Pop links: Milt Caniff mini-doc, musical Peanuts punchlines, classic Marvel Comics calendars

Sancum Santorum Comix takes a look at vintage Marvel Comics calendars here, plus more recent Marvel calendars here. (I had that 1975 calendar.)



And, if you like this sort of thing, head over to the Mighty Marvelmania Museum.

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Via Mark Evanier, here's a mini-documentary Ohio State University created to celebrate Ohio native Milt Caniff:



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For those who read music, there are hidden punchlines in Charles Schulz's "Peanuts" strip featuring kid musician Schroeder, The New York Times reports.

In a strip from 1953 Schroeder embarks on an intensive workout. He does push-ups, jumps rope, lifts weights, touches his toes, does sit-ups (“Puff, Puff”), boxes, runs (“Pant, Pant”) and finally eats (“Chomp! Chomp!”). In the last two panels he walks to his piano with determination and begins playing furiously, sweat springing from his brow.

The eighth notes above Schroeder’s head are from the opening bars of Beethoven’s “Hammerklavier” Sonata (Op. 106), a piece so long, artistically complex and technically difficult that it is referred to as the “Giant” Sonata. When Beethoven delivered it to the publisher in 1819, he is believed to have said, “Now you will have a sonata that will keep the pianists busy when it is played 50 years from now.”