jbtubman@watdragon.UUCP (Jim Tubman) (01/20/86)
After not doing so for about 5 years, I resumed reading comics in the last year or so. My tastes run to the super-hero genre, so I didn't notice this until quite recently: I don't see any Harvey comics (Richie Rich, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Sad Sack, etc.) or Gold Key comics (the Disney line) anywhere. Not at comics stores, nor at the drugstore in my home town (which used to carry them). Have these companies gone under, been bought out, lost Canadian distribution, or what? Jim Tubman University of Waterloo "If you took all of the grains of sand in the world, and lined them up end to end in a row, you'd be working for the government!" -- Mr. Interesting
slrichte@uok.UUCP (01/22/86)
/* Written 4:51 pm Jan 19, 1986 by jbtubman@watdragon.UUCP in uok.UUCP:net.comics */ > ...I don't see any Harvey comics >(Richie Rich, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Sad Sack, etc.) or Gold Key >comics (the Disney line) anywhere. > Jim Tubman I was unable to reach you by mail, so I'm posting this for your infor- mation as well as the chance that others may be interested in the titles mentioned. Harvey Comics ceased publication some time ago (at least 12 months). They have plans to return to the stands with Richie, Caspar, Wendy, etc. sometime soon. They were running ads in CBG several months ago which indicated their titles were back in production. Gold Key has also been gone for at least a year. The Disney titles will now be published by Gladstone, a division of Another Rainbow, who publishes the Carl Barks Library. (Barks is the creator of Uncle Scrooge and the best of the Disney Duck writers and artists.) The new titles will feature a mix of Barks material and stories which were produced in other countries. (The Disney characters, particularly the Ducks, are very popular in Europe.) The Gladsone titles (Donald, Mickey, Uncle Scrooge, etc.) are expected this summer. The Warner Brothers characters (Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, etc.) are apparently in comic book limbo. Why someone hasn't picked these characters up is unknown. The Charleton titles were suspended and recently revived, but have now been permanently banished from the racks. Nobody's mourning them. --Steve Richter USENET: {ihnp4,allegra!cbosgd}!okstate!uokvax!uok!slrichte USMAIL: S. Richter c/o Southside, 754 Asp, Norman, OK 73069 "I used to go to the drugstores or wherever there was a newsstand, and if I had a little time on my hands, I would stand around pretending I was looking at 'Popular Mechanics' or something and watch the kids. At that time, kids would always come in where there was a big stack of comic books and just sit down on one stack and pick up comics out of the next stack and read them or look at them. And I always hoped that I would see some kid buy a 'Walt Disney's Comics and Stories' or an 'Uncle Scrooge'. I never did." --Carl Barks, creator of Uncle Scrooge and best of the Disney comic bood artists
peterson@milano.UUCP (01/24/86)
In article <228@watdragon.UUCP>, jbtubman@watdragon.UUCP writes: > I don't see any Harvey comics > (Richie Rich, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Sad Sack, etc.) or Gold Key > comics (the Disney line) anywhere. Gold Key is apparently gone. But the Disney reprints may live on. There is a company in Scottsdale, Arizona that has been reprinting the Carl Barks comics (The Carl Barks Library - 10 volumes each of three hard-bound books, each volume about $100). The company is Another Rainbow. Now I notice there is another company from Scottsdale (Gladstone) which has published two old Disney's: Uncle Scrooge goes to Disneyland and Disneyland Birthday Party. The back inside cover of these shows a whole bunch of Disney comic covers with the Gladstone logo and "Coming in 1986 From Gladstone at your favorite newsstand or comic book shop". I don't care much for most of the super-hero comics, but prefer to try to get the old comic strips (like Mandrake, Steve Canyon, Disney comics, Maggie and Jiggs, Dagwood, -- also the newer ones like Cathy, Tank McNamera, Doonesbury, Dupie, and so on. -- James Peterson peterson@mcc.arpa or ...sally!im4u!milano!peterson