"talia was a lady who was invented--to serve the needs of the plot and that story, with no thought she would ever appear again, or that she would have a father, or any of that stuff. i needed a woman to make the plot work. so i invented talia." // "today we live in a different world, a different time--we are a little closer to the end of gods, women are not mere loves spurned and set adrift... and even the greatest of men may yet be broken." amazing heroes (1981) #50 // detective comics (1937) #1064










