Some of these comics sold hundreds of thousands
September 12, 2015 7:37 AM   Subscribe

 
oh man they have a page about Prez, which I think was later used in a Sandman story?
posted by dismas at 7:58 AM on September 12, 2015


Wow, I'm glad you posted this on a weekend and not a workday, because without even half-trying I just spent 40 minutes reading through some of the links and then looking stuff related to them up on Wikipedia.

I never knew about all the Archie rip-offs and the fact that Hellcat started life as one of those teen hijinks heroines!

By contrast, it feels like they just barely scratched the surface with their exploration of TMNT rip-offs. I remember reading way, way too many of them -- and drawing some for my own amusement -- back in the day.

Thanks for the post, JHarris.
posted by lord_wolf at 8:12 AM on September 12, 2015


Prez was recently reimagined.
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 8:13 AM on September 12, 2015


Oh, this is dangerous.
posted by benito.strauss at 8:14 AM on September 12, 2015


Madam Satan got a bad rap. I mean, her plans weren't the cleverest (onl totall N00bs show off their skull eyes), but that dratted Brother Sunbeam has ruined the carefully-laid plots of more fiendish masters of the Dark Arts.

Not that I would have first-hand experience with meddling Benedictines...
posted by GenjiandProust at 8:45 AM on September 12, 2015


I'm going to be charitable and assume that "Hard Rockin' Rabbits" (at the TMNT ripoffs link) was done by a fifteen-year-old, working between classes in a corner so as not to attract the jocks' attention, who would be mortified to find it on the internet now. I had heard of "Pre-Teen Dirty-Gene Kung-Fu Kangaroos" and "Adolescent Radioactive Black-Belt Hamsters," but I was sure they were one-panel gags. It's hard to believe I was wrong.

Thanks for another great megapost!
posted by Countess Elena at 8:51 AM on September 12, 2015


Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose number 53 is the legendary haunted vagina issue. Read about it here.
posted by Paul Slade at 8:53 AM on September 12, 2015 [1 favorite]


The last panel of 1960's Lois Lane Weds Astounding Man shows two people courting idealized versions of each other over the internet. I vote Not Stupid.
posted by Superfrankenstein at 9:09 AM on September 12, 2015 [3 favorites]


I was sure that the "Lincoln" link was going to be Scott McCloud's The New Adventures of Abraham Lincoln.
posted by infinitewindow at 9:14 AM on September 12, 2015


I'd lime to emphasize that the links I presented were only from a casual perusal of things on the site. Seriously, go up and follow that Stupid Comics link -- here it is again for you! -- there's plenty more where this came from, upwards of 50% of the articles there could realistically have made it into this post.
posted by JHarris at 9:44 AM on September 12, 2015 [2 favorites]


I've been randomly browsing and one way or another it's all been gold.
posted by Segundus at 9:53 AM on September 12, 2015


So that's what people did before DeviantArt...
posted by pipeski at 10:31 AM on September 12, 2015


Ehh. It's decent, but has been done before and better. Besides, anybody who disses a Steve Gerber comic has no clue what they're talking about.
posted by MartinWisse at 10:32 AM on September 12, 2015 [4 favorites]


The original issues of Prez are worth picking up. 70s gold I tell you.

Great post!
posted by wittgenstein at 11:07 AM on September 12, 2015


Some of these are just trying too hard.
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 11:24 AM on September 12, 2015


I was an indie comics enthusiast around the time TMNT was breaking, and I snagged a bunch of joke ripoffs including "Pre-teen Dirty Gene Kung-fu Kangaroos"
posted by zippy at 11:43 AM on September 12, 2015 [1 favorite]


"Spurt Hammond"
pffftt HAW heeee heh...
no, s'alright. I'm good...
"At that moment, Spurt bursts in..."
Heh hee...
"...The startled Radgio reaches..."
BWAH haaa....
"But he is too late! Spurt's ray-gun covers him..."
AHAHAHAHAHAAA...
posted by ardgedee at 12:18 PM on September 12, 2015 [1 favorite]


Well, to be honest, these comics were roundly ignored by everyone, because they were Gold Key Comics. Nobody likes Gold Key comics.

That's a quote from a random link I clicked on. I get it, this is a collection of ludicrously strange, bad comics, but I wouldn't take this guy's opinions seriously. The original Turok: Son Of Stone, the Rod Serling and Boris Karloff TV show tie-in comics, the original Star Trek comics, Magnus, Robot Fighter -- those were all Gold Key comics, and I fucking LOVED Gold Key comics, so there.
posted by KHAAAN! at 2:49 PM on September 12, 2015 [4 favorites]


I was an indie comics enthusiast around the time TMNT was breaking, and I snagged a bunch of joke ripoffs including "Pre-teen Dirty Gene Kung-fu Kangaroos"

In the early 90s a local comic shop here in Fargo had bins of ten-cent comics, all weird stuff like these -- and I bought a whole bunch, and the thing is Adolescent Radioactive BlackBelt Hamsters is actually pretty good, which is probably why this website didn't make a lot of fun of them.
posted by AzraelBrown at 6:09 AM on September 13, 2015


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