08.18.23 Visiting Elkhart’s Hall of Heroes

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“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”

—Neil Gaiman, author

The Marvel and DC Comics universes are the latest version of fairy tales. While I have enjoyed several of these movies, which seem to have taken over cinema lately.

A statue of the Hulk towers over Vicki at the Hall of Heroes in Elkhart, Indiana. If memory serves, the guy running the hall said it was built for a premiere of one of the Marvel movies.

I had one, exactly ONE, comic book saved from childhood. It was the No. 29 Daredevil, from June of 1967, which I gave to a co-worker when I retired and was getting rid of stuff a couple of years back.

So, it isn’t a big part of my life. 

For several friends, family and co-workers, it’s a huge deal.

One of six shields used by Chris Evans in “Captain America, the First Avenger.” It’s signed by the cast of a later movie.

That’s why I couldn’t pass up the Hall of Heroes Superhero Museum in Elkhart, Indiana, while we were at the FROG RV rally in Goshen.

Vicki and I both had fun seeing “stuff’ from TV shows we watched back in the day. Lone Ranger, Batman, Superman, the Incredible Hulk, etc.

Looks like they struggled with this caption. Note how “cheetah” was pieced together.

I also got a kick out of seeing the production methods used by the graphic artists who put the comics together. Writing with blue pens, pasting in corrections for individual letters or entire thought balloons.

So here are a couple of galleries for those friends, and anyone else who loves a good pulp publication story, or movie.

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