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Update: I finished the book, and toward the end there's a passage about when Dirac finally settled in the USA. The person sent to welcome him didn't know how to get him talking - Dirac was famous for saying nothing or giving one word answers (often with a pause). So they decided to let him choose th...

I agree! The Dirac quote is about the 1950s, and the best of those stories were as near perfect as stories can be, IMO

I am enjoying Graham Farmelo's biography of Paul Dirac , one of the founders of modern physics. He discovered some of the fundamental equations of quantum physics, and received a Nobel prize for predicting the existence of the positron (I think it was the first time a real world particle was discove...

I just bought a pile of those 'Beano and Dandy sixty years' books from a charity shop. Most are variable (too much theming and cutting up stories IMO), but 'Focus on the Fifties' is a gold mine! Back to back, the greatest strips from the greatest decade of the greatest comics ever. Anyway, what surp...

Is this related to the recent deleting of old game info?

A lot of people at Wikipedia seem to think that "old" equals "not notable." So down the memory hole it goes.

How else can one explain the simultaneous appearance of George Martin's Janie B. Quick?[/i] :) - Phil Rushton With the same distinctive cranial shape. Siblings? Sounds like a controlled experiment. Release them both at the same time and compare results. And isn't it an amazing coincidence that thes...

Flatterer.

it's a skill that jumps generations, because Grandpa Whizz is fast too. Throughout History there have been Billy Whizz ancestors...like at Waterloo...Billy has often looked at his photo album or history book..so a fast Gene!! Let's see what we know: He can reach superhuman speeds (e.g. Everest and ...

When you can identify them each individually if they were stolen? ah, memories... When I was young, at the height of my collecting (multiple house moves meant I've since released most of my comics) I had a credit card sized card that listed all the comics I needed (and by implication, which issues I...

Knockout!

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/030919-Wednesday-Comics.html A weekly comic, with a large page size, and a different story on each page... where have we seen that before? The publisher today officially announced Wednesday Comics, a new 12-part weekly series launching this summer that will be present...

Marney the Fox ... a strip that certainly deserves reprinting, perhaps as an Egmont children's book? Strongly agree. I hold the naive view that comics are in principle the highest form of communication. More efficient than words or pictures alone, cheaper and more flexible than video. I further bel...

Don't you mean Private Eye?

For me, Buddy was notable as the best value comic ever. I wasn't a great fan of Thompson adventure strips, but I bought every issue. Respect was due. Ah, happy memories of 'Buffy, A Boy All Alone' and 'The Wolf of Kabul' and his friend's 'clicky ba' There was so much in every issue. Today when I rea...

Dirty McSquirty from the Perishers - know as the king of flies or something, because of his halo of flies.