The Mighty Marvel Super-Heroes

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“Even though he floated in on the tide— who he was— where he came from— no one— not even the unknown youth himself— knew,” (Robert Kanigher, Brave and the Bold no. 1).

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"No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it," (Paul Coehlo, The Alchemist).

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“Ah, the famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it’s just a representation, is it not? So, if I had written on my picture, This is a pipe, I’d have been lying,” (Renee Magritte).

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"Andy sat down to talk one day / He said decide what you want / Do you want to expand your parameters / Or play museums like some dilettante," (Lou Reed and John Cale, Work).

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“The scales aren’t balanced. The adversary who is trying to fool you, whether it’s for political or economic reasons, is incredibly committed,” (Henry Farid).

Loki, the comic book villain, was created by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, and Jack Kirby. Weirdly, Loki the mythological figure was also created by Lee and Kirby.

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“Both films are about the weather of the human soul, and no two films could be more different,” (Roger Ebert, “The Exorcist”).

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“Prison and palace and reverberation / Of thunder of spring over distant mountains,” (T.S. Elliot, The Waste Land).

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“This is make-believe. No one is martyred, there is no violence there. To use an analogy with another game, who is bankrupted by a game of Monopoly? Nobody is,” (Gary Gygax).

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"I wonder if this is not the paradigmatic tragedy of our age, that full responsibility for our acts in denied us by the complex nature of the world, that we are deprived even the dignity of an individual failure," (Carter Scholz).

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"Yesterday, upon the stair, / I met a man who wasn't there / He wasn't there again today / I wish, I wish he'd go away..." (Hughes Mearnes, Antigonish).

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“As I walked on, marveling at each successive mechanical wonder, I realized that I was witnessing the history of machinery, as if on parade, from its primitive beginnings to the present day, in all its complex and astounding elaborations,” (Diego Rivera).

Thunderball was created by Len Wein and Sal Buscema!

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“Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power,” (Fernand Leger).

Works cited. Probably the most cribbing and/or stealing I’ve done for one of these strips.

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“It is worthwhile to remind yourself of the marvel of everything sometimes,” (Mike Birbiglia).

Marvel Comics’ Thor was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby!

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“The day had been long and full of dragons. And the way ahead grew dark,” (Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore).

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”Yes I realize it’s unusual for an artist to want to work way up near the roof of a big hotel in the heart of the roaring city but I think that’s just what the artist of today needs for stimulus,” (Georgia O’Keefe).

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“Cleverness, as usual, takes all the credit it possibly can. But it's not the clever mind that's responsible when things work out. It's the mind that sees what's in front of it, and follows the nature of things,” (Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh).

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“Let be be finale of seem. / The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream,” (Wallace Stevens, The Emperor of Ice-Cream).