tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252129938551938631.post3802065895106797881..comments2024-03-25T22:28:29.238-04:00Comments on Tony Isabella's Bloggy Thing: RAWHIDE KID WEDNESDAY 113Tony Isabellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07356415470545816484noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252129938551938631.post-82548756654468345712017-06-19T02:27:05.224-04:002017-06-19T02:27:05.224-04:00I should not have read this column when I should h...I should not have read this column when I should have been going to bed. And I especially should not have tried deciphering the coded message when I should have been going to bed, because I spent way too much time on this, which I will regret when I have to get up for work.<br /><br />I encountered some trouble with letter combinations that didn't make sense, but by that point, I had deciphered enough to realize that there was a problem with the message itself, or possibly your transcription of it, so I consulted a couple of actual comics from the same month (or rather, PDFs of actual comics, from the DVD-ROM collections of <i>Fantastic Four</i> and <i>The Hulk</i> that they put out a few years ago).<br /><br />One problem was that you misread a "Q" as an "O" — it's "YQNIV" rather than "YONIV". (In the font they used, the tail on the Q is tiny, and in the FF issue reproduced in the PDF, it's not clear if it's the tail of a Q or just a speck in the paper under an O. In the Hulk issue, it was more legible. Maybe your Rawhide Kid issue was also unclear.) But the big problem was that they apparently had some trouble in the Marvel Bullpen when they encoded this in the first place, because the deciphered message reads:<br /><br />DOC SAVAGE IS COMING IN A BRAND NGW BRACK AND WHITG MAG!<br /><br />And now I've stayed up much too late — but hey, who needs more than four-and-a-half hours of sleep, anyway?Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15002963714116868716noreply@blogger.com