Welcome to the 912th installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed, a column where we examine three comic book myths, rumors and legends and confirm or debunk them. This time, in our second legend, discover how a hurricane that hit Connecticut in 1955 changed Marvel Comics forever. The Summer of 1955 in Connecticut was generally a dry one, and the state was actually teetering close to being in a drought. That changed when Hurricane Connie technically missed the Northeast of the United States, but dropped a ton of rain on Connecticut on the week of August 12th, 1955. Just a week later, Hurricane Diane hit, and while again, it only barely crazed the Northeast of the United States, it brought torrential rain, and not only torrential rain, but torrential rain that paused for days in specific spots, tributaries and headwaters for Connecticut creeks and rivers, causing them to swell (nine inches of rain fell in just the FIRST DAY of the rain).Waterbury resident Barbara Genovese recalled that the after effects made the town look, “War torn. You couldn’t believe that little river, that was nothing, was a ripple, could do that. You saw debris and furniture and suitcases and just overwhelming. You just didn’t expect something like that in our little town,”
Welcome to the 912th installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed, a column where we examine three comic book myths, rumors and legends and confirm or debunk them. This time, in our second legend, discover how a hurricane that hit Connecticut in 1955 changed Marvel Comics forever.
The Summer of 1955 in Connecticut was generally a dry one, and the state was actually teetering close to being in a drought. That changed when Hurricane Connie technically missed the Northeast of the United States, but dropped a ton of rain on Connecticut on the week of August 12th, 1955. Just a week later, Hurricane Diane hit, and while again, it only barely crazed the Northeast of the United States, it brought torrential rain, and not only torrential rain, but torrential rain that paused for days in specific spots, tributaries and headwaters for Connecticut creeks and rivers, causing them to swell (nine inches of rain fell in just the FIRST DAY of the rain).
Waterbury resident Barbara Genovese recalled that the after effects made the town look, “War torn. You couldn’t believe that little river, that was nothing, was a ripple, could do that. You saw debris and furniture and suitcases and just overwhelming. You just didn’t expect something like that in our little town,”
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