The Abandoned
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The Golden Age of Comic Books - what a wonderful sounding phrase. It inspires images of glitz and glamour¸ where everything is possible and the medium of comics is treated with love and respect. Except none of that is true of course. Looking back at those years¸ we find that while there were no limits to what publishers could print¸ there were a lot of limits on what they would print¸ what the public would accept and ultimately what they wouldn't. Everybody wanted a piece of the comics pie¸ and thus the world was introduced to thousands of characters that were quickly forgotten for one reason or the other. These days¸ if a character doesn't resonate with the readers they might get re-tooled and re-introduced¸ maybe even as a side character in a movie or TV show but back during the golden age¸ they were just abandoned. This book shines a light on a few of these characters¸ who only got a single chance to shine and for one reason or the other didn't. They are the abandoned and this is their story.