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Title: Them and "now" Post by: carmelo on June 22, 2007, 10:30:06 PM 1949-1973.The same cover,the same old Captain,different kids. (http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/8334/1894112sp0.th.jpg) (http://img102.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1894112sp0.jpg) (http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/3069/2106402zm6.th.jpg) (http://img102.imageshack.us/my.php?image=2106402zm6.jpg)
Title: Re: Them and "now" Post by: Johnny Nevada on June 22, 2007, 11:30:00 PM Maybe the new kids are the offspring of the original kids? :-)
Title: Re: Them and "now" Post by: davidelliott on June 23, 2007, 02:05:59 AM That's cool!
Title: Re: Them and "now" Post by: Permanus on June 23, 2007, 03:47:51 AM Maybe the new kids are the offspring of the original kids? :-) Or clones, like the Newsboy Legion! Title: Re: Them and "now" Post by: Spaceman Spiff on June 23, 2007, 09:38:21 AM I'd never seen the first cover. I imagine using a photo on a comic cover was a radical idea for 1949.
Maybe the new kids are the offspring of the original kids? :-) The 2nd cover is from Shazam! #2. The lettercol in Shazam! #5 reveals:Quote from: (reader) Jim Balko Loved that original cover. Who were the kids on the cover--relatives or children of someone at DC? Quote from: (editor) E. Nelson Bridwell The cover kids photoed by our own Jack Adler were his grandson and two neighbor children. |