Before I start, any time I mention The Flintstones is a good excuse to post my favorite episode:
I hope you enjoyed that, unless Hanna Barbera sent some goons over to force me to take them down.
And while I’m at it, my favorite Flintstones name? Joe Rockhead, no question.
Thanks for indulging me.
The Flintstones comic strip, which if you’ve read any of these comic strip blogs you won’t be surprised to hear I never heard of before, ran from 1961 to at least 1998 and some sources claim it still runs in some places though I can’t prove it. For all I know some penny-saver in some hick town gets this strip. They run from faithful to the original cartoon to social commentary. Behold!
Did you catch that? They got Yabba Dabba Doo wrong! They forgot the “y”!
And this wasn’t the only Hanna Barbera ‘toon to get stripped:
This week marks the anniversary of the day in 1938 that Superman Debuted in Action Comics #1.
In honor of the event I am going to showcase a few of the more obscure products which have been endorsed by Superman.
KRYPTONITE ROCKS
It’s Terrific! It’s Fantastic! It’s a Rock!
These are rocks painted green with glow-in-the-dark paint, $2.50 per rock, $1 shipping and handling. So what is the theory here? Why is Superman ripping off kids- er, selling Kryptonite? Superman is selling them to his friends- The Parasite better not send in $3.50- so they can take possession of the irradiated chunks of the planet Krypton and keep them safe, in lead boxes, so Superman can never come in contact with them. Ah. My God, this is easily one of the worst rip off’s I have ever seen. Selling rocks to kids. Anyone who bought these should go to the DC offices and hurl them back through the windows.
SUPERMAN PEANUT BUTTER and PEANUTS
Superman is the hero and protector of all humanity, except the approximately 0.6% of the population with severe peanut allergies and can die from anaphylaxis if they inhale even a tiny amount of peanut dust. I hope he changes Super-suits after he leaves the peanut factory or he may end up killing the very baby he rescues from Brainiac.
Check out this ad for Superman peanut butter. Superman is willing to protect the secret of its great taste with his life! I don’t blame him. Once Lex Luthor gets the secret of great taste, he can corner the peanut butter market, and how far behind can grape jelly be?
SUPERMAN CINEMATIC PICTURE PISTOL
There is a short filmstrip in the gun. You look through the hole in the back of the gun and see a frame of a filmstrip. Pulling the trigger advances the film.
This is easily, hands down, the most irresponsible toy I have ever seen. Yes, I get that this is from another era, that kids were routinely given toy guns and even real guns to play with. I get all of that. But whose idea was it to put a movie inside a gun? To teach young kids to put a gun to their heads and pull the trigger?
A movie in a gun? Thanks, Superman.
SPECIALMAN
OK, it’s a Japanese rip-off but out of all the stuff on this page, this is probably the most fun. But given the amount of lead probably used in the paint, it is likely also the most dangerous.
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