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Underground Rivers - University of New Mexico

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Super Heroes<br />

We'll begin with nine covers.<br />

"<strong>Underground</strong> River"<br />

Tad <strong>of</strong> the Tanbark Heroic<br />

Comics # 1<br />

August 1940<br />

Chapter 24 -- <strong>Underground</strong> <strong>Rivers</strong> in the Comics<br />

"The Cat-Man Strikes Back"<br />

Detective Comics # 318<br />

August 1963<br />

Tad <strong>of</strong> the Tanbark shows the peril <strong>of</strong> another underground river.<br />

DRAFT 1122//66//22001122<br />

"The Hulk and Sub-Mariner<br />

vs. the Avengers"<br />

Avengers # 3<br />

January 1964<br />

An encounter with Batwoman results in Cat-Man falling hard for the beautiful heroine and inviting<br />

her to join him as "the king and queen <strong>of</strong> crime." Batman and Robin discover their adversary's<br />

true identity and trail him to an underground catacomb, where Cat-Man seems to perish when he<br />

plunges into a raging underground river. Cat-Man will <strong>of</strong> course arise decades hence, as<br />

supervillans rarely die.<br />

And while we're on the subject <strong>of</strong> Tad, here are the April 24, May 1 and May 8, 1938, newspaper<br />

comic. Tad <strong>of</strong> the Tanbark, it seems, has a propensity for underground river escapes.<br />

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