Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 Fluke 8/7/84; site fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!tektronix!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!fluke!moriarty From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Re: Superhero Death Message-ID: <1415@vax2.fluke.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Oct-84 11:18:21 EDT Article-I.D.: vax2.1415 Posted: Tue Oct 2 11:18:21 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 8-Oct-84 03:42:48 EDT References: <241@sdchema.UUCP> Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Everett, WA Lines: 31 >My question is > Why, if none of these crooks have any compunctions > about killing super heroes, do they *ALL* have to > come up with clever ways of doing it. Don't you think > that in the 40 some odd years of comic books, *SOME* > crook would have just taken a shotgun or a .45 to > *SOME* hero somewhere along the line. > >Chew on that for a while > >I am >GINO What about artistic integrity and originality?! What about tradition? (villains have been doing for near fifty years (longer if you count all of Doc Savage's foes in the pulps)) Actually, it's probably specified in their contracts or in their Union rules ("Sorry, Penguin, but you've got to put him in a cage and drop him in acid. No using Saturday Night Specials." "WAAAAKK! You know the price of giant bird cages since Bill Finger died?"). "The maniac will please refrain from waxing nostalgic." Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc. UUCP: {cornell,decvax,ihnp4,sdcsvax,tektronix,utcsrgv}!uw-beaver \ {allegra,gatech!sb1,hplabs!lbl-csam,decwrl!sun,ssc-vax} -- !fluke!moriarty ARPA: fluke!moriarty@uw-beaver.ARPA