Holy moley!

March 28th, 2011 by admin

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  1. Ken Reynhout:

    September 3rd, 2012 at 4:39 pm

    My late uncle, William Woolfolk, was one of the behind-the-scenes original authors and creators of Captain Marvel. He told me that he invented the phrase “Holy Moley,” but did not mention how he came up with it. It even made it into his obituary: http://articles.latimes.com/2003/aug/10/local/me-woolfolk10

  2. Grandpa Chet Cox:

    September 24th, 2012 at 1:17 am

    Per C. C. Beck, Bill Parker did reference “the food of the gods,” and the first suggestions of the character – which was actually going to be a full team of heroes, each one with one of the powers of one of the ancient gods. Evidently, the editors of the time wanted to have only ONE hero (to compete with Superman) and Parker redesigned his original proposal.
    And then went back to what he considered “real writing” — Mechanix Illustrated.

    *jeep! & God Bless!

  3. Colin W:

    January 7th, 2013 at 5:37 pm

    The last grand prior of the Knights Templar was named Jacques de Molay. Admittedly this sounds flaky, but is it possible that partisans of the order used holy moley to identify each other after he was burned at the stake and the order abolished?

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