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Subject: Re: WOODY'S GIRLFRIEND


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Date Posted: 12:12:01 04/16/05 Sat
In reply to: rocky 's message, "Re: WOODY'S GIRLFRIEND" on 10:06:52 07/02/03 Wed

In New Funnies #182 (1952), Woody rescues a pair of woodpecker boys named Nuthead and Splinter from a tiger. Over the next few months, Nuthead's name metamorphosed into Knothead, Splinter metamorphosed into a girl, and they were retconned into Woody's nephew and niece. As such, Knothead and Splinter later turned up in the cartoons.

Retcon - Retroactive continuity. Many comic book fans are very concerned that each story about a character be consistent with every story that has been published in the past. For example, it's no longer possible to do a story about Lois Lane trying to prove Clark Kent is Superman, because DC Comics has published stories in which she found out for sure. Sometimes, to make stories work, it's necessary to "tweak" the past a little bit, so they do a "retcon". For example, Marvel Comics established that the man using the name of Captain America in the 1950s was not the same as the one in the '40s, to stay consistent with the story in which The Avengers found the original Captain America had been frozen in Arctic ice since 1945. The term also applies to wholesale revisions of continuity, for example, DC's mid-1980s complete revamping of its entire fictional history.

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