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MONSTERS UNLEASHED #5 (Superlog Variant) In Shops: Mar 15, 2017 Fin Fang Foom

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The Secret of the Urn (1966)

Three years after he last appeared on the big screen, the one-eyed, one-armed Tange Sazen returns in yet another retelling of The Million Ryo Pot (1935).

This time Sazen is portrayed by actor Kinnosuke Nakamura.  Nakamura-san is perhaps most famous in Japan for his portrayal of real-life samurai legend Miyamoto Musashi in a series of 5 films.  Those films are more popular in Japan  than the better known in the West Samurai Trilogy, starring Toshiro Mifune as Musashi.

Nakamura-san plays a Sazen far different than any version seen before or since.  Gone is the family friendly, smart-alecky curmudgeon that audiences had enjoyed through various incarnations since 1935.  Instead, this Sazen is manic, harsh, and extremely dark.

This film did to Tange Sazen what Man of Steel (2013) did to Superman: sucked all the fun out, and made him dark, edgy, and depressing.

Japanese audiences weren’t having it, and proposed sequels were abandoned.  In fact, for the first time in decades, it would be several years before Tange Sazen returned to the big screen.

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Captain Future Vol. 1 #3 (Summer, 1940).  Cover art by Earle K. Bergey.

Science fiction and comic book author (and husband of The Empire Strikes Back co-writer Leigh Blackett) Edmond Hamilton wrote the bulk of Captain Future’s stories.  However, he did not create the character as many sources would have you believe.

The good Captain was actually created by Leo Margulies and future Superman editor Mort Weisinger.  Both editors at Better Publications, which began publishing Captain Future in 1940 after first announcing the hero at the very first World Science Fiction Convention in 1939.

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Orion bashes Slig of the Deep Six, by Steve Rude.

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—You’re treated like other humans, so stop with the angst. —But that’s just it, that’s the only thing that makes me feel human. The way I’m treated.

Ghost in the Shell (1995) dir. Mamoru Oshii

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by Takeyoshi Tanuma / 田沼武能 From the book: Picturing My Tokyo / 東京わが残像 1948-1964 Dancers resting on the rooftop of the SKD Theatre, Asakusa, Tokyo / SKDの踊り子 東京 浅草 国際劇場屋上 (1949）