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The Saturday Comics: Kool-Aid Man

21 Apr

April 21, 2012

Remember Kool-Aid Man? The giant living pitcher of sugar that saved the day by screaming “Oh yeah!”?

But this isn’t The Late Night Movie House of Crap, so it is on to the comics. Who thought that Kool-Aid man was a good idea for a comic? Both Marvel Comics and Archie Comics, that’s who. Although they are mixed in the gallery below, the differences between the Archie and Marvel issues is obvious even without the logos. One of those comics below is still in my personal collection. For the record, it is the one where he is in space.

I am also including ads and other material for the Kool-Aid man video game. Yes, I said video game. It had to be a ton of fun, right? Right? Right?

Click on the thumbnails to enlarge.

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The Saturday Comics: Lyndon B. Johnson

17 Mar

March 17, 2012

Back in 1964, comics were in their heyday. It was the height of The Silver Age and take a look at the variety of titles you could have found at your local newsstand.

So with such great comics- Cary Bates working on Superman, Lee and Kirby on Fantastic Four- would you have bought this if you found it nestled between Sgt. Fury and The Flash?

Batman! Spider-Man! LBJ! Doesn’t he just scream super hero?

I know that today some low-rent publishers eke out a small profit making comics featuring political figures, and even Marvel shamelessly jumped on the bandwagon by putting President Obama on the cover of an issue of Spider-Man, but at least it was Spider-Man’s book! And this is no low-rent publisher, this was Dell! They were huge in their day.

None other than the legendary Dick Giordano worked on that book.

So if you were a young comic buyer, and saw that on the spinner rack, would you have spared a single second for that, let alone shelled out 12 cents for it?

 

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