In this video of new TV shows on ABC in 1969, there were clips from The New People, a revolutionary — and maybe a bit ahead of its time — series created, under a bogus name, by Rod Serling. My old pal Buzz Dixon found it as intriguing as I did and he wrote about it here on his blog.
Yes, I know there's a new lawsuit over the rights to Superman, this time from the nephew of co-creator Joe Shuster. No, I won't be writing about it, nor will I be explaining why I'm not writing about it. But if you want to read what's generally known about the suit now, here's a link. A lot of news sites have written pretty much the same things about it and some of them even spelled Joe Shuster's name correctly.
By the way, I don't know how many people know this: Saturday Night Live had a very fine writer in its early days named Rosie Shuster. She was married to Lorne Michaels and the Saturday Night movie is a lot about her. She was (and still is) the daughter of Frank Shuster, who was half of the Canadian comedy team of Wayne and Shuster, and she's a cousin of Joe Shuster. Yes, that Joe Shuster.
A lot of you are very pleased that I added the links to Fact Checkers in my right-hand margin. A few of you suggested I add in Kevin Drum and that's a good idea. I'll do it tomorrow because I'm too tired tonight.
Lastly for now: I seem to have been officially announced as a Special Guest or a Featured Guest or whatever they call us for WonderCon Anaheim, which takes place the last weekend in March about two blocks from the ass-end of Disneyland. I expect to be doing a buncha panels at the con, many of which will be about the history of the comic book business during the years I've been reading them and — God help us — writing them. Tickets are on sale now