At first, he had no superpowers but soon donned a special bullet-proof suit and gained super-strength by ingesting "Vitamin 2X". Unsatisfied with what he could accomplish with the restrictions of the police force, Garret begins fighting crime as the Blue Beetle. Rookie patrolman Dan Garret's father, also a cop, had been gunned down by crooks.
#Expression see you in the funny pages serial#
The Blue Beetle first appeared in Mystery Men Comics #1 in August 1939, heard on CBS radio serial from May to September 1940. Except for a one-off audition program that uses the Batman characters but little of the characteristics, Batman and Robin on the radio were relegated to supporting roles on The Adventures of Superman.
#Expression see you in the funny pages series#
The Batman TV series of the 1960s is considered a classic for its campy tone (although comic fans argue that the TV Batman had nothing to do with their hero). Easily one of the most recognizable of Costumed Superheroes, Batman never had the success on the radio that he enjoyed in other media.
The show lasted on radio until 1953, but in the comics, Archie is still the likable red-headed 17-year-old he has always been.īatman was Detective Comics' answer to the success of Superman in Action Comics. Like many shows at the time, the program was performed in front of a live audience, but with its Teen Appeal, those audiences could become a bit boisterous at times. Archie and his gang came to the NBC Blue network in 1943. Archie was a typical small-town kid, hanging out with his best friend Jughead Jones, attending Riverdale High School, dating cute girl-next-door Betty Cooper and wealthy Veronica Lodge, working on his Jalopy (kept together with whatever parts he could find), and trying to keep ahead of his rival Reggie Mantle. Bob Montana created Archie Andrews, who first appeared in Pep Comics #22.
Here are some more Old Time Radio favorites which began as Sequentially Illustrated Stories:Īrchie Andrews first appears in PEP Comics #22 in December 1941, Archie #1 has a cover date of Winter 1942, the Archie Andrews radio program debuted on the Blue Network on May 31, 1943. The pair thought they could do a better program if they drew on their experience in Vaudeville blackface performance, and the show eventually became Amos 'n' Andy. An executive at WGN, the radio station owned by the newspaper, guessed there was potential in developing a radio serial based on the strip, and presented the idea to a pair of station regulars, Charles Correll and Freeman Gosden. In 1925 The Chicago Tribune had a very popular comic strip, The Gumps. Comics continue to be perceived as "kid's stuff" even though some of the most profitable cinema franchises of all time, the Marvel Universe Movies, come almost directly from the comic book pages. The term "comic book" is derived from their "funny page" origin the funnies were created to attract kids to enjoy newspapers with their parents (although many grown-ups enjoyed the funny pages as well). Famous Funnies hit the newsstands in 1933 and created an industry. The earliest Comic Books were reprints of funny page strips, collected and bound in pulp magazines. The Dailies are usually shorter and printed in black and white, while the Sundays are longer pieces and usually colorized. Newspaper strips are divided into Daily and Sunday strips. In 1895 Joseph Pulitzer's New York World began to publish "Hogan's Alley." In 1897 "The Katzenjammer Kids" appeared in a Sunday Supplement to Hearst's New York Journal. By the late 19th century, comic strips began to appear in American newspapers. During the Middle Ages Biblia Pauperum, Pauper's Bibles were published with Bible stories in illustrated form. The art of telling stories through a series of pictures goes back further than the Egyptian Hieroglyphics, all the way back to Cave Wall Paintings.
Sequential Illustration is a storytelling method that dates back to Stone-Age Cave Wall Paintings, but the Comics inspired many Old Time Radio Favorites.
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