harvey said:
Just recorded an interview with Further Adventures #3 co-penciller, Richard Howell! We talk Marvel, Gene Day, Gatling guns, vampires, the Flannelled One, Crystal Skull, and more! Stay tuned to the IndyCast for comic booky goodness!
I've been catching up on all the IndyCasts that I missed over the summer and just listened to #134 with the Richard Howell interview. He said that the cannon in issue #3 was changed from the original idea of a Gatling gun because he told Denny O'Neil that the Gatling hadn't been invented until 13 years after 1936.
What???
The Gatling was invented during the American Civil War in the early 1860s. It was used succesfully at the final battle of the 2nd Anglo/Zulu War in 1879 (and not-so-succesfully in the Canadian NorthWest Rebellion in 1885), the Spanish-American War in 1898, etc.
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Have you & Keith done a segment for issue #4 yet? If not, here's an anachronism & mistake for you guys. After Indy & Karen Mays escape from the subway tunnel, Karen compliments Indy on his quick thinking, to which he replies:
"Thanks, but
Montreal should get the credit! I worked a dig there a few years back. A subway construction crew had uncovered a Seneca Indian burial ground. I learned a lot about Senecas.
AND subways!"
1) There was no subway construction in Montreal back in the early '30s because the digging only started in 1962 (in prepartion for the 1967 World Expo).
2) The Metro digs yielded hoardes of First Nations artifacts but the Senecas were too far west to be in the Montreal area.
If your #4 segment hasn't been recorded yet, this might be worth mentioning (for fun, of course)!