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...fact, it is your rabid talk of overthrow that has given me the germ of an idea of how to fight your empire of evil...after all these years of hearing you blabber, I can exaggerate your comic-book Marxism to the point where it does nothing but damage to your cause...

Author: By Joseph Menn, | Title: Platonic Dialogue? | 11/19/1985 | See Source »

Gold also said that "a lot of Wharton students buy them as investments" but that these are not true comic-book fans...

Author: By Teresa L. Johnson, | Title: Comic Relief | 11/9/1985 | See Source »

...original, eerily accurate police drawing of Goetz showed the face of the "before" figure in comic-book ads for body-building devices, the pale visage of the scrawny, bespectacled fellow at the beach who gets sand kicked in his face by a burly bully. When the news first flashed that a wispy-haired man in a windbreaker had shot four teenagers who threatened him on the subway, that 98-lb. weakling became overnight a quixotic urban American hero. Because nothing much was known about him, the 37-year-old electrical engineer became a tabula rasa on which Americans etched their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Troubled and Troubling Life | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

...Carroll experimented with trick questions; in this century, J.R.R. Tolkien in The Hobbit offered a few original puzzles: "A box without hinges, key or lid. Yet golden treasure inside is hid." Answer: An egg. The sport trickled down to Gotham City, home of Batman and Robin; in a recent comic-book adventure, the Riddler leaves a clue to the locale of his next crime: "When is a horse most like a stamp collection?" Answer: When it's a hobby horse (a reference to Hobby Airport in Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Riddles Ancient and Modern: by Mark Bryant | 5/21/1984 | See Source »

...first break as the sanctimonious Rev. Merle Jeeter on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, and is currently appearing as a harried computer scientist in the movie WarGames. "I happen to think I do villains well," says Coleman. "I do them differently. I'm realistic." Indeed, unlike the sneering, comic-book persona of Larry Hagman's J.R., Coleman's Buffalo Bill is an unsettlingly familiar figure, not a caricature. "Everybody knows a Buffalo Bill," notes Tartikoff. "I know several, a couple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: A Truly Unsentimental Cad | 7/11/1983 | See Source »

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