Comments on: Comic Book Alphabet of Cool – Y

By: sgt rawk

sgt rawk — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:52:55 +0000

You know, he’s right about NFL Superpro. There can be only one.

By: Doug Atkinson

Doug Atkinson — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:45:06 +0000

The Buster Brown shoe line also had radio and TV tie-in shows starring Andy Devine. In an amusing bit of circularity, there was a series of promotional give-away comics based on the show and made to give away at shoe stores (similar to the Big Boy give-away comics). Ironically, I don’t know if Buster himself was in the comic much (judging by the one copy I have, anyway).

By: Slaz

Slaz — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:35:50 +0000

Buster Brown was well enough known that it became the trademark for an actual line of shoes. I don’t know if it still exists, but I remember them as a kid in the late ’60s/early ’70s. I didn’t know until recently that there was a comic strip…

By: Derek J. Goodman

Derek J. Goodman — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:16:00 +0000

Danx, I believe it was issue number 27. He was one of the “Street Arabs,” I think they were called. I’m not near my collection right now, so I can’t look it up

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:09:04 +0000

According to the first issue of Comic Book Comics, the term â€œYellow Journalismâ€ did orignally refer to the papers that carried the Yellow Kid.

It very well might be true, but I have never seen a good enough source to say it definitively. Believe me, if I ever find such a source, I’ll be using it here.

By: jazzbo

jazzbo — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:03:58 +0000

According to the first issue of Comic Book Comics, the term “Yellow Journalism” did orignally refer to the papers that carried the Yellow Kid.

By: Danx

Danx — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:02:39 +0000

Didn’t The Yellow Kid show up in Runaways recently ?

By: ks

ks — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:53:59 +0000

What about Obadiah Oldbuck? I think that was the first comic.

By: Billy Ray

Billy Ray — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:34:56 +0000

Buster Brown is a kid who lives in a shoe,
he’s got a small dog who lives in one, too.

(or something like that)

And doesn’t Yellow Kid figure into the story
behind the term “Yellow Journalism”?

By: stealthwise

stealthwise — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:27:55 +0000

I have a vague recollection of The Yellow Kid from somewhere, but who the heck is Buster Brown?

By: Jeff Ryan

Jeff Ryan — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:23:47 +0000

The Yellow Kid was one fo the first uses of color in a newspaper. Sometimes the yellow would be offset by a full inch from the black outline of where it should have been. But folks back then dind’t care, the same way we don’t really care if a CG animal looks a little plastic-y. It’s a new special effect!

In 1894, by the by, NFL SuperPro wore a leather helmet, a sweater, and spats to fight crime. In all realities, through all the past and futures of time, there always is one chosen NFL SuperPro.