tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2012179240296572398.post6734856434839363819..comments2024-03-29T01:11:38.037+00:00Comments on Retro-Forteana: Iron Man, the Illuminati and the Holy GrailAndrew Mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17073306343984931484noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2012179240296572398.post-80855829840030396272014-09-26T08:47:59.327+01:002014-09-26T08:47:59.327+01:00Thanks Ken - it's great to know there are othe...Thanks Ken - it's great to know there are others with similar memories to myself. I think my mother bought this T-shirt specially for the transfer, though I can't be sure. I also have a vague memory that I did at least some of the ironing myself, under her supervision. There is a bit of a mess-up in one place (not really visible in the photo) which I'm fairly sure was caused by over-enthusiasm on the part of my 10-year old self!Andrew Mayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17073306343984931484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2012179240296572398.post-512065664238208232014-09-25T18:03:05.146+01:002014-09-25T18:03:05.146+01:00I can still picture my mother ironing on the Ironm...I can still picture my mother ironing on the Ironman transfer. White t-shirts were not really part of a 7 year old child's wardrobe in the UK in 1967. So my transfer was put onto a white ribbed type of t-shirt that was bought a couple years previous for a 5th birthday photo session. This unfortunately made me look more like Dr Bruce Banner seconds before he morphed into the Hulk! Happily about 15 years ago I found the same Terrific transfer tucked into a Jimmy Olsen comic I purchased at a fair. Happy days!Kenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07753125912543544078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2012179240296572398.post-44726305032719423582014-09-18T10:28:39.481+01:002014-09-18T10:28:39.481+01:00Excellent suggestion, Ross! I will add it to my li...Excellent suggestion, Ross! I will add it to my list of things to do!Andrew Mayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17073306343984931484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2012179240296572398.post-18668461451098039982014-09-18T04:49:17.905+01:002014-09-18T04:49:17.905+01:00Speaking of MARVEL, what about Dr. Strange? There&...Speaking of MARVEL, what about Dr. Strange? There's some interesting occult retro-Forteana for you. Very much a part of the occult and consciousness "explosions" of the 1960s.Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07359114718992723491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2012179240296572398.post-13261683660361066282014-09-15T15:03:25.020+01:002014-09-15T15:03:25.020+01:00Thanks Colin. As I said, my eHow article had to st...Thanks Colin. As I said, my eHow article had to stick to verifiable facts and avoid speculation. If I were to speculate, I would say there is no single, highly powerful group in the world today that self-identifies as the Illuminati. There are undoubtedly groups that call themselves "Illuminati", but I suspect they are fantasists with no real power.<br /><br />Of course, there are always powerful groups behind the scenes "pulling the strings" of elected politicians at any given point in history. But I don't agree with the conspiracy theorists that this is a single organized group that has existed, and held the same motives and beliefs, for a long time. There were string-pullers in the 1940s, string pullers in the 1970s and string-pullers today, but they're not the same string-pullers... and may have very different aims.<br /><br />I think the reason these groups are always referred to as the "Illuminati" is an irony of history. The very first conspiracy theorists were devout Protestants and Monarchists who hated and feared everything the French Revolution stood for, and they fingered the Illuminati for this. So the name "Illuminati" came to mean "people who want to change the world order", even though the (US-centric) world order now is a lot closer to the ideals of the Bavarian Illuminati than it is to pre-Revolutionary Europe.Andrew Mayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17073306343984931484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2012179240296572398.post-49043237718793710622014-09-15T14:18:47.604+01:002014-09-15T14:18:47.604+01:00The Bavarian Illuminati sound like an admirable bu...The Bavarian Illuminati sound like an admirable bunch - anti-monarchy, anti-religion and they also believed in things like equality for women etc but what about the modern Illuminati - what are they supposed to believe in ? Are they equally as progressive or do they believe that the world should be run by a super-rich elite for their own ends (we don't need the Illuminati for that - we've got neoliberal capitalism). If the Illuminati are running the world behind the scenes then they are making an arse of it because we are spiralling towards some kind of environmental catastrophe I'm sure.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2012179240296572398.post-13041988524663997002014-09-14T22:51:17.588+01:002014-09-14T22:51:17.588+01:00Alas, Andrew, you give me too much credit. My tran...Alas, Andrew, you give me too much credit. My transfer is a replacement one I acquired a few years ago. The oldest copy of Terrific #1 (out of three I have) is one I got around 34 years ago. I did have four of the same issue, but I gave one away to a pal a couple of years back.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2012179240296572398.post-80872966821936352612014-09-14T18:09:21.252+01:002014-09-14T18:09:21.252+01:00Thanks Kid - I think belief in the Illuminati is o...Thanks Kid - I think belief in the Illuminati is on the increase. It's the sort of situation conspiracy theorists love - lots of circumstantial evidence, but no hard proof one way or the other.<br /><br />Somehow I'm not surprised to hear your transfer is still in pristine condition. Even at the age of 8 or 9 you seem to have had an intuitive grasp of the collectibles market!Andrew Mayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17073306343984931484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2012179240296572398.post-71636467888940925742014-09-14T17:50:49.181+01:002014-09-14T17:50:49.181+01:00I've got that Iron Man transfer, AM - in un-ir...I've got that Iron Man transfer, AM - in un-ironed on condition. I'll be taking a look at that piece on the Illuminati as one of my friends is convinced they exist today. Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2012179240296572398.post-41348188606306786152014-09-14T17:35:03.550+01:002014-09-14T17:35:03.550+01:00Thanks Peni, for making a couple of excellent poin...Thanks Peni, for making a couple of excellent points I hadn't properly thought through before. With the exception of novels, the writer's role in more or less anything tends to get overlooked - but as you say, it's writers who are ultimately to blame for that! I've always wondered why everyone describes Quentin Tarantino, for example, simply as a "great director"... which he is, of course, but the real reason his films are so toweringly good is because he's a great writer, too.<br /><br />In comics, the concept of "character creation" is an emotive and hotly debated one. Is the "creator" the person who first comes up with the name of the character, or the person who writes the first story, or the person who draws that first story? Some people have spent their lives burning themselves up with bitterness over such questions!Andrew Mayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17073306343984931484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2012179240296572398.post-24280920353303458492014-09-14T15:20:37.749+01:002014-09-14T15:20:37.749+01:00When actors say "creating a character" t...When actors say "creating a character" they mean something different from what writers mean; something relevant to what actors actually do. But when mainstream articles use jargon, they ought to make the meaning clear. Especially since the jargon, when used in a mainstream context, tends to render writers invisible, and writers are writing articles - why do we as a profession do this sort of thing to ourselves?<br />Peni R. Griffinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01781761011389542245noreply@blogger.com