tv star collector
05-18-2009, 07:45 PM
Superman began as a super-reformer, saving folk from slum landlords and evil
industrialists.
In the months after the attack on the World Trade Center, sales of comics
rose for the first time in years.
Buster Crabbe is the only actor to have played Flash Gordon, Tarzan, and
Buck Rogers.
Superman writer Jerry Siegel admitted the inspiration for Lois Lane came
from a high school girl he had a crush on, Lois Amster.
The origins of the "What--Me Worry?" kid are a mystery. He appeared on
everything from postcards to pop bottles before becoming Alfred E. Neuman,
Mad magazine's mascot.
[Sources: The Rough Guide to Superheroes (1989), Weird but
True Toon Factoids, by Craig Yoe (1999)]
industrialists.
In the months after the attack on the World Trade Center, sales of comics
rose for the first time in years.
Buster Crabbe is the only actor to have played Flash Gordon, Tarzan, and
Buck Rogers.
Superman writer Jerry Siegel admitted the inspiration for Lois Lane came
from a high school girl he had a crush on, Lois Amster.
The origins of the "What--Me Worry?" kid are a mystery. He appeared on
everything from postcards to pop bottles before becoming Alfred E. Neuman,
Mad magazine's mascot.
[Sources: The Rough Guide to Superheroes (1989), Weird but
True Toon Factoids, by Craig Yoe (1999)]