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Offline John Asperger

The " Jokes " titles.........
« on: January 27, 2011, 03:06:27 PM »
...In the 60s and 70s the " Jokebook " titles were REALLY popular...ARCHIE"S JOKEBOOK , JUGHEAD'S JOKES , REGGIE'S JOKES even :D!
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Offline John Asperger

Re: The " Jokes " titles.........
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2011, 03:12:47 PM »
......They'd feature brief gags , no longer than 2 pages - And , actually , IIRC , the two-pagers tended to be , if not pin-ups or puzzles , something in " not quite a panel-by-panel comic STORY " mode , sort of a MAD-style thang 8)..." Why do you think they were so popular then , and not now ?
  The material from them are used as fillers in the Digests , and , very occasionally , there'll sometimes be a new brief gag in the digests...But they're not popular like they were before .
  Why do you think that is ? What do you think of them ?
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Offline Pep22

Re: The " Jokes " titles.........
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2011, 03:30:50 PM »
With the exception of the earlier issues of Archie's Joke Book, they were fairly wretched items IMO. I have no explanation for the popularity of Jughead's Jokes or Reggie's Jokes.
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Offline RiverPhoenixDale

Re: The " Jokes " titles.........
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2011, 03:31:02 PM »
Somewhere between now and then, comedy turned ironic, and audiences got more sophisticated.

Now, if a consumer sees a comic book called Laugh, the knee-jerk reaction is that the content inside will have no real comedy value.  Calling something a Jokebook has the same effect.

Those shorter "gag" pages inevitably ended with cornball punchlines just by their very structure.  Somewhere along the way they must have just fallen out of style.
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Offline John Asperger

Re: The " Jokes " titles.........
« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2011, 04:02:36 PM »
Quote from: RiverPhoenixDale on January 27, 2011, 03:31:02 PM
Somewhere between now and then, comedy turned ironic, and audiences got more sophisticated.

Now, if a consumer sees a comic book called Laugh, the knee-jerk reaction is that the content inside will have no real comedy value...Even at the actual Archiw demographic/age leve for consumers/actual purchasers , ya think ?
  I mean , mebbe so :-- , and that's an interesting theory , thank you , I LOVE scocilgical/" what's the underpinning of things/how things have changed " comments:-)...
  The Madhouse Maad's title was Madhouse Ma-ad Jokes at one point , too , even if it was not all cmpletely the brief gags/whatever .
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