No [sic] is needed here; this is a correct use of the verb “to leach”. Look it up.

But alas! his telechron only functions in one direction, so he’s trapped in the awful future. Didn’t he read Welles’ The Time Machine?

First, The Time Machine was written by Wells, not Welles. Second, reading it would not have helped Quayle on this point, because Wells’s time machine could travel both forward and backward in time.

He actually says “Jumping Jehoshaphat!” He’s from the 1930s, remember, and that’s what they said back in the Depression – incorrect spelling and all!

“Jehoshaphat” is the correct spelling. Look it up (2 Chronicles and 1 Kings in the Old Testament).

The JLA put their headquarters in Rhode Island so that nobody would have to give Snapper Carr, who lived there, a lift to their meetings. Nobody wanted to put up with that goddamn interminable snapping for a moment longer than they absolutely had to. I’m sure Gardner Fox could have turned out a “Secret Origin of the JLA Headquarters” story in five minutes if only Julius Schwartz had ever thought to ask him for one.

When Kurt sold this story, he was incredibly pleased at having slipped in the Scooby Doo reference. In fact, he was so enthused about it that when the issue finally came out, I thought I must be missing something. I don’t know if his script originally called for the characters to be drawn as that Fred and Daphne but Sekowsky chose to ignore it, or if some gag that would have justified those character names — for instance, Dr. Anomaly complaining to the pair “I would have gotten away with it too, if it hadn’t been for you meddling temporal researchers!” — got edited out along the way. As it stands, I was never sure what the point of that was.

Mark Evanier told a story about working with Sekowsky somewhere, probably H-B. Sekowsky eventually got one of those “take a number” things and put it outside his office. The sign said “Take a number to tell me how you used to hate my art, but love it now.”

Come to think of it, the “varsity”-style superhero teams really don’t tend to get even vaguely sympathetic villains, do they? Maybe because of the expectation of scale, all their recurring foes turn out to be megalomaniacs with genocidal or totalitarian ambitions.

I like Sekowsky’s Wonder Woman, too. Besides the logical ethnicity, she looks like an actually powerful, capable woman…as opposed to the usual male comic artist’s solution to the same idea. Which is, of course, “Of course she’s powerful! Look how she carries around those really big boobs!”

Oh, and according to Wikipedia, it’s “Science and Technology Advanced Research Laboratories.”