Monthly Archives: June 2022

IRON MAN: 1970s CLASSICS 10 – MODOK, THE HULK AND THE BLACK LAMA

For Part One of these Iron Man 1970s classics click HERE.

im 75IRON MAN Vol 1 #75 (June 1975)

Title: Slave to the Power Imperious

Villains: Modok, the Mad Thinker, the Yellow Claw and the Black Lama

Synopsis: This issue picks up right where the previous one left off. Modok, with his squat body and enlarged head resting atop the kaiju-sized mechanical body that he wore to fight the Hulk months earlier, has burst into the Mad Thinker’s subterranean headquarters in the forests of Michigan.

mad thinkerPer the Black Lama’s ongoing War of the Supervillains, Modok plans to kill his first opponent the Mad Thinker (at right) then take on the war’s frontrunner – the Yellow Claw. Modok tosses aside the defeated and unconscious Iron Man, whom the Mad Thinker had used as a pawn against Modok and A.I.M. last time around.

Before Modok can finish off the Thinker, the latter unleashes one of his kaiju-sized androids, the green, faceless kind that are powerful enough to battle the Fantastic Four (the Mad Thinker’s usual foes). While the fight between that Android Warrior and Modok goes on, Iron Man regains consciousness, then realizes that the damage to the Mad Thinker’s laboratory has destroyed the equipment with which the villain was controlling his armor. Continue reading

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JOE BIDEN ATROCITY ROUNDUP AND MORE: JUNE 3rd

We need alternate political parties! Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog takes another look at the career criminal Joe Biden, head of the Biden Crime Family.

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Corrupt, senile, tiny-handed Joe Biden

BIDEN’S BABY FORMULA SHORTAGE WORSENS – WORKING CLASS AND POOR FAMILIES HARDEST HIT

EVEN FELLOW DEMOCRAT RO KHANNA BLASTS BIDEN FOR HIS INFLATION, WHICH IS AT A 40-YEAR HIGH.

SMALL BUSINESSES STILL BEING CRUSHED BY BIDEN’S POLICIES, REPORT FINDS.

STILL FLIRTING WITH WORLD WAR III, JOE BIDEN ANNOUNCES HE WILL SEND ADVANCED WEAPONS SYSTEMS TO UKRAINE. Unbelievable. And remember, all this started with Biden encouraging the deranged Putin to make “a small incursion.” Yet the corporate media used to pretend that de facto Third Party President Donald Trump was a threat to world peace despite him being the first president in decades to keep America out of any new wars.

LATEST INVESTIGATION: 19,000 INVALID BALLOTS WERE COUNTED IN ARIZONA IN 2020 ELECTION, MORE THAN ENOUGH TO FLIP THE RESULTS TO BIDEN. Like George W. Bush before him, apparently Joe Biden was “selected and not elected.” 

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MICHAEL AVENATTI, WHOM THE DEMOCRATS’ MEDIA OUTLETS ONCE PUSHED AS A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, SENTENCED TO FOUR YEARS. Their biased media pushed Avenatti on the public just like they sided with Andrew Cuomo and Amber Heard and against Kyle Rittenhouse and Nick Sandmann.

JOE BIDEN 2022 ENDORSEMENT ALREADY CRUSHED. Yet the Democrats’ media outlets still act like the small percentage of Trump’s endorsements who lost is a major story . Continue reading

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LAST STAND OF A PONY EXPRESS RIDER: BILLY TATE

The major holiday Frontierado is just over two months away, so as a followup to last week’s look at the first Pony Express riders Balladeer’s Blog explores the one-man stand and death of 14-year-old Expressman Billy Tate.

pony express ridersBILLY TATE – Born in 1846, Billy Tate traveled west with his family in 1857 as part of the Baker-Fancher Wagon Train from Arkansas. In September of that year, Billy’s family were among the pioneers slaughtered at the Mountain Meadows Massacre in Utah. The massacre was perpetrated by Mormons disguised as Native Americans.

Billy and possibly other child survivors (accounts vary) were taken in by Mormon farmers and worked on their farms. By some accounts Billy’s original last name was Miller but it was changed to Tate to match the family who took him in.

In 1859 the government ruled that any child survivors of the Mountain Meadows Massacre should be returned to relatives back in Arkansas. Billy, not wanting to be sent back east, ran away, ultimately signing on as a bullwhacker with the parent company of the Pony Express in December of that year. By the April 3rd 1860 launch of the Express Billy Tate was serving as a rider. Continue reading

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TWO MORE ANCIENT GREEK COMEDIES SEEN THROUGH MODERN EYES

Balladeer’s Blog’s previous looks at Seven Ancient Greek Comedies with Themes That Are Still Relevant , Four More Ancient Greek Comedies and Five More Ancient Greek Comedies … went over pretty well, so here are two more.

frank n furterBAPTAE – Written by Eupolis, one of the Big Three of ancient Greek comedians. Aristophanes and Cratinus were the other two. This comedy satirized the latest “hot new cult” to hit Athens – worship of the Dorian and Thracian goddess Cotyto.

Practitioners would immerse, or “baptize” their garments in water containing exotic dyes, hence the term Baptae to describe them. Continue reading

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