I love those greytone covers.
This post sent me down a "Strange Death of Alex Raymond" wormhole.
It was exceedingly fun.
A friend I’ve known for 40 years has become intensely centrist and, while I understand his frustration, I do not agree that “both our choices are equally bad.” The concept of asymmetry is remarkably useful. Also worth noting that there isn’t some magic 3rd option. We have 2 choices & one is better.
Does Vance dye his hair? It’s unnaturally evenly colored except doe the beard.
When I was writing Aquaman, we were told that as long as his costume was orange and green, Paul Norris got creator royalties. So we made it orange and green, because Paul Norris.
Same, but the Akron Civi Theater which also had lights in the ceiling that simulated stars and a cloud machine.