#Fred Carson

[chernobog13]

Wonder Comics #1 (May, 1939), featuring the first - and only - appearance of the original Wonder Man.

In 1939, just a year after his debut, Superman was so popular that he was practically printing money for National/DC Comics. Magazine publisher Victor Fox saw how much money DC was raking in (some sources state Fox had been one of DC's accountants, but comics historian Gerard Jones says that's not true) and decided to get into the comic book business himself. He even opened the office for his new company, Fox Features, in the same building that housed DC.

Fox then contracted Will Eisner and the crew at Iger Studios to create a copy of Superman for Fox's comic books. Eisner created, wrote and drew Wonder Man, which was then published six weeks later in Wonder Comics #1 (a book which also featured some work by a fellow named Bob Kane).

Unlike Superman, "timid radio engineer and inventor" Fred Carson gained his powers from a mysterious yogi (a popular source of super-powers back in the day). The yogi gave Carson a ring that granted him super-strength and invulnerability. Wonder Man could lift tremendous weights, was impervious to bullets and bombs, and could leap several hundred yards in a single bound. Sound like anyone familiar?

DC certainly thought so. They immediately slapped a lawsuit on Fox, claiming that Wonder Man infringed on the Superman copyright. Fox stopped publishing Wonder Man right away, but fought the lawsuit in court.

During the trial, Eisner was called to testify. For years afterward, Eisner claimed that his testimony essentially boiled down to admitting that Wonder Man was created, at Fox's direction, to be a copy of Superman. However, a transcript of Eisner's actual testimony was unearthed in 2010. In that transcript Eisner defends the originality of Wonder Man. In fact, he claimed Wonder Man was his own idea, and had been created years before Superman first saw print in 1938.

(Ironically, Eisner was one of the comic book editors who had rejected Jerry Siegel's and Joe Shuster's Superman strip when they were shopping it around to different companies before finding a home at DC.)

Nevertheless, the court sided with DC. Fox was forced to cease publication of Wonder Man, and the character was not be used in any media at all. It was a first-of-its-kind case for the comic industry, and empowered DC to vigorously pursue action against any other companies that fielded characters that seemed too similar to Superman.

Which eventually lead to the years-long battle between DC and Fawcett over Captain Marvel, but that's a story for another time.

[comiccoverarchive]

Wonder Comics #1 (March 1939)

[the-scooby-gang]

The Barbie Movie Aftermath, 2023, colorized.

The image with no posts under the cut

The moment when you and your friends go with your cousin and her boyfriend to watch a movie and it changes your brain chemistry forever and you debate for 3 days straight.

Barbie Roberts is Shaggy Rogers cousin in my "The Rogers Family!AU"

[boomgers]

Netflix celebra su esperado evento en vivo, “Tudum 2025”

Netflix celebra su esperado evento en vivo, “Tudum 2025” con Sofia Carson, Kyle Allen, Emily Rudd, Taz Skylar, Iñaki Godoy, Arata Mackenyu, Jacob Gibson, Jenna Ortega, Noah Schnapp, Finn Wolfhard, Caleb McLaughlin, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, entre otros.

[downtherabbitholewithlucy]

🦋💋Butterfly kisses for his favorite MTV-VJ💋🦋

[fantastickkay]

From Twist, June 2000

[splooosh]

“Action”

Fred Ray

[oldshowbiz]

[nachoaveragejoe234]

She's everything.

He's just Fred.

this was revealed to me in a dream 🙏

[fifiarx]

Everyone chose their partners

unfortunately, Maddy had to go home

[wheel-of-fish]

TODAY, Nov. 6: ONGOING STREAM MARATHON

I'm queuing up a bunch of bootlegs for anyone to drop in and watch whenever! I will be in and out throughout the day myself but will try to update this post with whatever is playing next. There will be no intermissions, and please keep the chat focused on the videos and Phantom only. Thanks! (You can also hide the chat if you don't want to deal with people today!)

Link: https://cytu.be/r/saturdaystreams

Password: totinos

SHOWING HERE:

Noon EST: Stolleboot (fanmade mashup where Jeremy Stolle plays the Phantom, Raoul, Passarino and Piangi)

2:05 p.m. EST: John Owen-Jones, Rachel Barrell, Oliver Thornton (London 2005)

4:10 p.m. EST: Fred Silveira, Giulia Nadruz, Henrique Moretzsohn (São Paulo 2019)

6:25 p.m. EST: Earl Carpenter, Eve Shanu-Wilson, Connor Carson (London 2023)

8:10 p.m. EST: Ted Keegan, Emilie Kouatchou, John Riddle (Broadway 2023)

10:15 p.m. EST: David Shannon, Gina Beck, Simon Bailey (London 2010)

12 a.m. EST (Nov. 7): Norm Lewis, Sierra Boggess, Jeremy Hays (Broadway 2014)

As always, shy anons are welcome. For more info, please see the Saturday Streams FAQ.

[thatwritererinoriordan]

The update:

[starlene]

Anne of the Island Book Club: Chapter 28

Oh no – I hope it was Charlie Sloane and not Fred via Diana that let everybody know about Anne refusing Gilbert! I'd hate to think Diana betraying Anne's trust like that. And even if she did, Fred at least should have more sense than to pass it along to the whole village – he's supposed to be a model young man, after all!

But oh, Anne, how long is it going to take you to know your own heart! Reading this, you wouldn't know was Misses Patty and Maria who were going to run over Egypt, seeing how deep in the Nile Anne is swimming here...

Just the thought of getting a letter from Gilbert is making Anne's heart beat so much faster than actually getting a bunch of them from Roy, and yet, she's not ready to face the truth. Can you imagine if she never figured this out and actually said yes to Roy, despite everything? What a lifetime of misery that would turn out to be.

~

Translation notes:

Something I keep noticing about the Finnish translation is that, despite being from 1921 when Finland was a very, very Lutheran country, it keeps axing references to prayer meetings.

Almost every time a prayer meeting has been mentioned in the original text so far, it's been turned into something else in the translation. In this chapter, quite inexplicably, Anne saw Miss Carson "in the workroom" (= "työhuoneessa") – am I supposed to think Anne visited the school for some reason, or..?

I wonder if the translator felt personally uncomfortable about the amount of prayer meetings the characters attend, or if she just thought having a little less prayer would be appreciated by Finnish readers in general?

[downtherabbitholewithlucy]

When you've waited all week for Fred Durst Friday and it's finally here

[wannabecatwriter]

A-Z Challenge: List your sims in order, trying to complete the alphabet.

Thanks for the tag, @treason-and-plot and @pink-chevalier

For this, I'm only picking Chronicles of a Pessimist, because the list is big enough as is...I've taken this a step further and tried to list out every sim who appeared in the story so far.

Also, for anyone curious, here's a useful site for listing things in alphabetical order. X

Tagging @dandylion240 @holocene-sims @nocturnalazure and @citylighten for this, but only if you're up to it.

List under read more.

A:

Aaron Covington

Adolfo Dias

Alayna Price (sim made by @amuhav)

Alberto Garcia

Amanda Varner

Anette Dyer

Angela Langford

Anna Luis

Antoine Varner

Ariana Dyer

Ashton Byrd

Autumn Dyer

B:

Bernadette Byrd

C:

Calvin Linton

Candace Byrd (sim made by @amuhav)

Caroline Adams

Carson Wong

Chandra Smith

Cherie Pie

Consuelo Byers

D:

Demarcus Wells

Dinah Zeeman

Donna Morelli

Donovan Adams

Douglas Byrd

E:

Eddie Gritton

Edith Vane

F:

Fred Carlson

G:

Gracie Loveland (Appaloosa premade)

H:

Harvey Gritton

Hubert Dyer

Humberto Costa

Hunter Bayer

I:

Isobel Devane (sim made by @amuhav)

J:

Jasper Dyer

Jerome Terry

Jerrica Lancer (Delia Bates)

Johnny Johnson (AP premade)

Josie Henning

K:

Kade Myers

Kareem Pace

Kelly Lockett

Kevin Luis

Kimberly Price

L:

Luis Dupre

M:

Maria Villegas

Marissa Gold

Marty Henning

Mike Driver

Michael Ross

Mitchell Valentine

N:

Noelle Dyer

O:

P:

Peijing On

Q:

R:

Rachel Everett

Regan Zeeman

Rodrigo Salazar

S:

Samir Zeeman

Shanna Das

T:

Tammie Morelli

Tony Wells

Toya Bayer

U:

V:

Wendy Wong

William Dodd

Wyatt Parker

X:

Y:

Z: