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Close. The first issue to have the on-page title Green Lantern/Green Arrow was actually Green Lantern v2 #76, from April 1970. The indicia doesn't reflect the title change, however (it remains Green Lantern). The Speedy-on-drugs story is in issues #85 and 86, published in August and October 1971...

Particularly towards the later end of this spectrum, the Byzantine Empire's greatest strength is also its Achilles's Heel: Constantinople itself. It was likely the hardest city to conquer in the late classical/medieval world... but if it had been conquered, it's hard to see how the empire could...

That's hardly fair, though. Not every film can be a towering achievement in the cinematic arts, spoken of in hushed tones decades after its initial release. Olson Welles had talent, of course, but he was no Ed Wood. ;)

Mario wasn't depicted as Luigi's brother in that movie, as even a cursory familiarity with the film itself would clarify. That complaint seems to stem entirely from an Internet reviewer's (the Nostalgia Critic?) puzzling inability to recognize a metaphor: being like something is not the same...

The idea that the death and resurrection of Superman "opened the floodgates" to the idea that death in superhero comics wasn't permanent is ridiculous. It had long been established by that point, and DC was merely riding the wave. Within DC, the entire Justice Society had been killed and...

Had it happened, I'm not entirely convinced the licensed characters would be segregated into their own individual universe. Yes, that was what Marvel did with its later acquisitions, but those were all in the future. Shooter's summary of the situation likens the proposed to deal to the same...

I don't think it's a question of degree. George Washington is no more or less a traitor than Jefferson Davis was. I guess I just don't buy that there's an inherent moral judgment in the term: George Washington may have been a traitor, but the reasons for that betrayal were at least arguably...

In retrospect, sure. Considering what happened to Caligula, annoying the empire's preeminent collection of ambitious men was probably not wise. But as you say, it's a case of bad judgment, not derangement. And I don't think even the world's greatest Caligula apologist would call the man a great...

Tiberius was, at worst, a clinically-depressed introvert. Even the sources don't really try to portray him as deranged, merely prickly and obnoxious. Caligula, on the other hand, may actually have been unbalanced. Most of the reports are clearly biased, and I tend to suspect a lot of what...

It's not a direct result of the religion of the Turks, of course, but I don't think you can say that religion wasn't a contributing factor, in the social/political sense. The battle of Manzikert, for instance, was largely the result of the complicated political situation in the Muslim world. The...

It wouldn't hurt, to be sure, but I don't know that it's a sure path to success, either. It wasn't exactly unheard of for American networks to purchase foreign (and especially British) television programs for domestic broadcast: probably the most famous example was The Avengers. But even then...

The FBI (or rather its predecessor organization, the Bureau of Investigation) didn't exist at the time of McKinley's assassination, so they couldn't have provided security. That said, I have to apologize: while the Secret Service wasn't specifically assigned to safeguard the president in 1901...

I know it's a couple of months late to be responding to the first post in the thread, but a couple of small anachronisms caught my eye... While the U.S. Secret Service did exist in 1901, they had not yet been given the task of protecting the president. Congress informally requested that the...

The Plague of Athens was almost certainly not Y. Pestis (bubonic plague). In its description by Thucydides, the most telling symptom of bubonic plague is not mentioned: the buboes themselves. In addition, Thucydides describes a victim as suffering from a relatively low-grade fever ("the...

I don't think it's a given that if the Beatles avoid "going psychedelic" that they would stay with their original "mop top" sound. Musically, the band was almost certain to start branching into new areas and modifying their sound. Actually, I think the idea of the Beatles moving in the...