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I'm just curious, Portfolio Boy, how you know what Kennedy it was that Siegal was referring to???
Is this a situation where you have to wear Saturn earrings?
Since I was buying Adventure off the stands even before there was a Legion feature, I feel obliged to mention that both Bobby and Teddy Kennedy were very active in politics back then, and Siegal (or Weisinger) may have intentionally not added a name to "Kennedy" just to spark curiosity in the reader as to exactly which Kennedy is being referred to. Sly Democrat!
And hey, newbie, I earned my post count the old-fashioned way!
quote:Originally posted by Reep: Since I was buying Adventure off the stands even before there was a Legion feature...
WOW! I wish there was an instant graemlin for staring gape-mouthed in awed reverence.
Speaking from the last generation to regularly buy comics off the newsstands, I bow to your experinece. Oh, to have been a kid when you were and to have seen those newsstands then.
Kids today with only their specialty shops, if there even are any kids still reading comics, just don't know what they are missing.
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The Khund/Gulf War connection with the Red Terror is interesting and not at all far-fetched. I didn't pick up on it at the time but it certainly fits.
I always thought the Khunds - originally - were the Russians/Soviets to the Legion's western look and ways. Except that they seemed to be all male in the military (up until post-boot Amelia the Armorer) and the Soviets always seemed to have more women in all jobs - military, government - than the west. Maybe not in actual fighting.
Another comics classic panel that hasn't shown up in the Legion, as a cultural reference, is "the kid reading a comic book", IIRC. Usually nothing to do with the story - just background. Wonder if they think comics have disappeared in the future?
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One cultural phenomenon that touched the Legion was all the kung-fu fightin' in the seventies, leading to Val somehow taking on the features of Bruce Lee.
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quote:Originally posted by Portfolio Boy: Oh, to have been a kid when you were and to have seen those newsstands then.
There's a downside to that. Face it, you can buy back issues, but you can never buy back years.
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Star Trek was an acknowledged inspiration for some of Dave Cockrum's technology, especially the Legion Cruisers he designed. I also remember an old Adventure era letter column in which Jim Shooter got taken to task for giving Brainiac 5 dialogue that was too reminiscent of Mr. Spock.
There were also a few Adventure era stories that used ideas from other media as inspiration. A couple that come to mind are the issue with Otto Orion, based on "The Most Dangerous Game" and "The Super-Stalag of Space," inspired by "Stalag 17" and to a lesser extent "The Great Escape."
From: Douglasville, GA | Registered: Jul 2003
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Actually the origin of the LSH, where the youth of the future prevent an assasination of an important man, was obviously inspired by the kennedy (and other) assasinations of the 60's. giffen and the beirbaum's even followed it up with a ret-con "second shooter" mention.
-------------------- Gorilla Nebula
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The few stories had environmental slants, though Devil Fish is the only one that comes to mind. Strangely enough,The Devil Fish NEEDED pollution to survive.
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I believe the fireballing issue late in the v.3 run was inspired by terrorist activities of the time.
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