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Post by beccabear67 on Mar 1, 2020 14:08:08 GMT -5
We've had this as the cover contest theme a couple of times but I didn't see a poll. We have to have a poll on this! Or if you think of someone I didn't that appeared in comic strips, comics or cartoons, you can mention them too. There's always something left out right? Here's a favorite '40s Alley Oop comic cover, I once had the issue after this one (but this is the best one in my opinion with the stone age cast)...  |
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Post by beccabear67 on Mar 1, 2020 14:20:01 GMT -5
 Here's Alley Oop #11, just because... Standard published this, they of Startling, Thrilling, Wonder fame (and The Black Terror). They also did Captain Easy, another adapted from the newspaper strips title. I mostly had the Canadian printings of these titles but I had the original U.S. one of this... maybe that roughly marks the division in the late '40s from when things like comics and record sleeves by law had to be printed in the great dominion of Canada? I also had various Disney Dells, a Fawcett Master Comics, and other odds and sods (one Redskin). The printing was a bit cruder usually, especially the plainer if heavy cover paper stock (think '40s Fox) and the ads were Canadian and not very colo urful. But back to the topic... why weren't there more cavemen following Alley Oop in the '30s? It seems there were scads of Tarzan, Buck Rogers and Mandrake The Magician copys... or maybe there were and I'm just ughnorant? I seem to remember seeing a French language comic character in passing once but wasn't sure if it was a series or not, also if it wasn't more in a Conan type of style. I'm thinking Italian and German comics must've had some stone age characters, and I vaguely remember seeing a Japanese cave type character (again not sure if it was a series). |
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Post by kirby101 on Mar 1, 2020 15:15:43 GMT -5
Tor, the early stuff was great, but when the elder Kubert returned to it he produced a fantastic comic showing the old still had it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2020 15:22:56 GMT -5
Sam Glanzman's Atu...  would join Joe Kubert's Tor as my favorites, and for #3 a sentimental childhood choice...Captain Caveman! Kong the Untamed would also get some consideration...  -M |
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Post by beccabear67 on Mar 1, 2020 16:24:48 GMT -5
Oh man, I've seen ads for Kong The Untamed, I should've really checked that title out sometime.  Never saw Attu I don't think, he also looks interesting! I thought maybe I remembered another; Ziff-Davis followed by St. John published a comic titled Wild Boy and I had one, but it's subtitled 'Of the Congo', so more of a jungle Tarzan sort it would seem. I did overlook Naza, Stone Age Warrior who was published by dell for awhile. I have never seen one... was he more caveman than jungle lord?  |
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Post by beccabear67 on Mar 1, 2020 16:37:32 GMT -5
Also from Dell, Kona...  Definitely looking Stone-ish (although I'm actually listening to The Troggs right now). |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Mar 1, 2020 17:13:25 GMT -5
I don't think Moon Girl, of modern Devil Dinosaur fame, counts as 'Stone Age' since that series was set in modern times.
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Post by beccabear67 on Mar 1, 2020 17:39:15 GMT -5
I don't think Moon Girl, of modern Devil Dinosaur fame, counts as 'Stone Age' since that series was set in modern times. I didn't know. In the most modern appearance I've read it was still Moon Boy, in a 1998 Spider-Man annual. I thought I was being with-it to include Moon Girl.  I knew I'd had a Korg once, I didn't know it was #7 (of 9) actually I think my brother bought it (maybe he couldn't find a Turok that month)... I did watch the tv show most Saturday mornings.  |
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Post by berkley on Mar 1, 2020 20:58:21 GMT -5
I probably haven't read or seen enough of these to give an informed vote. The Flintstones I watched like everybody else as a kid but I don't feel much nostalgia for it now, compared to say, the Warner Brothers stuff. Alley Oop I read in the paper as a kid but never really understood the appeal. Most of the DC characters I've barely seen or even heard of, beyond a few covers and hearing them mentioned online here now and then. I did like a couple short Turok miniseries drawn by Paul Gulacy in the 90s, but mostly for the artwork.
The rest I haven't the faintest clue about. Cave Girl, I like the idea of but the few samples of the artwork I could find online didn't impress me. I'd be curious about Attu (doesn't that armour look much too advanced for the Stone Age?) because I like Glanzman's style.
So I voted for:
Johnny Hart's BC newspaper strip, which I liked a lot as a kid in the early 70s and, from hazy memories, think I would still be able to enjoy if I read it today.
Devil Dinosaur, strictly because of the Kirby series, which I think is very weird (in a good way) and under-rated. Don't know anything about the new take with a modern day Moon Girl.
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Post by Rob Allen on Mar 2, 2020 1:55:46 GMT -5
My "Other" vote is for Vaughn Bode's The Man:  |
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Post by foxley on Mar 2, 2020 7:16:30 GMT -5
My vote would go to Tragg and the Sky Gods, but that isn't an option for some reason.   |
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Post by brutalis on Mar 2, 2020 7:43:11 GMT -5
1st up would be other: MIGHTOR from Hanna Barbera. THE ULTIMATE SUPERHERO CAVEMAN.
2nd Johnny hart's B.C. Comic Strip. I grew up with it and Wizard of ID
3rd? Cayayayayayayayayayayayaptain Caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaveman.
Also shout outs:
Cavewoman Raquel Welch in One Million Year's B.C.
Caveman the 1981 movie with Ringo Star, Barbara Bach, Shelley Long, Dennis Quaid, John Matuszak. Perennial Favorite! Do a watch night every so often with friends and we are only allowed to speak caveman during the movie...
Post Apocalyptic Caveman Charlton Heston's Taylor in Planet of the Apes
Post Apocalyptic Kamandi, who embodies a kind of modern caveman.
Metamorpho's nemesis Java the Caveman.
Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm from the Flintstones.
The Harry Lucey Caveman Archie strips
Joe E. Ross and Imogene Coca's caveman husband/wife: Gronk and Shad in the television show It's About Time.
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Post by MDG on Mar 2, 2020 10:12:07 GMT -5
I haven't read much, but picked Alley-Oop. I got a reprint of the first 3 months or so of the strip and enjoyed it a lot.
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Post by beccabear67 on Mar 2, 2020 13:36:03 GMT -5
I guess Tragg would qualify for my list if he was from the past. Another comic I have only seen in passing, can't buy them all sadly (and I find when I get e-versions I can't enjoy reading them on a screen, and I'm almost as hopeless with general e-magazines). Kamandi was from a post-apocalyptic future and not the past, wasn't he? I mistook Mightor as having fantasy or alien creatures...  |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 2, 2020 13:47:11 GMT -5
I voted for Anthro: Anyone who has paid attention knows how much I love that sadly short-lived series.
Tor: I'm generally a fiend for anything by Joe Kubert. This isn't my favorite of his work but it's still good comics.
The Flintstones: Re-runs of The Flintstones were ubiquitous during my childhood. And the first 3-4 seasons of the original show are pretty funny and inventive. Everything after that was crap...until Mark Russell and Steve Pugh did the 12-issue comic series in 2016-17. That was freakin' brilliant. One of my favorite comics of the last ten years.
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