Martinex1: Here we are making the cycle again - another day, another week, and already seven days into a new month. There are some recommendations below, but before we jump into that how about a recap?
THIS PAST WEEK:
Monday May 1st we enjoyed Ed Hannigan's covers, art, and influence from the Bronze Age.
On Tuesday May 2nd, we followed the leader with analysis of Arnold Schwarzenegger's career.
Wednesday the 3rd, we welcomed Doug from the BAB as a guest writer and explored the DC imaginary stories with all kinds of craziness from Bat-Lad to Lois Lane wedded to Bruce Wayne.
Thursday May 4th we discussed the future and transition of comic collecting.
On Friday the 5th, we took a look at covers that used the color yellow predominantly.
And yesterday Saturday the 6th we enjoyed some Bronze Age Public Service Announcements.
Who says this isn't the blog to find for variety and enlightenment? Visit our past posts and many fun comments through the links in the sidebar, or just scroll through for dozens of enjoyable topics.
SUNDAY FUNNIES:
Today let's look at what Marvel and DC were putting in the newspapers back in the Bronze Age. From Batman to Spider-Man, the short lived Hulk comic strip, and of course the World's Greatest Superheroes!
COMING SOON: We have tons of fun in store - more Bronze Age action, more Bronze Age art, and more Bronze Age comments. In other words we are running by the seat of our pants! Come back each day for a new topic each day.
RECOMMENDATIONS: As I have been told, "Don't walk.... Run! Run to see Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2." The film has much that will appeal to the BitBA crowd. And to give you fair warning - one week from tomorrow on Monday May 15, 2017, we will have an open forum to discuss everything about the movie, spoilers and all! So mark your calendar! That gives you two full weekends (and more outside the US) to see the film and gather your thoughts. Cheers!
7 comments:
Gonna See GotG2 today! Wow this movie has 5 end credits trailers?!
Hmm ... didn't know the Mole Man could hurt the Thing with just a wooden stick! (Unless he has a piece of adamantium inside that stick!)
- Mike 'Sly Stallone is Starhawk?' from Trinidad & Tobago.
Gents - can Charlie add some PSA stuff from yesterday today? I'll gladly send a no prize to anyone who can help find links to this stuff!
Around 1967, WGN TV was only in Chicago, but they showed a bunch of PSA stuff that still sticks in my bro's and my skulls.
1) The jingle was "It's fun to play games with vision but don't play games with your eyes!" Warned all of us not to mess with our eyes and also get eye checkups. What the heck were people doing to their eyes???
2) "Don't play with blasting caps!" Showed a little hand reaching for one in the dirt then a big, big explosion! Blasting caps are used to trigger larger explosions used in mining, demolitions... Scared the bejezus out of my bro and I. I guess they were laying around
everywhere???
3) PSA showing older hands playing cards, throwing darts, lifting hi-balls in the glass... "We Americans are fit. From the end of our wrist to the tips of our fingers," advised the commentator This PSA was telling Americans to get fit again!
4) I still remember cigarette commercials ("I'd walk a mile for a Camel") which ceased in January 1971. But I remember a PSA of a man desperate for a cig, searching.... searching... finally finds a pack, the cigs spill out on the ground b/c his hands are shaking, and a broom or street cleaners pushes them down the storm sewer in the street.
If anyone can find a link to any of that, I would be grateful.
Perhaps the ultimate/ most memorable American PSA is the Native American walking / riding a canoe down an absolutely ugly industrial river. Youtube it at "The Crying Indian Keep America Beautiful." Especially poignant to me living on Lake Michigan as a kid. My dad would tell us how Inland Steel dumped 2000 pounds of cyanide daily into Lake Michigan. And Inland was the smallest of the steel mills between Chicago and Gary...
Can't wait to see GotG Vol 2!!!
Ohhh last comment... A PSA of sorts.
May Day, typically celebrated world wide as "Day of the Worker" or Labor Day is celebrated everywhere on May 1, but where it started, which is Chicago / the USA.
The USA moved Labor Day to the end of August to disassociate itself from the Chicago events on May 1 - May 3, 1886.
"Over one hundred years have passed since that first May Day. In the earlier part of the 20th century, the US government tried to curb the celebration and further wipe it from the public's memory by establishing "Law and Order Day" on May 1."
I lernt a lot growing up in Chicago, and industrial Gary, Indiana.
Go see Guardians 2. Nuff said.
Anyone do Free Comic Book Day???
Charlie- I did Free Comic Book Day. Picked up a couple freebies, including Wonder Woman (a reprinting of her recent #1). Also picked up a couple of other books. The store was busy with a steady stream of customers. Among them were numerous parents with kids picking out books. An encouraging thing to see. Did you participate?
Hello read! Yes I did go to free comic book day. And there was a steady stream of customers probably 30 deep. There was a good portion of children there though the majority were definitely adult man. It is encouraging to see children still reading comic books, no doubt about it. And I and my friend each got our quota of three comic books each plus a copy of the walking dead that was being handed out to anybody coming to the store.
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