The reason I wanted to comment though is to say that though I never watched Dexter the name Dial M for Monkey reminds me of Dial H for Hero. It took me a minute to remember that comic (I was stuck on Dial M for Mogwai at first), but I remember reading it when I was young. Weird book. lol

I still miss the lettercols - yes, you can post comments on the Internet but it's not the same thing. When you're sitting down to reread a stack of comic books, it's a lot easier to have the relevant letters in an issue from three or four months later rather than having to log on and try to locate the comments for the book in question.

I was a massive fan of T.M.Maple and Uncle Elvis Orton, wasn't there an English chap called Malcolm Bourne whop was prolific in the Vertigo titles and ended up with his own, short-lived, book?

And wasn't TM Maple sickly?? Something congenital??

Bottom Line: Wanna know the real reason that Spider-Girl keeps getting saved from cancellation? It's so that Tom DeFalco will have something else to do besides ruin another book like he did Thor!

Maybe she was ahead of the times for some of the commenters here. She wrote a lot of letters in the 60's. I remember picking up a copy of the Ross Andru-Mike Esposito Metal Men series when I was a kid. That issue featured one of the Metal Men reading the text of a fan letter in the course of the story. The letter was from one "Irene Vartanoff."

After that, I seemed to see her letters in lots of DC comics.

(That's how much of an impression that made--I can't for the life of me remember the story, but I remember Irene Vartanoff and her letters).

From the wikipedia entry for "Silver Surfer", noting that the entry says "citation needed".

"In the cartoon Dexter's Laboratory, there was a side-story cartoon entitled "Dial M for Monkey", featuring a monkey superhero. In the episode, "Dial M for Monkey: Barbequor", it featured a parody of both Galactus and Silver Surfer as Barbequor, a powerful alien and master of cooking that eats planets, and his partner, the Silver Spooner (who rides a giant silver spoon). This episode was removed from broadcast syndication after complaints were made about the "effeminate" and "narcissistic" parody of Silver Surfer."

http://forums.dvdfile.com/showthread.php?t=26197

"I was really upset that, apparantly Sam Kieth and McFarlane had creative differences, because I remember talking with one of the heads of McFarlane's marketing department on the phone one time (back when the company was smaller), and he said they were in negotiations with Sam Kieth to try and repackage the Maxx figure because when they first started selling older figures through the Collector's Club, he says they had more Maxx figures than any other figures, and they sold out of it first. The plan was to repackage him with a trenchcoat and hat with Mr. Gone's head instead of the Isz.

Wouldn't that have kicked ass???"

But typically back then, Todd Toys would do a reissue with repaints of each toy line. When the re-issue for that series came around there were no MAXX toys in the re-issue.

But what would Maxx's repaint have been?

and if its NOT true than Todd or Sam should be willing to verify that.

"Oh yeah, we totally violated the rules of contracts. Thanks for your inquiry!"