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DeCarlo Rules

#795
THE ROOK VOL. 2: DESPERATE TIMES TP
RESIDENT ALIEN VOL. 3: THE SAM HAIN MYSTERY TP
STAR TREK: NEW VISIONS #13 - THE HIDDEN FACE
PLUTO: URASAWA X TEZUKA VOLS. 1, 2, 3, & 4
(of 8 )

BettyReggie

#796
Today I skipped reading anything today.

BettyReggie

#797


I plan to check on comics I just got recently from tfaw. I will change my wall & hang them up later today
Sex Criminals #13
Sex  Criminals #14
Sex Criminals #15
Jughead #11
Morning Glories #50


DeCarlo Rules

#798
I read a bunch of beat-up, uncollectable comics (mostly from the '60s and '70s) that I found in the bins at my LCS:

SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH #13

ARCHIE'S GIRLS BETTY AND VERONICA #154

MADHOUSE GLADS #81
- Interesting story - "When Johnny Comes Marching Home": Clyde Didit joins the Army Reserves (thereby paying for his college tuition whilst simultaneously avoiding being drafted and sent to Vietnam) and goes off to boot camp, where he has a typical 'generation gap' experience dealing with his drill sergeant, trying to explain why he doesn't dig the whole 'learn how to kill your fellow man' scene. Luckily for him, Clyde fractures his leg while heroically pushing the sarge out of the way of a bunch of falling oil drums, so he gets off the hook from having to spend two whole weeks in Camp Hell. (huh. I guess "When Clyde Comes Hobbling Home" just didn't have the right ring to it...) Another story's in here where Bippy the Hippie 'sells out' and joins The Establishment, gets a haircut and wears a suit and tie so he can rake in the simoleans working for The Man (but he was only doing it because his father lost his job). Fran the Fan saves Bippy from dropping out of school when she asks her dad (a well-connected dude with some pull) to help Bippy's dad get a new (and better) job, so Bippy can go back to being the loveable freaky laid-back poster boy for peace, love, nonconformity, and happily-adjusted unemployment. Far out, man. I was a little bummed out that fab Fran didn't get a bigger part in the stories (unrecognized by los hermanos Didit, she's a brainy bird who usually outsmarts them), but at least these ones were a little different. Then there's a more typical one, where Rod the Mod buys a brand new chopper (apparently he'd just seen Easy Rider, as his bike's a copy of the one Peter Fonda rode in that movie) just for the purpose of showing up Clyde in front of Fran by challenging him to an off-road race, and making him look bad. Naturally, Rod's dirty tricks of rigging the race course wind up backfiring on him (hmm... this guy reminds me of someone...)



I've got more of these, but it'll have to wait for a bit.

BettyReggie

#799
I read some comics while sitting in my comfy chair in my room
🐯 1-Phonogram-The Immaterial Girl #6
🎡 2-Archie #5-David Williams
💜 3-Archie #6-Veronica Fish
🐑 4-Archie #12-Veronica Fish
And I read these books for 12 minutes each
Scott Pilgrim Vs The World-Volume #2
Archie Giant Comics Festival
Archie's Favorite Christmas Comics

DeCarlo Rules

#800
More well-worn funnybooks from the bins at my LCS. I don't see many Harvey Comics in there, and when I do, they're almost invariably either RICHIE RICH, CASPER, or SAD SACK, all of which seem to have had a ton of spinoff titles, and none of which particularly interest me. It's the second-tier titles from Harvey that I like... BABY HUEY, LITTLE DOT, STUMBO THE GIANT, and HOT STUFF, and I hardly ever see any of those. So I was happy to find these random issues from the '60s & '70s:

HOT STUFF #131 & 143
HOT STUFF CREEPY CAVES #3 & 7
DEVIL KIDS STARRING HOT STUFF # 35 & 71


There also existed another spinoff title called HOT STUFF SIZZLERS, but I didn't find any of those. I never really thought about it before, but I wonder what the deal was with Harvey Comics having SO many spinoff titles for its various characters, even ones like Hot Stuff who weren't the company's real breadwinners like Richie Rich, Casper, and Sad Sack? I mean, HOT STUFF CREEPY CAVES does not, as you might imagine, contain any stories featuring any caves apart from the one that Hot Stuff usually lives in. Nor do the stories in DEVIL KIDS feature any other kid devils, with the exception of Hot Stuff himself. In other words, the contents of both spinoff titles were completely indistinguishable from any random issue of the main HOT STUFF title... so WHY, then, did those spinoff titles exist at all? They were all published bi-monthly, so if there was enough of an audience to support spinoff titles for those characters, why not just make the regular HOT STUFF title monthly instead, or even every-three-weeks, since the contents of all of the spinoffs was interchangeable? The best I can come up with is that retailers were likely to leave a bimonthly title displayed for sale longer, until a new issue arrived to replace it, so the title would have a better chance of actually selling to a reader than a monthly title that got removed from display sooner, if still unsold. That, and I guess maybe Harvey Comics liked to project some kind of illusion that they were a larger publisher in the comic book industry than they actually were, and publishing three or four bi-monthly titles instead of one or two monthly titles helped create that illusion, because...  it's just more different titles that they can say they publish, even though in any given year it would be the same total number of comics published as if they had half as many monthly titles.

BettyReggie

#801
I finished reading
Last Look
And I also read these for 12 minutes each
No Mercy
Invincible-Still Standing-Volume #12
Archie 1000 Page-75Th Anniversary Bash
Archie 1000 Page Comics Celebration

BettyReggie

#802
I plan to read any digital comic that I have that involves Reggie 💝 🔥 💘 💋 💖 💌.
I read
Reggie & Me #1
Reggie & Me -75th Year
Archie Meets Ramones

BettyReggie

I'll probably read in a little while.

DeCarlo Rules

PLUTO: URASAWA x TEZUKA VOL. 5, 6, 7, & 8 (of 8 ) - That was great. One of the best manga series I've ever read. Really impressed. Five stars *****!
REGGIE'S WISE GUY JOKES #13, 24, 30, 34 - IMO, this is the best of all the Joke Book titles. Why? I dunno, maybe the one-page gag just suits Reggie better than Archie or Jughead. Here you find more one-page gags with Reggie dating Midge again, and also more of his insults and put-downs aimed at Ethel (but mostly, Archie is the victim of his zingers more than anyone else).
MOTOR CRUSH #1
DUCK AVENGER #2



BettyReggie

#805
My mom got me Archie Double Digest #273 from the Thrift Store yesterday. I'll start to read it today.
I read these in my room while sitting in my comfy chair while reading each book for 12 minutes each 
Archie's Favorite Christmas Comics
Archie Giant Comics Festival
The Best Of Archie Comics-Book #3
And I finished
Scott Pilgrim Vs The World-Volume #2

BettyReggie

#806
Now I'm starting to read
Scott Pilgrim & The Infinite Sadness-Volume #3

60sBettyandReggie

Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: The Richest Duck In The World (The Don Rosa Library, Vol. 5)

DeCarlo Rules

#808
Lots of stuff over the last week or so, not all of which I've been writing down, so here's where I catch up.

ASTRO BOY - Beginning with the first story from 1965, and continuing through to Feb. 1967:
"Roboids", "Robio and Robiette", "The Blue Knight", "Astro Boy Reborn", "The Melanin Tribe", "Meeva", and "The Faceless Robot".
I'm just about a year away from the end of the original serialized run of Mighty Atom in Shonen Magazine (about one and a half volumes in paperback). After that there are three paperback collections of the Mighty Atom newspaper strip that ran from 1966-1969, and I'm done. I think I may re-read the whole run (minus the 2 crossovers with Sonic the Hedgehog) of MEGA MAN after this.

JUGHEAD'S DOUBLE DIGEST #95 (Aug. 2003) - Not bad, but nothing very notable worth mentioning.

JUGHEAD'S JOKES (3 random issues) - At this point I've forgotten the issue numbers, but the gags were just as forgettable. I definitely liked the 4 issues of REGGIE'S WISE GUY JOKES I read a couple of days earlier better.

EVIL DEAD 2: MERRY DEADITE XMAS #1
BATMAN/TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES ADVENTURES #2 (of 6)
UNCLE SCROOGE #425
SCOOBY-DOO, WHERE ARE YOU? #76
HAWKEYE #1
DETECTIVE COMICS #946
WONDER WOMAN #12
MOONSHINE #3

ARCHIE'S FUNHOUSE CHRISTMAS ANNUAL #23 - Arrived on 12/12, but I didn't read it all right away. I just finished it yesterday. The best thing in there was a longish Xmas story by Dan Parent, "The ELFth Day of Christmas" which is kind of like the movie Groundhog Day, with the day before Christmas repeating over and over, due to Jingles, of course. That and some B&V Christmas Fashions pages by Dan DeCarlo. The lead story is by Dan too, and it's okay, but not one of his best. It must be kind of hard to come up with new material for these 5-page Xmas stories when you're doing so many of them, so they can't all be his best.

HILLBILLY #4 - Enjoying this series quite a bit.

LIFE WITH ARCHIE #122 (June 1972) - There's a Bob Bolling story in here that's about Betty helping Veronica get her evening gown just perfect for a big awards presentation that she has to give that evening at the Yacht Club, a very swank blueblood affair, and Ronnie's going on and on, condescending to Betty, about how she wouldn't fit in with that crowd, wouldn't know how to act, and so on. At one point, as she's just about to hop into the limo with Archie, she actually pats Betty on the head! And there's even a little 'pat-pat' sound FX there. Then just as the limo speeds off, Mr. Lodge comes running down with the award plaque that she was supposed to present, but it's too late, Veronica's gone. Mr. Lodge grabs Betty, tells her she has to go to the club and bring the award to Veronica, drags her up to Veronica's room, and tells her to pick something out of Ronnie's wardrobe (they're the same size) but to hurry. He sees her all dolled up in one of Veronica's gowns, hands her the plaque, and gives her the keys to one of his cars to speed over there. Betty doesn't feel comfortable taking one of Mr. Lodge's cars, so she takes Archie's jalopy (a.k.a. "Ol' Betsy") instead. She gets to the club, but parks the car on the street where it won't be seen, and runs into the club, where she immediately catches the eyes of all the guys in her (actually Veronica's) stunning dress. All of sudden there's a big hubbub, she's the center of attention, and the guys won't let her go to bring the award to Veronica. One of them grabs it, and tells her he'll make sure it gets to her, but then hands it off to another guy. While it finally does make its way to Veronica's hands, by that time the stuffy old fogey who was supposed to be the one being honored that night with the award is so captivated by Betty that he's got no interest in receiving the award, he just wants to keep dancing with Betty. When they put him on the spot, he basically just grabs the award, saying to himself "Who cares about some silly old award, anyway?" leaving Veronica (literally) speechless. She's seething because presenting the award was her big moment, she had a nice introductory speech all prepared and memorized, and now it seems like her being there at all was just a big waste of her time. In all that's going on, she never noticed that Betty was there (she was too far away with all the guys crowded around Betty, so she couldn't recognize her, or her own dress that Betty was wearing). She leaves the club, fit to be tied, and goes home to tell Daddykins about it. Meanwhile, Betty finally manages to make her escape from all the attention, runs out of the Yacht Club, and hops in Archie's car to drive away. As Veronica sits at home, steaming about how her entire evening was ruined, she mentions some 'new blonde girl' that had all the guys distracted, and Mr. Lodge suddenly realizes that it was Betty, and his fault that he sent her. A nice little update of the Cinderella story by Bob Bolling. Most of his best stories have some kind of fantasy/fairytale feel to them.

LOST IN SPACE: THE LOST ADVENTURES #6 (of 6)

JUGHEAD #240, 243 (both from 1975)

THE THREE STOOGES: MERRY STOOGEMAS #1 - Another story by Bill Galvan is in this issue.

SUPERMAN'S PAL JIMMY OLSEN #84 (April 1965) - "Jimmy's a good kid, but he's always getting into trouble." That's what Superman is thinking to himself in this issue. Yup, that's our Archie, all right... I mean, Jimmy. Must be the red hair and freckles. You know, if Dan Parent or Dan DeCarlo had drawn this story, it would probably be just as funny as a typical Archie comic, too. Because of all his weird and wacky adventures, Jimmy promises to make a monster movie that breaks all box office records for monster movies. He's got access to nutty Professor Potter's time-space transporter machine, and summons up Titano the Super-Ape (old foe of the Man of Steel who has kryptonite vision) to battle against the Flame Dragon from Krypton (yeah, they had some strange megafauna on that planet), but everything goes wrong (just as well, since he'd probably have been sued by Toho Studios & Universal Pictures for ripping off their earlier film, King Kong vs. Godzilla). Oh that Jimmy! In the second story, JO disguises himself as a girl, in order to fool the members of his own adoring Jimmy Olsen Fan Club. For some reason, this seems to happen in Jimmy Olsen stories almost as much as it did to Bugs Bunny. That's when he's not changing into a Giant Turtle Boy, a werewolf, a human porcupine, or his superhero identity of Elastic Lad. Great cover (falling off, no backcover on my copy) on this issue.



BETTY BOOP #3 (of 4) - I wish this was an ongoing series. Too bad it has to end with #4.

WONDER WOMAN '77 MEETS THE BIONIC WOMAN #1 - This was better written and drawn than most of the previous WW77 specials, and I liked the story and art better than the last BATMAN '66 miniseries. I got both of the regular cover variants (Alex Ross & Cat Staggs), but didn't know until I looked at the back pages that Dan Parent drew a Retailer Exclusive variant cover for UltimateComics.com. They cost $10 plus shipping, though. Here's Dan's cover:

irishmoxie

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on December 12, 2016, 06:18:31 AM
PLUTO: URASAWA x TEZUKA VOL. 5, 6, 7, & 8 (of 8 ) - That was great. One of the best manga series I've ever read. Really impressed. Five stars *****!
REGGIE'S WISE GUY JOKES #13, 24, 30, 34 - IMO, this is the best of all the Joke Book titles. Why? I dunno, maybe the one-page gag just suits Reggie better than Archie or Jughead. Here you find more one-page gags with Reggie dating Midge again, and also more of his insults and put-downs aimed at Ethel (but mostly, Archie is the victim of his zingers more than anyone else).
MOTOR CRUSH #1
DUCK AVENGER #2



How was Motor Crush? Would I like it? Is it girlie?


Would I like Duck Avenger if I like the Duck Tales movie from the 90s?

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