Books

September, 1974

The book business in midsummer isn't exactly hot lunch. Everybody is waiting around for the release of the new fall line ("I'd like something in a Vonnegut, please: not too long") and, in the meantime, pickings are slim. So we spent the time mostly reading comic books. And found out that, even there, the world is not the same. In the good old days, Superman used to march around smashing anti-American villains and holding off Lois Lane, who went into heat whenever she saw him. The villa...