(From “The Blue Beetle” number 13, 1942.)

(From “Amazing Man” number 19, 1941.)

(From “Amazing Man” number 19, 1941.)

Sorry about that, the site was down all day but should be back up now. Joy. There was some MySQL problem blah blah blah, hopefully the tech guys at UGO can make a change on the back end to make sure it doesn’t happen again next time.

Because I got nothin’. Talk about whatever you like folks, I’m off to an actual real-people, not-online party. Craziness! And yet, apparently this sort of thing is not only legal but encouraged. Strange.

(From “Amazing Man” number 19, 1941.)

(Thanks once again to Hammerknight for putting together this how-to sheet. Click on the image to see it at its original full size.)

(From “Amazing Man” number 16, 1940.)

Excuse me, Mister Starfinger sir? Black Manta called and wants his clothes back:

You would think that with the benefit of eleven centuries of advancements, a super-villain fighting the Legion would be able to do better than ripping off a lame Aquaman foe’s look. But you’d be wrong.

The shame of it is, I always loved Black Manta’s costume. Dude was seriously bad-ass, with that menacing saucer-head and evil fish-eye thing goin’ on … he was so much cooler than the pumpkin-clad Aquaman, I used to root for the bad guy to win.

But so blatantly stealing another guy’s mojo is just lame. According to his writeup, “Starfinger possesses no known powers of his own, and is a poor combatant.” Given that, perhaps outright fashion theft is understandable.

Less clear is why he’d also steal The Michelin Man’s horizontal bands of bloat, but perhaps we’d better just leave well enough alone.

(Character and image © DC Comics, Inc.)

I’ve been struggling the last couple of days trying to figure out exactly what you guys want when you say I need to work on “sleeves” next. Do you want an entire set of Tops that are the whole shebang — a vest portion and sleeves, broken out into just the vest; just the upper sleeve; just the lower sleeve; and the whole thing assembled? Or do you literally want an entire set of just sleeves, presumably at some point to be followed by a set of just vests?

If you mean you literally want just sleeves, do you want them broken out into upper and lower sleeves? Each complete shoulder-to-wrist sleeve, then, would actually be SIX items — upper right only, lower right only, complete right, upper left only, upper right only, complete left.

Or is that too complicated?