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From “Trapped by Loki, the God of Mischief!” in Journey into Mystery #85, October 1962. Stan Lee plot, Larry Lieber script, Jack Kirby pencils, Dick Ayers inks, Stan Goldberg (?) colors, Jon D'Agostino letters.

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Action Comics #71, April 1944. Jack Burnley cover pencils, Stan Kaye inks.

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Elden Ring

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Wonder Woman character design sketch, c. 1941. Art by Harry Peter, notes by Harry Peter and William Marston.

"...acquired originally from the estate of H.G. Peter himself, Wonder Woman's original artist."

The hand-written notes, per ComicLink source:

Peter to Marston:

"Dear Dr. Marston, I slapped these two out in a hurry. The eagle is tough to handle - when in perspective or in profile, he doesn't show up clearly -- the shoes look like a stenographer's. I think the idea might be incorporated as a sort of Roman contraption. Peter"

Marston to Peter:

"Dear Pete - I think the gal with hand up is very cute. I like her skirt, legs, hair. Bracelets okay + boots. These probably will work out. See other suggestions enclosed. No on these + stripes - red + white. With eagle's wings above or below breasts as per enclosed? Leave it to you. Don't we have to put a red stripe around her waist as belt? I thought Gaines wanted it - don't remember. Circlet will have to go higher - more like crown - see suggestions enclosed. See you Wednesday morning - WMM"

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From “Trapped by Loki, the God of Mischief!” in Journey into Mystery #85, October 1962. Stan Lee plot, Larry Lieber script, Jack Kirby pencils, Dick Ayers inks, Stan Goldberg (?) colors, Jon D'Agostino letters.

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Sensation Comics #26, February 1944. Harry Peter cover pencils & inks.

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From “Trapped by Loki, the God of Mischief!” in Journey into Mystery #85, October 1962. Stan Lee plot, Larry Lieber script, Jack Kirby pencils, Dick Ayers inks, Stan Goldberg (?) colors, Jon D'Agostino letters.

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From Chris Claremont Anniversary Special #1, March 2021. Chris Claremont script, Bill Sienkiewicz pencils & inks, Chris Sotomayor colors.

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From Chris Claremont Anniversary Special #1, March 2021. Chris Claremont script, Bill Sienkiewicz pencils & inks, Chris Sotomayor colors.

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From "War Children" in New Mutants: War Children #1, November 2019. Chris Claremont script, Bill Sienkiewicz pencils & inks, Chris Sotomayor colors, Clayton Cowles letters.

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Flash Comics #50, February 1944. E. E. Hibbard cover pencils & inks.

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Elden Ring

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DC's Comicmobile

In the summer of 1973, before most comic shops existed, DC's Sol Harrison rented a van, painted "HERE COMES THE COMICSMAN" and slapped DC stickers on the side, and sent staffers Michael Uslan and Bob Rozakis (that's Bob as T-shirted Superman in the top photo, arm-wrestling his future wife Laurie Rozakis' Wonder Woman; photo by Laurie's dad W. J. Neu) to drive it around NJ and Long Island, respectively, ringing a bell out the window to attract kids to whom they sold comics out of the van. Sales were poor and the van was exiled to Arizona for further "testing," eventually getting demolished in a collision with a semi.

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Incursion (PC)

A classic roguelike with fairly elaborate ASCII dungeons, an apparently very elaborate skill system, and a sort of hardcore emphasis on slow/elaborate character recuperation/healing, character alignment (and consequences?), and item descriptions.

There’s a lot to take in and the fonts aren’t the easiest things to read; there’s a lot of stuff in dark blue, which is hard to see.

Compared to Angband, for instance, it feels like the design intent was to make everything complicated to make the game feel more “robust.” ; ) It might be really good, but it feels like it’ll take a lot of effort to find that out. Just comparing items, like a newly found set of armor, feels arduous–or heck even collecting items, like I had a room on the first level with just piles of repetitive items to sort through. And another room filled with traps I couldn’t figure out how to try to disarm–I may not have had any disarm skill? Was there one I could have picked in the elaborate character generation process for my Human Warrior? Jump skill gave me a -5% chance to jump over the trap, so I had to (I guess?) just walk into the trap to get into the room; it destroyed one of the unidentified (this might happen over time? there’s no town to which to retreat and identify things–apparently the original game plan was to have an overworld with towns and multiple dungeons and stuff but this was abandoned) potions I found in the first room. One trap I didn’t detect blinded me, and I was soon killed by something I couldn’t see as I blundered around.

I had the No Death option (there are a lot of options…) selected, so I respawned immediately in another room on the level. That was okay. Then I got into a new room where I was instantly pinned by a uh snake or something and killed by a little cluster of enemies that surrounded me. Hm. Respawned again into a room with those frighteningly thick piles of objects and just didn’t want to go through trying to sort through them.

Makes Angband feel super-streamlined! One to try if I ever get tired of Angband, maybe. Although I’m not sure I’ll ever get over my current dislike for elaborate skill and recovery systems so maybe not.

Alt-Enter toggles fullscreen. Always seems to start windowed. ‘p’ Can be set to 1080p, but doesn’t task-switch very gracefully.

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From “Trapped by Loki, the God of Mischief!” in Journey into Mystery #85, October 1962. Stan Lee plot, Larry Lieber script, Jack Kirby pencils, Dick Ayers inks, Stan Goldberg (?) colors, Jon D'Agostino letters.

Info from Grand Comics Database

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From “Trapped by Loki, the God of Mischief!” in Journey into Mystery #85, October 1962. Stan Lee plot, Larry Lieber script, Jack Kirby pencils, Dick Ayers inks, Stan Goldberg (?) colors, Jon D'Agostino letters.

Info from Grand Comics Database