This May Go The Whole Week

( Time Marches On )

Writer's Block: Personal Strength

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The simple fact that I can endure and there will always be time.

Research Addiction

Well, it took the book I got on my last birthday...



And the one I got the year before...



...to do the following listing. Totally useless factoid, with only marginal interest if you are not a big mainstream comics fan. Pardon my capslock.

USELESS FACT: COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS BY PROMINENCE BASED UPON SPACE GIVEN IN THE ENCYCLOPEDIAS

DC
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* AQUAMAN * BATMAN * CAPTAIN MARVEL (SHAZAM!) * THE FLASH * GREEN ARROW * GREEN LANTERN * THE JOKER * LEX LUTHOR * ROBIN * SPECTRE * STARMAN * SUPERMAN * WONDER WOMAN

SECOND TIER
* ANIMAL MAN * ARION * ARSENAL * THE ATOM * AZRAEL * BATGIRL * BIZARRO * BLACK CANARY * BLACKHAWK * BRANIAC * CAPTAIN MARVEL JR. * CATWOMAN * CLAYFACE * DARKSEID * DEADMAN * THE DEMON * DOCTOR FATE * FIRESTORM * HAWKMAN * LOIS LANE * LOBO * MARTIAN MANHUNTER * MARY MARVEL * MISTER FREEZE * NIGHTWING * JIMMY OLSEN * ORACLE * THE PENGUIN * PLASTIC MAN * RA'S AL-GHUL * THE RIDDLER * SGT. ROCK * STEEL * ADAM STRANGE * SWAMP THING * SUPERBOY * SUPERGIRL * TEMPEST * TWO-FACE * ZOOM

MARVEL
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* CAPTAIN AMERICA * GREEN GOBLIN * JEAN GREY * HULK * THE HUMAN TORCH * IRON MAN * MAGNETO * MISTER FANTASTIC * PROFESSOR X * SILVER SURFER * SPIDER-MAN * THOR * WOLVERINE

SECOND TIER
* ARCHANGEL * ARIES * BETTY BANNER * BARON ZEMO * THE BEAST * THE BEYONDER * BLACK KNIGHT * BLACK WIDOW * BOX * CABLE * CAPTAIN MAR-VELL * CYCLOPS * DAREDEVIL * DOCTOR DOOM * DOCTOR OCTOPUS * DOCTOR STRANGE * DRACULA * ELEKTRA * NICK FURY * GALACTUS * HAWKEYE * HERCULES * THE INVISIBLE WOMAN * J. JONAH JAMESON * KANG * THE KINGPIN * LOKI * MAN-THING * NAMOR * NIGHTCRAWLER * MARY JANE PARKER * THE PUNISHER * HANK PYM * QUICKSILVER * THE RED SKULL * SANDMAN * THE SCARLET WITCH * SHE-HULK * SPIDER-WOMAN * RACHEL SUMMERS * THE THING * ULTRON * VISION * WARLOCK * THE WASP * WONDER MAN

So there it is.

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