I'm reading the recent download of BLUE BEETLE #37. I love GA comics, but this one contains errors that my 5 year old friend and future paleontologist Gabriel could correct. In "The Adventure Inside the Earth," dinosaurs are called mammals, a carnivorous brontosaurus with stegosaurus plates on its back is identified as a Tyrannosaurus, and a Dodo bird looking creature with feathers is a pterodactyl. In the name of Pellucidar I'll give them the hollow earth, but it defies suspension of disbelief when the cavemen they meet are ancestors of the three people accompanying BB - right down to the physical resemblance and even their names - only they can't be ancestors because no one has travelled back in time; the prehistoric world is contemporaneous with the surface world.The bad cavemen instantly figure out that he is called Blue Beetle. BB says at one point that he is "introducing 20th century battle tactics into the prehistoric ages" - but since when is riding a dinosaur into battle a 20th century tactic? (grabbing it by its tail and swinging it around a few times has tamed it.)The bad guys have a secret lair that no one has been able to find - except the "Tyrannosaurus," who carries BB there in his jaws. The bad guys also recognize the Sign of the Blue Beetle. The next page has a letter writing contest whose winners get to go with BB on another grand adventure. just like Virginia and Doug in this story - whose parents were never consulted and who almost got eaten by a dinosaur, a "pterodactyl" and some giant snakes, burned by a flow of lava and dropped into a flame pit. What fun! As Doug said, "This is better than books!"
As I said, I love GA comics despite, or maybe because of, the crazy stuff like this. Keep 'em coming!
