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Post by foxley on Aug 22, 2015 20:34:36 GMT -5
It's time for the anti-sex and anti-innuendo entry (unless someone is getting vibes from this cover that I am missing, and far be it from me to judge) No photo cover contest would be complete without the incomparable Gabby Hayes...  Well, he is holding a pistol and has a very excited look on his face. Freud would have had a field day with that.  |
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Post by hondobrode on Aug 22, 2015 23:34:03 GMT -5
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Post by dbutler69 on Aug 23, 2015 11:25:42 GMT -5
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Post by shaxper on Aug 23, 2015 11:36:57 GMT -5
It's time for the anti-sex and anti-innuendo entry (unless someone is getting vibes from this cover that I am missing, and far be it from me to judge) No photo cover contest would be complete without the incomparable Gabby Hayes... Met him when I was a little kid. He made an appearance somewhere and my aunt took me, probably b/c I loved Roy Rogers. I always preferred Gene Autry. Awesome that you got to meet him! |
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 23, 2015 11:49:12 GMT -5
Met him when I was a little kid. He made an appearance somewhere and my aunt took me, probably b/c I loved Roy Rogers. I always preferred Gene Autry. Awesome that you got to meet him! Only wish I could recall the big day! My first and only lunchbox was the Roy Rogers "Saddlebag," whichI carried dutifully till it fell apart, its cardboard and vinyl frame torn and bent. I liked Gene Autry, too. Alway thought both he and Roy were two of the most believable brawlers in their fight scenes. As Gene got older, you could see the stuntman more frequently, but in his earlier pictures, he threw a hard, mean punch. And I've always been a sucker for the Lone Ranger, too. |
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Post by shaxper on Aug 23, 2015 11:52:39 GMT -5
Gene just always struck me as being more authentic. Roy's smile sometimes seemed a bit pasted on; Gene exuded an aura of good-heartedness. That plus the singing, really. Westerns of that era were almost always silly, and so, accepting that premise, the guy with the biggest smile singing the nicest songs was king in my book.
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 23, 2015 11:58:19 GMT -5
Gene just always struck me as being more authentic. Roy's smile sometimes seemed a bit pasted on; Gene exuded an aura of good-heartedness. That plus the singing, really. Westerns of that era were almost always silly, and so, accepting that premise, the guy with the biggest smile singing the nicest songs was king in my book. I think Roy's smile was less pasted on than just etched into his somewhat weathered face.  The Westerns aimed at kids were goofy, but some of the others, like Wanted Dead or Alive with Steve McQueen, The Rifleman, and the various Warner Brothers shows: Bronco, Cheyenne and Maverick, especially, were often excellent: lean, well told, and vivid, with more respect for history than it might seem at first, too. |
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Post by Farrar on Aug 23, 2015 13:51:05 GMT -5
Wow, that's Zina Bethune and (I looked the other one up) Shirl Conway. I love the TV show covers people are posting. Reminds me that my older cousins had some photo-covered Dick Van Dyke comics. I had no idea who he was at the time. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 23, 2015 15:12:35 GMT -5
Time for some monkeying around....  -M I can hardly express in mere words how much I love Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp. Every so often, I watch an episode on YouTube. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 23, 2015 16:39:15 GMT -5
Time for some monkeying around.... -M If the monkeys were purpler, I would have bought this. |
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Post by benday-dot on Aug 23, 2015 17:46:57 GMT -5
It's time for the anti-sex and anti-innuendo entry (unless someone is getting vibes from this cover that I am missing, and far be it from me to judge) No photo cover contest would be complete without the incomparable Gabby Hayes... Well, he is holding a pistol and has a very excited look on his face. Freud would have had a field day with that. I thought that myself foxley after I posted, but hey what goes on in El Paso stays in El Paso. The "old fella" has got his dignity. |
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Post by dbutler69 on Aug 24, 2015 6:56:17 GMT -5
Time for some monkeying around.... -M I can hardly express in mere words how much I love Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp. Every so often, I watch an episode on YouTube. I've never even heard of it, but I can tell from this cover that it's pretty awesome. I'll have to check it out on Youtube. |
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Post by foxley on Aug 24, 2015 8:12:46 GMT -5
People don't often link Gabby Hayes and 'dignity' in the same sentence. |
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Post by MDG on Aug 24, 2015 9:19:23 GMT -5
Wow, that's Zina Bethune and (I looked the other one up) Shirl Conway. I love the TV show covers people are posting. Reminds me that my older cousins had some photo-covered Dick Van Dyke comics. I had no idea who he was at the time. I think you're misremembering that--Dick Van Dyke was one of the few TV shows that Gold Key never adapted, though Mark Evanier produced an imaginary history of it. www.newsfromme.com/writings/the-dick-van-dyke-show-comic-book/ |
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Post by MWGallaher on Aug 24, 2015 9:52:04 GMT -5
 The truth is, I don't generally like photo covers for comics, and the Dell and Gold Key photo covers often struck me as cheap, sloppy, inartistic, and off-putting, especially when they resorted to slapping some black and white insets (or worse, originally b&w frames converted to some ugly monotone color). I hated "cut-outs", I didn't like boring static portrait poses, and even as a kid, I could see that there was some kind of printing limitation that prevented these covers from looking like the photo covers on other magazines. But this one...well, it's interesting that today a modern reading would lead us to expect a far different kind of cautionary story than the one that's probably in there, and that it's not difficult to read so much into the limited facial expressions on this bland cast photo. |
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