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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 2, 2020 13:57:04 GMT -5
Alley Oop is my top choice. It was in our local paper, when I was a kid and I loved it, from the pre-historic gag Sunday strips to the daily time travel adventure strips. It was also a favorite of my dad's, but he saw the classic years. Why no imitators? Probably because it was so unique that no one knew how to capture it; so, if anyone did try it, it tanked quickly.
Flintstones is a given. Turok I don't really consider a "caveman" thing, as much as a "lost world" series. However, I loved that series, as a kid and it held up pretty well, as an adult.
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Post by Rob Allen on Mar 2, 2020 14:16:24 GMT -5
One question I have about Turok - was his father really named "Stone"?
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Post by tartanphantom on Mar 2, 2020 14:44:52 GMT -5
Turok for the win... What this world needs is more "Honkers". Turok fans will understand.
Anthro and Tor follow close 2nd & 3rd.
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Post by foxley on Mar 2, 2020 15:30:48 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...  A summary of Tragg and the Sky Gods:
Tragg and the Sky Gods was a mix of science-fiction and prehistoric man. The book told of a group of advanced aliens who landed on Earth in the distant past and experimented on the Neanderthals they found there, producing two Cro-Magnons, who would become Tragg and his mate, Lorn. A generation later, the aliens return, only this time bent on conquest. Taken as gods by Tragg's tribe (the sky gods of the title), they enslave the tribe and put them to work mining inside a volcano. Tragg and Lorn escape and start fighting guerilla war against the invaders. One of the alien invaders Keera, falls in love with Tragg and eventually defects.
It was one of the trio of books Don Glut did for Gold Key in the 70s (the others being Dagar the Invincible (sword & sorcery) and The Occult Files of Dr. Spektor (horror)) that contain internal links that place them in the same continuity. Tragg was the shortest lived of the three. Perhaps 'cavemen vs. aliens' was a hard sell.
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Post by beccabear67 on Mar 2, 2020 19:46:24 GMT -5
More toys the inner child wants...  |
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Post by berkley on Mar 2, 2020 19:59:25 GMT -5
A couple I've never seen but feel some curiosity about:
I remember seeing a Saturday morning tv cartoon being advertised in comic books in the late 60s: there was a mixture of stone-age-style humans and dinosaur-like creatures that seemed to be part of their team or clan. One of the animals could shoot boulders or something like that? Anyway, I remember being drawn to it as a small kid but we never got the show on our channels so I never have seen it. "The [Something]-oids", could that have been the title? (edit: The Herculoids, I'm pretty sure, after searching online).
Axa, a cave-girl newspaper strip by long-time Modesty Blaise artist Romero. The title character seems to be a Bardot-style blonde who spends much of her time topless. I would have checked this out long before now if I liked Romero's art a little more - not that I dislike it, but he isn't a favourite.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2020 0:11:19 GMT -5
A couple I've never seen but feel some curiosity about: I remember seeing a Saturday morning tv cartoon being advertised in comic books in the late 60s: there was a mixture of stone-age-style humans and dinosaur-like creatures that seemed to be part of their team or clan. One of the animals could shoot boulders or something like that? Anyway, I remember being drawn to it as a small kid but we never got the show on our channels so I never have seen it. "The [Something]-oids", could that have been the title? (edit: The Herculoids, I'm pretty sure, after searching online). Axa, a cave-girl newspaper strip by long-time Modesty Blaise artist Romero. The title character seems to be a Bardot-style blonde who spends much of her time topless. I would have checked this out long before now if I liked Romero's art a little more - not that I dislike it, but he isn't a favourite. Herculoids was it, part of the Hanna Barbera offerings of the late 60s and syndicated/repeated through the 70s, though it was an alien planet not earth's Stone Age.  They were also part of DC's recent Futurequest series...  where it was revealed the family was from an advanced scientific civilization but rebelled against the corrupt science regime and took refuge on the "primitive" planet we see in the cartoons. So not quite a Stone Age series, but one of my favorites nonetheless. -M |
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 3, 2020 0:44:08 GMT -5
Hanna-Barbera did quite a few caveman or prehistoric series, or, like the Herculoids, hybrids.
Herculoids-alien planet, but relatively primitive lifestyle.
Mightor (partnered with the Moby Dick cartoons)-caveman superhero (and later judge on Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
Dino-Boy (partnered with Space Ghost cartoons)-kid in a prehistoric lost world
Flintstones-need no introduction
Captain Caveman-needs volume control
Valley of the Dinosaurs-another lost world show
Korg: 70, 000 BC-live action show (which was rare, for H-B)
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Post by beccabear67 on Mar 3, 2020 0:53:30 GMT -5
Oh snap, Valley, another one I forgot...  I loved The Herculoids! Gleep, Gloop and Zok!  |
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Post by Confessor on Mar 3, 2020 3:02:58 GMT -5
I liked the Flintstones cartoon a lot as a kid, but I've never read a Flintstones comic. I can't really think of any caveman comic that I like or have even read to be honest. I guess they're just not a thing that has ever piqued my interest.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Mar 3, 2020 9:41:22 GMT -5
I read Tor just recently and was disappointed, the art was just too sketchy for me, and the stories were pretty generic.
I loved me some Herculoids when I was a kid.. close 2nd to Thundarr the Barbarian as my favorite Saturday morning cartoon. (Heathcliff was definitely up there too)
Captain Caveman I always though of as Charlie's Angels for kids for some reason, which amuses me greatly.
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Post by kirby101 on Mar 3, 2020 10:54:52 GMT -5
I read Tor just recently and was disappointed, the art was just too sketchy for me, and the stories were pretty generic. I loved me some Herculoids when I was a kid.. close 2nd to Thundarr the Barbarian as my favorite Saturday morning cartoon. (Heathcliff was definitely up there too) Captain Caveman I always though of as Charlie's Angels for kids for some reason, which amuses me greatly. Blasphemer!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 3, 2020 10:55:34 GMT -5
I liked the Flintstones cartoon a lot as a kid, but I've never read a Flintstones comic. I can't really think of any caveman comic that I like or have even read to be honest. I guess they're just not a thing that has ever piqued my interest. Give Anthro a try. It's really great. More readily available is Russell and Pugh's Flintstones. As good as comics get. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 3, 2020 13:06:26 GMT -5
I liked the Flintstones cartoon a lot as a kid, but I've never read a Flintstones comic. I can't really think of any caveman comic that I like or have even read to be honest. I guess they're just not a thing that has ever piqued my interest. They weren't bad, as those things go. The main Charlton artist for the Flintstones comics was a darn good cartoonist and he had some fun little stories. Nothing special; but, entertaining. It's funny; but, I think I may have seen the Saturday morning Pebbles and Bam-Bam cartoon before the original Flintstones cartoons. Kind of hard to say. The original show ended the year I was born; but I can't really recall it being on our local tv, in syndication, until I was older. I definitely remember watching pebbles and Bam-Bam on Saturday mornings. I later found out, as an adult, that Bam-Bam was voiced by Jay North, child star of the Dennis the Menace tv series (the US newspaper strip kid, with the blond hair, not the dark haired UK brat) and Pebbles was voiced by Gloria, herself, Sally Struthers (from All in the Family). |
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Post by beccabear67 on Mar 3, 2020 13:43:17 GMT -5
I had a Charlton Flintstones (one with the Great Gazoo little saucer dude) and it was okay though some people said Charlton did such terrible Hanna-Barbera that's why it was taken away and went to Marvel (briefly and then gone completely for years). I liked the one Wheelie And The Chopper Bunch comic I had, but that might've been John Byrne! I think Kubert's Tor both times was as good as it gets for caveman comics. I only had one Anthro (Showcase) and it was both unique and high quality. The Flintstones was patterned after The Honeymooners. Originally it was The Flagstones, there's a bit of the original pilot on youtube someplace. What a great voice cast the original Flintstones put together though, that's half the battle with animation I think! I remember they dubbed in the Japanese Nausicaa (as Warriors of the Wind?) and how the pedestrian voice acting flattened it right out. A great voice actor is worth their weight in gold. Although even with a great cast (Teen Titans Go) it still has to have a good story (and those have really gone down the drain with that show in season 5 with only Bumblebee appearances making it worth watching, YMMV).  |
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