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Hitman Talks to Sam USS Lexington Blue Ghost Comic Book · Classic Hitz with Hitman

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  Corpus Chrissy's Classic Kids Big ninety three to nine. I got Sam on the
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  phone from the USS Lexington, which I love to go to all the time.
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  Sam, how are you today? I'm wonderful, you know. I
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  love getting a chance to talk with you. Sam. What's going on right
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  now with the USS Lexington. Well, we are super excited because this Saturday,
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  on March sixteenth, we are introducing the Blue Ghost Comics. So it
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  is a comic book that is based on the USS Lexington being transformed into a
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  mechanized robot guardian. Right, right, So are we talking to like like
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  Marvel comic type superhero comic book. So, I mean it is a thirty
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  two page full color comic book. Five variant covers that will be This is
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  the only time that you can actually get all five together because the graphic artist
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  want Carlos Ramos, He's going to be at the Lexington signing comics. We're
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  going to have a full event of activities from ten to or at the ship
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  this Saturday. But he has two exclusive covers and we have two exclusive covers
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  and then there's one main cover so people can come out get all five covers
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  of the comic book get them all signed by Wan Carlos. The event is
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  free with paid admission to the museum. We're going to have a DJ here.
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  It's going to be a lot of fun. Wow. So if you're
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  into comics, this could probably be a great collectible for comic book collectors because
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  this will become very rare, right, oh, definitely. You know,
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  this is the first comic book based on an aircraft carrier turning into our transforming
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  into a robot. So it's the first of its kind. And what's really
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  great is that it merges history of the lex So it's a fictional story,
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  but there are spots on reference to on the ship, reference to about the
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  ship that are connected here when you come intour the museum that you can actually
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  see, you know, from the comic to so here on the ship.
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  And it's really about creating that curiosity for learning from a whole new audience of
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  people who maybe have never been on the ship. Well, I noticed I
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  look at a lot of tiktoks. There was one that came up just recently
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  concerning the USS Lexington on TikTok concerning the history of why it's being called the
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  Blue Ghost, and could you tell people a little bit why the US S
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  Lexington was called the Blue Ghost. So the reason that the USS Lexington CV.
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  Sixteen is referred to as the Blue Ghost is because that's a nickname that
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  it was given by a propagandist named Tokyo Rose at World War two. And
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  so they had announced that the ship had sank no less than three times,
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  and so every time that they claimed the ship had sank, it was seen
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  again. And so therefore the nickname the Blue Ghost came to be, and
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  it serves as a way to acknowledge and remember and honor former crew of this
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  ship. And so it's now nickname that is termine endearment and appreciated and honored.
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  Well, it's happening this Saturday at what time again, so people can
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  come by and start collecting some of these comic books. Ten am. So
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  the ship opens at nine am and guests are welcome to come aboard then of
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  course paid general admission, and ten from ten to eleven, we're actually going
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  to have a panel with want Carlos Ramos, who is the gentleman who wrote
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  and drew the comic, his business partner Vincent, and then our executive director
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  Steve Banta are going to talk about how this all came to be, from
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  concept to the development of the comic, and then audience members will have an
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  opportunity to ask questions anything about the character. And you know, before we
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  had the comic book in our hands, we've actually had merchandise in our ship
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  store for years with the character, right that always sells out, So that
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  was kind of like a testing phase for us to see how well received it
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  would be. And it's been well received. We've received a phenomenal response and
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  so the comic so far, we've had it out since March second, and
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  sales have been going great. People are really excited to see it, you
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  know, people who've visited the ship before it's their first time. It's something
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  unique and different. It showcases Corpus Christy in the comic book as well,
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  and so it's something really special and unique. So looking forward to seeing this
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  is Saturday. You will also have this up on the website and social media
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  right yes, we do so www. Dot usslexingon dot com, Uss Lexington
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  Museum on Facebook, on Instagram, TikTok Twitter. The event is ten to
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  four. We're going to have a lot of giveaways throughout the event. We're
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  going to have Wan Carlos Ramos doing a live drawing on a special blank cover
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  of the issue. So this is going to be a one of a kind
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  cover of the comic that somebody will receive, so they're going to have their
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  own special, one of a kind comic book. And just by attending the
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  event, you'll get a raffle ticket for a chance to win that. Wow.
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  All right, well, looking forward to seeing these on Saturday, Sam,
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  thanks for calling in, Thanks so much for having me. All right
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  on the way, We've got more Classic Kids coming up on Big ninety three to nine