
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Far better than his treatment in Infinite Crisis, though.
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Far better than his treatment in Infinite Crisis, though.
That's the understatement of the past quarter-century.
To think that Infinite Crisis was originally supposed to be the darkest hour before a new dawn. Or so some disgruntled creators have claimed.
Whatever the true intent, there's no escaping that the thing that actually saw print was utter crap.
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I remember E-2 Superman making a joke about the abbreviation of the A-SS
That seems a bit unbecoming for Golden Age Supes.
His joke was: "We have to be careful how we abbreviate it!"
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Tsk. GA Supes even thinking to say that is the start of the slope that ends up with Morrison doing another dark, tired, knock off version of Kid Miracleman.
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This morning I read the story in which E2 Supes marries E2 Lois. What a fun tale!
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I really liked the Mr. & Mrs.Superman stories.
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The Lois/Clark marriage is one of the strongest elements of the Superman stories, I believe.
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The Lewis and Clark expedition was pretty amazing too.
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Lewis never married, though Clark did.
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Lewis never married Clark?! It's bad enough I've been mis-sold a Lois and Clark boxset, but for that plotline not to end in married bliss is a real disappointment.
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Gay marriage wasn't legal yet
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That didn't stop Mason and Dixon!
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Yeah, they're not going to let some legal silliness make them tow the...line.
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I'm not a Mark Knopfler fan, but this story-song of his, with Knopfler as Dixon and James Taylor as Mason, is pure bliss:
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I haven’t like Mark Knopfler because of the lyrics to Money for Nothing
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