ok, this is one of those creepy, semi-mystical occurences that leave us with a little chill in our veins and our shorthairs standing on end...
I was in the middle of my decennial bookmarks purging. This is when I click on that tantalizing menu item in my trusty browser called "Organize Favorites" and launch myself into a frenzy of... well... organization. After spending nearly an hour of sorting through countless folders and checking each bookmark to see if I would keep or discard it I came across a small folder called "comics".
Nested inside this little gem was an even smaller folder named "misc". I found that I have a habit of making subfolders named "misc" whenever the mood strikes me and apparently it strikes me way more often than is healthy. Unfoldering, like so many Russian nesting dolls, I at last came to a bookmark to a dusty wikipedia article about one of the heroes of my youth... the Human Fly. The comic's tagline was like no other "The Wildest Super-Hero ever - because he's REAL!". Yes the Human Fly comic was based, loosely, on a real stuntman by the name of
Rick Rojatt
. I started collecting this comic from issue #1 until the end of its run. No super-hero could have ever inspired me more than the Human Fly, simply because he was
real.
What disturbs me now is that for all these years gone by I have held in my subconscious a dark secret. Like a sleeper spy I too had been waiting for a sign and then it happened. I clicked the link to the wiki article and was instantly transfixed on the image of the cover of the first issue of the comic. There, deadcenter, burned into my memory like a firebrand it was...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:HumanFly_01.jpg