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kemetic-dreams · 3 years

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Never been a beef between Africans and African American it was a plan to divide us.

I have notice, whenever you speak or act proudly about being African. Everyone who is non African becomes an expert. Your not a real African, “they don’t like African Americans or African American hate you etc.

You never been to Africa, you don’t look like them!!!!

They feel comfortable when your Christian, because they feel they can control you and tame you, and in the end fight for their cause.

They feel comfortable when you wear their names and feel proud to wear their names. Makes them feel like their ancestors may have been rough with us, but did a good job that was needed.

Notice their are no African languages in most public schools

Notice how African religions are demonized!!!

This Document is Exhibit 10 of U.S. Supreme Court Case No.00-9587

NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL MEMORANDUM-46 MARCH 17, 1978

Presidential Review Memorandum NSCM/46 TO: The Secretary of State The Secretary of Defense The Director of Central Intelligence SUBJECT: Black Africa and the U.S. Black Movement

The President has directed that a comprehensive review be made of current developments in Black Africa from the point of view of their possible impacts on the black movement in the United States. The review should consider:

1. Long-term tendencies of social and political developments and the degree to which they are consistent with or contradict the U.S. interests. 2. Proposals for durable contacts between radical African leaders and leftist leaders of the U.S. black community. 3. Appropriate steps to be taken inside and outside the country in order to inhibit any pressure by radical African leaders and organizations on the U.S. black community for the latter to exert influence on the policy of the Administration toward Africa.

The President has directed that the NSC Interdepartmental Group for Africa perform this review. The review should be forwarded to the NSC Political Analysis Committee by April 20.

(signed)

Zbigniew Brezinski cc: The Secretary of the Treasury The Secretary of Commerce The Attorney General The Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

Objective of our policy toward Black Africa is to prevent social upheavals which could radically change the political situation throughout the area. The success or failure of our policy in the region depends on the solution international and internal issues whose importance of the United States is on the increase.

II. A. U.S. INTERESTS IN BLACK AFRICA

A multiplicity of interests influences the U.S. attitude toward black Africa. The most important of these interests can be summarized as follows:

1. POLITICAL

If black African states assume attitudes hostile to the U.S. national interest, our policy toward the white regimes; which is a key element in our relations with the black states, may be subjected by the latter to great pressure for fundamental change. Thus the West may face a real danger of being deprived of access to the enormous raw material resources of southern Africa which are vital for our defense needs as well as losing control over the Cape sea routes by which approximately 65% of Middle Eastern oil is supplied to Western Europe. Moreover, such a development may bring about internal political difficulties by intensifying the activity of the black movement in the United States itself. It should also be borne in mind that black Africa is an integral part of a continent where tribal and regional discord, economic backwardness, inadequate infrastructures, drought, and famine, are constant features of the scene. In conjunction with the artificial borders imposed by the former colonial powers, guerilla warfare in Rhodesia and widespread indignation against apartheid in South Africa, the above factors provide the communist states with ample opportunities for furthering their aims. This must necessarily redound to the detriment of U.S. political interests.

2. ECONOMIC

Black Africa is increasingly becoming an outlet for U.S. exports and investment. The mineral resources of the area continue to be of great value for the normal functioning of industry in the United States and allied countries. In 1977, U.S. direct investment in black Africa totaled about $1.8 billion and exports $2.2 billion. New prospect of substantial profits would continue to develop in the countries concerned.

IV. BLACK AFRICA AND THE U.S. BLACK MOVEMENT

Apart from the above-mentioned factors adverse to U.S. strategic interests, the nationalist liberation movement in black Africa can act as a catalyst with far reaching effects on the American black community by stimulating its organizational consolidation and by inducing radical actions. Such a result would be likely as Zaire went the way of Angola and Mozambique. An occurrence of the events of 1967-68 would do grievous harm to U.S. prestige, especially in view of the concern of the present Administration with human rights issues. Moreover, the Administration would have to take specific steps to stabilize the situation. Such steps might be misunderstood both inside and outside the United States.

In order to prevent such a trend and protect U.S. national security interests, it would appear essential to elaborate and carry out effective countermeasures.

1. Possibility of Joint Action By U.S. Black and African Nationalist Movement.

In elaborating U.S. policy toward black Africa, due weight must be given to the fact that there are 25 millions American blacks whose roots are African and who consciously or subconsciously sympathies with African nationalism. The living conditions of the black population should also be taken into account. Immense advances in the field are accompanied by a long-lasting high rate of unemployment, especially among the youth and by poverty and dissatisfaction with government social welfare standards. These factors taken together may provide a basis for joint actions of a concrete nature by the African nationalist movement and the U.S. black community. Basically, actions would take the form of demonstrations and public protests, but the likelihood of violence cannot be excluded. There would also be attempts to coordinate their political activity both locally and in international organizations.

Inside the United States these actions could include protest demonstrations against our policy toward South Africa accompanied by demand for boycotting corporations and banks which maintain links with that country; attempts to establish a permanent black lobby in Congress including activist leftist radical groups and black legislators; the reemergence of Pan-African ideals; resumption of protest marches recalling the days of Martin Luther King; renewal of the extremist idea national idea of establishing an "African Republic" on American soil. Finally, leftist radical elements of the black community could resume extremist actions in the style of the defunct Black Panther Party.

Internationally, damage could be done to the United States by coordinated activity of African states designed to condemn U.S. policy toward South Africa, and initiate discussions on the U.S. racial issue at the United Nations where the African representation constitutes a powerful bloc with about one third of all the votes.

A menace to U.S. economic interests, though not a critical one, could be posed by a boycott by Black African states against American companies which maintain contact with South Africa and Rhodesia. If the idea of economic assistance to black Americans shared by some African regimes could be realized by their placing orders in the United States mainly with companies owned by blacks, they could gain a limited influence on the U.S. black community.

In the above context, we must envisage the possibility, however remote, that black Americans interested in African affairs may refocus their attention on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Taking into account; the African descent of American blacks it is reasonable to anticipate that their sympathies would lie with the Arabs who are closer to them in spirit and in some case related to them by blood. Black involvement in lobbying to support the Arabs may lead to serious dissention between American black and Jews. The likelihood of extremist actions by either side is negligible, but the discord may bring about tension in the internal political climate of the United States.

3. Political options

In the context of long-term strategy, the United States can not afford a radical change in the fundamentals of its African policy, which is designed for maximum protection of national security. In the present case, emphasis is laid on the importance of Black Africa for U.S. political, economic and military interests.

RECOMMENDATIONS

In weighing the range of U.S. interests in Black Africa, basic recommendations arranged without intent to imply priority are:

1. Specific steps should be taken with the help of appropriate government agencies to inhibit coordinated activity of the Black Movement in the United States.

2. Special clandestine operations should be launched by the CIA to generate mistrust and hostility in American and world opinion against joint activity of the two forces, and to cause division among Black African radical national groups and their leaders.

3. U.S. embassies to Black African countries specially interested in southern Africa must be highly circumspect in view of the activity of certain political circles and influential individuals opposing the objectives and methods of U.S. policy toward South Africa. It must be kept in mind that the failure of U.S. strategy in South Africa would adversely affect American standing throughout the world. In addition, this would mean a significant diminution of U.S. influence in Africa and the emergence of new difficulties in our internal situation due to worsening economic prospects.

4. The FBI should mount surveillance operations against Black African representatives and collect sensitive information on those, especially at the U.N., who oppose U.S. policy toward South Africa. The information should include facts on their links with the leaders of the Black movement in the United States, thus making possible at least partial neutralization of the adverse effects of their activity.

V. TRENDS IN THE AMERICAN BLACK MOVEMENT

In connection with our African policy, it is highly important to evaluate correctly the present state of the Black movement in the Untied States and basing ourselves on all available information, to try to devise a course for its future development. Such an approach is strongly suggested by our perception of the fact that American Blacks form a single ethnic group potentially capable of causing extreme instability in our strategy toward South Africa. This may lead to critical differences between the United States and Black Africa in particular. It would also encourage the Soviet Union to step up its interference in the region. Finally, it would pose a serious threat to the delicate structure of race relations within the United States. All the above considerations give rise to concern for the future security of the United States.

Since the mid-1960s, when legislation on the human rights was passed and Martin Luther King murdered, federal and local measures to improve black welfare have been taken, as a result of which the U.S. black movement has undergone considerable changes.

The principle changes are as follows:

*Social and economic issues have supplanted political aims as the main preoccupations of the movement. and actions formerly planned on a nationwide scale are now being organized locally.

*Fragmentation and a lack of organizational unity within the movement.

*Sharp social stratification of the Black population and lack of policy options which could reunite them.

*Want of a national leader of standing comparable to Martin Luther King.

B. THE RANGE OF POLICY OPTIONS

The concern for the future security of the United States makes necessary the range of policy options. Arranged without intent imply priority they are:

(a) to enlarge programs, within the framework of the present budget, for the improvement of the social and economic welfare of American Blacks in order to ensure continuing development of present trends in the Black movement;

(b) to elaborate and bring into effect a special program designed to perpetuate division in the Black movement and neutralize the most active groups of leftist radical organizations representing different social strata of the Black community: to encourage division in Black circles;

(c) to preserve the present climate which inhibits the emergence from within the Black leadership of a person capable of exerting nationwide appeal;

(d) to work out and realize preventive operations in order to impede durable ties between U.S Black organizations and radical groups in African states;

(e) to support actions designed to sharpen social stratification in the Black community which would lead to the widening and perpetuation of the gap between successful educated Blacks and the poor, giving rise to growing antagonism between different Black groups and a weakening of the movement as a whole.

(f) to facilitate the greatest possible expansion of Black business by granting government contracts and loans with favorable terms to Black businessmen;

(g) to take every possible means through the AFL-CIO leaders to counteract the increasing influence of Black labor organizations which function in all major unions and in particular, the National Coalition of Black Trade Union and its leadership including the creation of real preference for adverse and hostile reaction among White trade unionists to demands for improvement of social and economic welfare of the Blacks;

(h) to support the nomination at federal and local levels of loyal Black public figures to elective offices, to government agencies and the Court.

This would promote the achievement of a twofold purpose: first, it would be easier to control the activity of loyal black representatives within existing institution; second, the idea of an independent black political party now under discussion within black leadership circles would soon lose all support.

One more thing. I was on a program in Illinois recently with Senator Paul Douglas, a so-called liberal, so-called democrat, so-called white man, at which time he told me that our African Brothers were not interested in us in Africa. He said, the Africans are not interested in the American Negro. I knew he was lying, but, during the next two or three weeks, it is my intention and plan to make a tour of our African homeland, and I hope that when I come back, I’ll be able to come back and let you know how our African brothers and sisters feel towards us. And I know before I go there, that they love us. We’re one, we’re the same. The same man who has colonized them all these years colonized you and me too all these years, and all we have to do now is wake up and work in unity and harmony and the battle will be over -Malcolm X

And the reason this tendency exists, the strategy of the white man has always been divide and conquer. He keeps us divided in order to conquer us. He tells you, I’m for separation and you for integration, and keep us fighting with each other. No, I’m not for separation and you’re not for integration, what you and I are for is freedom. Only, you think that integration will get you freedom; I think that separation will get me freedom. We both got the same objective, we just got different ways of getting’ at it.-Malcolm X

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hellyeahheroes · 4 years

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Top 10 Marvel longest POC-lead titles

Few notes for the criteria I used.

Books that were relaunched immediately after cancellation are counted separately. Titles in which the title has changed but the numbering did not are counted as one. Titles in which POC character took over from a white lead were counted only for the duration the POC character held the title. Issues #X.1, #X.MU and similar were included. Team books were not included unless the team was only two people because 3 is a crowd. After mistaken assumptions about one character included on DC List was an isolated case, I decided to not include the books if the lead character started as white and was later revealed to be of mixed heritage and white-passing.

Marvel Special Edition/Master of Kung-Fu #15-125, 111 issues, from 1973-1983, lead character: Shang-Chi

Black Panther, 62 issues, from 1998 to 2003, lead character: T’Challa, for final 4 issues Kevin “Kasper” Cole

Hero for Hire/Power Man - 49 issues, from 1972 to 1978, lead character: Luke Cage. Note: The series continued from issue #50 as Power Man & Iron Fist but since it adds a white co-lead I decided to disqualify that part.

Black Panther - 41 issues, from 2005 to 2008, lead character: T’Challa

Ms. Marvel - 38 issues, from 2015 to 2019, lead character: Kamala Khan

Ultimate Comics Spider-Man - 31 issues, from 2011 to 2014, lead character: Miles Morales

Nova - 31 issues, from 2013 to 2015, lead character: Sam Alexander

Spider-Man - 28 issues, from 2015 to 2018, lead character: Miles Morales

Captain America: Sam Wilson - 25 issues (the last one renamed Captain America), from 2015 to 2017, lead character: Sam Wilson. Note: The series continued later with Steve Rogers as the lead

A tie between The Totally Awesome Hulk - 24 issues, from 2016 to 2017, lead character: Amadeus Cho / Daken: the Dark Wolverine - 24 issues, from 2010 to 2012, lead character: Daken Akihiro / Black Panther - 24 issues, from 2015 to 2018, lead character: T’Challa

- Admin

#Ms. Marvel #Kamala khan #Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #Spider-Man #Miles Morales #Nova #Sam Alexander #Totally Awesome Hulk #Hulk #Amadeus Cho #mastermidn Excello #Daken: Dark Wolverine #Wolverine #Daken #Marvel

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justforbooks · 5 years

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If Stan Lee revolutionized the comic book world in the 1960s, which he did, he left as big a stamp — maybe bigger — on the even wider pop culture landscape of today.

Think of “Spider-Man,” the blockbuster movie franchise and Broadway spectacle. Think of “Iron Man,” another Hollywood gold-mine series personified by its star, Robert Downey Jr. Think of “Black Panther,” the box-office superhero smash that shattered big screen racial barriers in the process.

And that is to say nothing of the Hulk, the X-Men, Thor and other film and television juggernauts that have stirred the popular imagination and made many people very rich.

If all that entertainment product can be traced to one person, it would be Stan Lee, who died in Los Angeles on Monday at 95. From a cluttered office on Madison Avenue in Manhattan in the 1960s, he helped conjure a lineup of pulp-fiction heroes that has come to define much of popular culture in the early 21st century.

Mr. Lee was a central player in the creation of those characters and more, all properties of Marvel Comics. Indeed, he was for many the embodiment of Marvel, if not comic books in general, overseeing the company’s emergence as an international media behemoth. A writer, editor, publisher, Hollywood executive and tireless promoter (of Marvel and of himself), he played a critical role in what comics fans call the medium’s silver age.

Many believe that Marvel, under his leadership and infused with his colorful voice, crystallized that era, one of exploding sales, increasingly complex characters and stories, and growing cultural legitimacy for the medium. (Marvel’s chief competitor at the time, National Periodical Publications, now known as DC — the home of Superman and Batman, among other characters — augured this period, with its 1956 update of its superhero the Flash, but did not define it.)

Under Mr. Lee, Marvel transformed the comic book world by imbuing its characters with the self-doubts and neuroses of average people, as well an awareness of trends and social causes and, often, a sense of humor.

In humanizing his heroes, giving them character flaws and insecurities that belied their supernatural strengths, Mr. Lee tried “to make them real flesh-and-blood characters with personality,” he told The Washington Post in 1992.

Energetic, gregarious, optimistic and alternately grandiose and self-effacing, Mr. Lee was an effective salesman, employing a Barnumesque syntax in print (“Face front, true believer!” “Make mine Marvel!”) to market Marvel’s products to a rabid following.

He charmed readers with jokey, conspiratorial comments and asterisked asides in narrative panels, often referring them to previous issues. In 2003 he told The Los Angeles Times, “I wanted the reader to feel we were all friends, that we were sharing some private fun that the outside world wasn’t aware of.”

Though Mr. Lee was often criticized for his role in denying rights and royalties to his artistic collaborators , his involvement in the conception of many of Marvel’s best-known characters is indisputable.

He was born Stanley Martin Lieber on Dec. 28, 1922, in Manhattan, the older of two sons born to Jack Lieber, an occasionally employed dress cutter, and Celia (Solomon) Lieber, both immigrants from Romania. The family moved to the Bronx.

Stanley began reading Shakespeare at 10 while also devouring pulp magazines, the novels of Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Rice Burroughs and Mark Twain, and the swashbuckler movies of Errol Flynn.

He graduated at 17 from DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx and aspired to be a writer of serious literature. He was set on the path to becoming a different kind of writer when, after a few false starts at other jobs, he was hired at Timely Publications, a company owned by Martin Goodman, a relative who had made his name in pulp magazines and was entering the comics field.

Mr. Lee was initially paid $8 a week as an office gofer. Eventually he was writing and editing stories, many in the superhero genre.

At Timely he worked with the artist Jack Kirby (1917-94), who, with a writing partner, Joe Simon, had created the hit character Captain America, and who would eventually play a vital role in Mr. Lee’s career. When Mr. Simon and Mr. Kirby, Timely’s hottest stars, were lured away by a rival company, Mr. Lee was appointed chief editor.

As a writer, Mr. Lee could be startlingly prolific. “Almost everything I’ve ever written I could finish at one sitting,” he once said. “I’m a fast writer. Maybe not the best, but the fastest.”

Mr. Lee used several pseudonyms to give the impression that Marvel had a large stable of writers; the name that stuck was simply his first name split in two. (In the 1970s, he legally changed Lieber to Lee.)

During World War II, Mr. Lee wrote training manuals stateside in the Army Signal Corps while moonlighting as a comics writer. In 1947, he married Joan Boocock, a former model who had moved to New York from her native England.

His daughter Joan Celia Lee, who is known as J. C., was born in 1950; another daughter, Jan, died three days after birth in 1953. Mr. Lee’s wife died in 2017.

A lawyer for Ms. Lee, Kirk Schenck, confirmed Mr. Lee’s death, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

In addition to his daughter, he is survived by Ms. Lee and his younger brother, Larry Lieber, who drew the “Amazing Spider-Man” syndicated newspaper strip for years.

In the mid-1940s, the peak of the golden age of comic books, sales boomed. But later, as plots and characters turned increasingly lurid (especially at EC, a Marvel competitor that published titles like Tales From the Crypt and The Vault of Horror), many adults clamored for censorship. In 1954, a Senate subcommittee led by the Tennessee Democrat Estes Kefauver held hearings investigating allegations that comics promoted immorality and juvenile delinquency.

Feeding the senator’s crusade was the psychiatrist Fredric Wertham’s 1954 anti-comics jeremiad, “Seduction of the Innocent.” Among other claims, the book contended that DC’s “Batman stories” — featuring the team of Batman and Robin — were “psychologically homosexual.”

Choosing to police itself rather than accept legislation, the comics industry established the Comics Code Authority to ensure wholesome content. Gore and moral ambiguity were out, but so largely were wit, literary influences and attention to social issues. Innocuous cookie-cutter exercises in genre were in.

Many found the sanitized comics boring, and — with the new medium of television providing competition — readership, which at one point had reached 600 million sales annually, declined by almost three-quarters within a few years.

With the dimming of superhero comics’ golden age, Mr. Lee tired of grinding out generic humor, romance, western and monster stories for what had by then become Atlas Comics. Reaching a career impasse in his 30s, he was encouraged by his wife to write the comics he wanted to, not merely what was considered marketable. And Mr. Goodman, his boss, spurred by the popularity of a rebooted Flash (and later Green Lantern) at DC, wanted him to revisit superheroes.

Mr. Lee took Mr. Goodman up on his suggestion, but he carried its implications much further.

In 1961, Mr. Lee and Mr. Kirby — whom he had brought back years before to the company, now known as Marvel — produced the first issue of The Fantastic Four, about a superpowered team with humanizing dimensions: nonsecret identities, internal squabbles and, in the orange-rock-skinned Thing, self-torment. It was a hit.

Other Marvel titles — like the Lee-Kirby creation The Incredible Hulk, a modern Jekyll-and-Hyde story about a decent man transformed by radiation into a monster — offered a similar template. The quintessential Lee hero, introduced in 1962 and created with the artist Steve Ditko (1927-2018), was Spider-Man.

A timid high school intellectual who gained his powers when bitten by a radioactive spider, Spider-Man was prone to soul-searching, leavened with wisecracks — a key to the character’s lasting popularity across multiple entertainment platforms, including movies and a Broadway musical.

Mr. Lee’s dialogue encompassed Catskills shtick, like Spider-Man’s patter in battle; Elizabethan idioms, like Thor’s; and working-class Lower East Side swagger, like the Thing’s. It could also include dime-store poetry, as in this eco-oratory about humans, uttered by the Silver Surfer, a space alien:

“And yet — in their uncontrollable insanity — in their unforgivable blindness — they seek to destroy this shining jewel — this softly spinning gem — this tiny blessed sphere — which men call Earth!”

Mr. Lee practiced what he called the Marvel method: Instead of handing artists scripts to illustrate, he summarized stories and let the artists draw them and fill in plot details as they chose. He then added sound effects and dialogue. Sometimes he would discover on penciled pages that new characters had been added to the narrative. Such surprises (like the Silver Surfer, a Kirby creation and a Lee favorite) would lead to questions of character ownership.

Mr. Lee was often faulted for not adequately acknowledging the contributions of his illustrators, especially Mr. Kirby. Spider-Man became Marvel’s best-known property, but Mr. Ditko, its co-creator, quit Marvel in bitterness in 1966. Mr. Kirby, who visually designed countless characters, left in 1969. Though he reunited with Mr. Lee for a Silver Surfer graphic novel in 1978, their heyday had ended.

Many comic fans believe that Mr. Kirby was wrongly deprived of royalties and original artwork in his lifetime, and for years the Kirby estate sought to acquire rights to characters that Mr. Kirby and Mr. Lee had created together. Mr. Kirby’s heirs were long rebuffed in court on the grounds that he had done “work for hire” — in other words, that he had essentially sold his art without expecting royalties.

In September 2014, Marvel and the Kirby estate reached a settlement. Mr. Lee and Mr. Kirby now both receive credit on numerous screen productions based on their work.

Mr. Lee moved to Los Angeles in 1980 to develop Marvel properties, but most of his attempts at live-action television and movies were disappointing. (The series “The Incredible Hulk,” seen on CBS from 1978 to 1982, was an exception.)

Avi Arad, an executive at Toy Biz, a company in which Marvel had bought a controlling interest, began to revive the company’s Hollywood fortunes, particularly with an animated “X-Men” series on Fox, which ran from 1992 to 1997. (Its success helped pave the way for the live-action big-screen “X-Men” franchise, which has flourished since its first installment, in 2000.)

In the late 1990s, Mr. Lee was named chairman emeritus at Marvel and began to explore outside projects. While his personal appearances (including charging fans $120 for an autograph) were one source of income, later attempts to create wholly owned superhero properties foundered. Stan Lee Media, a digital content start-up, crashed in 2000 and landed his business partner, Peter F. Paul, in prison for securities fraud. (Mr. Lee was never charged.)

In 2001, Mr. Lee started POW! Entertainment (the initials stand for “purveyors of wonder”), but he received almost no income from Marvel movies and TV series until he won a court fight with Marvel Enterprises in 2005, leading to an undisclosed settlement costing Marvel $10 million. In 2009, the Walt Disney Company, which had agreed to pay $4 billion to acquire Marvel, announced that it had paid $2.5 million to increase its stake in POW!

In Mr. Lee’s final years, after the death of his wife, the circumstances of his business affairs and contentious financial relationship with his surviving daughter attracted attention in the news media. In 2018, Mr. Lee was embroiled in disputes with POW!, and The Daily Beast and The Hollywood Reporter ran accounts of fierce infighting among Mr. Lee’s daughter, household staff and business advisers. The Hollywood Reporter claimed “elder abuse.”

In February 2018, Mr. Lee signed a notarized document declaring that three men — a lawyer, a caretaker of Mr. Lee’s and a dealer in memorabilia — had “insinuated themselves into relationships with J. C. for an ulterior motive and purpose,” to “gain control over my assets, property and money.” He later withdrew his claim, but longtime aides of his — an assistant, an accountant and a housekeeper — were either dismissed or greatly limited in their contact with him.

In a profile in The New York Times in April, a cheerful Mr. Lee said, “I’m the luckiest guy in the world,” adding that “my daughter has been a great help to me” and that “life is pretty good” — although he admitted in that same interview, “I’ve been very careless with money.”

Marvel movies, however, have proved a cash cow for major studios, if not so much for Mr. Lee. With the blockbuster “Spider-Man” in 2002, Marvel superhero films hit their stride. Such movies (including franchises starring Iron Man, Thor and the superhero team the Avengers, to name but three) together had grossed more than $24 billion worldwide as of April.

“Black Panther,” the first Marvel movie directed by an African-American (Ryan Coogler) and starring an almost all-black cast, took in about $201.8 million domestically when it opened over the four-day Presidents’ Day weekend this year, the fifth-biggest opening of all time.

Many other film properties are in development, in addition to sequels in established franchises. Characters Mr. Lee had a hand in creating now enjoy a degree of cultural penetration they have never had before.

Mr. Lee wrote a slim memoir, “Excelsior! The Amazing Life of Stan Lee,” with George Mair, published in 2002. His 2015 book, “Amazing Fantastic Incredible: A Marvelous Memoir” (written with Peter David and illustrated in comic-book form by Colleen Doran), pays abundant credit to the artists many fans believed he had shortchanged years before.

Recent Marvel films and TV shows have also often credited Mr. Lee’s former collaborators; Mr. Lee himself has almost always received an executive producer credit. His cameo appearances in them became something of a tradition. (Even “Teen Titans Go! to the Movies,” an animated feature in 2018 about a DC superteam, had more than one Lee cameo.) TV shows bearing his name or presence have included the reality series “Stan Lee’s Superhumans” and the competition show “Who Wants to Be a Superhero?”

Mr. Lee’s unwavering energy suggested that he possessed superpowers himself. (In his 90s he had a Twitter account, @TheRealStanlee.) And the National Endowment for the Arts acknowledged as much when it awarded him a National Medal of Arts in 2008. But he was frustrated, like all humans, by mortality.

“I want to do more movies, I want to do more television, more DVDs, more multi-sodes, I want to do more lecturing, I want to do more of everything I’m doing,” he said in “With Great Power …: The Stan Lee Story,” a 2010 television documentary. “The only problem is time. I just wish there were more time.”

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wittypenguin · 4 years

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Looking at 1968 to Learn How to Survive 2020

It’s been suggested recently that this is the worst year in modern American history, which would make it worse than 1968, when both Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr and Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy were killed, plus a US Presidential Election brought to power Richard Milhous Nixon and the Uber-corrupt Spiro Theodore Agnew. This year we’ve already had COVID-19, the resurgence of the struggle for equal treatment under the law for People of Colour (which has been essentially ignored and left un-dealt with for well over a century), plus a complete nitwit of a President* who seems to be trying to create either a ‘Police State’ or an ‘untouchabe Emperor Structure of Governance,’ and we’re not even half-way through the year yet!

The Silent Parade was organized by W.E.B. DuBois on July 28, 1917 in New York to protest violence against African Americans nationally. Universal Animated Weekly, Vol 5, Issue 83, 1917. This clip was recovered in 1978 after having been buried in Dawson City, Yukon, for 49 years. pic.twitter.com/Hm7Nydgqcq

Check out the GIF through that link. See? That’s 1917. And that’s only what we have film of, and the first instance of human trafficking in what we now call the United States was in the early 1600s.

So… let’s take look at what people had to deal with in 1968, not with an eye to state we’ve got it so bad right now and to feel hard-done-by in comparison to the ‘Boomers,’ but to see what they dealt with, and then considering what we can learn about how they didn’t go insane while dealing with all the crap they had to. This way, we can protect our mental health in order to get through what we’ve got now.

I’ve grouped events to the end of May into three chronological blocks — Civil Rights (mostly U.S. events, but also elsewhere), General (political events of mostly non-North American locales), and the Vietnam War (including other formalized military events not directly part of the Vietnam conflict) — with the mid-March protests at Howard University being placed in both the ‘Civil Rights’ and ‘Vietnam’ categories, owing to both of those being fundamental to the causation of that particular event.

Civil Rights Events:

February 8: a civil rights protest staged at a white-only bowling alley in Orangeburg, South Carolina is broken up by highway patrolmen; 3 college students are killed

February 13: civil rights ‘disturbances’ occur at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

March 1: the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968 receives Royal assent in the UK [learn more about that here]

March 6: the then un-recognized nation of Rhodesia executes 3 black citizens, the first executions since unilaterally declaring its independence

March 19–23: students at Howard University in Washington, D.C. signal a new era of militant student activism on college campuses in the U.S. by staging rallies, protests and a 5-day sit-in; laying siege to the administration building; shutting down the university in protest over its ROTC program and the Vietnam War; and demanding a more inclusive and Afrocentric curriculum

April 2: while filming an NBC television special, white British singer Petula Clark touches African American singer Harry Belafonte affectionately on the arm [read about the details of the filming here]

April 3: the Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech in Memphis, Tennessee

April 4: the Rev Dr King, Jr. is shot dead at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, casing riots in major American cities lasting for several days afterwards

April 6: a shootout between Black Panthers and Oakland police results in several arrests and deaths, including the 17-year-old treasurer and the first Panther recruit Robert James "Lil’ Bobby” Hutton, who was walking towards the police bare-chested with his hands raised

April 8: Ms Clark’s television special is broadcast by NBC with high ratings, critical acclaim, a Primetime Emmy nomination, and is the first instance on American television of physical contact between a black man and a white woman

April 11: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968

April 20: English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech, which criticised mass immigration, especially Commonwealth immigration to the UK of the variety which was blocked in March by the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968

Events in General:

January 8: British Prime Minister Harold Wilson endorses the I'm Backing Britain campaign for working an additional half-hour each day without pay as an economic stimulus measure, causing rifts within his Labour Party supporters who see him as kow-towing to Big Business and un-doing decades of efforts by labour organizations

January 15: an earthquake in Sicily kills 380 and injures around 1,000

February 19: the Florida Education Association (FEA) initiates a mass resignation of teachers to protest state funding of education; in effect the first statewide teachers' strike in the USA

February 27: singer Frankie Lymon is found dead from a heroin overdose in Harlem. Mr Lymon was formerly the lead singer of the squeaky-clean doo wop group “The Teenagers,” noted for being one of rock music's earliest successes and being rock's first all-teenaged act

March 2: Baggeridge Colliery closes marking the end of over 300 years of coal mining in the Black Country of England (environmentally good, but little was done for workers’ job placement in new positions)

March 12: U.S. President Johnson barely edges out antiwar candidate Eugene McCarthy [no, not that McCarthy] in the New Hampshire Democratic primary, a vote which highlights the deep divisions in the country, and the party, over Vietnam

March 15: the U.K. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party George Brown resigns after many months of public drunkenness and wide-spread unacceptable behaviour, culminating in him shouting incoherently at the PM in his office

March 16: U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy enters the race for the Democratic Party presidential nomination

March 22: eight French students occupy the administrative offices of the University of Nanterre, setting in motion a chain of events that lead France to the brink of revolution two months later

March 24: Aer Lingus Flight 712 crashes en route from Cork to London near Tuskar Rock, Wexford, killing 61 passengers and crew

March 28: Brazilian high school student Edson Luís de Lima Souto is shot by the police in a protest for cheaper meals at a restaurant for low-income students; being one of the first major events against the military dictatorship

March 31: President Johnson announces he will not seek re-election

April 2: bombs explode at midnight in two department stores in Frankfurt-am-Main; Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin are later arrested and sentenced for arson; months later, the two escape from prison and with other people form the anarchist/extremist group Red Army Faction (also commonly known as the Baader-Meinhof Group)

April 6: a double explosion in downtown Richmond, Indiana, the first caused by faulty natural gas lines, the second caused inside the building above by a store of gunpowder; 41 are dead, 150 are injured, and a total of forty buildings are eventually condemned; given racial tensions of the time, some are understandably panicked

April 8: the US Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD) is created under the Department of Justice, thereby codifying the racialization of the ‘War on Drugs’ we see today; [read this ACLU document]

April 10: the ferry TEV Wahine strikes a reef at the mouth of Wellington Harbour, New Zealand, with the loss of 53 lives, during Cyclone Giselle (still the windiest conditions ever recorded in New Zealand)

April 11: Josef Bachmann attempts to assassinate the most prominent member and unofficial spokesman of the left-wing student movement Außerparlamentarische Opposition (APO,) Rudi Dutschke, in Germany

April 11: the same day — also in Germany and unrelated to the above — German left-wing students blockade the Springer Press HQ in Berlin and many are arrested (one of them being Ulrike Meinhof; remember him?)

May 13: one million people march through the streets of Paris, sparking the period called “May 68,” which includes demonstrations, general strikes, the occupation of universities and factories, and causing both the brief cessation of a functioning government (after President Charles de Gaulle secretly fled to Germany) as well as the nation’s economy to come to a complete halt

May 16: just two months after opening, a 23 floor tower block in Canning Town, east London, called Ronan Point, partially collapses after a gas explosion, killing 5

Vietnam War (and others):

January 21: the Battle of Khe Sanh begins

January 21: a U.S. B-52 Stratofortress crashes in Greenland, discharging 4 nuclear bombs

January 30: the Tet Offensive begins, as Viet Cong forces launch a series of surprise attacks across South Vietnam

January 31: Việt Cộng soldiers attack the US Embassy, Saigon

February 1: the Viet Cong officer Nguyễn Văn Lém is executed by a South Vietnamese National Police Chief in the middle of the street, the event photographed by Eddie Adams as well as an NBC film crew, which makes headlines around the world, eventually winning the 1969 Pulitzer Prize, and swaying U.S. public opinion against the war.

February 12: the Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất massacre

February 24: the nearly month-long Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures Huế

February 25: the Hà My massacre

March 7: the First Battle of Saigon ends

March 8: the Soviet ballistic missile submarine K-129 sinks with all 98 crew members, about 90 nautical miles (104 miles / 167 km) southwest of Hawai’i

March 10–11: the Battle of Lima Site 85, the largest single ground combat loss of United States Air Force members during the (at the time) secret war later known as the Laotian Civil War

March 14: nerve gas leaks from the U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground, immediately killing 6,249 sheep over 30 miles away in Skull Valley, Utah, as well as necessitating the euthanisation of a further 1,877 after they are declared ‘unmarketable’ even for their wool

March 16: American troops kill scores of civilians in the My Lai Massacre, which will first become public in November 1969, helping to further undermine public support for the U.S. efforts in Vietnam

March 17: a demonstration against U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War in London's Grosvenor Square leads to violence; 91 people are injured, and 200 demonstrators are arrested

March 19–23: Students at Howard University in Washington, D.C. signal a new era of militant student activism on college campuses in the U.S., with students staging rallies, protests, a 5-day sit-in, laying siege to the administration building, shutting down the university in protest over its ROTC program and the Vietnam War, and demanding a more inclusive and Afrocentric curriculum

April 23–30: student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university

April 26: the 1.3Mt nuclear weapon "Boxcar" is tested 1.16km underground at the Nevada Test Site in the biggest detonation of Operation Crosstie

May 17: Catholic activists called ‘The Catonsville Nine’ enter the Selective Service offices in Catonsville, Maryland, take 378 draft files, pour homemade napalm over them in the parking lot, and burn them, all as a protest against the Vietnam War; some of the Nine being out on bail after pouring human blood on draft cards the previous October

May 19: Nigerian forces capture Port Harcourt and form a ring around the Biafrans, contributing to a humanitarian disaster as the then surrounded population were already suffering from hunger and starvation

May 22: the U.S. nuclear-powered submarine Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard, 400 miles southwest of the Azores

The next three weeks see the shooting and subsequent death of Robert Kennedy; the arrest of the American white supremacist, fugitive, and felon who assassinated the Rev Dr King, Jr. (their trial and conviction taking place the next year); the first round of the French elections to be held as a result of the protests the month before; and the official establishment of the CIA’s “Phoenix Program,” involving cooperation between American, South Vietnamese and Australian militaries.

So… that’s where they were at this point in the year. While I’m not about to list all of the things that have happened to us in the last five months (this has taken me a good five hours to assemble, for one thing), it’s probable that 2020 is a fair equal to 1968, if not actually surpassing the collective effect of the earlier year by this point in the calendar.

How did they get through it then? Good question! I’m gong to call my mid-70s-aged Father to find out. You should call someone at least 65 years old and do the same, as everyone copes in different ways. After reading all of this, at least you’ll have a common understanding of what they went through.

Good luck to us all.

#BlackOut #Coping #worst year ever #Know Your History #2020 vs 1968

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Miriam Makeba

Zenzile Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 – 9 November 2008), nicknamed Mama Africa, was a South African singer and civil rights activist.

In the 1960s, she was the first artist from Africa to popularize African music around the world. She is best known for the song "Pata Pata", first recorded in 1957 and released in the U.S. in 1967. She recorded and toured with many popular artists, such as Harry Belafonte, Paul Simon, and her former husband Hugh Masekela.

Makeba campaigned against the South African system of apartheid. The South African government responded by revoking her passport in 1960 and her citizenship and right of return in 1963. As the apartheid system crumbled she returned home for the first time in 1990.

Makeba died of a heart attack on 9 November 2008 after performing in a concert in Italy organised to support writer Roberto Saviano in his stand against the Camorra, a mafia-like organisation local to the region of Campania.

Early years

Zenzile Miriam Makeba was born in Johannesburg on 4 March 1932. Her mother was a Swazi sangoma (traditional healer-herbalist). Her father, who died when she was six years old, was a Xhosa. When she was eighteen days old, her mother was arrested for selling umqombothi, an African homemade beer brewed from malt and cornmeal. Her mother was sentenced to a six-month prison term, so Miriam spent her first six months of life in jail. As a child, she sang in the choir of the Kilnerton Training Institute in Pretoria, a primary school that she attended for eight years.

In 1950 at the age of 18, Makeba gave birth to her only child, Bongi Makeba, whose father was Makeba's first husband James Kubay. Makeba was then diagnosed with breast cancer, and her husband left her shortly afterwards.

Her professional career began in the 1950s when she was featured in the South African jazz group the Manhattan Brothers, and appeared for the first time on a poster. She left the Manhattan Brothers to record with her all-woman group, The Skylarks, singing a blend of jazz and traditional melodies of South Africa. As early as 1956, she released the single "Pata Pata", which was played on all the radio stations and made her name known throughout South Africa.

She had a short-lived marriage in 1959 to Sonny Pillay, a South African singer of Indian descent. Her break came in that year when she had a short guest appearance in Come Back, Africa, an anti-apartheid documentary produced and directed by American independent filmmaker Lionel Rogosin. The short cameo made an enormous impression on the viewers and Rogosin managed to organise a visa for her to attend the première of the film at the twenty-fourth Venice Film Festival in Italy, where the film won the prestigious Critics' Award. That year, Makeba sang the lead female role in the Broadway-inspired South African musical King Kong; among those in the cast was musician Hugh Masekela. She made her U.S. debut on 1 November 1959 on The Steve Allen Show.

Exile

Makeba then travelled to London where she met Harry Belafonte, who assisted her in gaining entry to the United States and achieving fame there. When she tried to return to South Africa in 1960 for her mother's funeral, she discovered that her South African passport had been cancelled. She signed with RCA Victor and released Miriam Makeba, her first U.S. studio album, in 1960. In 1962, Makeba and Belafonte sang at John F. Kennedy's birthday party at Madison Square Garden, but Makeba did not go to the aftershow party because she was ill. President Kennedy insisted on meeting her, so Belafonte sent a car to pick her up and she met the President of the United States. In 1963, Makeba released her second studio album for RCA, The World of Miriam Makeba. An early example of world music, the album peaked at number eighty-six on the Billboard 200. Later that year, after she testified against apartheid before the United Nations, her South African citizenship and her right to return to the country were revoked. She was a woman without a country, but the world came to her aid, and Guinea, Belgium and Ghana issued her international passports, and she became, in effect, a citizen of the world. In her life, she held nine passports, and was granted honorary citizenship in ten countries.

In 1964, Makeba and Masekela were married, divorcing two years later.

In 1966, Makeba received the Grammy Award for Best Folk Recording together with Harry Belafonte for An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba. The album dealt with the political plight of black South Africans under apartheid, and it was one of the first American albums to present traditional Zulu, Sotho and Swahili songs in an authentic setting. From the time of her New York debut at the Village Vanguard, her fame and reputation grew. She released many of her most famous hits in the United States, including "The Click Song" ("Qongqothwane" in Xhosa) and "Malaika". Time called her the "most exciting new singing talent to appear in many years," and Newsweek compared her voice to "the smoky tones and delicate phrasing" of Ella Fitzgerald and the "intimate warmth" of Frank Sinatra. Despite the success that made her a star in the U.S., she wore no makeup and refused to curl her hair for shows, thus establishing a style that would come to be known internationally as the "Afro look". In 1967, more than ten years after she wrote the song, the single "Pata Pata" was released in the United States and became a worldwide hit.

Her marriage to Trinidad-born civil rights activist, Black Panther, and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee leader Stokely Carmichael in 1968 caused controversy in the United States, and her record deals and tours were cancelled. As a result, the couple moved to Guinea, her home for the next 15 years, where they became close with President Ahmed Sékou Touré and his wife, Andrée. Makeba was appointed Guinea's official delegate to the United Nations, for which she won the Dag Hammarskjöld Peace Prize in 1986. She also separated from Carmichael in 1973 and continued to perform primarily in Africa, Europe and Asia, but not in the United States, where a de facto boycott was in effect. Makeba was one of the entertainers at the 1974 Rumble in the Jungle match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman held in Zaïre. She addressed the United Nations General Assembly for the second time in 1975. She divorced Carmichael in 1978 and married an airline executive in 1980.

After the death of her daughter Bongi in 1985, she decided to move to Brussels. In the following year, Hugh Masekela introduced Makeba to Paul Simon, and a few months later she embarked on the very successful Graceland Tour, which was documented on music video. Two concerts held in Harare, Zimbabwe, were filmed in 1987 for release as Graceland: The African Concert. After touring the world with Simon, Warner Bros. Records signed Makeba and she released Sangoma ("Healer"), an a cappella album of healing chants named in honour of her mother who was a "sangoma" ("a healer"). Shortly thereafter, her autobiography Makeba: My Storywas published and subsequently translated from English into other languages including German, French, Dutch, Italian and Spanish. She took part in the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute, a popular-music concert staged on 11 June 1988 at Wembley Stadium, London, and broadcast to 67 countries and an audience of 600 million. Also referred to as Freedomfest, Free Nelson Mandela Concert, and Mandela Day, the event called for Mandela's release.

Return to South Africa

Nelson Mandela's 70th Birthday Tribute increased pressure on the government of South Africa to release Mandela, and in 1990, State President of South Africa Frederik Willem de Klerk reversed the ban on the African National Congress and other anti-apartheid organisations, and announced that Nelson Mandela would shortly be released from prison. Mandela, who was effectively released from Victor Verster Prison in Paarl on 11 February 1990, persuaded Miriam Makeba to return to South Africa. She returned home on 10 June 1990, on her French passport.

In 1991, Makeba, with Dizzy Gillespie, Nina Simone and Masekela, recorded and released her studio album, Eyes on Tomorrow. It combined jazz, R&B, pop, and African music, and was a hit in Africa. Makeba and Gillespie then toured the world together to promote it. In November of the same year, she made a guest appearance in the episode "Olivia Comes Out of the Closet" of The Cosby Show. In 1992, she starred in the film Sarafina!. The film's plot centers on students involved in the 1976's Soweto youth uprisings, and Makeba portrayed the title character's mother, "Angelina". The following year she released Sing Me a Song.

On 16 October 1999, Miriam Makeba was nominated Goodwill Ambassador of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). In January 2000, her album, Homeland, produced by Cedric Samson and Michael Levinsohn for the New York City based record label Putumayo World Music, was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best World Music Album category. She worked closely with Graça Machel-Mandela, who at the time was the South African first lady, for children suffering from HIV/AIDS, child soldiers, and the physically handicapped.

In 2001, she was awarded the Otto Hahn Peace Medal in Gold by the United Nations Association of Germany (DGVN) in Berlin, "for outstanding services to peace and international understanding". She shared the Polar Music Prize with Sofia Gubaidulina. The prize is regarded as Sweden's foremost musical honour. They received their Prize from Carl XVI Gustaf King of Sweden during a nationally-televised ceremony at Berwaldhallen, Stockholm, on 27 May 2002. She also took part in the 2002 documentary Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony, where she and others recalled the struggles of black South Africans against the injustices of apartheid through the use of music. In 2004, Makeba was voted 38th in the Top 100 Great South Africans. Makeba started a worldwide farewell tour in 2005, holding concerts in all of those countries that she had visited during her working life.

Death and legacy

On 9 November 2008, she became ill while taking part in a concert organised to support writer Roberto Saviano in his stand against the Camorra, a mafia-like organisation local to the Region of Campania. The concert was being held in Castel Volturno, near Caserta, Italy. Makeba suffered a heart attack after singing her hit song "Pata Pata", and was taken to the Pineta Grande clinic, where doctors were unable to revive her. Her publicist notes that Makeba had suffered "severe arthritis" for some time. She and family members were based in Northriding, Gauteng, at the time of her death.

From 25 to 27 September 2009, a tribute show to Makeba entitled Hommage à Miriam Makeba and curated by Grammy Award-winning Beninoise singer-songwriter and activist Angélique Kidjo for the Festival d'Ile de France, was held at the Cirque d'hiver in Paris. The same show but with the English title of Mama Africa: Celebrating Miriam Makeba was held at the Barbican in London on 21 November 2009. Mama Africa, a documentary film about the life of Miriam Makeba, co-written and directed by Finnish film director Mika Kaurismäki, was released in 2011. On 4 March 2013 Google honored her with a doodle on the homepage.

Mama Africa, a musical about Miriam Makeba was produced in South Africa by University of Missouri Des Lee Endowed Professor of Theater, Dr. Niyi Coker. Originally titled Zenzi!, The musical premiered to a sold out crowd at Cape Town, South Africa on 26 May 2016. It will debut in the United States with performances scheduled in Saint Louis, Missouri and New York City from September 14, 2016 through December 2016 with the musical returning to South Africa in February 2017 for celebration of what would have been Miriam Makeba's 85th birthday.

The Pretoria campus of the Lycée Jules Verne, École Miriam Makeba, is named after her.

Discography

Studio albums

The Many Voices of Miriam Makeba (1960) (LP Kapp KL1274)

Miriam Makeba (1960) (LP RCA LSP2267)

The World of Miriam Makeba (1963) (LP RCA LSP2750) #86 (US)

The Voice of Africa (1964) (LP RCA LSP2845) #122 (US)

Makeba Sings! (1965) (LP RCA LSP3321)

An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba (1965) (LP with Harry Belafonte; RCA LSP3420; Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording)#85 (US)

The Magic of Makeba (1965) (LP RCA LSP3512)

The Magnificent Miriam Makeba (1966) (LP Mercury 134016)

All About Miriam (1966) (LP Mercury 134029)

Pata Pata (1967) (LP Reprise RS6274) #74 (US)

Makeba! (1968) (LP Reprise RS6310)

Keep Me in Mind (1970) (LP Reprise RS6381)

A Promise (1974) (LP RCA YSPL1-544)

Miriam Makeba & Bongi (1975) (LP with Bongi Makeba; Guinea: Editions Syliphone Conakry SLP 48)

Country Girl (1978) (LP Sonodisc ESP165518)

Comme une symphonie d'amour (1979) (LP Sonodisc ESP 7501)

Sangoma (1988) (CD Warner Bros. 25673)

Welela (1989) (CD Gallo CDGSP3084) #6 (US World Music Albums)

Eyes on Tomorrow (1991) (CD Gallo CDGSP3086) #10 (US World Music Albums)

Sing Me a Song (1993) (CD CDS12702)

Homeland (2000) (CD Putumayo PUTU1642)

Reflecting (2004) (CD Gallo Music GWVCD-51) #12 (US World Music Albums)

Makeba Forever (2006) (CD Gallo Music CDGURB-082)

Live albums

Miriam Makeba in Concert! (1967) (LP) (Reprise RS6253) #182 (US)

Live in Tokyo (1968) (LP) (Reprise SJET8082)

Live in Conakry: Appel a l'Afrique (1974) (LP) (Sonodisc SLP22)

Enregistrement public au Theatre des Champs-Elysées (1977) (LP) (released on CD6508 as Pata Pata: Live in Paris in 1998)

Live at Berns Salonger, Stockholm, Sweden, 1966 (2003) (CD and DVD) (Gallo Music GWVCD-49)

Compilations

The Best of Miriam Makeba (LP) Canada: RCA Victor LSP-3982, 1968

Harry Belafonte and Miriam Makeba (as Harry Belafonte and Miriam Makeba) (2xLP) Camden PJL2-8042, 1975

Miriam Makeba (LP) Italy: Record Bazaar RB 254, 1980

The Queen of African Music (CD) Verlag Pläne 831 655–938, 1987

Africa (CD) Germany: Novus 3155-2-N/ND 83155, 1991

Miriam Makeba and The Skylarks: Volume 1 (as Miriam Makeba and The Skylarks; Remastered from 78/45 RPM recorded between 1956 and 1959) (CD) TELCD 2303, 1991

Folk Songs from Africa (CD) SAAR CD 12514, 1994

En public à Paris et Conakry (CD), 1996

Hits and Highlights (CD), 1997

Miriam Makeba and The Skylarks: Volume 2 (as Miriam Makeba and The Skylarks; Remastered from 78/45 RPM recorded between 1956 and 1959) (CD) TELCD 2315, 1997

The Best of Miriam Makeba (CD) BMG, 2000

Legend (CD) Next Music CDSL21, 2001

Mama Africa: The Very Best of Miriam Makeba (CD), 2001

The Guinea Years (CD/LP) STCD3017/SLP48, 2001

Mother Africa: The Black Anthology (CD), 2002

The Best of Miriam Makeba: The Early Years (CD) Wrasse WRASS 088, 2002

The Definitive Collection (CD) UK: Wrasse WRASS 062, 2002

Her Essential Recordings (2xCD) Manteca MANTDBL502, 2006

Mama Afrika 1932–2008 (CD) Gallo, 2009

Extended plays

Makeba – Belafonte (as Miriam Makeba and Harry Belafonte) (Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM) Germany: RCA Victor EPA 9035, 1961

The Click Song (Vinyl, 7", EP) France: London RE 10.145, 1963

Chants d'Afrique (Vinyl, 7") France: RCA Victor 86.374, 1964

Singles

"Duze" (1956) (10-inch shellac 78 rpm mono Gallotone GB.2062)

"Pass Office Special" (1957) (10-inch shellac 78 rpm mono Gallotone GB.2134)

"The Click Song" / "Mbube" (1963) (7-inch vinyl London HL 9747)

"Malaika" / "Malcolm X" (1965) (7-inch vinyl Kenya: Sonafric SYL 565)

"Pata Pata" (1967) (7-inch vinyl Reprise 0606) #12 (US)

"Malayisha" (1967) (7-inch vinyl Reprise)

"Emavungwini" (1968) (7-inch vinyl France, Spain: Reprise)

"I Shall Be Released" / "Iphi Ndilela (Show Me the Way)" (1969) (7-inch vinyl Germany: Reprise RA 0804)

"Pata Pata" / "Click Song Number 1" (1972) (7-inch vinyl Germany, Netherlands: Reprise REP 14 217)

"We Got to Make It" / "Promise" (1975) 7-inch vinyl with Instrumentalgruppe German Democratic Republic: AMIGA 4 56 044, 1974, and France: Disques Espérance

"Pata Pata" / "Malayisha" (1976) (7-inch vinyl Italy: Reprise 14 267, released in France in 1978)

"Hauteng" / "Talking and Dialoging" (1978) (7-inch vinyl France: Disques Espérance ESP 155027)

"Comme une symphonie d'amour" (1979) (7-inch vinyl France: Disques Espérance ESP 65.009)

"Give Me a Reason" / "Africa" (1989) (7-inch vinyl Italy: Philips 875 308-7)

"Pata Pata 2000" (2000) (CD Putumayo PUTU 919-S)

Wikipedia

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The Pull List: New Comic book Release for 9/19/2018

Another week and another new comic book day. Is it sad that I look forward to Wednesdays just for the new comic book releases? Thought not.

Anyway, today is an epic release day for Marvel Comics. Everyone’s favorite Canadian Logan..aka Wolverine has returned! Don’t forget to share pictures with us through social media so we can all celebrate his return together. There is also a lot of other great books releasing today so oh happy day! Thanks to our friends at Comic List for the release information.

Comic Book Release For 9-19-2018.

PUBLISHER TITLE, ISSUE NUMBER, PRICE IN U.S. DOLLARS ("AR" means "ask your retailer for the price")

ABSTRACT STUDIOS Strangers In Paradise XXV #6, $3.99

AFTERSHOCK COMICS Cold War Volume 1 TP, $14.99 Lost City Explorers #4, $3.99 Patience Conviction Revenge #1 (Cover A Marco Ferrari), $3.99 Patience Conviction Revenge #1 (Cover B Robert Hack), $3.99

ALTERNATIVE COMICS True Stories #4, $5.99

AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY PRODUCTIONS Casper's Capers #1 (Cover A Jeff Scherer), $3.99 Casper's Capers #1 (Cover B Warren Kremer Vintage Variant), $9.99 Pink Panther Surfside Special #1 (Cover A Jacob Greenwalt MisterJaw Variant), $3.99 Pink Panther Surfside Special #1 (Cover B Retro Animation Variant), $9.99 Pink Panther Surfside Special #1 (Cover C Adrian Ropp Catch A Wave Variant), $3.99

AMP! COMICS FOR KIDS Big Nate Goes Bananas TP, $9.99

ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS Archie 1000 Page Comics Romp TP, $14.99 Betty And Veronica Friends Jumbo Comics Digest #264, $6.99

ASPEN COMICS Fathom Kiani Volume 3 Blade Of Vengeance TP, $9.99 Nu Way #3 (Cover A Alex Konat), $3.99 Nu Way #3 (Cover B Jordan Gunderson), $3.99 Soulfire Volume 7 #3 (Cover A Chahine Ladjouze), $3.99 Soulfire Volume 7 #3 (Cover B Michael Sta. Maria), $3.99 Soulfire Volume 7 #3 (Cover C Romina Moranelli), AR

BALLANTINE BOOKS Garfield Complete Works Volume 1 1978-1979 TP, $25.00

BLACK LIBRARY Warhammer 40000 Carcharodons Outer Dark Prose Novel SC, $16.00 Warhammer 40000 Ciaphas Cain Saviour Of The Imperium Prose Novel SC, $21.00 Warhammer Chronicles Masters Of Steel And Stone Prose Novel SC, $21.00

BLACK MASK COMICS Oh S#!t It's Kim And Kim #2, $3.99

BONGO COMICS Chief Wiggum's Felonious Funnies #1, $3.99

BOOM! STUDIOS Black Badge #2 (Cover A Matt Kindt), $3.99 Black Badge #2 (Cover B Tyler Jenkins), $3.99 Black Badge #2 (Cover C Greg Smallwood), $3.99 By Night #4 (Of 12)(Cover A Christine Larsen), $3.99 By Night #4 (Of 12)(Cover B John Allison), $3.99 Coda #5 (Of 12)(Cover A Matias Bergara), $3.99 Coda #5 (Of 12)(Cover B Trevor Hairsine), $3.99 Coda Volume 1 TP (Discover Now Edition), $9.99 Jim Henson's Labyrinth Shortcuts HC, $24.99 Lumberjanes #54 (Cover A Kat Leyh), $3.99 Lumberjanes #54 (Cover B Dozerdraws), $3.99 Over The Garden Wall Hollow Town #1 (Of 5)(Cover A Celia Lowenthal), $3.99 Over The Garden Wall Hollow Town #1 (Of 5)(Cover B Natalie Hall), $3.99 Over The Garden Wall Hollow Town #1 (Of 5)(Cover C Miguel Mercado), AR Over The Garden Wall Volume 5 TP, $14.99 Petals HC, $16.99 Saban's Go Go Power Rangers Back To School #1 (Cover A Dan Mora), $7.99 Saban's Go Go Power Rangers Back To School #1 (Cover B Gurihiru), AR Saban's Go Go Power Rangers Back To School #1 (Cover C Jonboy Meyers), AR Skybourne HC, $29.99 Steven Universe #20 (Cover A Missy Pena), $3.99 Steven Universe #20 (Cover B Caitlyn Kurilich), $3.99 WWE NXT Takeover Into The Fire #1 (Cover A David Nakayama), $3.99 WWE NXT Takeover Into The Fire #1 (Cover B Marco D'Alfonso Connecting Variant), $3.99

BOUNDLESS COMICS Lookers Ember #11 (Christian Zanier Explosive Cover), $5.99 Lookers Ember #11 (Christian Zanier Red Hot Cover), $5.99 Lookers Ember #11 (Christian Zanier Regular Cover), $5.99 Lookers Ember #11 (Christian Zanier Wraparound Cover), $5.99 Lookers Ember #11 (Matt Martin Luscious Cover), $5.99 Lookers Ember #11 (Raulo Caceres Sexy Spies Cover), $5.99 Lookers Ember #11 (Renato Camilo GGA Homage Cover), $5.99 Lookers Ember #11 (Renato Camilo Workout Cover), $5.99

CINEBOOK Ian Volume 1 An Electric Monkey GN, $11.95

COMIC SHOP NEWS Comic Shop News #1631, AR Comic Shop News Fall 2018 Preview, AR

DANGER ZONE Zombie Tramp Origins HC (Dan Mendoza Regular Cover), $24.99 Zombie Tramp Origins HC (Dan Mendoza Regular Cover)(Signed Edition), $39.99 Zombie Tramp Origins HC (Dan Mendoza Risque Cover), $29.99 Zombie Tramp Origins HC (Dan Mendoza Risque Cover)(Signed Edition), $49.99

DARK HORSE COMICS Berserk Official Guidebook TP, $14.99 Black Hammer Age Of Doom #5 (Cover A Dean Ormston), $3.99 Black Hammer Age Of Doom #5 (Cover B Fabio Moon), $3.99 Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 12 The Reckoning #4 (Of 4)(Cover A Stephanie Hans), $3.99 Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 12 The Reckoning #4 (Of 4)(Cover B Georges Jeanty), $3.99 Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 12 The Reckoning #4 (Of 4)(Cover C Steve Morris), $3.99 Disney Pixar The Incredibles 2 Crisis In Mid-Life And Other Stories #3 (Cover A Gurihiru), $3.99 Disney Pixar The Incredibles 2 Crisis In Mid-Life And Other Stories #3 (Cover B J. Bone & Dan Jackson), $3.99 Ether The Copper Golems #5 (Of 5)(Cover A David Rubin), $3.99 Ether The Copper Golems #5 (Of 5)(Cover B Jen Bartel), $3.99 Fate Zero Volume 7 TP, $11.99 Mata Hari #5 (Of 5), $3.99 Olivia Twist #1, $3.99 Terminator Sector War #2 (Of 4)(Cover A Robert Sammelin), $3.99 Terminator Sector War #2 (Of 4)(Cover B Daniel Warren Johnson), $3.99 Usagi Yojimbo #171 (The Hidden Part 6 Of 7), $3.99 Witchfinder The Gates Of Heaven #5 (Of 5), $3.99

DC COMICS Aquaman #40 (Cover A Rafa Sandoval), $3.99 Aquaman #40 (Cover B Joshua Middleton), AR Bane Conquest TP, $29.99 Batman #55 (Cover A Tony S. Daniel), $3.99 Batman #55 (Cover B Francesco Mattina), AR Batman Damned #1 (Of 3)(Cover A Lee Bermejo), $6.99 Batman Damned #1 (Of 3)(Cover B Jim Lee), AR Batman Knightfall Volume 2 The 25th Anniversary Edition TP, $19.99 Batman The Golden Age Volume 5 TP, $29.99 Damage #9, $2.99 Damage Volume 1 Out Of Control TP, $16.99 Green Lanterns #55 (Cover A Mike Perkins), $3.99 Green Lanterns #55 (Cover B Chris Stevens), AR Hal Jordan And The Green Lantern Corps Volume Zod's Will TP, $14.99 Harley Quinn #50 (Cover A Amanda Conner), $4.99 Harley Quinn #50 (Cover B Frank Cho), AR Injustice 2 #34, $2.99 Injustice Gods Among Us Year One Deluxe Edition Volume 1 HC, $49.99 Injustice Vs The Masters Of The Universe #3 (Of 6), $3.99 Justice League #8 (Cover A Mikel Janin), $3.99 Justice League #8 (Cover B Jim Lee & Scott Williams), AR Justice League #8 (Cover C Jim Lee Pencils Only Variant), AR Justice League No Justice TP, $16.99 Mister Miracle #11 (Of 12)(Cover A Nick Derington), $3.99 Mister Miracle #11 (Of 12)(Cover B Mitch Gerads), AR New Challengers #5 (Of 6), $2.99 Nightwing #49 (Cover A Mike Perkins), $3.99 Nightwing #49 (Cover B John Romita Jr. & Danny Miki), AR Pearl #2 (Of 6), $3.99 Scooby Apocalypse Volume 4 TP, $16.99 Teen Titans #22 (Cover A Nick Derington), $3.99 Teen Titans #22 (Cover B Alex Garner), AR Teen Titans Go #30, $2.99 Titans Volume 4 Titans Apart TP, $16.99 Wild Storm #17 (Cover A Jon Davis-Hunt), $3.99 Wild Storm #17 (Cover B James Harren), AR

DEAD RECKONING Best Of Don Winslow Of The Navy Collection Volume 1 HC, $29.95 Trench Dogs GN, $18.95

DEVILS DUE/1FIRST COMICS Little Girl #2 (Of 4), $3.99

DEY STREET BOOKS Guts Anatomy Of The Walking Dead SC, $16.99

DISNEY - HYPERION Annie Sullivan And The Trials Of Helen Keller GN, $12.99 Annie Sullivan And The Trials Of Helen Keller HC, $17.99

DISNEY EDITIONS Art Of Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse HC, $40.00

DISNEY PRESS Disney Star Vs The Forces Of Evil The Magic Book Of Spells HC, $19.99

DK PUBLISHING Star Wars The Complete Visual Dictionary HC (Updated Edition), $40.00

DYNAMIC FORCES Action Comics #1000 (Ken Haeser Rogol Zarr Sketch Variant Cover), AR Avengers #1 (Greg Land Signed Edition), AR

DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT Jeepers Creepers #5 (Cover A Stuart Sayger), $3.99 Jeepers Creepers #5 (Cover B Kewber Baal), $3.99 Jeepers Creepers #5 (Cover C Kelley Jones), $3.99 Jeepers Creepers #5 (Cover D Stuart Sayger Virgin Variant), AR John Wick #3 (Of 5)(Cover A Giovanni Valletta), $3.99 John Wick #3 (Of 5)(Cover B Ben Garriga), $3.99 John Wick #3 (Of 5)(Cover C Photo), $3.99 Robots Vs Princesses #2 (Cover A Nicolas Chapuis), $3.99 Robots Vs Princesses #2 (Cover B Nicolas Chapuis Virgin Variant), AR

EAGLEMOSS PUBLICATIONS Alien Predator Figurine Collection #42 (Dr Gediman From Alien Resurrection), $29.95 Alien Predator Figurine Collection #43 (Jeri The Synthetic From Aliens Stronghold), $29.95 Alien Predator Figurine Special #11 (Power Loader From Aliens), $79.95 DC Comics Batman The Animated Series Figurine Collection Special #1 (Clayface), $34.95 DC Comics Batman Universe Bust Collection #10 (Batgirl), $24.95 DC Comics Batman Universe Bust Collection #11 (Riddler), $24.95 Star Trek The Official Starships Figurine Collection Magazine Special #21 (LG Enterprise NCC-1701A), $75.00 Star Trek The Official Starships Figurine Collection Magazine Special #24 (LG Enterprise NCC-1701B), $75.00

FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND Famous Monsters Of Filmland #289 (Sanjulian Pinhead Variant Cover), $29.99

FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS Blammo #10, $8.00

FIRST SECOND Check Please Volume 1 #Hockey GN, $23.99

GOLDEN BOOKS DC Super Friends Aquaman Little Golden Book HC, $4.99 Disney Pixar The Incredibles Little Golden Book HC, $4.99

GRAPHIX Dog Man Volume 5 Lord Of The Fleas GN, $9.99

HOLIDAY HOUSE Noodleheads Find Something Fishy GN, $15.99

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT Unwanted Stories Of The Syrian Refugees HC, $18.99

IDW PUBLISHING Dick Tracy Dead Or Alive #1 (Of 4)(Cover A Michael Allred), $3.99 Dick Tracy Dead Or Alive #1 (Of 4)(Cover B Rich Tommaso), $3.99 Dick Tracy Dead Or Alive #1 (Of 4)(Cover C Michael Allred Coloring Book Variant), AR Dick Tracy Dead Or Alive #1 (Of 4)(Cover D Michael Avon Oeming), AR DuckTales #12 (Cover A Marco Ghiglione), $3.99 DuckTales #12 (Cover B Marco Ghiglione), $3.99 DuckTales #12 (Cover C DuckTales Creative Team Blueprint Character-Focused Variant), AR G.I. Joe A Real American Hero Silent Option #1 (Of 4)(Cover A Netho Diaz), $4.99 G.I. Joe A Real American Hero Silent Option #1 (Of 4)(Cover B Kenneth Loh), $4.99 G.I. Joe A Real American Hero Silent Option #1 (Of 4)(Cover C Luca Pizzari), AR G.I. Joe A Real American Hero Silent Option #1 (Of 4)(Cover D Mateus Santolouco), AR Impossible Incorporated #1 (Of 5)(Cover A Mike Cavallaro), $3.99 Impossible Incorporated #1 (Of 5)(Cover B Mike Cavallaro), AR Sonic The Hedgehog #9 (Cover A Lamar Wells & Adam Brce Thomas), $3.99 Sonic The Hedgehog #9 (Cover B Tracy Yardley), $3.99 Sonic The Hedgehog #9 (Cover C Nathalie Foudraine), AR Sword Of Ages #5 (Cover A Gabriel Rodriguez), $3.99 Sword Of Ages #5 (Cover B Gabriel Rodriguez), $3.99 Sword Of Ages #5 (Cover C Gabriel Rodriguez Black & White Variant), AR Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #86 (Cover A Dave Wachter), $3.99 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #86 (Cover B Kevin Eastman), $3.99 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #86 (Cover C Kevin Hopgood), AR Uncle Scrooge #40 (Cover A Giorgio Cavazzano), $3.99 Uncle Scrooge #40 (Cover B Alessio Coppola), $3.99 Uncle Scrooge #40 (Cover C Marco Gervasio), AR

IMAGE COMICS Aphrodite V #3 (Of 4), $3.99 Beowulf TP, $19.99 Bonehead #4, $3.99 Burnouts #1 (Cover A Chris Burnham), $3.99 Burnouts #1 (Cover B Geoffo CBLDF Charity Censored Variant), $3.99 Burnouts #1 (Cover C Geoffo CBLDF Charity Uncensored Variant), $3.99 Coyotes #6, $3.99 Crude #6, $3.99 Curse Words #16 (Cover A Ryan Browne), $3.99 Curse Words #16 (Cover B Ryan Browne Invisible Variant), $3.99 Curse Words #16 (Cover C Charles Soule Not Good Variant), AR Curse Words #16 (Cover D Ryan Browne CBLDF Charity Censored Variant), $3.99 Curse Words #16 (Cover E Ryan Browne CBLDF Charity Uncensored Variant), $3.99 Cyber Force Rebirth Volume 4 TP, $16.99 Days Of Hate #8 (Of 12), $3.99 Death Or Glory #5 (Cover A Bengal), $3.99 Death Or Glory #5 (Cover B Rafael Albuquerque), $3.99 Descender Volume 6 The War Machine TP, $16.99 Evolution #10, $3.99 Farmhand #2 (Rob Guillory 2nd Printing Variant Cover), $3.99 Flavor #5 (Cover A Wook Jin Clark & Tamra Bonvillain), $3.99 Flavor #5 (Cover B Wook Jin Clark CBLDF Charity Censored Variant), $3.99 Flavor #5 (Cover C Wook Jin Clark CBLDF Charity Uncensored Variant), $3.99 Gideon Falls #1 (Director's Cut), $4.99 Hack Slash Resurrection #11 (Cover A Tim Seeley), $3.99 Hack Slash Resurrection #11 (Cover B Richard Pace), $3.99 Hack Slash Resurrection #11 (Cover C Tim Seeley CBLDF Charity Censored Variant), $3.99 Hack Slash Resurrection #11 (Cover D Tim Seeley CBLDF Charity Uncensored Variant), $3.99 Hchom Book TP, $16.99 Hit-Girl #8 (Cover A Eduardo Risso), $3.99 Hit-Girl #8 (Cover B Eduardo Risso), $3.99 Hit-Girl #8 (Cover C John Paul Leon), $3.99 Ice Cream Man #7 (Cover A Martin Morazzo & Chris O'Halloran), $3.99 Ice Cream Man #7 (Cover B Fabio Moon), $3.99 Ice Cream Man #7 (Cover C Martin Morazzo CBLDF Charity Censored Variant), $3.99 Ice Cream Man #7 (Cover D Martin Morazzo CBLDF Charity Uncensored Variant), $3.99 Kick-Ass #7 (Cover A Marcelo Frusin), $3.99 Kick-Ass #7 (Cover B Marcelo Frusin), $3.99 Kick-Ass #7 (Cover C Rafael Grampa), $3.99 Kick-Ass #7 (Cover D Jock), $3.99 Kick-Ass #7 (Cover E Blank Variant), $3.99 Rumble #7 (Cover A David Rubin), $3.99 Rumble #7 (Cover B Toni Fejzula), $3.99 Rumble #7 (Cover C David Rubin CBLDF Charity Censored Variant), $3.99 Rumble #7 (Cover D David Rubin CBLDF Charity Uncensored Variant), $3.99 Rumble #7 (Cover E David Rubin Virgin Variant), $3.99 Savage Dragon #238, $3.99 Seven To Eternity #11 (Cover A Jerome Opena & Matt Hollingsworth), $3.99 Seven To Eternity #11 (Cover B Bengal), $3.99 Skyward #6, $3.99 Skyward Volume 1 My Low-G Life TP, $9.99 Stellar #4, $3.99 Wanted GN (New Printing), $19.99

INSIGHT EDITIONS DC Comics Anatomy Of A Metahuman HC, $50.00

JY W.I.T.C.H. Part 4 Trial Of The Oracle Volume 1 GN, $11.00 W.I.T.C.H. Part 4 Trial Of The Oracle Volume 2 GN, $11.00 W.I.T.C.H. Part 4 Trial Of The Oracle Volume 3 GN, $11.00

KEENSPOT ENTERTAINMENT Junior High Horrors #1 (Cover A Rob Retiano), $4.99 Junior High Horrors #1 (Cover B Rob Retiano JV Exorcist Parody), $4.99 Junior High Horrors #1 (Cover C Rob Retiano Frederick Variant), $4.99 Junior High Horrors #1 (Cover D Rob Retiano Mikey Variant), $4.99

KODANSHA COMICS Interviews With Monster Girls Volume 6 GN, $12.99 Persona Q Shadow Of The Labyrinth Side Part 4 Volume 3 GN, $10.99

LION FORGE Catalyst Prime Summit #9, $3.99 Catalyst Prime Superb #13, $3.99 Encounter #6, $3.99 Mae Volume 2 #3, $3.99

LITTLE BROWN AND COMPANY Buffy The Vampire Slayer New School Nightmare Novel HC, $13.99

LIVERIGHT Home After Dark GN, $27.95

LOCUS MAGAZINE Locus #692, $7.50

MAGNETIC COLLECTION Infinity 8 #6, $3.99

MARVEL COMICS Amazing Spider-Man #4 (Ryan Ottley 2nd Printing Variant Cover), $3.99 Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 (Cover A Aco), $4.99 Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 (Cover B Gabriele Dell'Otto), AR Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 (Cover C Dennis Chan Marvel's Spider-Man Video Game Variant), AR Amazing Spider-Man Red Goblin HC, $34.99 Amazing Spider-Man Renew Your Vows #23, $3.99 Avengers #8 (Cover A David Marquez), $3.99 Avengers #8 (Cover B Philip Tan), AR Avengers #8 (Cover C Mike McKone Cosmic Ghost Rider Vs Variant), AR Black Panther #3 (Daniel Acuna 2nd Printing Variant Cover), $3.99 Cable Volume 3 Past Fears TP, $15.99 Captain America Annual #1 (Cover A Chris Sprouse), $4.99 Captain America Annual #1 (Cover B Kaare Andrews), AR Clandestine Family Ties TP, $29.99 Doctor Strange #5 (Cover A Javier Garron), $3.99 Doctor Strange #5 (Cover B Julian Totino Tedesco Cosmic Ghost Rider Vs Variant), AR Edge Of Spider-Geddon #3 (Of 4)(Cover A Tonci Zonjic), $3.99 Edge Of Spider-Geddon #3 (Of 4)(Cover B Cully Hamner), AR Extermination #1 (Of 5)(Pepe Larraz 2nd Printing Variant Cover), $4.99 Franklin Richards A Fantastic Year #1, $7.99 Immortal Hulk #6 (Cover A Alex Ross), $3.99 Immortal Hulk #6 (Cover B Brent Schoonover Cosmic Ghost Rider Vs Variant), AR Infinity Countdown Darkhawk TP, $15.99 Infinity Wars #2 (Of 6)(Mike Deodato Jr. 3rd Printing Variant Cover), $4.99 Infinity Wars Prime #1 (Mike Deodato Jr. 3rd Printing Spoiler Variant Cover), $4.99 Infinity Wars Soldier Supreme #1 (Of 2)(Cover A Humberto Ramos), $3.99 Infinity Wars Soldier Supreme #1 (Of 2)(Cover B Humberto Ramos Design Variant), AR Infinity Wars Soldier Supreme #1 (Of 2)(Cover C Adam Kubert), AR Life Of Captain Marvel #2 (Of 5)(Carlos Pacheco Lau 2nd Printing Variant Cover), $3.99 Life Of Captain Marvel #3 (Of 5)(Cover A Julian Totino Tedesco), $3.99 Life Of Captain Marvel #3 (Of 5)(Cover B Joe Quesada), AR Life Of Captain Marvel #3 (Of 5)(Cover C Joe Quesada Virgin Variant), AR Marvel Knights Fantastic Four By Morrison And Lee 1234 TP, $15.99 Marvel Masterworks Killraven Volume 1 HC (Book Market Edition), $100.00 Marvel Masterworks Killraven Volume 1 HC (Direct Market Variant Edition Volume Variant 265), $100.00 Marvel Super Hero Adventures Captain Marvel First Day Of School #1, $3.99 Mighty Thor Volume 4 The War Thor TP, $19.99 Mr. And Mrs. X #3 (Cover A Terry Dodson), $3.99 Mr. And Mrs. X #3 (Cover B Phil Noto), AR Multiple Man #4 (Of 5), $3.99 Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover A Steve McNiven), $4.99 Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover B Steve McNiven X-Force Costume Variant), AR Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover C Steve McNiven Fang Costume Variant), AR Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover D Steve McNiven Age Of Apocalypse Costume Variant), AR Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover E Steve McNiven Patch Costume Variant), AR Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover F Steve McNiven Weapon X Costume Variant), AR Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover G Steve McNiven Brown & Tan Costume Variant), AR Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover H Steve McNiven Original Wolverine Variant), AR Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover I Todd McFarlane Remastered Variant), AR Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover J Todd McFarlane Black & White Remastered Variant), AR Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover K John Cassaday), AR Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover L Leinil Francis Yu), AR Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover M Skottie Young), AR Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover N John Tyler Christopher), AR Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover O Todd Nauck Party Variant), AR Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover P Steve McNiven Premiere Variant), AR Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover Q Blank Variant), AR Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover R Steve McNiven Age Of Apocalypse Costume Virgin Variant), AR Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover S Steve McNiven Brown & Tan Costume Virgin Variant), AR Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover T Steve McNiven Current Costume Virgin Variant), AR Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover U Steve McNiven Fang Costume Virgin Variant), AR Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover V Steve McNiven Patch Costume Virgin Variant), AR Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover W Steve McNiven Weapon X Costume Virgin Variant), AR Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover X Steve McNiven Original Wolverine Virgin Variant), AR Return Of Wolverine #1 (Of 5)(Cover Y Steve McNiven X-Force Costume Virgin Variant), AR Spider-Gwen Volume 6 The Life Of Gwen Stacy TP, $15.99 Star Wars #54 (Cover A David Marquez), $3.99 Star Wars #54 (Cover B John Tyler Christopher Action Figure Variant), AR Star Wars Doctor Aphra Volume 1 HC, $34.99 Star Wars Lando Double Or Nothing #5 (Of 5)(Cover A W. 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NOBROW Hilda And The Hidden People Movie Tie-In Novel HC, $13.95

ONI PRESS Rick And Morty Presents Sleepy Gary #1 (Cover A CJ Cannon), $4.99 Rick And Morty Presents Sleepy Gary #1 (Cover B Cara McGee), $4.99

PANTHEON BOOKS My Brother's Husband Volume 2 GN, $25.95

QUIRK BOOKS Buffy The Vampire Slayer Pop Classic Illustrated Storybook HC, $18.99

RANDOM HOUSE Passing For Human A Graphic Memoir HC, $28.00

REBELLION/2000AD Ballad Of Halo Jones Volume 3 TP (Color Edition), $9.99

SCOUT COMICS Stabbity Bunny #7, $3.99

SEVEN SEAS ENTERTAINMENT Devilman Grimoire Volume 4 GN, $12.99 Hour Of The Zombie Volume 7 GN, $12.99 Soul Liquid Chambers Volume 2 GN, $12.99

SILVER SPROCKET Be Your Own Backing Band GN (Full Color Edition), $12.00

SOURCEBOOKS Illegal HC, $19.99

STARBURNS INDUSTRIES PRESS Hellicious #3 (Of 5)(Cover A Kit Wallis & Jio Butler), $3.99

TITAN BOOKS Charlesgate Confidential HC, $22.99 Predator The Official Movie Novelization MMPB, $7.99

TITAN COMICS Bloodborne #5 (Cover A Tradd Moore), $3.99 Bloodborne #5 (Cover B Piotr Kowalski), $3.99 Bloodborne #5 (Cover C Game Art), $3.99 Bloodborne #5 (Cover D Tradd Moore Black & White Variant), $3.99 Doctor Who The Lost Dimension Volume 1 TP, $16.99 Millenium The Girl Who Danced With Death #2 (Of 3)(Cover A Claudia SG Iannicello), $5.99 Millenium The Girl Who Danced With Death #2 (Of 3)(Cover B Belen Ortega), $5.99 Predator The Official Movie Special #1 (Newstand Edition), $9.99 Predator The Official Movie Special #1 (Previews Exclusive Edition), $9.99 Predator The Official Movie Special HC, $19.99 Rex Royd SC, $19.99 Rivers Of London Water Weed #4, $3.99 Sea Of Thieves TP, $16.99

TOHAN CORPORATION Hobby Japan #176 (July 2018), $20.00

TOKYOPOP Disney Manga The Nightmare Before Christmas Zero's Journey Volume 1 GN, $15.99 Hanger Manga Volume 2 GN, $12.99 Undead Messiah Manga Volume 1 GN, $10.99

VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT Britannia Lost Eagles Of Rome #3 (Of 4)(Cover A David Mack), $3.99 Britannia Lost Eagles Of Rome #3 (Of 4)(Cover B Mj Kim), $3.99 Britannia Lost Eagles Of Rome #3 (Of 4)(Cover C Andres Guinaldo), AR Ninjak Vs The Valiant Universe TP, $9.99 Quantum And Woody #10 (Cover A Kyle Smart), $3.99 Quantum And Woody #10 (Cover B Geoff Shaw Extreme Ultra-Foil Variant), $3.99 Quantum And Woody #10 (Cover C Ariel Olivetti Pre-Order Edition Variant), AR Quantum And Woody #10 (Cover D Joe Eisma Interlocking Variant), AR Shadowman #7 (Cover A Tonci Zonjic), $3.99 Shadowman #7 (Cover B David Mack), $3.99 Shadowman #7 (Cover C Paulina Ganucheau), $3.99 Shadowman #7 (Cover D Hannah Templer Pre-Order Edition Variant), AR Shadowman #7 (Cover E David LaFuente Interlocking Variant), AR

VAULT COMICS Vagrant Queen #4 (Cover A Natasha Alterici), $3.99 Vagrant Queen #4 (Cover B Jason Smith), $3.99

VERTICAL COMICS City Volume 3 GN, $12.95 Delinquent Housewife Volume 1 GN, $12.95

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Big-Block and Pony Cars Gather at Beautiful Lacy Park for the 2018 San Marino Motor Classic

One of the things we enjoy most about the San Marino Motor Classic (SMMC) in California, besides the fact that it’s a 20-minute drive from home, is the diversity. This is the kind of concours d’elegance where you can expect the expected—prewar Classics, brass-era cars, even a steamer or two—as well as the totally unexpected. Comedian, podcaster, and film producer Adam Carolla brought 10 of Paul Newman’s race cars. (“The salad dressing guy?” my daughter asked.) A 1970 Buick Estate Wagon was not only on display, but it also won a class award, as did a 1967 Ford Country Squire. And we were glad to see that the Historic Vehicle Association had its own class of well-preserved originals, with awards given to a 1954 Jaguar XK120, a 1939 Lincoln Zephyr, and a 1972 Citroen SM.

Like we said, diversity.

We were there with camera and notebook in hand because a healthy percentage of the 350-some cars parked on the beautiful grounds of Lacy Park were muscle cars. Class Manager Joe Salvo and Assistant Class Manager Paul Ginsburg worked hard over the past year to gather enough high-performance Detroit iron that they filled four classes, two for big-block cars (GM and non) and two for pony cars (Mustangs and the rest). Motor Classic in the show’s name may have to change to Muscle Cars if Salvo and Ginsburg keep this up.

As if stunning cars parked in a gorgeous location weren’t enough to recommend this show, it also takes place in early June, so the SoCal weather is usually perfect (not too hot, not too gray). There’s a wide assortment of food trucks parked on the grounds to sate any taste. And all money generated by the concours goes to local charities. This year the show raised more than $300,000 for the Pasadena Humane Society & SPCA, the Rotary Club of San Marino, and the USC Trojan Marching Band, members of which played on the grounds throughout the day. Now in its eighth year, the SMMC has generated $1.9 million for charity.

Mark your calendars: The next San Marino Motor Classic is scheduled for June 9, 2019. Visit sanmarinomotorclassic.com for more info.

We are suckers for original-owner muscle. Apparently the SMMC judges are, too, as they gave Tim Munyer’s 1967 Chevelle SS396 First in the American Big-Block Muscle Cars 1962-1972 GM class. After buying the Tahoe Turquoise Chevy as a new car, Munyer put 17,000 miles on it in two years before storing it in his parents’ garage because his employer, Ford Motor Company, didn’t like him taking it to work.

Taking First Place in the non-GM big-block class was Christopher Sullivan’s immaculate 1968 Shelby GT500. First sold in Los Angeles at Downey Ford, the Shelby went through a six-year rotisserie restoration, during which Sullivan reused as many of the car’s original parts as possible, including the complete original interior. It was well preserved, he said, because the car spent nearly two decades in storage, “walled off by stacks and stacks of books.”

Ken Woolcott’s 1966 Mustang GT took First in the Pony Cars–Ford Mustang class. The convertible was entered in his name, but he says the car actually belongs to his 14-year-old son, Spencer. “We are an all-Mustang family,” Woolcott explains. His father owned seven, “and after he passed we sold all of them to buy this one.” It’s an original GT delivered in the very rare, 1966-only Ember Glow color. When Woolcott bought the GT it was “all original but tired,” and underwent a two-year restoration by Joe DeMeo in Los Angeles. “I drive the hell out of it between shows. I don’t like trailer queens.”

Longtime reader Tom Gipe first saw a Panther Pink Challenger with a black roof in MUSCLE CAR REVIEW in 1984 and said to himself, “I have to have that car!” Years of searching turned up this T/A in a barn in his father’s Illinois hometown in 2004, but the owner didn’t want to sell. He saw the car again at Mopars at the Strip in 2011, and was finally able to buy it in 2015. His two-year restoration was finished last September. “It’s a pretty basic one,” Gipe says of the Challenger. “Standard dash, automatic, no light group.” Among the non-Mustang Pony Cars at the SMMC, Tom’s Challenger nabbed First in class.

Jack Thomas’s 1968 Charger, in Turbine Bronze with black stripes, “looks like all the ads you saw when the car was new,” he says. He bought the factory Hemi/four-speed car just a couple months before the show. Though it had been through a rotisserie restoration, “now I’m fixing what’s incorrect.” Most of the wrongs he righted so far have been underhood, ranging from the incorrect battery and ground wire to the improper orientation of the air cleaner, the lack of a PCV valve, and the use of generic heater hoses. It’s a long and time-consuming process, made more so by Thomas’ recent knee replacement. We appreciated his commitment enough to give him our MCR Magazine Award.

In 2014, Delco Hagen came to the SMMC with his Monaco Orange 1969 Chevelle hardtop, sporting an aluminum-headed L89 version of the 375hp big-block underhood. He told us he was working on a convertible twin for that car, but back then he had no idea it would take years to get the drop-top done so he could show them together (as seen in our opening photo). “It was a basket case,” he explains, “with parts missing and wrong parts. The previous owner promised parts he didn’t have. That’s why it took four years to restore instead of two.” Terry Sparks performed the restoration on both cars, with Hagen chasing needed parts. Other than the convertible’s power windows, the two cars are identically equipped. The SMMC judges gave Hagen Second in class for the convertible, Third for the hardtop.

Other than a repaint done 21 years ago, David Sparks’ L72-powered, 70,000-mile 1966 Bel Air is “100 percent original,” he says. The plain-white-wrapped sleeper was still wearing the emblem of its original-selling dealership when Sparks bought the car 12 years ago, allowing him to trace its origins to Munford, Tennessee. Apparently there were no racers in that town. According to the son of the dealership’s owner, “No one wanted a hi-po 427 with a manual transmission and the heavy-duty suspension,” says Sparks.

Taking Second in the non-Mustang Pony Car Class was Jim Mikkelson’s Hugger Orange Camaro SS350. The convertible is immaculate now thanks to the efforts of J&H Restorations of Riverside, California, a far cry from how it arrived from Iowa after Mikkelson bought it on the internet. “It was supposed to be restored, but when it showed up it had some issues,” he tells us, understating the car’s shoddy condition. J&H basically “took the car apart until nothing was wrong,” and then rebuilt it correctly. It’s a numbers-matching car heavy with options—literally. “It has power windows, which are rare, only about one percent of the Camaros got them, because they add 500 pounds to the car.”

The first time George Tutundjian saw this 340 ’Cuda it belonged to the original owner. Five years later he spotted the car again on a used car lot and bought it. “But then I sold it, regretted it, and bought it again 30 years later.” Other than a repaint of the Curious Yellow in the 1980s, the ’Cuda remains in remarkable original shape. It’s a two-fender-tag car loaded with options ranging from the vinyl top and billboards to the cassette player with microphone.

The original owner of Michael Dunbar’s 1970 Torino drove it until 1978, when, with 60,000 miles on the clock, something went wrong with the 429 Cobra Jet. He took it to his local gas station for a diagnosis, “and they wanted him to get a new motor.” Instead, Dunbar parked it for nearly 20 years. When the engine was torn down during the car’s restoration, the only thing wrong was a broken valvespring. Dunbar figures the pump jockey was angling for a free CJ. Dunbar bought the Torino from its second owner as a stalled resto project in pieces, “but he had everything; the only thing missing was the jack handle.” The car’s Marti Report indicates it is one-of-one, “because it has two rear-deck speakers instead of one,” says Dunbar.

SMMC regular John Chencharick brought this 1971 4-4-2 W-30 to the show, a car he and restorer Phil LaChapelle have been working on over the years. “It’s maybe one of 10 in existence,” he says, since it has white stripes over the Bittersweet paint. “Most would have had black accents.” The red plastic inner fenders are original, cooked to pink over the years due to underhood heat. He plans to leave them in place. “It’s been a seven-year project, and it’s not really done,” he admits. But that’s OK. “I can take it out, drive it, and still enjoy it.”

Assistant Class Manager Paul Ginsburg preps the tires on his 1964 Galaxie 500. He has owned the car for five years; the previous owner gave it the NASCAR look by lowering the stance, mounting the steel wheels, and giving the body (and the wheels) a pearlescent paint job popular with race cars in the day. “That way they would glow under the track lights at night,” Ginsburg says. Under the hood is a 390 retrofitted with triple-carb induction and wearing Ford’s header-like cast exhaust manifolds. Although the previous owner cut the sheetmetal ahead of the rear wheels for exhaust outlets, Ginsburg patched the panels and went for a simpler pipe system, installed by Verne Sweeney of Sweeney’s Custom Mufflers in Torrance. The exhaust now exits via MagnaFlow mufflers just ahead of the rear axle.

Gary Hicks brought his 1966 Gran Sport to the SMMC in 2015. “It’s prettier than ever,” says the obviously proud original owner. He and wife Vallerie bought it new as their family car; “brought the kids home from the hospital in it.” But Hicks also spent time at Orange County International Raceway and still has the time slips to back up his memories of 14-second e.t.’s at 100 mph. “And that’s with air conditioning and all the power accessories, but I did mount slicks,” he admits. His extensive binder covering the car’s history and two-year restoration includes letters written by Pop Kennedy (cofounder of Kenne Bell) with tips for making the 401-inch nailhead run better.

“I’ve wanted a Mustang since I was 12,�� explains Cindy Brenneman, whose introduction to the pony came via her father, a salesman at a Ford dealership in Oakland, California. She began “actively looking” for a “bone stock” Poppy Red convertible about 10 years ago and found this car among a collection of European exotics last year. The 43,000-mile convertible had been repainted six years ago but was otherwise complete, right down to the smog equipment. She installed new tires and front disc brakes and drives it often.

Ted Taylor’s aunt bought this Dan Gurney Special 1968 Cougar new from Foothill Motors in Pasadena, and he got it from her in 1983. Back then it was just “a second car to drive.” The family proceeded to pile on the miles; the odometer shows about 128,000 now. Fifteen years ago “it started to burn oil,” and Taylor decided it was time for a restoration. It still has all the original sheetmetal and drivetrain, but “everything was either refurbished or replaced.”

Jason Fisher’s 1966 Shelby G.T. 350H is one of the 50 or so Hertz “rent-a-racers” painted Sapphire Blue with gold stripes. He bought the car in “good” condition, he says, with the original engine and even the original carburetor. In the two years he has owned it he tended to the mechanical and cosmetic work it needed. That effort paid off with an American Icon award at this year’s La Jolla Concours d’Elegance.

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