It's like Archie...but in the FUTURE!!!!

[his_spiffynesss]

Nedor comics, the company most famous for it's Golden Age superheroes Black Terror, Fighting Yank, and "Doc" Strange (no relation) stayed in business up until the mid 50's. By 1952 it was Archie comics that was the trend setter for the decade, and the company (then known as Standard) tried to cash in with their own teen comedy book. One clever twist they went with was setting it in the "far off future" of the 21st century, putting this comic a decade ahead of the Jetsons. The book was created by Dan DeCarlo, the artist whose character designs for Archie are still used to this day.

Comments

[sigmund_droid]

I had a stratojerk once.


It was out of this world.

[greenmask]

HAH!

[blackruzsa]

*snerkle*

[greenmask]

Dan Decarlo: A real wizard at foot placement. Look how much of a kick (budum-tschhh) it gives every panel!

Biff sure has some junk in his trunk, huh?

[his_spiffynesss]

That's what Arky loved about him.

[blake_reitz]

"Now you're cooking with uranium!"
Please don't!

[espanolbot]

Well in Thunderbirds they had an atomic oven that cooked a turkey over exposed radioactive rods... which begs the question as to who in Internation Rescue could possibly have thought that was a good idea, I thought that they were all astronauts and stuff?

If something is radioactive enough to roast meat, you do not eat said meat afterwards!

[selke]

But they want to be mutants!

[randyripoff]

Hmm...this doesn't seem the slightest bit familiar to me...

[espanolbot]

Hm, I wonder who the robot is meant to represent...

[cypherfdp]

Man, the 50's was tripping when it came to the future.

[damianwayne]

Not necessarily. Had we not been derailed by massive waves of unwarranted self-importance and social phenomenon like the internet and the over-development of cellular technology, we may very well be living with anti-grav belts, robots and other Jetsons-y shit.

They were basing the leaps in advances from 1950 - 2000 as relative to the leaps from 1900 to 1950, so they weren't being unreasonable. Newer generations just sucked, starting with the hippies and never quite recovering.

[arilou_skiff]

Or you know, anti-gravity is a lot harder than they thought.

[zenbro]

I thought Arky and Biff had decided Jetta wasn't worth the trouble and were off for some covalent bonding. Also, faux-Grundy with the Princess Leia hair buns...who knew?

[selke]

That's cute! And I really want Jetta's dress. It's adorable.

[icon_uk]

Appropriate icon is appropriate. :)

[selke]

I couldn't resist. :)

[auggie18]

...I'm totally gonna start peppering my day-to-day lingo with crazy future talk. It is 2011, after all. And that's just goddamn cosmic.

[icon_uk]

Careful, go too far you end up like the Legion's Comet Queen, whose entire language appears to be derived from imagining Claremont overdosing on Heinlen; "Parse me to the C-Speed Bouncing Boy!"

Rich with retro-futuristic goodness!

[capt_satellite]

This is priceless! How did you find it, Spiffy?

Re: Rich with retro-futuristic goodness!

[his_spiffynesss]

I got the scans from the Digital Comics Museum

There were only three issues printed, and the site has two of them.

Re: Rich with retro-futuristic goodness!

[capt_satellite]

Just splendid! Thank you. This is right up my street.

Genetic Engineering

[capt_satellite]

Miss Gorgon is obviously the product of a gene splicing experiment to combine Miss Grundy with Leia Organia gone awry.

[riddler13]

So Gizmo owes him 5 bucks? Given the rate of inflation, adjusted and all, in 2052 it's equal to $2. For six months.

Protagonists are the center of the universe.

[sisterofbloomerjunior]

Holy crap, they'd deport only cheaters that are onstage, but neither inventors or extortionists.