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Deal alert: Amazon is offering the first four seasons of "The Wire" for $95.49. Pretty good price for the Best Show Ever.

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See the "American Band Stand" audience react to the then-way out promo films for the Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane" back in 1967.

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Stan Lee, Joe Kubert and Neal Adams have joined forces to create a comic telling the story of artist Dina Gottliebova Babbitt, 85, who wants her original works returned to her from a Polish Holocaust museum.

Babbitt...survived two years at the Auschwitz concentration camp by painting watercolor portraits for the infamous Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele. Some of the artwork also survived, but it is in the possession of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in Poland. Now 85 and living in California, Mrs. Babbitt wants the artwork back, but the museum has steadfastly refused to return it.

Now Mrs. Babbitt’s story has been captured in a six-page comic-book story illustrated by Mr. Adams...inked partly by Mr. Kubert...and featuring an introduction by Mr. Lee, a co-creator of the Fantastic Four, the X-Men and many other Marvel heroes.

The text was written by Rafael Medoff, director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, which has championed Mrs. Babbitt’s cause. Mr. Medoff and Mr. Adams have offered the story to DC Comics and Marvel Entertainment in the hopes of getting it published, but no deal is yet in place.


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See a Steve Ditko-illustrated romance tale from 1953.

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