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In Memoriam for Norm Breyfogle, one of Batman’s most iconic artists and co-creator of Anarky, Ventriloquist, & Zsasz among many others
Something cool to notice about this Bama cover: the gun he has is not a ray gun or phaser or anything similar, but a flare gun. This story was partially set at sea and Doc used a flare to signal. It led to a widespread misconception Doc used high tech energy weapons, when in reality, Doc Savage hated using any kind of gun, and his stories were not that high tech.
This is what 1930s-40s flare guns looked like. Easy to see how they could be mistaken for Flash Gordon rayguns:
“The fate of the fool will befall me also; to what advantage, then, have I become wise? But I come to the conclusion that this, too, was futility, because the wise man and the fool are both forgotten. The wise man dies, just like the fool.”
— Book of Ecclesiastes (2:15–16)
theblackestofsuns
“Whatever Happens Happens”
The Girl From H.O.P.P.E.R.S. (2007)
Jaime Hernandez
Fantagraphics Books
