Pop links: Spider Woman toons; Kyle Baker draws Hawkman; Buddy's Peggy Sue; vintage Ditko stories

Geek Orthodox shares some "classic" Spider Woman TV cartoons. I'd flat out forgotten she'd had her own series.

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Cartoonist Kyle Baker is doing a Hawkman title for DC Comics.



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The BBC interviews Buddy Holly's "Peggy Sue."

Peggy Sue Gerron, a sweet-faced woman of 68, is an unlikely piece of walking rock 'n' roll memorabilia. But in 1957, she was the girlfriend of Holly's best pal, Jerry Allison, and so became the inspiration for the singer's jiving classic.

Today, Ms Gerron smiles and plays down her role of musical muse, when asked.

"I think he decided he was going to write a girl's song, and sometime during the middle of the night he got Norman Petty, the producer, and he told him, 'I've written this song and I've named it after Jerry's girlfriend, Peggy Sue'."

I posted this video last week, but what the heck:



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Via Journalista, Harry Green Eyeball (awesome name!) presents three vintage Steve Ditko-illustrated suspense tales.