Quote from: dth1971 on February 05, 2012, 11:04:55 AM

Thought I would bump this thread, do you remember this circa 1970's 1 page Lil Jinx story, this is xeroxed from a 2006 Archie digest with alterations in wording in the last 2 panels, anyone know the original wording

I would assume she's looking for a record, and the last panel is probably a lame pun about it.

Thought I would bump this thread, do you remember this circa 1970's 1 page Lil Jinx story, this is xeroxed from a 2006 Archie digest with alterations in wording in the last 2 panels, anyone know the original wording

UPDATE: I think Josie and the Pussycats #94 has that 1 page Lil Jinx story but it might have been origtinally called "One For The Record!"

Here's an egregious example of before and after.

Before:


A cute gag that can be found in Craig Yoe's excellent Archie history HC.

After(that is, after DeCarlo unsuccessfully sued Archie over the rights to Josie and lost his job in the process):



Every time I see that second panel, I hear the replaced dialogue delivered in a flat monotone, like the Simpsons episode where Poochie went to his home planet and his cel was lifted out of the picture.

A "Little Archie" story from the late 1970s featured tiny aliens in spaceships that looked like peanuts.  At the end one of them says that Little Archie gave them a picture of his leader: former peanut farmer Jimmy Carter.  When the story was reprinted a few years later, the picture was changed to President "Regan" (spelling error and all), which rendered all the peanut-related gags completely pointless.

An early-to-mid-60s story featured the "cockamamie box," where all the items confiscated from students through the year are stored.  When it appeared in a digest in the eighties, a Beatle wig was renamed a "punk" wig, and the names of long-forgotten teen idols were replaced with "Boy George and Madonna."