#gerry hall

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Gerry Hall by Bill King – The Picture Newspaper via IDEA

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Doctor Fate will not live through the night!

(All-Star Comics #62)

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The absence of the superego psychological structure in JSA bronze age comics, an observation

One thing that makes reading the JSA revival run from 1976 such an interesting experience is just how much of their inner thoughts they are willing to share with each other. The members of this team will express the most intense feelings of despair, anger and every other emotion without thinking twice, it makes for a very intense reading experience. These people are on the edge and they will let you know about their intrusive thoughts, deep feelings and desires, the drama is always through the roof, and I didn't even include Power Girl's exchanges with Superman and Wildcat (I'm saving these for another post)

In Freudian psychology we have:

(...) the id is the impulsive part of your personality that is driven by pleasure and repulsed by pain, the superego is the judgmental and morally correct part of your personality, and the ego is the conscious part of your personality that mediates between the id and the superego and makes decisions.

And I can only think of the challenge the JSA team of this time would present for these definitions, because they seem unburdened by the superego aspect of their mind, just saying what their id demands, particularly when it comes to sharing their feelings. And that is not to say these characters don't have interesting inner lives, it's just that they're very transparent about their feelings and it's absolutely appealing to witness such a dynamic

This particular style of writing reminds me of what Chris Claremont was also doing with the Uncanny X-Men at Marvel (All-Star Comics revival and Claremont's X-Men were published only 6 months apart), which might just be an example of how the writing trends of superhero comic books were changing with the times. The difference is: the X-men heroes were younger and less experienced while the JSA characters are jaded, they share a common history of decades with each other and their foes, this leaves a lot of room for drama and conflict (not to put these books against each other they're just different and I love both). Honestly I'm a melodrama fan, I have an appreciation for this soap opera style of comic book narrative and I'm glad there's so much good material to get into. There's a reason why the JSA characters are still popular to this day

From All-Star Comics (1976 revival), collected in Only legends live forever TPB (2019). Written by: Gerry Conway & Paul Levitz. Art by Keith Giffen & Wally Wood

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Tracklist:

Champagne Charlie • When I Take My Morning Promenade • The Honeysuckle and the Bee • The Galloping Major • I Want to Sing in Opera • Two Little Girls in Blue • Charming Weather • Oh! Oh! Antonio • The Man who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo • Let the Rest of the World Go By • The Boy I Love is up in the Gallery • Roses of Picardy • Why am I always a Bridesmaid? • If you Were the Only Girl in the World

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Art Farmer: The Melodic Maestro of Jazz Trumpet

Introduction: Art Farmer, born ninety-six years ago today on August 21, 1928, in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, was one of the most versatile and innovative jazz trumpeters of the 20th century. Known for his warm, lyrical style, Farmer carved out a unique niche in the jazz world, not only as a trumpet player but also as a flugelhornist and, later in his career, as a…

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All Lesbian Coded Characters born in England between 1830 and 1899 know is horses, dogs, chivalry, obsession with maid/nurse, swordfight, duel sexists, hunting, wear trousers, smoke cigars and lie.

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What's to tell? It's a living... but believe me, the people you meet are strange...

Justice League of America (1960) #171

(Gerry Conway, Dick Dillin)

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Huey "Piano" Smith with His Clowns - Don't You Know Yockomo (1958) Huey "Piano" Smith from: "Don't You Know Yockomo" / "Well I'll Be John Brown" (Single) "Don't You Just Know It: The Very Best of 1956-1962 , Singles A's & B's" (2016 CD Compilation | Jasmine Records)

New Orleans R&B | R&B | Rock and Roll

JukeHostUK (left click = play) (320kbps)

Personnel: Gerri Hall: Vocals Huey "Piano" Smith: Piano Robert Parker: Tenor Saxophone Alvin "Red "Tyler: Baritone Saxophone Frank Smith: Bass Charles "Hungry" Williams: Drums

Produced by Huey "Piano" Smith

Recorded @ Cosimo Recording Studio in New Orleans, Louisiana USA 1957

Single Released: November, 1958

Ace Records

Jasmine Records (CD Compilation)

+++ Huey "Piano" Smith 1934 - 2023 +++

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1959 - JATP - Salle Pleyel (Paris) : The Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Art Farmer, the Jimmy Giuffre Three and the Gene Krupa Quartet

Gerry Mulligan (bs), Art Farmer (tp), Bill Crow(b), Dave Bailey (dr)

Jimmy Giuffre (ts, cl), Jim Hall (g), Buddy Clark (b)

Gene Krupa (dr), Eddie Wasserman (ts), Ronnie Ball (p), Jimmy Gannon (b)

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✨ The Hot Blonde Collection ✨

since it’s neil peart day, i can’t help but think about his little friend, that fine ass blonde named Aleksandar Živojinović aka Alex Lifeson. i think we’ve all established that i have a bit of a hankerin for certain blondes. so in honor of neil and alex, i thought i’d share some of my personal favourite golden-haired critters.

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Emmet Cohen “Uptown in Orbit”

Emmet Cohen “Uptown in Orbit”

Mack Avenue Records, 2022 W okresie pandemii mieszkanie Emmeta Cohena stało się miejscem, w którym próbowano podtrzymać istnienie jazzu. Cotygodniowe koncerty transmitowane w mediach społecznościowych nie były wówczas niczym nadzwyczajnym, jednak regularne występy  pianisty i jego tria stały się zaczątkiem jeden z najciekawszych inicjatyw tego okresu. Realizowane początkowo za pomocą telefonu…

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the loneliest job in the world // tony hoagland

ben jackson / minas panagiotakis / len redkoles / mitchell leff / joel auerbach / jonathan daniel / eliot j. schechter / steve babineau / scott taetsch / bruce bennett / jared c. tilton / minas panagiotakis / gerry thomas / mark blinch / ben jackson / bruce bennett / jeff vinnick / andy marlin / norm hall / gerry thomas / bruce bennett

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Now…I need the Justice Society!

(All-Star Comics #62)

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Archaeology vs. Paleontology, how it feels to be elegantly told by Hawkman that you're dumb

From All-Star Comics #61 & 62 (1976) by Gerry Conway, Keith Giffen & Wally Wood

I'm currently reading a JSA comic in which an astronaut flies to the surface of the sun and, instead of dying, becomes a powerful being capable of manipulating high levels of energy. I'm having fun, so I don't care about the science of it. However few pages later I get the panel above... Mixing up archaeology and paleontology? Now this is too much, that's where I draw the line! (Although I was too quick to judge, and Hawkman had my back all along).

I have no idea what is the scientific field of Dr. Kliburn's studies, but when he says: "Mucking about the ruins of Egypt, exploring ancient Inca pyramids, digging up dinosaur bones in Arizona -- all of that makes sense for an archaeologist" to Carter Hall a.k.a. Hawkman, an archaeologist, he badly mixes things up making dinosaur bones part of an archaeologist job. So ok, studying the remains of life is the business of many branches of science, and both archaeology and paleontology study the remains of organisms, but there's a difference in the type of remains they study.

Archaeology is the scientific study of ancient and recent human remains and artifacts (bones and teeth, ancient cool pottery, statues, funeral urns, tools, vases). Think: Lara Croft; Indiana Jones (I'm not saying he's good at his job though!).

Paleontology is the scientific study of all past life on Earth (dinosaurs, extinct fungi, plants, saber-tooth tigers etc), primarily through the study of fossils - so way beyond the remains of humans and their artifacts. Think: all the smart people in Jurassic Park; Ross, from Friends? (Oh boy we need better representation).

A little about objects of study: fossils studied by paleontologists and archeologists include bones, shells, body imprints, wood etc; so these fields of study might overlap (i.e. similar tools and excavation techniques), though their goals are different. Fossils can be remains of anything, there are different kinds of it. Trace fossils for example are like footprints, nests, or handprints left behind by creatures.

Above are the pictures of two cases of trace fossils, but while the study of the human footprints fossils on the left is a job for an archaeologist, the study of the non-human footprints, on the right, is a job for an paleontologist.

Now, what about poop? You might be asking yourself... and yes fossilized poop is also a fascinating object of study, they are scientifically called coprolites and by analyzing the fossilized poop of the Neolithic workers who built the the Stonehenge monument archaeologists found them littered with parasitic worm eggs. I mean... disgusting, but how cool is that we are able to learn that? They made these amazing structures which some people atribute to aliens and super advanced technology, but they had no idea they were eating infected meat, and that's such a human thing to do!

On the other hand when paleontologists study and collect animal fossil coprolites they find out more about that animal's way of life, their ecology, their environment, which is super important considering we can only study their remains. One of such early paleontologists, and true icon in the field of collecting ancient dinosaur feces and bones, was Mary Anning, a pioneer of paleontology in the early 1800s (she's cool as heck)!

Now that we establish that: I'm sorry Dr. Kliburn, but that is obviously a human remain, therefore a job for Hall Carter, an archaeologist! He also mentions a fly trapped in amber (and I know it is a sort of metaphor, but), that would be a job for an paleontologist... Kliburn is a really confused man. And Hawkman is just too polite to bluntly correct his colleague, instead he chooses a more subtle approach:

By emphasizing that the "proper study of mankind is man" Carter very elegantly corrects Dr. Kliburn's wrong assertions, indirectly pointing that his field is the study of mankind and their artifacts, not other aspects of nature, he won't be looking into flies preserved in amber or excavating dinosaur bones in Arizona (although... to Kliburn's merit, Arizona is indeed a state with a rich fossil record with many different dinosaurs and other animal bones and trees preserved). A very polite way call someone a fool.

I'm guessing that the writer, Gerry Conway, was probably aware of the difference between the two occupations and interested in making a tongue in cheek comment on it. Not that comics need to be scientifically correct, far from it, I love it when they're not. But I also love it when we can use them to learn something.

Further indication of that point is that if we take a look at Hall Carter's home in the above panel, we don't see any signs of animal remains, we do see what look like human artifacts, tools, weapons and masks. It is clear Keith Giffen and Wally Wood, the artists of the issue, are aware of an archaeologist's objects of study. And if you're asking yourself who the uninvited guest is: yes it is Dr. Kliburn himself attempting to rob Hawkman's house...

Dr. Kliburn dies that same issue by the very human fossil he was trying to steal. So that's what you get for mixing up two serious and interesting scientific fields... Thank you for reading this!

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Can you draw a pice with Gerry and Michael in the distortion’s halls

Please I’m such a fan

Why have your own liminal space if you can't even use it to kiss your boyfriend who thought you were dead for years?

(THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE ASK!!! Sorry it took me so long to post it :') but here it is!! Hope you like it <33)