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Masked policemen take cover behind shields during clashes at a May Day demonstration in Istanbul.
Pagan rituals and global protests brought to you by the Guardian’s award-winning picture team, rounding up the most eye-catching images of the day
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Justified: Timothy Olyphant on Elmore Leonard and the golden age of TV
As marshal Raylan Givens - self-satisfied, unreliable, and cool in a cowboy hat - he’s the undisputed star of Justified. So when will this show get the awards it deserves?
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This month in DC History
The first appearance of Red Hood happened in 1951. Although the current Red Hood is Jason Todd, the first Red Hood was actually one of a group of criminals in a gang called the Red Hood gang. The gang would take turns under the hood giving the appearance that there was a singular mastermind behind the crimes. Red Hood was also used as the origin for The Joker but didn’t tell us how he got those scars.
What else happened in 1951?
- Killer Moth was introduced (also in February). Although he’s now usually seen at the but of a joke. Killer Moth started out to be the “anti-Batman” and got his own “Mothmobile.” He also probably had two living parents who took care of him as he grew up, can’t get more “anti-Batman” than that.
- Space was all the rage while superheroes were struggling so DC came out with Mystery in Space, it’s second space title. Spoiler alert: The Space Butler did it.
- All Star Comics, which was a buffet of all the hero comics DC was producing, met it’s end. It ended on issue 57 with the ironically titled story “The Mystery of the Vanishing Detectives.”
