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True, Anonymous Coward.

I'm GenX - Age 52 in less than a month. In the comics I read as a kid, Captain Marvel was always a DC Property - That's how I know the name.

Billy Batson says "SHAZAM!" and turns into Captain Marvel:

https://static.comicvine.com/u...

I'm still keen to see the Marvel movie, though. It looks fun.

Yeah, but her boyfriend's a jerk.

You

I'm watching Dick Clark on New Year's Rockin' Eve and he's not looking so good:

http://static.comicvine.com/up...

I thought cosmic rays trigger lightning.

Nope, cosmic rays created The Fantastic Four and many more: http://marvel.wikia.com/Catego...

Also a toon named Cosmic Ray: http://www.comicvine.com/cosmi...

Didn't seem to find any DC toons who's superpowers came from cosmic rays. I didn't look very hard though.

An Easter Egg, in the construction sense that you describe, would be more like the time a construction crew opened up the wall in my apartment to fix a leak in a pipe and found a lunchbox that someone left behind when the building was built in 1928 with a note inside reading "Hello."

Sometimes it's a singing frog.

Don't bother trying to put the frog on Broadway, though.

http://static.comicvine.com/up...

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BMO

I don't do trivial citations.

Google statin amnesia.

Here's a link instead.
http://static.comicvine.com/up...

Thor has previously been replaced by a frog and an alien with a horse's skull for a head.

Back in the days when gas was 20 cents a gallon (and gas station attendent(s) pumped the gas for you plus check tire pressure, oil, and water levels), and also when Stan Lee created Spiderman, X-men, and The Avengers for the Marvel Comics group (yep, if they were real-life characters, they'd be old enough to collect social security).

Another character in Marvel "universe" was Patsy Walker. She didn't have superpowers but she had lots of beautiful dresses and unlimited budget to buy them all. Not created at Marvel but adopted from earlier comic publishers, Marvel series by artist Al Hartley, Al and Stan featured Patsy wearing various fashions submitted by readers. Probably real exciting because that was "internet forums" at the time. Examples here, http://marlendy.wordpress.com/...

Another cultural interest is this #106 April 1963 issue has lots of bouffant dress fashions popular at the time. Consider that shortly after in next year or two, this fashion was dead. http://static.comicvine.com/up...

While Stan Lee developed large male readership with Spiderman, X-men, etc. he also probably developed large female readership with Patsy Walker by engaging readers to submit fashion ideas. Though able to capitalize on movies nowadays using comic characters from more than 50 years ago, except for Patsy Walker, how many women dress up for occasions these days anyway?

Like many of early Marvel characters, Patsy Walker evolved into another form. No longer in the fancy gowns but out fighting bad guys with ferocity of a Navy SEAL as "Hellcat."

So, I was doing this myself when I spent hours and hours trying to be caller #3 to the radio station tangling up my parents phone cord?

Unfortunately, TFA looks slashdotted. I assume 'new shape' means a new geometry nobody has cataloged before? Maybe it never occurred to someone that it was a distinct shape? That or the phone cord analogy I'm seeing here isn't quite accurate.

Next somebody is going to tell me I was making graphene when I first used the big boy pottie.

No, more like dark matter. ;-)

Maybe these guys?

Well, if you know your comic-book history, you'd know that Batman had a homosexual relationship with Robin and was shown in the comics in bed with him.

If there's anything one learns from applying for a security clearance or worldwide politics in general, it's that nobody trusts homosexuals. I trust the Joker. Not only is he not a homosexual, and therefore trustworthy, but a proven innovator with plenty of experience thinking outside the box. I trust the Joker. Not Batman, as Robin has too much filthy blackmail on him.

-- Ethanol-fueled

I trust Cat Woman, and if she is homosexual that would be so hot.

Well, if you know your comic-book history, you'd know that Batman had a homosexual relationship with Robin and was shown in the comics in bed with him.

If there's anything one learns from applying for a security clearance or worldwide politics in general, it's that nobody trusts homosexuals. I trust the Joker. Not only is he not a homosexual, and therefore trustworthy, but a proven innovator with plenty of experience thinking outside the box. I trust the Joker. Not Batman, as Robin has too much filthy blackmail on him.

-- Ethanol-fueled

Death throws?

Never heard of them?

http://www.comicvine.com/death-throws/4060-41808/

How about the young Bruce?

All living things pollute.

Therefore all living things are dangerous.

Dangerous things need to be stopped.

Therefore life itself needs to be stopped.

http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/2/22955/854494-judge_dead_4_large.png

BS. If you're from India or China, *everything* is attractive in the U.S., especially if you're a girl.

Even Arseface

Picard is insufficient to express the retardedness of this patent. Must go even higher to epic proportions in the facepalm department.

Pic:

http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/5869/623815-war_of_the_worlds_tripod_super.jpg

Catwoman definitely got a lot of popularity from Pfeiffer's performance & the cartoon. The X-Men movies I would say, based on the circles I run in, hurt the popularity of Jean & Rogue. Rogue in particular being played all sullen and flat did not do the fiery red head's character justice. Jean really became popular around the time of the Phoenix storyline but you're right, she's not very recognizable. Rogue is with her red hair, white strip, and green/yellow outfit. I have no idea how they thought this: http://www.littlestuffedbull.com/images/comics/fnf/rogue/rogue-anna.jpg was in any way a reflection of this: http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/4/48294/892753-rogue_super.jpg

You're right that Wonder Woman is instantly recognizable... personally every time I see her I have to hold back a giggle.

he US is pretty flag-happy, but pound for pound, I think Canada's got us beat.

Not until we get one of these:

http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/8190/543948-captainamerica1_super.jpg

or these

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Sam

OWS and the Tea Party teaming up would be about as awkward as a Deadpool team-up.

http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/6/60216/1626194-deadpool_team_up_yellow_boxes_super.jpg
http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/2285/deadpool37.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-esKAm-4Bw2I/Tb6xYrDkCTI/AAAAAAAAAME/W0NZsVYoPTc/s1600/deadpool36scan4.jpg

Darwin has a precedent: http://www.comicvine.com/darwin/29-40600/ Also, the tornado creating mutant was riptide: http://www.comicvine.com/riptide/29-9732/

Darwin has a precedent: http://www.comicvine.com/darwin/29-40600/ Also, the tornado creating mutant was riptide: http://www.comicvine.com/riptide/29-9732/

Let them do it. From what I'm reading, they think the Internet is a place in Germany.

Ünternet?

And he's also Earth-616's Scientist Supreme. http://marvel.wikia.com/Scientist_Supreme So says Eternity. http://www.comicvine.com/hank-pym/29-2247/since-pyms-been-recognized-as-the-scientist-supreme-by-eternity/92-532715/
But I hear Eternity gave Hank the title under duress (Dr. Pym threatened to rape Eternity).

I know this sounds weird, but one of the first "geeky" comics character I was blown away by was Dilton Doiley, part of Archie's crew, in the Strange Science editions.

It was short, it was funny, and he was a geek who got the girl. All these other guys are great, but they had supernatural powers or wealth, or other things going for them. Dilton just... conducted home experiments! Of course, he had his own lab, but still, as a regular kid, you could aspire to be him.

The other character I remember from childhood, of course, was Tom Swift. Amazingly inspirational -- although, not a lot of comics of him out there (I've seen a few, but not many).

Wow - somebody else who knows of Tom Swift.

Which series did you like more, the original, or the one with Tom Jr?

Repelletrons FTW!

I know this sounds weird, but one of the first "geeky" comics character I was blown away by was Dilton Doiley, part of Archie's crew, in the Strange Science editions.

  It was short, it was funny, and he was a geek who got the girl. All these other guys are great, but they had supernatural powers or wealth, or other things going for them. Dilton just... conducted home experiments! Of course, he had his own lab, but still, as a regular kid, you could aspire to be him.

The other character I remember from childhood, of course, was Tom Swift. Amazingly inspirational -- although, not a lot of comics of him out there (I've seen a few, but not many).

What about the backstory behind the real unsung hero of the series: Weegee?

No. We need The Killer.

2 seconds on google:

http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/40/75995-75722-magneto_super.jpg

I know it isn't probably what you want but I think http://www.comicvine.com/ is probably a good wiki for comics, though it would be nice to see those sort of things on wikipedia. I am not sure how much info is on comicvine as I am more of a videogamer and a related website http://www.giantbomb.com/ is good for that.