Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Comic Books: Huckleberry Hound Weekly
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Another great item lent to us to digitize by Kent Butterworth... This time it's a British newsstand comic from March 28th, 1964 featuring the Hanna-Barbera Characters...
The interesting thing about this piece isn't so much the quality of the artwork... it's pretty generic... it's the quantity of it. I eliminated a few pages of puzzles, games and stories, but the majority of the sheets are devoted to large, full-page comic stories. You would never see such a generous collection of comics in a publication that sells for as little as this today. But there is wisdom behind the generosity... The best way to get kids to watch the Huckleberry Hound Show (and buy Kelloggs cereal) is to engage them with the characters and situations. What better way to do that than a loss-leader newsstand comic?
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Stephen Worth
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2 Comments:
This comic wouldn't have been a loss leader; as someone who read British comics in 1964, I'd say that sixpence ("6d" as it says on the cover) was the going price for a comic of that nature.
David A Simpson
those were the days.
I would have been eight.
and as David says, that's what they cost back then. When i started buying American comics a couple of years later for ten pence, that seemed like an awful lot of money to part with but we justified it because we were getting twenty pages of full colour instead of just the front and back, and in the case at hand, a middle page spread also (the Yogi Bear).
The British comic was always called a 'comic paper', and we folded it in the middle like dad's paper. It owed something to the Sunday funnies tradition I guess, coming out always once a week, usually in the middle of the week (but with Saturday's date?)
On first look the American comic books were a strange thing, only coming out once a month. that was a long wait for a kid used to the weekly serve.
In fact, the American thing was completely alien to us, which really was part of its attraction.
Eddie
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