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Variant Cover to “Batman” #99, Jorge Jimenez, 2020

DC Comics.

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“Oooooooh, I got a live one here!”

For any millennials reading this, the above headline is another one of my awesome 80’s references.

Pal of mine got me these bat Halloween decorations; they’re all over my house.  Here’s the thing, though — they look so much like Batman’s bat symbol that I might leave them affixed at key locations in my home after the holiday, the better to confer superhero lair status.  The second picture below is my bedroom door, for example.

I could go nuts.  I could have a bat-lamp.  A bat-coffeemaker.  A bat-dishwasher.  A bat-garbage can.  Can’t afford the butler, though.



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Cover to “Child Life,” October 1923, Hazel Frazee

Rand McNally.

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It wouldn’t be heart to pull off.

I saw this sign on Luck Avenue.  If I leased a space from Poe & Cronk, I’d call them up, demand to speak directly to Poe, and complain about “THE BEATING OF THAT HIDEOUS HEART” under the floorboards.

I’d be joking, though.  (It would be just a Cronk call.)



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Cover to “Crime On My Hands,” Carl G. Hodges, 1951

Hanro Corporation.

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Cover to “The Unexpected’ #145, Nick Cardy, 1973

DC Comics.

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Trains passing beneath Mill Mountain, Roanoke, VA, October 2021

Vicinity of Jefferson Street SW and Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital.

Norwegian poster for “Blade” (1998)

New Line Cinema.

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Salem Avenue SW, Roanoke, VA, October 2021

The front of these buildings face Campbell Avenue to the south.

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