Monday, March 18, 2024
Adventures in Comic-Boxing: Inadvertent Cover Enhancement!
This is an Internet scan of the cover of YOSEMITE SAM # 15 (Gold Key Comics, Cover Date: August 1973).
And below is a scan of MY OWN COPY of YOSEMITE SAM # 15. See anything unusual?
Let's look a little closer, shall we?
It would seem that, on MY COPY, Bugs' cooking was SO BAD that it made Sam sick enough to see SPOTS BEFORE HIS EYES!
I don't know what the nature of the "spots" could be! The cover feels no different in the section in which "Sam's spots are seen".
It's not in any way wrinkled or warped, as if any sort of liquid was spilled on it. And nothing has bled through onto the inside-front-cover.
It's as if Sam is REALLY ILL from having consumed Bugs' questionable cuisine! The spots sure go with the expression on his face!
It would appear that my copy has a unique special effect to it! Talk about an inadvertent cover enhancement!
Saturday, March 9, 2024
Adventures in Comic-Boxing: A Great Cover Image with a Muddled Meaning!
Check out this wonderful cover image for THE BATMAN & SCOOBY-DOO MYSTERIES (2024 series) #3 (DC Comics; Cover Date: May, 2024 - On sale as I write this!)...
...Which is a near-perfect send-up of the "Celebrity Window" running gag from the Batman TV show.
Or, as I described it at GCD: "The cover is a parody/homage to the oft-seen bit on the Batman TV show (ABC TV, 1966-1968), where Batman and Robin scale a tall building and a celebrity leans out of a window to address them in mid-bat-climb."
I say "near-perfect" for one reason... the homage is very clear but, quite frankly... the GAG ITSELF is NOT!
It seems to me that either something FUNNY, or a CLEVER REFERENCE should be coming from Catwoman's or Scooby's dialogue balloons - BUT IT ISN'T!
Or, perhaps Batman - or especially Shaggy - SHOULD HAVE BEEN GIVEN SUCH A LINE... but no!
How about Shaggy unintentionally doing something dumb 'n' dangerous to inadvertently imperil our courageous climbers - or maybe leaning out far enough to fall - if only to justify Scooby's line: "Rhi can't look!"
As it is, it wastes a great image by making it, like... incomprehensible!
The best I can do is describe it as I did in my GCD index of the issue: "As Batman and Catwoman scale a tall building to return stolen jewels to their rightful owner, Scooby-Doo and Shaggy pop out of the "Celebrity Window." You can see the entire GCD index HERE!
Indeed, it would have been better with NO dialogue balloons at all! Just perfectly conveying the fine homage it was intended to!
On the plus side, the open window nicely obscures a small corner of THE BATMAN & SCOOBY-DOO MYSTERIES logo, as one might expect a glass window to do! ...Don't they have window screens in Gotham?
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Adventures in Comic-Boxing: March Fourth!
Take the cover of BEETLE BAILEY # 41 (Cover Date: May, 1963 - released in February, 1963).
Monday, February 19, 2024
Adventures in Comic-Boxing: Supergirl Takes the Bus!
But, alas, she doesn't take it... seriously!
From SUPERGIRL (1972 Series) #5 (DC Comics, Cover Date; June, 1973)...
Aw, c'mon... It's not the worst thing you've ever done! ...Spoiled by too many years of FLYING, perhaps?
Busses are good for the environment, reducing both your carbon footprint and the number of cars jamming up the roads!
And even your cousin Superman catches a bus now and then!
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
Today is "New Gold Key Day" -- #2!
Today, February 14, 2024, is not only Valentine's Day...
(...and what better way to introduce the main subject of this post than with a Classic Gold Key Valentine's Day cover...)
It is also... NEW GOLD KEY DAY #2!
New logo is compared here with the classic (Western Publishing) Gold Key Logo.
For this iconic (yet excitingly new) brand's second foray into the 21st century, Gold Key Entertainment presents BORIS KARLOFF GOLD KEY MYSTERIES #2!
Gold Key Entertainment - and Boris Karloff, wherever he might be - have a special Valentine's Day message for us! Gotta love it!
Thursday, February 8, 2024
Separated at Mirth: Throwing the Bull (...Toward One Another)!
From our great friend Debbie Anne Perry comes a primo Mirth Separation with DISNEY COMICS ALBUM #3 (Disney Comics, Cover Date: August, 1990) and CHARLIE McCARTHY #4 (Dell Comics, Cover Date: December, 1949 / January, 1950).
As Deb pointed out to me, both Donald and Charlie were in Walt Disney's "Fun and Fancy Free" (1947)... and, to bring them still closer together, both are known to have been "dummies"!
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Adventures in Comic-Boxing: "It's the Talk of the Teen"!
Here's an odd little filler feature from LOIS LANE # 16 (DC Comics: Cover Date: April, 1960) called "It's the Talk of the Teen"!
Anyone who cares to make their own joke about this last one below is welcome to do so... while I politely and modestly bow out!
...Good night, folks!