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Jeff Sharpe
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These are the glasses. Printed on the inside left is: "COLLECTOR'S GLASSES
designed by JACK KIRBY "King of the Comics"

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The Amazing Randi had some very cool things to say about Johnny Carson's support for skeptical causes and dislike of fakers creeps like Uri Gellar in a recent issue of Skeptic Magazine. Made me like the guy all the more.


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But now that I see the glasses, I'm thinking "how dumb is Carson not
to get what kind of comics they're talking about?"

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Not dumb at all, Wayne. No more than I should be
considered "dumb" if I reveal an ignorance about
stamp collecting.

Comics have been a niche
market for a long, long time, now. Factor in, too, that
even if Carson read comics as a kid he probably
thought as most civilians tended to, that he stopped
reading because comics went away. I cannot
count the number of people my age and older who I
have met over the years who, when told what I do for
a living, showed great surprise. "Those are still
being published?"

Johnny Carson worked in an
industry in which "comic" has a very specific and
much more prominent definition than what
springs immediately to our minds. For him to think
of that kind of "comic" before thinking of comic books
-- which, additionally, would likely be the term that
would be most familiar to him -- is not "dumb" at all.

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I still have to wonder, though, how Carson missed the picture of the monster shooting eye-beams on the side of the glasses.

In his favor, though, is the actual wording on the glasses: "King of the Comics." Notice, it reads "the Comics," not simply "Comics." I could see that confusing things.

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I still have to wonder, though, how Carson missed the picture of the monster shooting eye-beams on the side of the glasses.

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Forest, meet Trees. We look at those images and see comicbook art. A civilian looks at the same images and sees goofy stuff.

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Kurt Anderson
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If someone says, "comic" to us, we think of DC, Marvel, etc.

If someone said , "comic" to Carson, he probably would've thought of Buddy Hackett or Shecky Greene.

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