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John Law. Was he a genius? Was he a con man? Was he a genius con man? Find out on this episode of DAOC as the gang goes back in time to explore the origins of paper money itself!
Editing and thumbnail by Noah
John Law is calling… Will you pick up?..
Tarantula (John Law)
Is Tarantula from DC Comics Batman or Spider-Man?
Batman
Spider-Man
tarantula writing fanfiction about hooking up with his publisher’s receptionist and nightwing being his sidekick and damsel in distress is the kind of comedy gold i need to see again asap
The Collected Will Eisner's John Law HC (2025)
Art by: Gary Chaloner
Best DC Jonathan
Samuel Kent [Superboy/Superman/Superson]
Kent Sr [Pa Kent]
Chambers [Johnny Quick]
Cheval [Monocle]
Osterman [Doctor Manhattan]
Crane [Scarecrow]
Fox [(future) Flash]
Law [Tarantula/Spider Man]
Levine [Prester Jon]
Sorrow [Johnny Sorrow]
Gabrielli [Gabby (founding member of the Newsboy Legion)]
how dare you forget _____?
No Johns allowed (at least not as an official, non-nickname first name)
What's your favorite exhibit at the museum? And what's something you guys don't have out all the time that you wish more people could see?
So I guess this gives me a chance to fully explain how our lovely little spot is laid out for those of you who may be curious.
(A cross section of the Perisphere as it existed during the war, we have now converted this image into a brochure for the museum)
My favorite spot in the entire museum is the "ground" floor, where you enter the building from the Trylon and come out into what was the seating and speaking area. It's the largest floor in the building and the main sector of exhibits. Along every wall there is a special case exhibit for every hero that served within the Squadron.
The Exhibits start with the Crimson Avenger directly to the left of the door, going in chronological order every hero that appeared afterwards until it circles back around to the entrance. This is also where most of my work day is spent. As a tour guide and general historian I lead groups through our "extensive" tour.
The "Extensive" tour is the most expensive and most in depth option we offer. It's about 15 bucks per person with discounts for groups. I take you through every. single. exhibit in the building on a personally guided walking tour. It takes about 2 1/2 to 3 hours depending on the group. It is designed for people who want to really sink their fingers into every exhibit and artifact we have to offer.
I am one of only two people on staff who gives these tours, because I am the only person who volunteered, when it was decided I had to be put on other duties later in the day they had to give the other poor girl a raise just to get her to agree. It is 2/3rds of what I do in a day. I get to give about 2 of them before I get traded off onto other duties. The first extensive tour starts at 9 AM and the last one finished at 6 PM.
My favorite singular exhibit is the alcove we have where all the members of the Freedom Fighters are shown. It has some of our best artifacts and, is actually frequented by the real life, actual, no shit Uncle Sam. He gives me a 15 minute break or so whenever I run into him as he regales the people with stories from the front lines and I get to watch people's reactions after I tell them that that is the actual, real life Uncle Sam.
My favorite singular CASE is actually further back in the 7 Soldiers area, where I get to see older folks realize that the Vigilante was country western star Greg Saunders.
As for things we don't keep out, while all the floors of the Perisphere itself are accessible to the public, the below ground areas that were once the labs and workshops are closed off and converted into our storage and study spaces. Every single scrap of ANYTHING that was in the building when it was turned over to our organization was filed away down there and a lot of it has gone VERY unsorted. Until SOMEONE (he knows who he is) convinced me to stick my neck out and get to doing it myself. After my lunch break for the final tour period I get rotated off and sent downstairs to sort through every little piece of garbage that the heroes of the past left behind.
When I tell you the things I have discovered.
I have seen the first line of Greg Saunders' most famous song scribbled on the inside of a candy bar wrapper. One of the words is different, implying to me that this was the first time he'd tried to write those words down.
A letter from Joan Williams to Jay Garrick with a lipstick kiss next to her name. I found this one on the same day of her funeral and I felt like a fucking knob. I have never been so guilty in my LIFE.
Books of Arthurian tales where Shining Knight has scribbled MST3K style corrections in the margins. His bookmark was an actual feather from his actual pegasus.
Some of the original notes Tarantula would later turn into field defining book. Before editing. Which means I now know which members of the team were AWFUL potty mouths.
An actual, labeled bottle of Miraclo pills. Still sealed. Nope. Nope, nope, nope, NOPE. For anyone asking if I was tempted I refer to you my post on Miraclo.
The problem of course being that a LOT of these artifacts are intensely personal and not just for us to keep and display. When I find something, and I find out what it IS, my job is then to attempt to return it to whoever it belongs to. I'm not just going to keep a love letter that was sent in confidence between the Garricks. And I sure as HELL was not going to fuck around with a sealed bottle of 70 year old super-pills.
So the last thing I do every day is compile a list of what I have found and what I think it IS, in a biiiggg excel spreadsheet, that I then send off to the modern JSA. Some of it gets donated to the museum, I'd say a slim majority of it gets taken off to be given out to the heroes themselves or their various next of kin.
THOSE are the moments I wish that I could share. To have their writing, their small comforts, their worries, their loves, their fears between my fingertips. More than once I have stumbled upon something that's left me deeply emotional in ways I don't think I can comfortably explain.
If I could show the whole world anything, it would be that. To be looking down at the handwriting of someone you thought was a legend. And instead see a scared, anxious 20 something risking it all because somebody had to.
Anyway, please feel free to ask other questions about the museum or my work here, I thought that'd be more of what this blog was but I am starting to suspect more everyday that this blog has breached multiversal containment ^^'
Régence-tober !
Jour 15 : Le Système
« Law faisait merveille avec son Mississippi. [...] Il s’y faisait presque tout à coup des fortunes immenses. Law, assiégé chez lui de suppliants et de soupirants, voyait forcer sa porte, entrer du jardin par ses fenêtres, tomber dans son cabinet par la cheminée. On ne parlait que par millions. » - Saint-Simon
Bien sûr, c’est plus compliqué que ça… Mais relancer l’économie d’un royaume alors que tout stagne depuis des années et que la dette accable tout le monde, ce n’est pas rien! Le papier monnaie va permettre aux richesses de circuler de nouveau, plus facilement qu’avant. Les plus riches, qui gardaient leur monnaie bien planquée, vont se remettre à dépenser.
Car en plus de la banque qui permettra la distribution du fameux papier, Law va se mêler de commerce outre-mer: il crée la Compagnie d’Occident, qui va veiller à mettre en valeur les colonies françaises en Amérique. La Louisiane et le Mississippi seront particulièrement à l’honneur, on les présente comme de véritables El Dorado. La spéculation ne va pas tarder: des fortunes vont se faire et se perdre à toute vitesse alors que tout le monde vend et revend ses actions! La bourse va s’emballer… Trop. Jusqu’à ce que tout plante. Le krach va bien vite refroidir les ardeurs de tout le monde et on mettra tout ça de côté pour revenir à la bonne vieille monnaie en métal.
On résume grossièrement ici, je suis loin d’être économiste hein… ^^”
(english under the cut!)
