From Americommando: "Destination, Berlin" by Joseph Greene and Bernard Bailey, Action Comics #54 (November 1942)
A new status quo for Tex Thomson as the president sends him to spy in Berlin. Fatman is gone. A new secret identity is introduced - Hauptmann Riker - who wears a monocle (a half-Clark Kent, you might say). And he undergoes so much intensive training, his head spins.
I've never been a spy in Berlin, but I still find this pretty relatable. Change is hard. I'm moving house at the end of the month (after living in the same place for 18 years) and I haven't slept a good night's sleep in months. Now imagine if I had to learn how to wear a monocle...
A new status quo for Tex Thomson as the president sends him to spy in Berlin. Fatman is gone. A new secret identity is introduced - Hauptmann Riker - who wears a monocle (a half-Clark Kent, you might say). And he undergoes so much intensive training, his head spins.
I've never been a spy in Berlin, but I still find this pretty relatable. Change is hard. I'm moving house at the end of the month (after living in the same place for 18 years) and I haven't slept a good night's sleep in months. Now imagine if I had to learn how to wear a monocle...
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Too bad I never change mine.