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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 5, 2022 10:36:12 GMT -5
Andy Capp's newspaper strip appeared for years in the NY Daily News. Read a bunch but never became a favorite
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Post by Batflunkie on Aug 5, 2022 12:16:44 GMT -5
Also, this contribution to western civilizations: I have memories from Kindergarten thru Second Grade of kids constantly going to the Vending Machine in school and getting the Andy Capp's Hot Fries. I didn't try them until about maybe a year ago and they really are good (Had the Cheddar Fries, not too big into hot stuff)
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 5, 2022 13:07:32 GMT -5
According to Wikipedia, Andy Capp gave up cigarettes and domestic violence in the 1980s. In earlier strips he almost always had a cigarette in his mouth.
I've never tried the Andy Capp snacks, and have seen them only rarely.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2022 16:15:36 GMT -5
Saw this on one of the comic related feeds I follow, a later form 1938 from Hal Foster to Milton Canniff -M
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Post by dbutler69 on Aug 5, 2022 18:35:29 GMT -5
Same with my dad. He loved it, but its humor usually left me scratching my head. -M What part of "drunken wife-beater" don't you find funny? Also, this contribution to western civilizations: I was always partial to the Pub Fries myself.
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Post by badwolf on Aug 5, 2022 20:51:23 GMT -5
My grandparents liked Andy Capp. I think I sort of liked it, but it was in the newspaper they got and not the one my family got at home, so I didn't see it as much.
I loved the hot fries years ago...
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 7, 2022 20:18:01 GMT -5
Does Bruce Wayne know that his mother had her own comic in 1956 for a different publisher? Did she think leaving her pearl necklace at home would fool anyone?
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Post by foxley on Aug 8, 2022 15:44:35 GMT -5
Does Bruce Wayne know that his mother had her own comic in 1956 for a different publisher? Did she think leaving her pearl necklace at home would fool anyone? Hey, she dyed her hair as well.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2022 11:14:47 GMT -5
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 10, 2022 2:58:29 GMT -5
I came across today one of the strangest, bizarre old comic I've ever seen. And I've seen plenty in my lifetime Sun Fun Komiks (1939) - a one-shot issue from a one-shot publisher The download scan only had 9 pages but at a retail price of 15 cents I'm sure there's more The thing is Overstreet and the GCD have no further info except the fact that it did exist Overstreet is not sure if this is the first American comic appearence of Adolf Hitler Looking at it, you'd think it's a modern comic parody, kind of an undergroud comic vibe or something Peter Bagge would produce Overstreet lists it as very rare and $12,000 mint If your into downloads, you should be able to find it
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Post by Cei-U! on Aug 10, 2022 3:06:00 GMT -5
Quoting myself, from American Comic Book Chronicles 1940-44:
"Chicago-based Sun Publications was dying. Its line of pulps had largely collapsed by 1940, including The Golden Fleece, a highly regarded title devoted to historical fiction that had counted Robert E. Howard among its contributors. It is hard to fathom what publisher Arthur Gontier, Sr. and editor Bill O'Donnell had in mind with the release of Sun Fun Komiks in 1939. It wasn't exactly a hit: copies are so rare that only eight pages of the one-shot have surfaced to date, just enough to suggest the book was intended as a burlesque of the comic book fad.
The duo tried again the following year with the more conventional Colossus Comics #1 (March 1940). Its cover feature was “Colossus A.D. 2640,” a space opera by scripter Mark Reinsberg and artist Bernie Wiest. An incorrectly mixed physique enhancement formula transformed puny Richard Zenith into a megalomaniacal 2000-foot-tall titan just as a fleet of “plantaliens” invaded the solar system. Like every other series in Colossus, it was terribly drawn, with crude figures awkwardly posed in panels mostly devoid of backgrounds. Wiest also illustrated several other strips, including “Lum Sims,” a ludicrously bad Lil Abner knock-off, and “Ruggey,” about a dim-witted cab driver chosen by billionaire Phil Thelucre to serve as puppet king of the newly purchased nation of Bulmania. It had a few funny bits, which gave it a leg up on its companions. The only feature to show any genuine potential was “Educational Adventures of Panda-Lin,” in which father-and-son pandas visited the Taj Mahal aboard a flying bamboo mat, but it suffered from the same amateurish art that marked the entire book. Colossus Comics sank without a trace, ending Gontier's hopes of breathing new life into his moribund company."
Cei-U! I summon the insight!
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Post by EdoBosnar on Aug 10, 2022 4:36:08 GMT -5
...I'm just trying to puzzle out why the quotes by Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin are in Hebrew, and wondering if it actually says something in Hebrew or just if it's just random gibberish...
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Post by kirby101 on Aug 10, 2022 7:59:35 GMT -5
It's been a long time since Hebrew School and my Bar Mitzvah, but it looks like real Hebrew to me. (don't ask me to read it)
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Post by tonebone on Aug 10, 2022 10:51:02 GMT -5
...I'm just trying to puzzle out why the quotes by Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin are in Hebrew, and wondering if it actually says something in Hebrew or just if it's just random gibberish... I"m more fascinated by the fact that Cornies was ok with having Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini endorsing their product.
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Post by tonebone on Aug 10, 2022 10:56:05 GMT -5
The DC collection includes the Twilight GN from Chaykin and Garcia-Lopez... love the description.... Twilight , the scientific and spatial reformulation of DC characters developed by Howard Chaykin and Jose Luis García-López.The term "spatial reformulation" is awesome.
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