Spotted in a #CaptainAmerica story in #TalesofSuspense c1966: "he dived" rather than "he dove" to describe the actions of #RedSkull. As far as their use in literature, the latter only became more common in the 1980s (https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=he+dived%2Che+dove&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-US-2019&smoothing=3). As someone born in the 1980s, "dived" does sound really strange.

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#NickFury performing the 1968 version of #Googling in #TalesofSuspense.

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