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[scottobear]

Hmm... first meeting of the Flash and the Elongated Man.... no fight, no super villain, not even a bank robbery... both rushing to save a Newtie-colored kitten, after a charity benefit performance. Must've been a slow day in Central City.

Ol' EM's outfit is really bagging out there, too... not up to his stretches all over the place, I suppose... that, and Flash's head has a real bulbous quality to it, there, too.


One of the top five benefits of having stretch-powers.

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[rejectomorph]

Is Elongated Man a retread of the 1950's superhero, Plastic Man? I was never a follower of superhero comics, (my comic book hero, alas, was Scrooge McDuck), but I remember once reading a Plastic Man comic while waitng in the barbershop, when I was about seven or eight years old. I found the concept of a guy being able to stretch and bend himself into all sorts of iodd positions fascinating, but not fascinating enough to spend any hard-begged dimes on my own copies- which, of course, would now probably be worth a fortune! Curse you, Scrooge McDuck, for misleading me!

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Actually, Elongated man was a 60's rip off of Plastic Man and Mr. Fantastic. DC comics produced him before they bought out Fawcett, the guys that owned Plas... and the Fantastic Four had just introduced A rubber guy of thier own.

Ducksburg's Beagle boys hold a place in my heart, too... and most of those comics are worth more, because fewer people kept 'em! if your Ducky-funnybooks are still around somewhere, they're worth big money! (and worth reading again. :) )

[rejectomorph]

Unfortunately, my comic collection fell by the same hand that destroyed so many others, the American Mom.

"You're too old for those foolish things, and they aren't good for you anyway, so I got rid of them."

Of course, the American Mom is the reason the few surviving books are so valuable. If Moms across the country hadn't thrown them out, (by the billions, most likely,) they'd still be as common as old National Geographics.

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

ah, there's the rub, indeed!

I moved out of the house at 17, and sold my comics for food and rent shortly thereafter. :)