It’s Not Just An Internet Thing

From the letters page of All Star Squadron #48:

Life’s too short, though, to worry about letter-writers whose folks have brought them up wrong, so most of those letters get confined to the trashbasket….  If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s a comics fan with an infinite supply of righteous indignation….

Is it ironic that Roy Thomas is complaining about nitpickers, especially when he goes on to spend most of a column’s length running down the core membership of the All Stars to correct an incomplete Who’s Who entry?  I’m gonna go with yes.

ASS #48 is a prime of example of the sort of thing I liked about that particular title as a kid.  There are guest appearances from the Blackhawks and Winston Churchill, and Firebrand II, Robotman and Dr. Fate have an aerial fight with the Luftwaffe.  It’s fun, Nazi-fighting goodness that is almost totally disposable afterwards.  The best part?  The real plot of this two-issue arc involves Wotan fooling Shining Knight into thinking he’s King Arthur in order to turn him against the All Stars, because he thinks it would be more traumatizing to have Fate killed by one of his friends.