KALOOOOTA!

My name appears as a sound effect in Green Lantern #84. Bernie Wrightson explains in Comic Book Profiles #7:

"I had been hanging around the office [at DC Comics] for about a year...and I had gotten to know Neal [Adams]. I was always talking about Michael but I would never say "Michael", I would always say "Kaluta." And every time I said "Kaluta," Neal would giggle because he thought it was a funny-sounding name. And he would sit there and work and make up little "Kaluta" songs while he was working, kind of singing to himself. So he's doing the Green Lantern story and they needed a funny sound effect and a name for this little thing that sprays gas in people's faces and controls them, and they decided to call it a "Kaluta."

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