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Day: March 19, 2019

Challenging the User Paradigm: Comic Book Characters, 1937-1954

March 19, 2019 by emilydufton

Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from contributing editor Bob Beach. Beach is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Albany, SUNY. Who is Weedy Smudgeon? He makes a quick appearance in Ghost Rider #8 (August 1952) trying to kill Rex Fury. We don’t learn much about him except that he robs graves for the …

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