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curry gives a negative review to this issue of Marvel Comics for What #2 & concludes "comics ain't what they used to be." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Appeared on back cover of Mondo Hunkamooga No.4, 1985. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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one cent No.200 was published as Curvd H&Z No.378, 1988. This manuscript constitutes the foreward to this issue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Book Thug Internet: Poetry, comic book art, pop culture, concrete poetry, the lyric, the myth of the cowboy, even the myth of the poet-hero: these are just some of the avenues explored by bpNichol in The Captain Poetry Poems. In this short portrait of the poet as a young man, our hero is a dilemma: part fabrication and part confession, Cap is a character created by these poems that extends their author into realms of possible identities. Who is Captain Poetry? Is he a poet? Is he a hero? Is he the bearer of heretofore important and unknown knowledge? Written at a time when questions about what poetry might be; when questions about what the figure of the poet might be, The Captain Poetry Poems showed Nichol grappling with some of the cliches inherent to both his craft and his identity. Playful, even at times silly, but never without the human intelligence Nichol is best known for, these poems may not be the "best" work in Nichol's oeuvre, but their experiments reveal important...