Amazing Spider-Man #149 (Conway/Andru, Oct 1975). The first Clone Saga ends as it must — Peter confronts himself! Surprisingly Gwen’s clone wanders off to live a new life. And Peter’s clone is buried under the rubble of the Jackal’s explosion at Shea Stadium, so he’ll obviously never be seen again.
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Vampirella and Red Sonja Meet Betty and Veronica
Art by Warren Louw
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I haven’t driven since the Warren years, but it’s like, as they say, riding a bike…
(Red Sonja and Vampirella Meet Betty and Veronica #4)
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"Banned in Boston"
I notice Betty's line of vision shifts between the two variants. It turns it into sequential art -- she is now taking it in, gazing up and down with that... very happy smile... on her face.
"Banned in Boston" is a term that fell by the wayside as the Warren court sided on behalf of a bunch of literary and artistic efforts against charges of obscenity -- leaving aside the founding Boston Puritan and the powerful stranglehold of Anthony Comstock. No longer were there abrupt shutdowns on movies and plays, an authority coming down the aisle shouting "I've seen enough!". There was in the field of comics a famous example of an EC parody for 'Night Before Christmas' and an issue of Panic, seemingly making a goof on suicide, that got that one "banned in Boston". But that's edgy humor you would never see in Archie Comics of old.
Incidentally -- Betty does come back to that seat positioning a time or two sitting, watching as Veronica models this or that attire. Interesting arrangement.
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Hill Street Blues cast photo for the seventh and final season that aired in 1987.
Back Row - Robert Clohessy (Patrick Flaherty), Robert Prosky (Stan Joblanski), Megan Gallagher (Tina Russo).
Middle Row - Betty Thomas (Lucy Bates), James B. Sikking (Howard Hunter), Dennis Franz (Norman Buntz), Kiel Martin (J.D. LaRue), Joe Spano (Henry Goldblume).
Front Row - Taurean Blacque (Neal Washington), Daniel J. Travanti (Frank Furillo) and Michael Warren (Bobby Hill).
There's a few long running cast members, who were still around for this season but missing from this pic - Veronica Hamel (Joyce Davenport), Bruce Weitz (Mick Belker) and Charles Haid (Andy Renko).
I found the last two seasons a disappointment compared to earlier ones but they were saved by the introduction of Lt. Buntz. Buntz was a (slightly) toned down version of a corrupt cop played in a couple of earlier episodes by the same actor. Buntz also had a shocking dress sense with huge kipper ties that never matched his suits (which looked as if they might have been fashionable a decade earlier).
Of the actors pictured above Kiel Martin died in 1990 and Robert Prosky in 2008.
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Warren Berlinger
Physique: Chubby Build
Height: 5′6″ (1.68 m)
Warren Berlinger (August 31, 1937 – December 2, 2020) was an American character actor, with Broadway runs, movie and television credits, and much work in commercials. He was known for Blue Denim, The Long Goodbye, The World According to Garp and That Thing You Do!. He also appeared in shows like Charlie’s Angels, Happy Days, Operation Petticoat, Murder, She Wrote and Grace and Frankie, his final TV work. Berlinger died from cancer on December 2, 2020, at the age of 83.
Berlinger went from playing juveniles on Broadway to naive, innocent teens in films and on TV, to somewhat rotund, average joes on the small screen, sustaining a career for more than 50 years. While channel surfing, I stumble upon an episode of Friends and thought I saw Charles Durning in it. Turns out, it was Berlinger. They had pretty much the same features, height and even sound alike with their NY accents. From then on Berlinger became my bootleg Durning.
He was married to Betty Lou Keim from 1960 until her death in January 2010, and they had four children. other online sources will tell you he was the nephew of Milton Berle, whose real last name was, yes, Berlinger. The truth, if you asked Warren, was that he was much more distantly related to Berle. He would sometimes however suggest jokingly that the legendary Berle phallus ran in the family.
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