This wasn’t on my radar at all before but I’m going to have to check it out.
Is someone maintaining a public archive of Musk's deleted posts? The stuff he leaves up is bad enough, but the stuff he deletes is like evidence for a war crimes tribunal.
One of the few articles on Mireault's work and legacy (published in 2009): web.archive.org/web/20090419...
Here's the original article: web.archive.org/web/20090419...
I'm terribly sorry for your loss. Thanks for your work preserving his legacy and helping a new generation access his work.
I was something of a late comer to his work. I picked up a random issue of The Jam from a quarter bin in 2019 and fell in love with it. I proceeded to collect every issue. I was taken at how positive and fun it was, especially since I was eyeballs deep in Outlaw Comics research at the time.
Fun fact: The first Marvel comic that used the term "mutant" was "Weird Woman" in Amazing Detective Cases # 11 in 1952. www.marvunapp.com/Appendix4/we...www.technoccult.net/2009/03/18/e...
Of course there's a whole subsection on the topic in his Wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namor#%... "He has principal characteristics that neither Atlanteans... nor humans... possess. These include his ability to fly, and possibly his durability and strength."
I recall a letter in the back of a 90s Namor comic where someone said he should be called Marvel's first hybrid, and the response was that the little wings on his feet are what make him a mutant.
I always figured Marvel started calling Namor "Marvel's First and Mightiest Mutant" as a marketing ploy to sell him as X-Men-related somehow, but here they are calling Namor "The first known mutant of our time" in Fantastic Four Annual # 1 in July, 1963. X-Men # 1 was published in Sept, 1963.
