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| DC Comics' Showcase 26 from May-June 1960, at right, has cover art by Joe Kubert. |
Because I loved them so
much when I was young, just reading a Silver Age story can take me back to that
precise moment in that spring of 1960 when I was 5 and the world’s colors all
seemed as vivid as those four in the comics, or that autumn of 1962 when I was
7 and the civilization of the planet Earth actually faced destruction, or that January
of 1966 when I was 11 and one of my superheroes was, wonder of wonders, suddenly
the biggest hit on television.
So reading a feature like Rip Hunter, Time Master is an ironic
experience in seeing time, both real and fictional, collapse upon itself,
something like one of those paintings of an infinite regression…
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