#Harriet cooper

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June 1964. A month into Batman's "New Look" period, Alfred the butler is dramatically killed off in DETECTIVE COMICS #328. Writer Bill Finger gives Alfred a suitably heroic demise, sacrificing his life to save Batman and Robin from the Tri-State Gang.

Ouch. This is fairly grisly for Silver Age DC, and, more significantly, obviously intended to be final. (If you're going to seemingly kill off a character with the intent of bringing them back later, "crushed to death by tons of rock right in front of their closest friends" is probably not the way to go.)

Two points of interest here: First, the Alfred Foundation, as will be explained later, is the antecedent of what later became the Wayne Foundation (whose building was redesigned in the early 1970s), which did not yet exist at this point. Second, it's awkwardly obvious here that Alfred had never been given a canonical last name. In one 1945 story, he'd used the name "Alfred Beagle," but that hadn't been mentioned again afterward. The name "Pennyworth" was first used in 1969, five years after this story.

Why did editor Julius Schwartz kill off Alfred, who'd been a staple of the Batman strip since 1943? According to Schwartz, it was to help lay to rest the insinuations that had been floating around for years (especially in the wake of Frederic Wertham's SEDUCTION OF THE INNOCENT a decade earlier) that the Wayne household seemed awfully gay. It should be understood that the modern conception of Alfred as a military veteran and one-time badass didn't arise until the 1980s; since his introduction in 1943, Alfred had been primarily a comic relief figure, and generally a bit of a ninny. Schwartz wanted to replace him with a "a sort of chaperoning den mother," which became Dick Grayson's Aunt Harriet, introduced at the end of this story:

Schwartz claimed that he borrowed the name "Aunt Harriet" from the lyrics of the 1929 Hoagy Carmichael standard "Rockin' Chair." Like Alfred, she didn't initially have a last name (the name "Cooper" came from the TV show, and didn't appear in the comics until DETECTIVE COMICS #373). In the comics, she was not as old or quite as matronly as Madge Blake, who played the character on TV; she was perhaps a decade older than Bruce Wayne.

I'm a little skeptical of Schwartz's assertion that his goal in killing off Alfred in favor of Aunt Harriet was to make Bruce and Dick seem less gay. If that was the plan, it wasn't terribly effective: For one, as the TV show demonstrated, her presence in the Wayne household hardly decreased the camp factor, and the principal dynamic of her comics appearances was to have her nosiness constantly threaten to "out" her nephew and his guardian! Moreover, the "New Look" period actually discarded the three recurring female characters who'd previously been positioned as romantic foils (Batwoman/Kathy Kane, Vicki Vale, and Bat-Girl/Betty Kane) — there would be new ones, but they wouldn't appear for a while, nor did Catwoman (who had been absent since 1956 and didn't return to the comics until 1966) — so Schwartz actually cemented Bruce and Dick's "confirmed bachelor" status, at least for a while.

My guess is that Schwartz, who had been given just six months to turn around BATMAN and DETECTIVE COMICS (whose sales were in very bad shape in 1963–1964), figured that killing Alfred would be an easy way to shake things up a bit. As with the yellow oval Carmine Infantino added to Batman's chest emblem, it was a dramatic but largely cosmetic gesture that didn't really alter the direction of the strip in any very meaningful way.

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Dick's canonical cousins with Betty Cooper from Riverdale!

Archie Meets Batman '66 Issue #4

Archie Meets Batman '66 Issue #6

yup she's real

Detective Comics Issue #328

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6 fanarts featuring beautiful Black Women in CC!!

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welcome to the maze women!

this event is a celebration of female characters and wlw relationships in the maze runner series 💗🤍

• 2023 prompts and rules.

• ao3 collection.

• previously asked questions & answers.

• ask any other questions here.

• 2023 roundup

• tag your posts with #themazewomen2023!

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COMMANDER HARRIET SHEPARD in MASS EFFECT 1: LEGENDARY EDITION

"A philosopher once asked, “Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?” Pointless, really… “Do the stars gaze back?” Now, that’s a question." — neil gaiman, stardust

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A Jerry Pickney Saturday

Jerry Pinkney (1939-2021) was a multi-award-winning American illustrator and children’s book author. His numerous awards include a Caldecott Medal (2010); five Caldecott Honor Book awards; five Coretta Scott King Book Awards (the most for any illustrator); five Coretta Scott King Honor Awards; the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award (2016); the 2016 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award; four Gold medals, four Silver medals, and the 2016 Original Art Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Illustrators; and he was nominated twice for the Hans Christian Andersen Award, considered the Nobel Prize for children's literature, among many other awards and recognitions.

The images shown here are Pickney’s pencil, color pencil, and watercolor illustrations for children’s book author Alan Schroeder’s 1996 fictional biography, Minty, A Story of Young Harriet Tubman, published in New York by Dial Books for Young Readers. This book won Pickney the 1997 Coretta Scott King Book Award for Illustrator, and the book was a Cooperative Children's Book Center Choice for 1996.

Schroeder writes that “While Minty is a fictional account of Harriet Tubman’s childhood, and some scenes have been invented for narrative purposes, the basic facts are true.” Of illustrating this book, Pinkney writes:

The challenge that Minty initially posed for me came from not having a clear picture of Harriet Tubman’s early childhood. However, I was able to imagine the spirited eight-year-old Minty, using Alan Schroeder’s strong text and Harriet Tubman’s biography, The Moses of Her People, as springboards. The National Park Service was also helpful . . . as was the Banneker-Douglas Museum in Maryland, where extensive research uncovered the style of plantations around Maryland during Minty’s childhood and authentic details regarding backgrounds, dress, food, and living conditions of the enslaved as well as the slave owners. My interest was to give some sense of Minty’s noble spirit and open a window to understanding the day-to-day, sunup to sundown life of the slave, by individualizing the hardships in overwhelming circumstances.

In 1978 I was privileged to create the first Harriet Tubman commemorative stamp for the U.S. Postal Service. This book, then, brings me full circle with Harriet’s life and courage.

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the stolen earth / journey's end should be studied.

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Licorice Pizza

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I need all of you to understand how much I hate editing.

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The maze women: free space

The women of the maze women go to the cinema, what do they see and what do they wear

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Behind the scenes photos from Midsomer Murders - The Stitcher Society.

(Photos from Harriet Thorpe’s Instagram.)

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Licorice Pizza

2021. Comedy Drama

By Paul Thomas Anderson

Starring: Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman, Sean Penn, Tom Waits, Bradley Cooper, Benny Safdie, Skyler Gisondo, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, John Michael Higgins, Christine Ebersole, Harriet Sansom Harris, Ryan Heffington...

Country: United States

Language: English

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[ID: Ten gifs of New Doctor Who. In the first and second gifs Harriet Jones is standing in the UNIT HQ, showing her ID and saying: "Harriet Jones, Prime Minister." Daniel Llewellyn of the British Rocket Group answers: "Well, yes, I know who you are." In the third and fourth gifs, still at UNIT HQ, Harriet introduces herself again: "I don't think we've been introduced. Harriet Jones, Prime Minister." Sally Jacobs, a UNIT secretary, answers with a smile: "Yes. I know who you are."

In the fifth and sixth gifs, over a video screen, Harriet holds up her ID and says: "Harriet Jones, former Prime Minister." Jack Harkness, standing in the Hub with Ianto Jones and Gwen Cooper next to him, says with a slight laugh: "Yeah, I know who you are." In the seventh and eighth gifs she repeats the introduction to Martha and Francine Jones, and Martha smiles awkwardly at her mother, who returns the smile, and says: "Yes, I know who you are." In the ninth and tenth gifs Harriet stands up and shows her ID to several Daleks who have invaded her home. She says: "Harriet Jones, former Prime Minister." One of the Daleks answers: "Yes, we know who you are!" End ID]

Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North!  Blimey, it’s like “This is Your Life”!

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happy pride month! here are the prompts to kick off the month with the women of the maze runner 💗🤍

rules & info:

• the aim is to complete one line of prompts (row, column, diagonal) to get bingo!

• the deadline to *officially* get bingo is july 31st.

• if you complete one bingo, feel free to try another line or even complete the whole board 👀 all winners will be announced shortly after the deadline.

• the centre space is a free space, so you can create whatever you like!

• you may combine prompts if you wish — just make sure each prompt is clearly given its own space in your creation.

• WIPs are fine, as long as you intend to complete it at some point either during or after the event.

• any kind of creations are welcome. fics, edits, art, gifs, playlists, whatever you like!

• this is a celebration of the female characters, relationships and friendships in the maze runner series, so they must take the spotlight in whatever you choose to make. however, it’s fine to include male characters/side pairings as long as they aren’t the focus of your creation.

• make sure to tag any sensitive or nsfw content appropriately and use the :readmore: feature if you’re posting it on tumblr.

• there is no minimum word count for fics.

• most importantly, have fun! support each other! reblog each others posts, leave comments & encouragement!

• make sure you tag @themazewomen when posting on tumblr, and use the tag #themazewomen2023 in your posts as well as which prompt(s) you’re fulfilling.

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