Egads, I only saw a couple of issues, but I remember the Captain. Since they were B&W, they never seemed comic-like to me, so not much interest - same for the Japanese manga.

The pendulum swings back and forth in the US, but I agree its doubtful that most of us will live to see it swing back there again. It may happen at some point with the right confluence of events who knows. I think/hope that people are beginning to see that the schtick of those who shall go unmentioned is as bad or worse than anything the 60s-70s spawned in most cases.  

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