![]() ![]() Yet his account of his role - of the role of his own imagination - in the Escapist's birth, like all of his best fabulations, rang true. It was also a question of transformation." The truth was that, as a kid, Sammy had only a casual interest, at best, in Harry Houdini and his legendary feats his great heroes were Nikola Tesla, Louis Pasteur, and Jack London. It was called 'Metamorphosis.' It was never just a question of escape. ![]() Houdini's first magic act, you know, back when he was just getting started. "You weren't the same person when you came out as when you went in. "To me, Clark Kent in a phone booth and Houdini in a packing crate, they were one and the same thing," he would learnedly expound at WonderCon or Angouleme or to the editor of The Comics Journal. ![]() I n later years, holding forth to an interviewer or to an audience of aging fans at a comic book convention, Sam Clay liked to declare, apropos of his and Joe Kavalier's greatest creation, that back when he was a boy, sealed and hog-tied inside the airtight vessel known as Brooklyn, New York, he had been haunted by dreams of Harry Houdini. ![]()
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