Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site oddjob.UChicago.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!gargoyle!oddjob!paul From: paul@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP (Paul Schinder) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Re: Ketchup Comments #1 Message-ID: <583@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP> Date: Sun, 27-Jan-85 23:06:24 EST Article-I.D.: oddjob.583 Posted: Sun Jan 27 23:06:24 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 29-Jan-85 05:32:54 EST References: Reply-To: paul@oddjob.UUCP ( Schinder) Organization: U. Chicago: Astronomy & Astrophysics Lines: 29 Summary: >> ...Doom is even older, since he's a contemporary of Reed Richards, >> who fought in World War II. > >But revisionist Marvel History has it that that issue of SGT. FURY in >which Reed Richards appears never happened, or that it wasn't *really* >Reed Richards. Marvel doesn't want Reed to be 60+ years old. > How can they help it? I remember an old FF where Ben and Reed were reminiscing about their war days. Ben was a fighter pilot in the Pacific, and Reed was with the OSS in Europe. I even think there was a Two-in-One a few years ago teaming up Ben Grimm and the Howling Commandos. I don't *think* that that was just a dream, although I could be wrong. The fact that Ben and Reed were in WWII seems to be too ingrained in the FF saga for Marvel to arbitrarily dump it. On the same note, does anyone remember the issue of the X-men a few years back where Wolverine, in a tough situation, says something like "this reminds me of that night on Monte Casino". Seems like he was in WWII too (and who knows how many *other* wars he was in. That mutant healing factor might give longevity, as others on the net have suggested.) Charles Xavier, I believe, also served in WWII. -- Paul Schinder Astronomy and Astrophysics Center University of Chicago uucp: ..!ihnp4!oddjob!paul