MONSTER MASHUPS #161

 Three inventive aliens from WORLD'S FINEST #96.

THE SOLAR SPONGE.

THE STORM TOP.

And THE CRAWLER.

Also, from HOUSE OF MYSTERY 146, J'onn J'onzz gets two demons for the price of one in AROO and THE CHULKO.

RAR #104: JAY TALL BEAR

 The sixties war-comic CAPTAIN SAVAGE included one Real American marine, name of Jay Little Bear.

CROSSOVER MADNESS

 The Marvel title CAPTAIN SAVAGE took "The Skipper," a minor support-character from SGT FURY #10, and gave him his own title for 19 issues. The first issue shoehorns Fury and his Howlers into the tale to coax Fury-fans to sample SAVAGE.

 The next three issues also pitted Savage against Fury's recurring foe Baron Strucker, who discourses on his success in creating the terrorist cabal Hydra.

MONSTER MASHUPS #160

 Oh, those 1950s twist-ending tales. In "Deadline" (JOURNEY INTO UNKNOWN WORLDS #16 (1953), horror-writer Herbert Carvel tries three times to get his editor to buy a story involving a conflict between vampires and ghosts. The editor doesn't like pitting two types of monsters in the same story, but he must be desperate for stories because he accepts an invitation to Herbert's house for dinner, only to learn that (1) Herbert is a ghost, (2) wife Lydia is a vampire, and (3) the editor is the dinner! What a twist!

       

CROSSOVER MADNESS

 

I never think of Ed Wood as a crossover-guy, but technically he is, in that he uses one support-character, "Kelton the Cop," in three of his 1950s wonders: BRIDE OF THE MONSTER, PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, and NIGHT OF THE GHOULS. BRIDE and GHOULS seem more like a standard XO, thanks to the more substantial presence of Tor Johnson's Lobo.

  

MINING POLITICAL MINEFIELDS

 Another blog-comment.

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I think the Liberal attitude toward Islam goes further than just deflection to the evils of Christianity.

Consider: the negative reaction toward colonialism in the West, while not confined to Liberals and/or Marxists, resulted in the idea that relatively helpless tribs, such as the Pacific Islanders, should have been protected from cultural pollution. A real-world, after the fact application of something like STAR TREK's Prime Directive.

Too often, though, Liberals act as if Islamic nations, often empowered by the technology of refining petroleum resources, deserve "protection" from the evils of Judeo-Christianity. Of course the Islamic nations practiced colonialism on a grand scale, as well as organizing the first trans-national slave trade. 

The valid question Daisy raised, as *I* would word it, is, "Is Islam more extreme than other major religions in terms of destructive rhetoric, and does thar rhetoric have real-world consequences?"  Someone mentioned the Catholic Church shielding pederasts. But does any of that result from Christian rhetoric? And aren't those crimes being kept secret precisely because many Christians would condemn such practices? In comparison, does anything in Shariya Law DIRECTLY condemn  suicide bombers?          

CROSSOVER MADNESS

 Herman Melville turned over you know where when he learned that ORIGINAL GHOSTBUSTERS had the ghosts of Moby Dick and Captain Ahab be best of friends in the afterlife. Note the Samta makeover.