Happy Birthday, Al Lewis! This would have been his 98th... we think. Al - born Abraham Meister - was in the habit of telling tales. His Wikipedia page gives a fair rundown of this life .
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Marvel Omnibus collection update
Now spilling onto a second shelf, there had been enough changes since my March 21st post to warrant an update. The two latest additions have been within the past week. The first volume of the Avengers series was given to me just today, by friend of many, many years, Pat M. It collects the first 30 issues of the series which launched in 1963. This version has an hommage of the first issue's cover, by John Romita jr and Klaus Janson. The origin of the team, the first big roster shake-up, and the first appearances of some of their major foes, particularly the time traveling Kang, and their opposite number team, the (difficult to say with a straight face as an adult) Masters of Evil. As with so much on these shelves, I'm looking forward to going back over them at leisure, trying to get the best of both the nostalgia and of seeing the work with fresh eyes. In recent years I've been trying to better appreciate the artist choices made along the