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https://i0.wp.com/www.comicbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Midnight.jpg?fit=728%2C304&ssl=1728304It has been a running theme in this column to write about characters from a simpler time largely due to the fact that a combination of simplicity and imaginative form is what creates endless figures. But they are not necessarily endless in their serial forms. Some are no longer being published. They are simply endless because they were formed in a world of pages that welcomed them and in which they could shine and leave behind a legacy for us to read.