Posted by scooter on 07/15/06 18:07

Yeah the Superman saga has a questionable history, anyway.

The guys who did the great art-deco style cartoons in the thirties used a
mad scientist character for their villain. They called him, coincidentally,
'Tesla"

At this point, Tesla was a destitue old guy living in a tenament, having
been ripped off by everyone from Marconi to Westinghouse.

Pretty fucked up thing to do. He was probabloy the greatest inventive
thinker in applied technology of all time. We live in a world that sprung
from his imagination. Not somebody who should have been villified and
ridiculed by some dumbass with a jar of tempra paint.

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