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Post by beccabear67 on Dec 23, 2019 21:21:29 GMT -5
I think it was A.C.T., Action for Children's Television that ironically reduced the amount of action allowed in cartoons. Later a lot of those same people went after the music industry and rap lyrics. In the U.K. it was Mary Whitehouse and her viewer's association that would pummel mostly the BBC into submission with complaints about implied violence in Doctor Who etc.
I always preferred the live action shows over the cartoons, or the part live and part cartoon, best of both! Land Of The Lost, Waldo Kitty, Banana Splits with Huckleberry Finn and Danger Island, Liddsville, Uncle Croc's Block, Pufnstuf... the cartoons I most liked were Japanese (Marine Boy, Speed Racer, Starblazers) and Johnny Quest or Herculoids Hanna-Barbera adventure types, and of course Warner Brothers which were usually genuinely funny. I never cared for Super Friends or any of the limited animation Filmation series except I might put up with the cheap animation for a good Star trek story, that was about it though. I may've been too old to get interested in Flash Gordon, that may've deserved more of a chance than I gave it.
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 24, 2019 0:06:57 GMT -5
I think it was A.C.T., Action for Children's Television that ironically reduced the amount of action allowed in cartoons. Later a lot of those same people went after the music industry and rap lyrics. In the U.K. it was Mary Whitehouse and her viewer's association that would pummel mostly the BBC into submission with complaints about implied violence in Doctor Who etc. I always preferred the live action shows over the cartoons, or the part live and part cartoon, best of both! Land Of The Lost, Waldo Kitty, Banana Splits with Huckleberry Finn and Danger Island, Liddsville, Uncle Croc's Block, Pufnstuf... the cartoons I most liked were Japanese (Marine Boy, Speed Racer, Starblazers) and Johnny Quest or Herculoids Hanna-Barbera adventure types, and of course Warner Brothers which were usually genuinely funny. I never cared for Super Friends or any of the limited animation Filmation series except I might put up with the cheap animation for a good Star trek story, that was about it though. I may've been too old to get interested in Flash Gordon, that may've deserved more of a chance than I gave it. By the late 70s, Filmation was using rotoscoping (animation over filmed action) to beef up their adventure cartoons. You still had a lot of repeated footage and musical cues; but, there were some really great action sequences, starting with Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle (which ran for 3 cycles of episodes). Tarzan had some great stories, especially their lost world stuff. new Adv. of Zorro was pretty good, too, with rotoscoped fencing patterns. The Kid Power Hour with Shazam had some really good Marvel Family cartoons, with stories from people like Paul Dini (one of his first tv scripts). Many of the plots came from classic Captain Marvel stories. Flash Gordon was originally animated as a prime time movie, with extensive rotoscoping on the characters, the rocket ships, and some other sequences. The storyline was taken right from the classic Alex Raymond strips. NBC was so impressed with it, they asked for the Saturday morning series. Filmation broke the movie up into about the first three episodes, then added further stories, with battle sequences repeated from the movie footage. They also recast some voices for the series. The original first seasonwas done like a serial, with each adventure leading into the enxt, though two episodes usually covered a particular adventure. Each one had a chapter number and title, leading to the last, where they take the fight to Ming (with the remaining footage from the movie). The cartoon series premiered first, to great ratings; then, they broadcast the movie, in prime time, as Flash gordon, The Greatest Adventure of All. It includes an opening sequence in 1939, during the bombing of Warsaw. It has Flash there, trying to reach a contact, then flying back home on a plane, with Dale, when the plane is struck by meteors (as in the strip) and they parachute down by Zarkov's lab, climb in his rocket and head off to Mongo. You can watch it on Youtube...
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Post by sacorn on Dec 30, 2019 13:21:21 GMT -5
Just thought I'd see if anyone knows here: I'm putting my collection into storage while we build a new house and was thinking of plastic wrapping each box to keep it airtight and hopefully rodent free. Will this be ok for the contents of each box (most comics are bagged and boarded) and not cause any damage? It might get a little warm and humid too and not sure of the effects on comics. Thanks heaps.
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 30, 2019 13:50:24 GMT -5
Just thought I'd see if anyone knows here: I'm putting my collection into storage while we build a new house and was thinking of plastic wrapping each box to keep it airtight and hopefully rodent free. Will this be ok for the contents of each box (most comics are bagged and boarded) and not cause any damage? It might get a little warm and humid too and not sure of the effects on comics. Thanks heaps. Cool and dry is always your best bet. No idea how effectively you could seal something like a comic box, in plastic, without industrial equipment designed for the purpose. Something like silica packets are good for absorbing moisture; but, they aren't exactly something you find at Walmart. I work for a printing & shipping company and we don't carry things like that; so, I suspect it would be a special order thing. I stored mine for a time, in a climate-controlled storage unit and they were fine. Duration would be a big factor in any method.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2019 18:21:09 GMT -5
Couldn't find anything via Google images so here goes.
Any fights between Captain America and Luke Cage during the Bronze Age? I've found images of modern conflicts, plus fan art. Those two had to have fought at some point, right?
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Dec 30, 2019 21:29:18 GMT -5
Does Otto Binder's last name rhyme with tinder or kinder?
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 30, 2019 21:38:58 GMT -5
Does Otto Binder's last name rhyme with tinder or kinder? Tinder.
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Post by berkley on Dec 30, 2019 22:52:06 GMT -5
Does Otto Binder's last name rhyme with tinder or kinder? Tinder.
Fender.
If you're from New Zealand.
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 31, 2019 0:25:57 GMT -5
Well, it rhymes with kinder, if you're German.
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Dec 31, 2019 12:22:07 GMT -5
Anyone here know anything about Debby Ackerman and her relationship with Marvel in the Sixties?
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Post by hondobrode on Dec 31, 2019 13:05:50 GMT -5
Does Otto Binder's last name rhyme with tinder or kinder? I, like most people I suspect, was mispronouncing this for years, until I purchased an Audible biography by the late Bill Shelley, and they pointed out it's pronounced like tinder.
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Dec 31, 2019 13:24:57 GMT -5
Does Otto Binder's last name rhyme with tinder or kinder? I, like most people I suspect, was mispronouncing this for years, until I purchased an Audible biography by the late Bill Shelley, and they pointed out it's pronounced like tinder. I feel like I could create a whole thread just listing all of the names I grew up reading in the credits of comics and just guessing how to pronounce.
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Post by hondobrode on Dec 31, 2019 13:49:53 GMT -5
Yep
I grew up saying Jim Aparo as uh-PAR-oh, but later I met someone with the same last name and they pronounced it as uh-PAIR-oh, so that's how I've pronounced it since, but I'm not sure if that's correct concerning our favorite B&B artist.
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 31, 2019 15:43:40 GMT -5
Cerebus broke me of the habit of wanting to say "Sine-keh-wicks."
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Post by Confessor on Dec 31, 2019 22:06:19 GMT -5
I, like most people I suspect, was mispronouncing this for years, until I purchased an Audible biography by the late Bill Shelley, and they pointed out it's pronounced like tinder. I feel like I could create a whole thread just listing all of the names I grew up reading in the credits of comics and just guessing how to pronounce. Pretty sure we had a thread like that some years back, if memory serves. The search function might turn something up. EDIT: Here it is... classiccomics.org/thread/843/kay-sar
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