Word: barneys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...true love Wilma Deering tackle the Mongol Reds, who fly by antigravity and fight with disintegrators. Naturally they win, and the struggle occupies the best quarter of the book: in the process, they make contact with Atlantis. Mars, and a resurgent, powerful Navaho nation. They also meet Black Barney, the Air Pirate of India, and the archfiends who will torment them for the next 40 years-Coe Kane, (a slick double agent known as "Killer" to everyone but his brother Nova) and his slithery sidekick Ardala...
...book, which tells a complete story, the editing gets worse. Dille apparently considers the strip an historical artifact rather than a good story. In the selection of Sunday strips which follows, he cuts one story off arbitrarily to make room for an example from a later period. Black Barney and his companion Buddy Deering have just escaped from a Martian slave labor camp, and are looking for some way to remove the remote control bombs which the Martians have welded around their waists. In the last panel, Barney realizes that he has forgotten to dismantle the radio detonators which...
...Black Barney's anguished face still haunts my dreams. What happened...
...balding, unmarried and in your late 30s was to be scorned by strangers, pitied by the family and ridiculed by friends of friends. Not any more. Not, that is, if you are James Coco, a fat, balding, bachelor of 39 who opened to rave notices last week as Barney Cashman in Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Neil Simon's latest smash...
...three-room Greenwich Village apartment. All his friends live on his block, he says-Terrence McNally, Paddy Chayefsky, Robert Drivas, the actor, and Playwright Israel Horowitz. "We get together once a week to play poker. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else." Which sounds about as Barney Cashman as a guy can get and still be James Coco...