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Post by foxley on Mar 3, 2020 18:39:23 GMT -5
Another moderately obscure stone age comic strip was Stanley the Palaeolithic Hero by Murray Ball (more famous, at least in Australia and his native NZ, for Footrot Flats, a farm-based comic strip). Stanley featured a caveman who wore glasses and struggled with the Neolithic environment, and you can certainly see the seeds for the later Footrot Flats in it. Stanley has the distinction of being the longest running comic strip in the venerable Punch magazine.
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Post by berkley on Mar 3, 2020 19:07:52 GMT -5
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. I think I have the same problem with them as I do with jungle comics: a lack of variety in setting makes them visually a bit monotonous after a while; and a lack of variety in possible scenarios or plots has a similar effect on the stories themselves.
And we see writers try to get around these limitations by introducing extraneous elements like dinosaurs or Tarzan's endless list of lost cities or even spaceships and aliens - all of which I'm fine with, but it only masks the basic problem, it doesn't do away with it.
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Post by beccabear67 on Mar 4, 2020 0:37:25 GMT -5
I've had a couple Footrot Flats books (2 & 3) for ages, interesting to learn about the earlier Stanley strip (but I did know about Bruce).  |
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Post by dbutler69 on Mar 4, 2020 17:05:53 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?  I have one issue of Naza. In fact, it was the first Silver Age comic I ever bought. I mostly bought it just because it was old and affordable. However, it's been so long since I've read it that I don't remember anything about the character. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 4, 2020 17:11:50 GMT -5
I've always wanted to read Alley Oop. It's one of those classic strips I'd like to give a try. But it's one that has never had any real comprehensive collection efforts. Just another reason that shorter copyright is a good thing.
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Post by beccabear67 on Mar 4, 2020 20:07:38 GMT -5
I've always wanted to read Alley Oop. It's one of those classic strips I'd like to give a try. But it's one that has never had any real comprehensive collection efforts. Just another reason that shorter copyright is a good thing. Kitchen Sink had three volumes of daily strips from the '40s, might be harder to find now, i don't know.  There's also more recently a series of the Sunday pages in color from the beginning from Dark Horse. |
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Post by berkley on Mar 4, 2020 21:05:45 GMT -5
I've always wanted to read Alley Oop. It's one of those classic strips I'd like to give a try. But it's one that has never had any real comprehensive collection efforts. Just another reason that shorter copyright is a good thing. Wasn't it in your local paper when you were a kid? We used to get it but maybe it stopped appearing before your time, can't recall how late into the 70s it went on, now. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 4, 2020 21:21:41 GMT -5
I've always wanted to read Alley Oop. It's one of those classic strips I'd like to give a try. But it's one that has never had any real comprehensive collection efforts. Just another reason that shorter copyright is a good thing. Wasn't it in your local paper when you were a kid? We used to get it but maybe it stopped appearing before your time, can't recall how late into the 70s it went on, now. My parents very seldom spent the money for the paper. I want to say that it ran in one of the papers that my Grandparents got but it wasn't a strip that read well just reading it once in a while. As best I can tell it's run continuously since 1932, though my gut tells me it's probably not in very many papers at this point. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 4, 2020 22:06:35 GMT -5
I have never read any Stone Age comic book (except I DO have every issue of the 1970s Devil Dinosaur) but I have enjoyed the odd issue of Tor or Anthro that I've come across. However! I do have a favorite untold story of the DC Universe Stone Age. The conflict between Vandal Savage and King Kull!
You remember King Kull from the Shazam! series, right? He hated humans because of the long-ago conflict between Kull's Beast Men and Homo sapiens. I figure that Vandal Savage must have led the Homo sapiens and provoked an attempted genocide against Kull's people, for whatever reason. (I figure that Kull managed to kill Vandal Savage on Earth-S. And Vandal killed Kull on Earth-2. Who knows what happened on Earth-1! But none of that matters because it's just the one earth now, right? I don't know …)
The DC Universe is just aching to have this tale written down and illustrated! (I hope they don't ruin it by turning it into a company-wide cross-over!)
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Post by EdoBosnar on Mar 5, 2020 3:56:30 GMT -5
I've always wanted to read Alley Oop. It's one of those classic strips I'd like to give a try. But it's one that has never had any real comprehensive collection efforts. Just another reason that shorter copyright is a good thing. Wasn't it in your local paper when you were a kid? We used to get it but maybe it stopped appearing before your time, can't recall how late into the 70s it went on, now. It very well may not have been carried by any papers in that area. I grew up in Oregon in the '70s and '80s and my family initially had a subscription to the Salem paper (Oregon Statesman-Journal) and then the Portland Oregonian. Alley Oop was not carried by either. |
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