And Wendy Pini back in the day ... good god, comic creators aren't supposed to be that hot!

And not many people are commenting on how good Wendy Pini looks in that chainmail bikini because nothing needs to be said.

My copy of Superman 26 (1944) contains back-up strips from Private Pete, Faffs, and Judge Jollopy, as well as a two page story called "The March" by Alton Black. Batman 25 also has 2 Private Pete stories, and the story "A Blow For Freedom" by Stan Carter.

http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-bla1.htm

In any case, as a word adapted to English from a language without Roman characters, there's of course going to be some difference of opinion on how to spell it. But in terms of popularity, Arcan got it right the first time.

And the cartoon in question, of course, was Chip & Dale's Rescue Rangers. Heh.

No, Duck Tales it was, and while it was mainly a syndicated weekday show, it also did get some Saturday morning airplay, too.

Who's the nerd now, dog?

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oh, the shame, the shame of it all!

Just curious for the record here, but is the TV show you guys are talking about "Duck Tales"?

A couple things.

1) It was a weekday afternoon show.
2) The code words for Gizmoduck were "Blatherin' Blatherscythe!"

What I just wrote is probably the most nit-picking thing I've done in a long time.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go jerk off to pictures of Magica DeSpell.

What you say sounds good on the face of it but, by that reasoning, a one-page strip with Goofy or some other non-Duckberg (Is that it?) Disney character would have freed Gyro to appear with the ducks. It doesn't seem to have been that easy.

the comments above about the backup stories is surely part of the reason, but most, if not all, of the examples given were for anthology series, not solo character books. But I would imagine that if you had a half or whole page strip of "Pete the Cop" or "Super-Turtle," you could claim to have a separate "story" with a character totally independent of the main character. Just like you could claim to meet the text page requirement with a short story OR a letter page OR a "Direct Currents" hype page.

Yes, I'm a huge geek, and yes, I do love it.

Yes, they were. Superman, Batman, Superboy and Wonder Woman DID all have their own self-titled comics, since the 40s, with the possible slight exception of Superboy, whose comic might not have started until about 1950 or so--WW in fact wasn't appearing anywhere else in 1956--without different back-up series (I admit that for a brief stint sometime in the 1940s, and therefore irrelevent to the current discussion, Lois Lane had a feature of her own in the back of "Superman"). Aquaman and Green Arrow were appearing in the rears of "World's Finest..." and "Adventure Comics," and in the Sea King's case, in the back of "Detective Comics" as well, but not in those other heroes' self-titled comics. The only available out here is that DC wasn't offering subscriptions to the solo titles, but an earlier Comics Urban Legend item about mailing regs requiring text pages works against that. Anybody else?