I preorder Kim & Kim #1 because I follow the artist on Facebook.

Quote from: irishmoxie on July 06, 2016, 08:54:50 PM

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on July 06, 2016, 12:49:37 PM
Today, July 6:
HILLBILLY #1
FLINTSTONES #1
SILVER SURFER #15
MOON KNIGHT #4
PUNISHER #3
DAREDEVIL / PUNISHER #3 (of 4)
CAPTAIN AMERICA STEVE ROGERS #1
SUPERMAN THE COMING OF THE SUPERMEN #6 (of 6)
EMPRESS #4 (of 7)
UNCLE SCROOGE #320
DONALD DUCK #382
LOBSTER JOHNSON METAL MONSTERS OF MIDTOWN #2 (of 3)
WILL EISNER'S THE SPIRIT #12 (of 12)
THE BADGER #5 (of 5)
FUTURE QUEST #2
BATMAN '66 MEETS STEED & MRS. PEEL #1 (of 6)
INVADER ZIM #11
KIM & KIM #1
JUSTICE LEAGUE REBIRTH #1
AQUAMAN #2
CAPTAIN AMERICA SAM WILSON #11
TALES FROM RIVERDALE DIGEST #29 & 30

Looking forward to The Flintstones and Kim & Kim. How were they?


Edit: read Bounty and Kim and Kim now. I keep thinking they're the same series. Unfortunately Kim and Kim pulls a bait and switch where the interior art is not as great as the cover.

I wasn't impressed with Kim & Kim, and won't be following it. The Flintstones was... strange. It was a mixed bag, not all good or all bad. I'm not totally sure how I feel about it yet. I'll probably read a few more before deciding for sure if it's worth the time spent reading it.

I didn't get Kim & Kim #1 yet but I really like the cover. It's coming from Midtown Comics.
On Friday night I read these each for 12 minutes
💝 Archie 1000 Page Mega Comics Digest
🐳 Archie 1000 Page Comics Celebration
🐝 Archie 1000 Page Comics Gala
📞 Archie 1000 Page Comics Explosion

TMNT: BEBOP & ROCKSTEADY DESTROY EVERYTHING! #1-5
MARS ATTACKS: THE OCCUPATION #4 (of 5)
THE THREE STOOGES ("Stooge-A-Palooza") #2
TALES FROM RIVERDALE DIGEST #31-35, 38, 39 (the final issue).

I read the Blank Jughead #1 that I'm going mail to Gabbie Gross & she will draw Jughead on for me. But I'm also give mail a Blank Betty & Veronica #1 with it. So I could get both commissions together.

REALWORLDS: WONDER WOMAN (2000)
MIRACULOUS #1 (of 4?) - 64 pages, not bad for $4.
THE ROCKETEER AT WAR #1-4
SECRET WARS: AGENTS OF ATLAS #1 (one-shot)
2000 AD FCBD 2016

I read each of these books for 15 minutes
Archie 1000 Page Comics Shindig
Archie 1000 Page Comics Blowout
Archie 1000 Page Comics 75th 🎉 Anniversary Bash

I finished World Of Archie Comics Digest #48. But I also read these books for 12 minutes.
🌈 1-Archie's Funhouse Jumbo Comics Digest #15
📖 2-Archie Jumbo Comics Digest #266
🚿  3-Archie Comics Double Digest 269
🐨 4-Betty & Veronica Jumbo Comics Digest #233

School is going to end soon for me, I cannot wait to read my Double Digests again 

Yesterday, Wednesday July 13th:
CIVIL WAR II: GODS OF WAR #2 (of 4)
MILLARWORLD ANNUAL 2016 #1
CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA #6
RICK AND MORTY: LIL POOPY SUPERSTAR #1
BETTY AND ME #33 (Feb. 1971)
ACTION COMICS #959
DETECTIVE COMICS #936
WONDER WOMAN #2
NIGHTWING REBIRTH #1
HAL JORDAN AND THE GREEN LANTERN CORPS REBIRTH #1
JOSIE #26 (Apr. 1967)
BETTY AND VERONICA DOUBLE DIGEST #245
THE LONE RANGER #1 (1993) one-shot newspaper strip reprint
THE LONE RANGER & THE GREEN HORNET #1 (of 6)
SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN: FALL OF MAN #1 (of 5)
RAGNAROK #9
KAIJUMAX SEASON 2 #2 (of 6)

I read these & put them in new plastics.
Archie #1-Staples
Archie #2-Rivera
Archie #3-Caldwell
Archie #4-Hernandez
Archie #5-Fish
Archie #6-Fish
Archie #7-Morissette-Phan
Archie #8-Hicks
Archie #9-Robinson

I read these & gave them new Plastics
Archie #1-Staples cover
Archie #2-Staples cover
Archie #3 Staples cover
Archie #4-Wu cover
Archie #5-Fish cover
Archie #6-Fish cover
Archie #7-Fish cover
Archie #8-Fish cover
Archie #9-Fish cover

Today I read SWING WITH SCOOTER #8, 21, and 24, plus BINKY'S BUDDIES #4. SWING WITH SCOOTER #8 wasn't the least bit Archie-like, and I can't say I much cared for its forced attempt at humor. #21 and 24 were much more to my liking, having work by Doug Crane and Henry Scarpelli. BINKY'S BUDDIES #4 wasn't quite as good, but still had a (somewhat more vague) Archie-like approach to teen humor.

Doing a little bit of research on these two titles on GCD, it looks as though SWING WITH SCOOTER, which began as a DC humor title based around a fashionable "mod" British teen and his sister who come to live with their Aunt Hatta and attend an American high school, seems to have experienced a makeover around issue #14 (with the two issues prior to that somewhat transitional). Later issues never refer to Scooter's British origins and he seems to have lost his accent and Anglicized slang. Cookie and Penny are his two gal pals (a blonde and a raven-haired brunette), and he's got a weird friend (an otherwise handsome blond-haired guy) named Malibu, whose family are all monsters. Apart from the fact that Malibu always wears a black turtleneck and pants with a white trenchcoat (even indoors) and has pointed ears, it's never mentioned or hinted at what kind of monster he's supposed to be, so maybe he's a bit like Marilyn Munster, the "oddball" offspring of the family. He seemed to be the most popular of Scooter's friends, and he appears in many one- and two-page gag strips, sometimes filling out half the issue.



BINKY'S BUDDIES was a spinoff title from the earlier LEAVE IT TO BINKY, a title that goes all the way back to 1948 for DC. It compared reasonably with the same type of teen humor comics being published by Marvel at that time, before people like Dan DeCarlo, Stan Goldberg, and Al Hartley became some of the main artists on teen humor titles there in the 1950s. (When Marvel severely cut back on its publishing in 1958, DeCarlo was let go, and ACP became his main source of income. By 1960, Marvel's remaining girl humor titles were transitioned to romantic soap opera dramas.) By 1958 though, DC's LEAVE IT TO BINKY must have appeared pretty dated and was selling badly, and there were several long gaps between issues #58 (Jan/Feb 1957) and #60 (Oct 1958), when the title was cancelled. It was revived almost 10 years later, in 1968 (after a one-issue tryout in SHOWCASE #70, Sept/Oct 1967), picking up with #61 (Jun/July 68), now revamped in the mode of then-contemporary Archie Comics, and ran until #81 (after a title change to just plain BINKY beginning with issue #72), dated Oct/Nov 1971. There was one final issue published in Summer 1977 (#82). Despite the short run of 22 issues in its revived incarnation, the revamped BINKY must have initially been well-received enough that it did manage to spin off a separate title in that time, BINKY'S BUDDIES, which lasted from #1 (Jan/Feb 1969) to #12 (Nov/Dec 1970).



Also during this same time, DC published DATE WITH DEBBI for 18 issues, which actually outlasted both BINKY and BINKY'S BUDDIES, and contained work by Samm Schwartz, Henry Scarpelli, Doug Crane (the latter two were also contributors to SCOOTER), and Stan Goldberg (is there a comic publisher he didn't work for?), running until Oct/Nov 1972, and ending the same month as SCOOTER's final issue, #36 (even though the previous issue, #35 had been published back in Aug/Sept 1971).

     

One final DC humor title of overlapping interest was ANGEL AND THE APE, featuring pretty Angel O'Day and her cartoonist/detective partner Sam Simeon, who just happened to be a talking gorilla. It ran for 7 issues, from Dec 1968 to Dec 1969, after a one-issue tryout appearance in SHOWCASE #77 (Sept. '68), with pencilling mostly supplied by DC humor mainstay Bob Oskner, while much of the inking gets credited to the legendary Wallace Wood.

Not coincidentally, during that same period from late 1967 to early 1973, Marvel's girl humor titles (previously revamped as soap operas) returned to the Archie style sitcom and gags. Also not coincidentally, Archie Comics was itself riding high (relatively speaking) during that time period, and enjoying the exposure of its characters in animated cartoons on Saturday morning television (and in later reruns), something that was not lost on the marketing departments at DC and Marvel.

I read these books for 12 minutes each
💝 Betty & Veronica Jumbo Comics Digest #238
🐯 World Of Archie Comics Double Digest #49
🎭 Archie's Funhouse Jumbo Comics Digest #15
🎉 Archie 1000 Page Comics 75th Anniversary

Im sitting insude Wendys I am in my 45 minute break. I got 25 minutes left. Someone took over my job cleaning lingere in the store. Good riddence i hate that section now