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Parasocialize Top 8 — October 26, 2026

The eight that ran that day, frozen as published. Later builds do not revise a day.

  1. 01

    Character 1930

    Somebody always wrote back

    Fifty-four years of letters to a fictional detective, answered by an office that had chosen not to have a face.

  2. 02

    An entry no longer in the corpus: Rin Tin Tin, 1922

  3. 03

    An entry no longer in the corpus: The New York Evening Journal, 1898–1920

  4. 04

    An entry no longer in the corpus: Betty Crocker, 1921

  5. 05

    An entry no longer in the corpus: Whiz Comics #2, 1940

  6. 06

    Persona 1927

    The girl the studio built

    Paramount signed Clara Bow in 1926 and released six of her pictures in 1927, one of which - It - put a novelist's definition of 'It' onto a face and left the language with the phrase 'It Girl'.

  7. 07

    An entry no longer in the corpus: The United States Post Office, 1894–1912

  8. 08

    An entry no longer in the corpus: Fantastic Four, 1962

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