POP-A-LOOZA: THE EVERLASTING FIRST! Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics), The Challengers Of The Unknown, The Dave Clark Five, The Clash, The Creation, The Creeper

Each week, the pop culture website Pop-A-Looza shares some posts from my vast 'n' captivating Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) archives. The latest shared post is an Everlasting First look back at my introductions to a mixed bag of rock 'n' roll groups and comic book superheroes: Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell), the Challengers of the Unknown, the Dave Clark Five, the Clash, the Creation, and the Creeper.

For supplemental reading on the pop combos, we have links to more about the Clash and the Creation, and the Dave Clark Five are the subject of pieces focused on "Any Way You Want It," Glad All Over Again, and even the DC5's influence on the Beatles.

(The above are not the Captains Marvel you're looking for.)

As for supplemental links to today's comic book subjects...I got nothin'. I've written about the original SHAZAM!-shoutin' Captain Marvel (especially here and here), and reprised the short-lived 1960s M.F. Enterprises Captain Marvel stories here, here, here, here, here, and here, but I haven't had much to say about the Marvel Comics characters that swipe...adopted that name. Superheroes don't swipe. Marvel's Captain Marvel turns up in my memories of the '60s Marvel Super-Heroes comic book series, and that's about it. The Creeper and the Challs are otherwise MIA on this blog, though both are mentioned in my fantasy piece "The Old 52: Imagining A New Pre-Crisis DC Comics."

Still, whatever else I've written about these pop entities, they're all on equal footing in The Everlasting First! The stories of my introductions to them serve as the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.

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