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Bucky O'Hare makes many things better. And his aptly entitled first mate Jenny makes them better yet!

Hmmmmm. Well I know I read Fantastic Four 4 with the re-intro of Sub-Mariner and Avengers 4 with the re-intro of Captain America a few months or weeks after they hit the stands. But I own this copy of Flash 105: And this copy of Green Lantern 1:

Yes! Now I'm trying to get the new thread I re-started on Wednesday consolidated into this one.

Raw purist.

And speaking of black birds, here's the saga of Wing Ding, the character, the legend!(Reader discretion advised. Not suited for animal lovers or the faint of heart.)While Shari Lewis had introduced her signature character Lamb Chop on the Captain Kangaroo show in March 1956, Hush Puppy, Charlie Horse and Wing Ding were all introduced on Shari's Hi Mom show which aired on WRCA-TV in New York from 1957-59. When NBC gave Shari her first network program, The Shari Lewis Show, which debuted on 1 October 1960 replacing The Howdy Doody Show, her family of puppets made the move with her.But a problem eventually arose. You see Wing Ding was a crow and therefore black. Wing Ding was as a result seen as a caricature of an African-American by certain over-imaginative segments of the populace and thus politically incorrect. You couldn't have that kind of thing on prime time TV, now could you? So at some point Shari bowed to parental or network pressure and had Wing Ding put down. Yes, truly a very sad, cruel and tragic ending to a beloved TV character from the fifties. After The Shari Lewis Show's run ended in 1963, NBC unaccountably taped the 1964 and national conventions over The Shari Lewis Show tapes thus destroying them! I wonder how much that cost NBC and Shari Lewis in lost future syndication revenues?Though long gone from the airwaves, Wing Ding still survives in the hearts of fans since his noble visage continues to adorn many Shari Lewis collectibles from the early sixties:Including these from my own collection:

A gathering of Flash's Rogues Gallery in the dining room of the Central City Jail circa 1965: Weather Wizard: "You Piper are so pathetic. A whopping 32 issues four years and four months apart before you got a return appearance in The Flash! Pied Piper: "Yeah, but I was in Justice League 14 in the interim though!" Weather Wizard: "Fffffttttt!!!! You had nothing but a bit part so that hardly counts as a proper appearance. Worse yet you were just a lackey of Mister Memory, who himself turned out to be the mind wiped stooge of Professor Amos Fortune!" Heat Wave: "Yeah, heeeee, heeee! Just the lackey of a mindless stooge!" Pied Piper: "Actually, speaking of reappearances, I just looked through my collection of Flash comics and you didn't get a return engagement with the scarlet boy scout for a colossal 35 issues spanning four years and five months!" Weather Wizard: "Did too! I had a whole story in Flash 130!" Pied Piper: "Hah! You didn't even go up against the Flash though! You were beaten by a little kid and some two-bit superhero with stretching powers who wasn't even good enough to be a member of the Justice League." Weather Wizard: "See! It was two against one!" Pied Piper: "What did the Elongated Man have to stretch to put you down? His nose, his ear?" Trickster: "Giggle! There's only one body part I want stretched." Top: "Me I wouldn't need no secret potions either. That Sue babe of Dibny's could sure stretch it for me." Weather Wizard: "I tell you, it wasn't fair! I was double teamed." Pied Piper: "You couldn't even beat Aquaman or even Batman let alone the Flash. You're more pathetic than I could ever be." Weather Wizard: "Am not!" Heat Wave: "Well you're both beyond pathetic in my book." Pied Piper: "Look who's talking! The johnny-come-lately who didn't even appear on the scene until I had three appearances under my belt!" Captain Cold: "Yeah, the kids who were buying my first appearance in Showcase 8 in 1957 had all graduated to Playboy before hot head here arrived on the scene." Weather Wizard: "Yeah, junior here wasn't even around when DC comics were still a dime." Heat Wave: "You should talk! I still beat you onto a cover by five issues." Weather Wizard: "Not true! I was there on the cover of #110. You just couldn't see me for the flood I was stirring up, that's all." Captain Cold: "It was my appearance on the cover of The Flash 140 that made it an item on newsstands anyway." Heat Wave: "Yeah sure, pops." Captain Cold: "Speaking of which everybody knows I'm the greatest Flash villain of them all! I've been around since the Flash's second newsstand appearance way back in 1957 and I've plagued him ever since." Mirror Master: "Well you got the plague part right anyway. I'm the one who got the first cover though, and it was for issue #105 the one that relaunched the series! None of you can come close to matching that." Captain Cold: "Fffffttttt! You play with mirrors like a woman!" Mirror Master: "Yeah well I still had two cover appearances under my belt before you got your first!" Albert Desmond: "Can anybody tell me who I am today?" Grodd: "All nonsense! Everybody knows that I'm the greatest Flash villain of them all!" Mirror Master: "Hah! Your waistline may be the greatest, but you're nothing but a big hairy ape! You're so ugly that Julius didn't put you on a cover until your fifth appearance in issue #127." Grodd: "Lies! I was on the cover of #115." Mirror Master: "Doesn't count. You weren't your fat hairy self on that cover. Like I say, you were too ugly to get a cover yet." Trickster: "Hey, who ate all the bananas?" Abra Kadabra: "It was the overgrown ape again." Top: "You're all pathetic. Except for the hairy ape and he doesn't count, all any of you losers ever did was rob banks and jewellery stores. I was going to blow up half the world in issue #122 until that meddlesome do-gooder interfered." Trickster: "Could have, would have, should have!" Top: "Huh?" Trickster: "The world's all still here, isn't it? The point is you didn't get it done. The only thing you got done was a fast trip to the hoosegow." Heat Wave: "Yeah! What a loser." Albert Desmond: "But why am I here?" Captain Boomerang: "It's elementary my dear Doctor. You've been a very nasty boy starting way back in your Showcase 13 and 14 appearances before the Flash even got his own title, so nasty in fact that most people haven't forgotten." Weather Wizard: "Yeah, but despite his multiple IDs it took Desmond here a whopping 44 issues and six and a half years before he got himself onto a cover! Now that's really pathetic." Professor Zoom: "Actually in defence of my sometime partner he was on the cover of the Flash Annual from the summer of 1963." Pied Piper: "Annuals don't count though because they're just reprints.. Everybody knows that." Abra Kadabra: "I'm #1 though! My collection of The Flash ranks above any of yours in the CGC data base." Heat Wave: "Huh? CGC? What's that?" Abra Kadabra: "You wouldn't know. That's in the future. I've had the top ranked Flash collection at CGC since 6349." Captain Boomerang: "Well that won't be for a few years anyway and I'll match my issues #117, 124 and 148 up against anybody's in the right here and now!" Trickster: "Hmmmppphhfff! Nothing but your own appearances, if you can even call them that. Talk about pathetic. I don't know what's more pathetic, you or your comic collection." Captain Boomerang: "Yeah well you've never done anything cooler than run across floating soap bubbles or ride around on a tricycle. Me though I sent Flash to the Moon and back! Trickster: "Well why did you bring him back though?" Heat Wave: "Yeah, that's what I'd like to know too. Why did you bring him back?" Captain Boomerang: "Wasn't my fault. I use boomerangs and they always come back." Top: "Ffffttt!!!! A feeble excuse if I've ever heard one." Professor Zoom: "Well I'm going to be badder than any of you saps, just you wait and see!" Abra Kadabra: "Yeah, sure. What do you want from us? Applause?" Professor Zoom: "Just wait I say. I'll show you the meaning of the word 'dastardly'!" Top: "Is that true, Kadabra?" Abra Kadabra: "Don't know. My comics are all sealed in plastic slabs so I haven't read any of them." Captain Boomerang: "Huh?! But that doesn't make any sense. Why would you or anybody want comics you can't read?" Abra Kadabra: "You'll have to wait 35 years before you understand." Albert Desmond: "But I just wish I knew who I was this week." Top: "Somebody here could certainly use some more electro-shock therapy." Captain Boomerang: "Look who's talking. The failed half-a-world destroyer! Hey, who farted?" Professor Zoom: "I think it was the hairy ape again." Trickster: "Well that's my cue to run. Hey! Which one of you crooks stole my shoes?"

Scout as a kitten would practice getting her Halloween face down just right: In time she learned that the trick was just to do what came naturally:

Be a good idea! Threads with comic content are always a pleasant diversion from those about which comic has the most price appreciation/depreciation potential.

What I noted about this whole CGC forum more than a decade ago is that it's more about the business of comics than appreciation for the content found within comics. My "Hepcat Will Still Be Hepcat" thread was/is all about my love of comics and other collectibles because of their aesthetic merit. There's nary a word in that thread about prices or the business of comics. I hope that there's still a place on this forum for us old-fashioned collecting enthusiasts. Incidentally I see that two of my posting buddies' Journal threads "Tales of the Comic Book Room" and "AJD's Comic Notebook" are now in the Golden Age forum.

Cool! I knew nothing about those two.

What?! How can he be considered a "great comic collector" when he didn't slab his comics? In fact it doesn't look as if he even bagged and boarded them!

Truth! And Action Comics 2-10 and Detective Comics 28-35 are far tougher to find.

I actually didn't start my old "Hepcat Will Still Be Hepcat" thread in Journals. I started it in the Silver Age forum back in 2011 as a satire on the name change VintageComics was planning and it then developed from there as I kept thinking of subjects about which I could write. It remained in the Silver Age forum until 2016 or so when one of the mods decided to move it into Journals because I was putting stuff in it that wasn't specifically comics related.

Yeah, the philistine! He should have explained to you that they were magpies.

All I can say is that I know of no recurring black bird of any sort Merrie Melodies/Looney Tunes characters. The other most famous cartoon crows were in Walt Disney's Dumbo movie: They've been widely condemned as politically incorrect by the philistine element in today's society: http://www.zimbio.com/The+Biggest+Disney+Movie+Controversies/articles/q5eGAw5dCRo/The+Crows+in+Dumbo

Somehow I now know too much about these things.

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Not true! Not only were Heckle and Jeckle not crows, they were Terrytoons characters not Merrie Melodies/Looney Tunes characters.

What?! An outrageous fabrication not to mention a vicious personal attack against Jeckle! How can you say such a thing? He and Heckle were very clearly magpies! Heckle and Jeckle were a rascally but loveable pair of yellow-billed magpies who debuted in the Terrytoons theatrical cartoon The Uninvited Pests in 1944. Though identical in appearance, Jeckle had a British accent while Heckle, the somewhat more rascally of the two, had either a Brooklyn or a Bronx accent with this being a point of contention among Terrytoon fans. Overall the two starred in 44 Terrytoons theatrical cartoons which were all distributed by 20th Century Fox between 1946 and 1957. Paul Terry is on record as saying that the Heckle and Jeckle cartoons were the best of his studio's cartoon creations.The launching of the Heckle and Jeckle Cartoon Show in 1956 prompted the creation of seven more lower budget Heckle and Jeckle cartoons with simpler made for TV animation in the 1959-61 period with Wild Life being the first. One additional theatrical cartoon, Messed Up Movie Makers, was produced in 1966.Heckle and Jeckle were also the title feature in these comic magazine series:St. John's 1 (Oct. 1951 - 24 (Oct. 1955)Pines 25 (Fall 1956) - 34 (June 1959)Gold Key 1 (Nov. 1962) - 4 (Aug. 1963)Dell 1 (May 1966) - 3 (Aug. 1967)Here are scans of a few comics from my collection where the two are the cover feature:678Their image was also licensed for a whole host of kids' products including (since it's late October) Halloween costumes by Halco in the 1950's and Ben Cooper in the 1960's:The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle TV series from the late 1970's introduced a slight change in the dynamic between the two with Jeckle taking more of a leadership role.Perhaps because of their distinctive ethnic/regional accents or simply because they were magpies and not crows, Heckle and Jeckle never drew the criticism from the politically correct crowd to which some other black cartoon birds were subjected. Heckle and Jeckle cartoons are still widely available on VHS and DVD.

Given that the new one does not deal exclusively with comics, they think it should be in either New Journals or Water Cooler. So they locked the new one. Most inconveniently it was locked just a few minutes before I was ready to post a few words correcting some misinformation about Heckle and Jeckle. Since I find the New Journals format strange, I'm not comfortable with it. When I therefore asked whether the old thread could be transferred to the Water Cooler, they just said "No". The new thread has evidently just been moved to the Water Cooler and unlocked. .

Oh groan. Not only did I fail to get my old thread moved and unlocked, even the new thread I started to continue the old one is now locked.

Huh!? That is incorrect. The position of an object relative to the light source determines in which direction the shadow falls. A light source behind an object will result in a shadow in front of that object.

Hmmmmm. I know of no Looney Tunes crow. Are you perhaps thinking of Buzzy the Crow who first appeared with Katnip in the Paramount Pictures cartoon Stupidstitious Cat in 1947? Buzzy would appear in a total of eight cartoons from 1947 to 1954. Buzzy would also beginning sometime in the 1950's appear in several comics such as Harvey Hits and as a backup feature in Harvey Giants: (Not my comics.) Harvey would in 1959 purchase the rights to all Paramount's cartoon properties including Casper, Little Audrey and Baby Huey as well as Buzzy.

Cowboy is strong and healthy!