Once in a while during the Silver Age, editor Julie Schwartz would print letters that would be critical of his creative team, usually in the vein of constructive criticism.

But I don't think I've ever seen one dripping with such condescension and pomposity as the one printed here in Mystery in Space #75. Scroll down to the bottom of the second page and peruse the words of one Lord Hume... and if you really want to get a chuckle, imagine the late great Graham Chapman reading it out loud!

The irony here is that the good lord took umbrage with arguably the most sophisticated comic book in existence at the time. One can only imagine his outrage if he had gotten a hold of a copy of say, Jimmy Olsen!!

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There's some interesting stuff in the JLA mailbag as well this month. Ron Haydock gave a rundown of DC heroes that had appeared in films... I had no idea Congo Bill was in the movies - you learn something new every day! Julie also let the cat out of the bag that the JSA would be appearing again in all their glory, but in the pages of The Flash.

But leave it to the esteemed E. Nelson Bridwell to use numerology and lead Julie to conclude that the Atom's admission to the League was inevitable!:

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Finally, another letter that caught my eye, was from this month's Metropolis Mailbag. It was an emotional one from a Private Maxwell stationed in Okinawa, reacting to "The Death of Superman". I'm not quite sure how to characterize it - strange... chilling...moving... maybe all of the above.

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"As for contentment, that is a myth.  Give a man everything he wishes and he will be unhappy, because he didn't wish for more; give him more, and he will die of his worries.  Only a turtle, asleep on a sunny log, knows contentment!"
-Merlin to Prince Valiant

            Hal Foster 3-7-43