So, a little while back, I mentioned Wildcat’s forgotten side-kick, Stretch Skinner. But did you know that Stretch wasn’t just comic relief? Oh, no, he was also a costumed side-kick!
His origin begins with Stretch bragging in the gym about how he’s the real hero, and Wildcat is just some guy who tags along with him. At that precise moment, due to narrative causality, crooks break into the gym and Wildcat shows up in the nick of time to save Stretch. Who doesn’t take Ted’s arrival well…
Discouraged, Stretch hits the streets, still complaining about Wildcat saving his life. It’s then that he realizes the source of Ted Grant’s powers:
Which leads us to the most disturbing panel in Wildcat comics history. Yes, even more disturbing than that time he beat up a transvestite, or all the times he shouted “Low Bridge!”
You know, I might be okay with Stretch being killed off, now.
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Well he murdered English pretty badly with his speech pattern … what the eff?
Furry erotic fan fiction 50 years ahead of time — that TomCat was a pioneer!
That’s some weird ass art. Wildcat looks like the Tick.
Dorian,
I’m going to piggyback on this post to send you a link. I’m not sure if you’ll find it interesting beyond the 200+ pictures of men in uniform, but it’s fascinating me and I thought you might be interested, if you hadn’t come across it. The Independent has an article at http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/exclusive-the-unseen-photographs-that-throw-new-light-on-the-first-world-war-1688443.html about a cache of photographs of WWI British soldiers taken by a local French photographer not long before the Battle of the Somme. Very little is known about the men in the photographs, not much more than the regiment, based on the uniform, and the identification of some motorbikes. But there’s something about these photos that takes one’s breath away. They’re haunting.
Sarah Jessica Parker’s attempts to secure the part of Catwoman prove futile.
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