While Mr. Age has a point about the repeated citing of Camelot 3000 demonstrating the infrequency of delays in shipping comics In Earlier Days, I think those of us who are more blase about such things have just become used to putting such matters out of our minds.

For example, today's fans may take it as no big deal that DC's Secret Six #1-7 never provided the resolution to a mystery that was part of the original point of that title (May 68-May 69). It was co-created by E. Nelson Bridwell and Frank Springer, and the mystery was the identity of team leader Mockingbird. It was not until 1988 that Martin Pasko and Dan Spiegle "solved" the mystery in Action Comics Weekly -- with an identification that was not what Bridwell had intended.

Believe me, Don and I were pretty hacked off about the matter in the 1960s; the original series was an entertaining exercise, loaded with clues. Gr.