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TIL that in the early 1980’s, a newspaper accidentally switched the captions for Dennis the Menace and The Far Side comics twice. While some people found it humorous, other people found the captioning to be deeply disturbing and the newspaper apologized for the errors.

by whatilearned April 8, 2023, 4:54 pm

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TIL Early Superman comics taught kids how to achieve super-strength through exercises in lifting armchairs, getting a super-grip, and achieving super-vision by glancing at distant and near objects repeatedly

by whatilearned March 26, 2023, 6:03 am

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TIL that Stan Lee, inventor of Marvel Comics, and Theodore Geisel, aka Dr.Seuss, served together in the Army Training Film Division during WW2.

by whatilearned March 9, 2023, 10:37 pm

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TIL Captain America co-creator Jack Kirby was drafted into the U.S. Army during WWII, landing at Omaha Beach in Normandy. When a lieutenant found out he was a comics artist, he made Kirby a scout who would advance into towns and draw reconnaissance maps and pictures, an extremely dangerous duty.

by whatilearned February 28, 2023, 9:16 pm

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TIL that Marvel Comics founder Martin Goodman and his wife had tickets on the Hindenburg when returning from their honeymoon in Europe in 1937, but were unable to secure seats together, so they took alternative transportation instead, avoiding the Hindenburg disaster

by whatilearned February 6, 2023, 10:40 pm

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TIL that Pete the friend/foil/antagonist in Mickey Mouse cartoons, comics, and other media is the oldest continuous Disney character

by whatilearned December 21, 2022, 5:34 am

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Comics suck these days.

by CopyPastaArchive December 20, 2022, 10:05 pm

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TIL Indiana Jones was inspired by Scrooge McDuck, not the other way around. George Lucas was a big fan of the comics growing up. The famous boulder sequence in Raiders of the Lost Ark was directly lifted from a 1954 issue of the McDuck comic.

by whatilearned December 6, 2022, 9:24 am

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TIL In 1996 to 97 DC and Marvel had a comics run where their universe’s merged. The comics were published under Amalgam Comics and featured complete backstories, including retcons, for characters like Dark Claw (merged Batman and Wolverine) and Super-Soldier (merged Superman and Captain America).

by whatilearned November 6, 2022, 1:37 pm

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TIL that Swiss Balloonist, Auguste Piccard, was the inspiration for both Professor Calculus, in the Tintin comics, and that Gene Roddenberry named Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek after him.

by whatilearned October 16, 2022, 9:49 pm

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TIL that Bill Griffith’s comics character, Zippy the Pinhead, was partially inspired by William Henry Johnson. Johnson was born with an unusual tapering cranium, which led some people to believe he was a microcephalic. When Johnson worked for P.T. Barnum, he performed as Zip the Pinhead.

by whatilearned October 8, 2022, 9:05 pm

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Today I learned that Marvel Comic’s character, the Punisher, shared a comic with Archie and the gang…!

by whatilearned October 2, 2022, 2:45 pm

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