Sometimes it's difficult to believe that we're even STILL AROUND, as both a people and as a nation, given that so much bad has happened in this unpleasantly disappointing 21st Century. ...(Sigh! I had such hopes!)
But, for the past 22 years, it feels like this country - and much of the world, for that matter - is run by STOOGES!
Thus, our rather suitable image for this post...
Happy Fourth! ...I'm betting MOE is responsible for the bandage on Larry's head!
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The Three Stooges for Co-Presidents in 2024!!
Oh, yeah... and Happy Fourth, Joe!
Sorry for the multiple comments, but two questions have just occurred to me: (1) Is this an item in your collection? and (2) Why is there no store name on the cover?
Sergio:
Never apologize for multiple comments… the more the merrier.
(1:) This is a VERY rare case of my using an item that is NOT (yet) in my collection! One of my self-imposed rules is that anything I post on must be in the collection… somewhere! I must have read it or, at the very least, leafed through it.
But, no… this is one of the issues of MARCH OF COMICS that I want, but am still lacking. Because of that, this issue is still fresh in my mind having just completed my “beginning of the month searching of ebay” (once I’m certain that any new purchases will appear on NEXT MONTH’S credit card statement – he says “kicking things down the road”). And given how I largely feel about the way things have turned out over the last two-decades-plus (from 9-11, to COVID, to toxic politics becoming the norm, and so much more), it seemed the perfect image to commemorate the holiday!
(2:) That’s actually a good question, as most issues of MARCH OF COMICS proudly display the business responsible for giving away good and free comics to the USA (…Hey, there’s actually something to really celebrate… Oh, no, wait… that practice ended in 1982!)
Many issues of MARCH OF COMICS were prepared as what GCD calls “Non-Ad Variants”. No store or business imprinting, which I presume cost more than the raw, virgin issues. Sometimes, a mid-or-smaller size store would STAMP their name on the blank area to remind you who provided it – and to (hopefully) get you to come back for more, bringing your parents wallets with you.
Some MOC issues are known to have MANY such variants, as THIS ONE at GCD! Or especially THIS ONE
Finally, Happy Fourth to you and yours!
I hope you have a good July 4th. As for the world being run by stooges, perhaps we just need to stop voting for so many knuckleheads...but it seems like all the lamebrains are the only ones who run for office. "Now spread out, you chowderheads, and pick two!" BOINK! "Woob woob woob!"
Deb:
One thing’s for sure, there ARE a lot of lamebrains running for office, and we’re forced to vote for the “least knucklehead-y knucklehead” – or stay at home, which I have never done because, if a lamebrain *must* hold public office, it might as well be MY lamebrain!
Indeed, given today’s global situation, and that for virtually all of the (all together now) “unpleasantly disappointing 21st century”, one might say – and with decidedly unquestioned conviction – “All the World’s a Stooge!”
BOINK! "Woob woob woob!" Over and (knocked) out!
Before you shell out fifty dollars or whatever the going rate is for Stooges March of Comics, let me inform you that there is no "Fourth of July" or "Americana" content in the book. The story is titled "Fishy Wishes" and the setting appears to be medieval England. It's a variation on the old story of the fish that grants three wishes to its catcher, provided it gets turned loose. Fast-paced and amusing. Not a bad story, although not particularly suited to the Stooges and their brand of humor. But not worth fifty dollars.
I didn't "collect" this one, I actually got it new, when it WAS new. And my copy has a Sears logo on the front cover.
I wonder what Ted Healy would have thought?
Scarecrow:
I probably wouldn’t “shell out fifty dollars or whatever the going rate is for [that particular] Stooges March of Comics”, or any MOC of that vintage… except maybe The Flintstones, of which I’m still missing two. I’m also missing two Three Stooges MOCs, one being the issue used in this post.
To me, it matters not ”that there is no ‘Fourth of July’ or ‘Americana’ content in the book” because (as all of you must know by now) I’m just out to collect, read, and enjoy!
And, “enjoy” these MOC issues I certainly do! It’s as if I’ve found a heretofore unknown treasure trove of Dell and Gold Key Comics from each and every era in which Dell and Gold Key Comics were published – 1940s thru early 1980s – with the same characters and by the same creators! It was a long time before I fully realized that (because, unlike some of you out there, these were not a part of my childhood) but, once I did, I began collecting them in earnest!
Most of these were never reprinted in other forms, save the various Carl Barks collections and occasional reprints in GOLDEN COMICS DIGEST. However, about some time in 1973, many of the remaining titles still licensed by Western Publishing for MARCH OF COMICS became dominated by reprints with mostly new covers – so beware and check GCD (I’ve done a lot of work there!) to avoid story duplication. Warner Bros. characters, Tom and Jerry, Woody Woodpecker, and The Pink Panther in particular have multiple story reprints.
With no related interior content to back it up, the "Fourth of July" or "Americana" cover may just have been an inventory still that needed to be used while Western still held the Three Stooges license. Indeed, my guess (and it is strictly “my guess”) is that, once a year or so, Norman Maurer got the boys into a studio to photograph them in whatever costumes, and with whatever props, were lying around – and those photos were sent to Western Publishing for use as covers in the Dell, Gold Key, and March of Comics issues of The Three Stooges.
In fact, over the whole Stooges run, there was only ONE instance of a drawn, non-photo cover - SEEN HERE!
Oh, and Ted Healy probably would have thought: “Hic! I’ll have another!”
Happy Fourth!
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