Friday, February 9, 2018

Jonah Hex and Quick Draw McGraw



When I was a kid, I loved to get up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons, and liked all of the Hanna-Barbera characters.  Disney was not represented in the mornings and while I loved Warner Bros. Looney Toons, they seemed to show the same episodes over and over - but H-B seemed to have a lot of different shows to offer, from Super-heroic Action to Funny Animals.  Every once in a while I will watch an old episode on YouTube and it brings me right back to those days.

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  1. Did Quick Draw take time off Quick Draw McGraw & Hill Publishing co.? LOLXD

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  2. Mi dinero es en Queekstraw!
    ---Baba Louie

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  3. I was going to say this one seems a little too silly. But in light of DC's all-too-real (and downright awful) Suicide Squad-Banana Splits crossover, it doesn't seem all that bad by comparison... :)

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  4. John Small said...
    "I was going to say this one seems a little too silly. But in light of DC's all-too-real (and downright awful) Suicide Squad-Banana Splits crossover"

    Well, I think that DC's Jonah Hex-Yosemite Sam crossover (also featuring Foghorn Leghorn!) worked quite well...

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    1. “I’ll do the thinnin’ around here, and don’t you forget it!” The less said about the Banana Split/SS crossover, the better...

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  5. In the past 4 to 5 years that I've been doing my spreadsheets on these covers, this is the strangest covers I've ever seen.

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  6. Simreeve: it's a pity the same can't be said for the Top Cat/Catwoman pairing.

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  7. Somebody somewhere asked if the Black Panther had met his Pink cousin. I thought, I should pass that team-up idea along to SuperTeam Family, but, then, I reconsidered. You've pulled off some wacky team-ups, but the Panthers would be too silly. Then I saw Hex-El Kabong… :D

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  8. Another inspired pairing, Ross!

    But... Suicide Squad & Banana Splits? Jonah Hex & Yosemite Sam? Top Cat & Catwoman? These were real comics? Now I feel better about my decision to stop buying new comics in 2002.

    On the other hand, Top Cat and Catwoman sounds interesting...

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  9. @Mindful Webworker: Nope! That's Quick-draw McGraw in his public identity. El Kabong is his _secret_ identity.*

    *And Ross is probably saving the latter for a team-up with Zorro!

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  10. Hopefully a cameo from EL KABONG!:D

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  11. That's like those cop-show suspects who go:

    "I refuse to dignify that remark with a response."

    Makes me wish I could noogie their noggins and shout:

    "Hello! That, in itself, IS a response!"

    My point (intended to be 49% polite/51% firm) is that, if you truly wanted less said about "SS meet BS," you should have somehow restrained _yourself_ from mentioning them!

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  12. The first issue of Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles features a walk-on by Quick Draw -- unfortunately, as a cop on the take.

    He doesn't show up in #2, but we get a slightly more realistic Squiddly Diddly.

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  13. The Silver Fox said...
    "But... Suicide Squad & Banana Splits? Jonah Hex & Yosemite Sam? Top Cat & Catwoman? These were real comics? Now I feel better about my decision to stop buying new comics in 2002.

    On the other hand, Top Cat and Catwoman sounds interesting..."

    Top Cat/Catwoman was a relatively short 'second feature' in a comic mainly focused on another team-up. TC had accidentally found his way across the multiverse to Gotham, and was still there at the end of the incident... which it was hinted would lead into a series of his own.
    There were also somewhat amusing Batman/Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny/LSH team-ups. (Road-Runner/Lobo wasn't as good, in my opinion...) My own favourite out of the batch, though, was Wonder Woman/Tasmanian Devil which re-cast Taz as being a mythological monster: That worked REALLY well.

    ^_^

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  14. I absolutely hated the Elmer Fudd/Batman book. I get that he's famous for his speech impediment but after the second page of internal monologue with it I got fed up and skimmed the rest of the issue.

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  15. I see nobody else has mentioned the Space Ghost / Green Lantern book. Which is probably just as well, as it was incredibly medicore. But the back-up story with Ruff & Ready as out of work stand-up comedians was even worse than their old cartoons, which I didn't think was possible.

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  16. Bringing it back to Quick Draw, he teamed up with Scooby and the gang already: https://www.comics.org/issue/1676263/cover/4/

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  17. Jonah Hex has been sent to some weirder places telling you type of life has had.

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  18. Hex could always meet the Jetsons in the future.

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  19. Mike Shirley said...
    "I absolutely hated the Elmer Fudd/Batman book. I get that he's famous for his speech impediment but after the second page of internal monologue with it I got fed up"

    That did get a bit much, I agree, but there were times..
    "Be vewy, vewy, quite: We're hunting biwionaires."

    ^_^

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  20. Note to Jonah; don't worry when McGraw reaches for his gun. Worry when he reaches for his guitar.

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