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On February 13, 2022, the GiveSendGo website was hacked and its data on donations was released to journalists and researchers through Distributed Denial of Secrets.[78][79] Four days later, it was revealed that the hacker who had claimed credit, Aubrey Cottle, had been threatened with murder. In the meantime, GiveSendGo had contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation to see if he could be prosecuted.[80]
Of the 92,845 donations, 55.7 per cent of donors were from the United States, and 39 per cent from Canada.

Many of the American donors' names correspond to the names of Donald Trump donors.[81][82]
The hack also revealed that one $90,000 donation allegedly came from American software billionaire Thomas Siebel.[82]

Some members of the Ontario Provincial Police were revealed to have donated to the convoy on GiveSendGo, prompting the OPP to launch an internal conduct investigation.[83]

The American publication Politico reported that American right-wing commentators Dan Bongino and Ben Shapiro were among personalities directing support to the Canadian movement's crowdfunding websites.[84] Based on research by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, from January 28 to February 5, a link to the original Freedom Convoy GoFundMe campaign was posted at least two dozen times on 4chan.
According to Politico, white supremacist channels [ ] on Telegram also repeatedly shared the link.[84]

Once the Emergencies Act had been invoked, all crowdfunding platforms or payment providers hosting fundraising related to the convoy were required to register with the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada. Banks were given the power to freeze accounts of those suspected to be involved in the blockades.[85][86]

On March 3, GoFundMe executive Juan Benitez testified to the House of Commons that 86 per cent of the donors to the original GoFundMe campaign were Canadian, and 88 per cent of the donated funds to the original campaign were from Canadians. Benitez added that GoFundMe did not identify any donors to the campaign that were affiliated with terrorist or organized crime groups.[87]

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Cover for MARVEL SUPER HEROES 6, July 1991, by Arthur Adams.

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It occurs to me that another post-apocalyptic series (although more of a space-travel science fiction series, as well as a romance with Alanna) is Adam Strange, in MYSTERY IN SPACE 53-91, by Fox and Infantino.
On the planet Rann, they had a devastating global nuclear war, from which a thousand years after, the people of Rann are still struggling to recover from.
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Mystery-in-Space-1951/Issue-53?id=88634
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Strange




Infantino reluctantly left the Adam Strange series in 1964, assigned to work on the "new look" Batman in DETECTIVE 327-369.

The series continued after Infantino's last issue in MYSTERY IN SPACE 91 for a few more issues, by artist Lee Elias, but it just wasn't the same without Infantino. The series was remarkably upbeat and optimistic for a post-apocalyptic series. Because it was more about Adam Strange as the hero of Rann, using his wits to repel one race of alien invaders after another., with Rann's nuclear war history mostly as a backdrop occasionally mentioned. The series also focused on the unrequited love of Adam Strange and Alanna.
I first read these stories reprinted in STRANGE ADVENTURES 217-244 (1969-1973), in what seemed like a very long and well received series of reprints.

Since then about 15 years ago, they were also reprinted in three DC Archives volumes.
And just as I got the third volume, they announced an omnibus hardcover of the same issues.


Here are all the Infantino issues, in MYSTERY IN SPACE 53-91 :
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Mystery-in-Space-1951/Issue-53?id=88634

And while I'm less enthusiaastic about the three origin story issues that preceded the Infantino run, here are the three Sekowsky issues in
SHOWCASE 17-19 in 1958-1959 :
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Showcase/Issue-17?id=43357
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Showcase/Issue-18?id=43358
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Showcase/Issue-19?id=43359



I also really enjoyed the wedding story of Adam Strange and Alanna, in JLA 120-121.
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Justice-League-of-America-1960/Issue-120?id=27543
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Justice-League-of-America-1960/Issue-121?id=27544

And a few Adam Strange team-up stories in three issues of BRAVE AND THE BOLD in three issues :
issue 90 ( a good "last Batman story", by Haney and Andru/Esposito), https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/The-Brave-and-the-Bold-1955/Issue-90?id=31191
issue 161 (by Haney and Aparo), https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/The-Brave-and-the-Bold-1955/Issue-161?id=31261
and issue 190 (by Barr and Infantino/Trapani) https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/The-Brave-and-the-Bold-1955/Issue-190?id=31290


And a SECRET ORIGINS 17 story, Aug 1987, where Infantino once again pencilled Adam Strange in his origin re-telling. Why Murphy Anderson was not selected as inker (instead of Tony DeZuniga) is a mystery to me. Writing and art that re-tells the origin story, but for me strayed a bit too far from its Silver Age appeal. Thanks to DeZuniga, Infantino's art was virtually unrecognizable.
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Secret-Origins-1986/Issue-17?id=48194

As compared with this "Space Museum" tribute in SECRET ORIGINS 50, also pencilled by Infantino, and beautifully inked by George Perez, that I think in both story and art perfectly re-captures the Silver Age stories it was tribute to.
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Secret-Origins-1986/Issue-50?id=48242

Adam Strange's run was one of the brightest lights of the Silver Age.
And likewise Infantino's FLASH run and DETECTIVE COMICS run, particularly the Elongated man backup stories in DETECTIVE.
And Gil Kane's THE ATOM, and Kubert's HAWKMAN, and the early Zatanna crossover appearances.
All very fondly remembered. A wonderful blend of beautiful art, whimsey and optimism across all of these Schwartz-edited titles.
In Adam Strange's case, even amid the aftermath a thousand years after a nuclear war on Rann.
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