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If you see it then buy it: There's an article in the magazine that came directly from the Andru/Esposito book. The article in question is about the Superman vs The Amazing Spider-Man book. On the surface of things the book looks simple and well defined: written by Gerry Conway, drawin by Ross Andru and Dick Giordano. However things aren't what they seem to be. I've found three major artists as pencillers, along wit one main inker and a host of background inkers. It makes for a good read, well so I've been told, so it might well worth your while to track it down and hopefully learn something you might not know. And the best part? Instead of just speculation and heresay, I managed to get direct quotes from all people involved (barring Ross Andru, of course) and that's a first. I'm not going to give it away, but hey - it's worth the price of admission. Plus look at that cover art!!! Joe Jusko is a genius! ------------------------------------------ Michael Netz

Terowie Redux

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A variation on a theme that I visited last year. I'm keen to go back to Terowie, and will be doing so very soon, just to see how much difference a year makes to a place like that. In the meantime, with a little bit of editing, a bit of fixing and farting about, I present to you a scaled down version of what I wrote back then, and hopefully something that makes a bit more sense. If you're in America then you should find this post most interesting, as it relates to a very important part of US military history. And bear in mind it was sixty three years ago this month that the original Big Mac drifted through these parts. ----------------------------- Terowie is a little town about 60 clicks out of Burra in South Australia and it holds a special place in world history, in particular World War II. It was on the platform at Terowie that General Douglas MacArthur gave his legendary speech after escaping the Philippines - "I came out of Bataan and I shall return". The speech

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