Archive for Comics
Fred Flintstone and Good Old Unreliable Dino – Book and Record
Fred Flintstone and Good Old Unreliable Dino, The Flintstones, Peter Pan Book and Records #1978, copyright 1976. What is that kid wearing?
Charlie Brown and Huck Finn Paperbacks
Hey, Peanuts! by Charles M. Schultz. First copyright is 1950, but this is the 1984 (forty-first!) printing. Fawcett publishers. The old Peanuts cartoon are pretty good. There at the end, the comic wasn’t very funny, but when they started running the old ones in the paper, those were funny.
The best cover I’ve seen for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. And I’ve seen a lot of them. I lived for awhile in Hannibal, MO, Samuel Clemens’ (aka Mark Twain) home town. And, I’m a librarian. Both those facts have given me ample opportunity to see many versions of Mark Twain’s work. This one is a Signet Classic copyright 1959, but this one was published in 1964.
Automotive Toys as Advertised on the Backs of Comics
The Imposters from Aurora. Like Transformers only cool. I think they all ran those zoomy pipes. Zingers! Man I loved Zingers from MPC. I never had enough of them. The oversized monster engines just like a Big Daddy Ed Roth picture. Then some Monogram Snap Tite snap-together models of construction equipment that’s been all hot rodded.
Ghosts – True Tales of the Weird and Supernatural
If you don’t believe in Ghosts, we challenge you to read True Tales of the Weird and Supernatural! DC Comics, From the lineup of DC Ghosts, or DC Super-Stars. No 29, no. 9, and 21. I never read these as a kid, I could watch the old Universal horror movies, or maybe even a Hammer horror, but reading a comic like this was out of the question. Way too freaky.
1950s Tarzan Photograph Cover Comic from Dell
Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan, The Mysterious Valley of the Monsters! Dell, August, 10 cents. Does not have the comics code on it.
Jimmy Olsen becomes The (not so) Jolly Green Giant!
Superman’s Pal, The New Jimmy Olsen. DC Jimmy Olsen, 15 cents. March, no. 136. Jimmy Olsen the D. N. Alien! circa 1970. Looks bad for Superman. This new wimpy Superman wouldn’t stand a chance.
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