In particular, conservative talk jock Mark Levin because of the creation of insulting nicknames (he does it with almost every liberal politician) and just the general shrillness of the text samples; I could mentally hear his voice reading the stuff. But he's just the most immediate one to me in our market in Seattle, and there are some jocks on Air America who can be just as intense.

Screaming rhetoric never changes, I guess!

For God's sake man! The suspense is killing me! What's your third Urban Legend? Don't leave us hanging, man.

On a different topic, isn't the original Human Torch still "alive" and well in the Marvel universe? Going by the name of Jim Hammond or something like that?

http://sacomics.blogspot.com/2006/06/coming-of-nemesis.html

It occurred to me sometime after I submitted my post that Siegel was Jewish and therefore might very well be focused on the Eurpoean situation and understandably so, but I did not know he was Lithuanian. And I certainly was unaware that Italy was not in the war from the first. Thanks for both bits.

personally, I think the first idea makes much more sense than Magneto. But the question about when he first removed his helmet is a good one. Is it like Wolverine, and the character changed drastically the first time he was unmasked?

But wait, wasn't there already a black teen hero in the old Teen Titans series--Mal Duncan? Is race the real reason the original Jericho was nixed?

If you have the reprint--I'd strongly suggest hunting down the original treasury edition. It looks much more spectacular full-sized.

It's probably because at the time the story was done, Stalin and Hitler had split Poland and the Baltic states between them, and as Siegel's family were Lithuanian, he saw this as the worst thing going on. Mussolini wouldn't declare war on Britain and France until mid-1940, so would just be another European dictator, like Franco or Salazar. Siegel may just have not thought about the Japanese occupation of China.

When did Magneto first remove his helmet? His look is very similar to Quicksilver. But was it after the results revealed in the big Avengers Paternity Test Prime-Time Special Event that his white hair started to get wings?

Basically, Marv Wolfman and Len Wein had a storyline for the original Teen Titans series that would have introduced a black hero named Jericho. That storyline was rejected (since DC wasn't ready for a teen black hero at the time) and then heavily rewritten and redrawn by Neal Adams to feature a white hero named Joshua.

So naming a new Titan Jericho was Wolfman's way of homaging that story that he never got see in print.