Pop Culture Roundup Aug. 21, 2006

The daughter of "Batman" TV show producer William Dozier is suing for profits from the 1960 series, the Associated Press reports. More Batman.

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Via Boing Boing: A 1955 Business Week article on the opening of Disneyland. More Disneyland.

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Dial B for Blog explores Silver Age Krypton. Plus a cool post I missed last week: Top 10 Products advertised in comics.

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Kiss guitarist Paul Stanley has a solo album coming out. I loved Kiss when I was 10. I went back and listened to some of the records a while back and I was appalled/amused by the blatantly sexual/sexist lyrics. Man, all that stuff shot way over my head. I liked the makeup, though. And the boots. Those were some cool boots. Not practical, really. But cool.

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Speaking of sexual subtext (or, just "text" actually...) that went right over the heads of its audience at the time, Mike Sterling reviews Wonder Woman #127, published in 1962.

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An animated Fantastic Four series debuts next month on the Cartoon Network. More Fantastic Four.

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Neato Coolville checks out some cool '50s Superman cereal box swag. More Superman.

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Today in sharity: Neil Hefti in Gotham City.

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A British TV channel is censoring "Tom and Jerry" cartoons that depict characters smoking. Apparently, they haven't heard the 'toons are somewhat voilent as well.

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Tom Ravescroft, son of legendary disk jockey John Peel, now has his own radio show.

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