![]() It was also a question of transformation." The truth was that, as a kid, Sammy had only a casual interest, at best, in Harry HoudiniĪnd his legendary feats his great heroes were Nikola Tesla, Louis Pasteur, and Jack London. ![]() It was called 'Metamorphosis: It was never just a question of escape. Houdini's first magic act, you know, back when he was just getting "You weren't the same person when you came out as when you went in. "To me, Clark Kent in a phone booth and Houdini in a packing crate, they were one and the same thing," he would learnedlyĮxpound at WonderCon or Angouleme or to the editor of Comics Journal. ![]() In later years, holding forth to an interviewer or to an audience of aging fans at a comic book convention, Sam Clay liked to declare, apropos of his and Joe Kavalier's greatest creation, that back when he was a boy, sealed and hog-tied inside theĪirtight vessel known as Brooklyn, New York, he had been haunted by dreams of Harry Houdini. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay ![]()
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