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varjohaltia) wrote2005-02-12 06:40 pm
varjohaltia) wrote2005-02-12 06:40 pm
Triviaditis
Without going quite into the morbid details of how I stumbled upon it, here's an aspect of European pulp culture that might amuse Americans. Behold,
The Goethe Institute has a pretty good writeup on the history of this American agent that was Europe's favorite superhero for decades. He adventured in short stories that were put out in little booklets on a regular basis, written by several authors, and sold at news stands. The parents of my friends hand these laying around, and they were the kind of things that you ended up reading at the summer house during rainy days when you have nothing to do.
That, and there's at least one Finnish rock song about him.
G-Man Jerry Cotton
The Goethe Institute has a pretty good writeup on the history of this American agent that was Europe's favorite superhero for decades. He adventured in short stories that were put out in little booklets on a regular basis, written by several authors, and sold at news stands. The parents of my friends hand these laying around, and they were the kind of things that you ended up reading at the summer house during rainy days when you have nothing to do.
That, and there's at least one Finnish rock song about him.
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That's all you could possibly need, right there.
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I can see where they might have been skittish about localizing it here, but me, I think people would eat it up. It's funny!