Superboy TV, Part 4

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As elucidated in these earlier installments, this is a promo packet sent to syndicating stations for the 2nd season of Superboy.  It's courtesy of Ranger Roger, aka Mark Barragar.  I'm sad when I recall that it's been 10 years now since Mark's death.  Sah-LOOT!

Above are the front, unfolded interior, and back of this big folder.

The material for this post comprises the stuff provided for print ads -- for local newspapers or the rags' Sunday supplements, etc.

That's why the top-left corner of this legal-size folder says "Print Advertising."  Now, brace yourselves for a lot of now-quaint letterings, logos, and clip-art-type treasures!

This week!  Next week!  Tuesday!  Thursday!  All new!  The head spins!

When your mind straightens out after all this dizzying promotion, come back on Thursday for some what-have-you.

  

Name Those Hands!

Here is the final "hand" which I self-dealt as my mostest favoritest pop-culture or growing-up influences, all laid out purty like the cards in my own personal deck.

And here's my assembled desktop, a who's who of fun:

Row 1:

Peter Hardt of KVOO (Tulsa)’s Fantastic Theatre

Superman (George Reeves)

The Prisoner (Patrick McGoohan)

Captain James Kirk

Frankenstein’s monster (Boris Karloff)

Supergirl and Superman (Action #285)

The Avengers

Sledge Hammer!

The Addams Family

Gary Cooper in High Noon

Dracula (Bela Lugosi)

Supergirl (Melissa Benoist)

from The Wizard of Oz

 

Row 2:

Jonny Quest characters

WC Fields

Robin (Burt Ward)

Poe

Beethoven

Mighty Mouse

Emily Dickinson

HP Lovecraft

First Officer Spock

Richard Wagner

Clark Kent and Superman (Action #309)

Freddy the Freeloader (Red Skelton)

Illya Kuryakin

 

Row 3:

99 and Maxwell Smart

The Beatles (ABC cartoon)

The Munsters

Doctor Leonard McCoy

Niccolò Paganini

Napoleon Solo

The Beatles

Rorschach

Underdog

Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s Brain Salad Surgery

Batman (Adam West)

Bugs, Porky, Daffy

John Wayne in The Quiet Man

Row 4:

The Marx Brothers

Franz Liszt

Supergirl (Action #373)

Mr Waverly

Robby the Robot and the Robot

Tom Terrific and Manfred the Wonder Dog

Bizarro (Superman #143)

The Wolf Man (Lon Chaney Jr)

Thomas Magnum

Superman (Christopher Reeve)

Dr Mazeppa Pompazoidi

Joni Mitchell

Fred and Super Chicken

You could name EVERYBODY, couldn't you?  See you Monday.

  

You Catch Bigfoot and I'll Kill Him!

In January of 2021, a state rep from my own dear state came up with an unusual idea to, he said, stir up revenue. The state should sell licenses to hunt Bigfoot.

It seems rather disingenuous to advocate "hunting" a wild critter with the stipulation that you shouldn't kill what you "hunt."

Maybe we should sell lawmaker-tickling licenses! or cloud-counting licenses! or roll-your-eyes licenses!

Maybe they can institute the Bigfoot-hunting license, and require that you hunt Bigfoot with a special state-authorized gun:

See you Thursday!

   

Love the Bombs! I Dare Ya!

These articles are from the January 18, 1987 Tulsa World.

You know my mom was cool because, FIRST she read these articles, and SECOND she clipped 'em because she knew I would want to read 'em!  Now that's motherly love!

    

Keep Your Athelas-Pickin' Hands Offa Tolkien!

 Well, that's what the letter to the editor said.  First, the English Journal's four pages on how Lord of the Rings might be worthy of being taken seriously by scholars.  It's from/ the October 1967 issue.

I don't know what OTHER letters the Journal received, but I came across this one from a scornful teacher in the February 1968 issue.

You gotta admit, Ms Stein has a point.  As soon as the grownups say a book is good, half the kids will drop it like a stinky report card.  She was also prescient, if you take her comments about paperback editions driving readership.

Is Stein's opinion true today?  Would youngsters be chased away from a work due to adult acclaim?  Or has today's juvenile pop culture absorbed everybody?

Well, you're reading this.  I rest my case.  See you Thursday!

  

Can Your Pounding Hearts Stand the Stupendousness?

 Yes, that was the question every few weeks in the late 1980s, as readers gasped to learn if the new issue of Amazing Heroes might contain a missive from the legendary Sidney Mellon!

Mellon was a constructed stereotypical fanboy (I infer) used to make fun of (and celebrate) some of the thud and blunder of comics fandom.  His missives might appear in the letters section.  Or a review, filled with hyperbolic prose worshiping the most grandiose excesses of (unknowing) self-importance, might tag the "new comics" section.

This two-page opus adorned the Amazing Heroes issue for February 29, 1988.  Dare you brave the awesomosity of Mellon's incisive prose?

See you Monday!

  

How Many Supers Again?

Come with me now to the fabled times of yesteryear, that annum designated 1993, when DC Comics decided to play hide-the-Kryptonian-cucumber with Superman's fans.

These images came from Diamond Comics' solicitation mag called Previews.

I can only assume that I nabbed it from my friends Mike Kennedy and John Hunter, owners of OKC's Planet Comics.  Speaking of whom ...

The April 16, 1993 Oklahoman covered some of the foofaraw with a nice article containing a photo taken at Planet.

Were you innocent once, and cared which and who was the "real" Superman?  IMO, the "real" Superman drowned in a remixing bowl.  (This blog honors his ideals.)

See you Thursday!

  

Gitcher Own Graphic Book and Peel Off!

 In the months on either side of the release of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the hearts of fans were all a-twitter in our quest for tie-ins to the movie.

Among other things, we bought Trix cereal.  Of course, if I'd sent in this coupon, I wouldn't be able to show it off now!  I bought the book at the B Dalton's in Crossroad mall.

In fact, I bought more than one so I could use some of the peel-off stickers, and still have a complete book!  But I sold the "nice" copy long ago, only the imperfect remains behind (kinda like me).

See you Monday!

   

November in PsychoFLAIRapy Land!

These are the calendar pages from the 1971 calendar, whose days-dates match 2021.

I wouldn't want to have to pull apart that wishbone!  See you Thursday.

  

Everything Not A-OK on Bizarro World!

... As you will learn from this June 1, 1984 feature on Superman Family members the Bizarros, which appeared in Amazing Heroes.

Being a little contrary myself, I have a friendly intimacy with the whole being bizarre idea.

Remember, is big crime to make anything perfect!  So, in the spirit of my alter-ego Bizarro No 1, I sincerely say, "Don't come back on Thursday!"