>...color me amazed. I would have thunk there was more fictional stuff
>in UF esp. given how...colorful...the characters are. And how much
>"pop-culture" they absorb within their own Universe. No wonder we all
>enjoy reading it so much - the UF universe is so interesting that it
>doesn't appear to need much fiction...
>
Note that :

a) Where we have things like Marvel (who make up stories about made-up superheroes), UF has Bacon Comics (who possibly make up and possibly just tell stories about real superheroes).

b) Some people (e.g. The Shadow) in UF were thought of as the characters as fictional but turn out to be real.

And in writing that second note I've remembered one you've not got -- Darkwing Duck, the inspiration for the Hammer costume.

S,