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Brian Hughes
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| Posted: 04 June 2025 at 10:42pm | IP Logged | 1
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Do you have any recollection you could share on the Doctor Death Splash page? From what I understand it was for an unpublshed story at Charlton. There does not appear to be much more easily found info on it.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 04 June 2025 at 11:54pm | IP Logged | 2
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That splash is all there ever was. Not intended for Charlton, or anybody else. My tiny sojourn into gothic horror. Title is DOCTOR DE ATH. Ain’t I brilliant?
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Joe Murray
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Ohhh, I don’t think I ever registered the lettering gap as “D.E. Ath”
Also with this being all there is, it’s really interesting that all the writing was done at the art stage, wow!
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 05 June 2025 at 1:30am | IP Logged | 4
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De Ath
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Joe Murray
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Ahh, thanks!
I find it odd that I haven’t wondered what the good doctor even looked like until now. And, with all the leaked sketchbook stuff over the years, I’m not connecting anything. I will remove “Charlton” from my CAF description.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 05 June 2025 at 11:12am | IP Logged | 6
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The inspiration for that name, btw, was an English proper name which is pronounced “deeth” but is spelled “death”.In my teens, when I first learned of the name, I decided I would give it to my future son as his second name. I figured he’d hate it until he was sixteen when he’d realize “Death is my middle name.” Just as well I didn’t have kids, huh?
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Marc Foxx
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| Posted: 05 June 2025 at 2:31pm | IP Logged | 7
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QUOTE:
| ]The inspiration for that name, btw, was an English proper name which is pronounced “deeth” but is spelled “death”. |
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That reminds me of a story that my late step-father used to tell (and who knows, he may have been messing with me), that when he was in college, he and a friend were checking into a hotel and his friend put his name in the register as
David Shithead...when the clerk pronounced it as one would expect, he was told, "No, it's pronounced 'Shy-theed', you fool!".
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John Byrne
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Okay, pronounce this English surname:FEATHERINGSTONEHAUGH (I have mentioned this before, so those of you who already know, keep silence!)
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Brian Miller
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David Shithead...when the clerk pronounced it as one would expect, he was
told, "No, it's pronounced 'Shy-theed', you fool!".
*****
I have encountered a patient with this as a first name. Little kid, 7 or 8 years
old. They pronounced it “shuh-theed.”
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Vinny Valenti
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Reminds me of when I was in college - I saw someone pledging for a fraternity, and he wore a sport jersey that said "Asswipe" on the back, which was his Fraternity name. I had heard that someone had complained about it, so they added an accent on the I, and now it was pronounced "Asweepay".
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 05 June 2025 at 5:32pm | IP Logged | 11
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Remembering 30 ROCK’s Dr. Spaceman (pronounced Speh-cheh-men).
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Ryan Maxwell
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Reminds me of my buddy calling a football player “Meeth-Ed” in high school.
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