Thanks to Jeff O'Hare, a Patron of this Blog, for suggesting this meeting between Bob Kane creations. Cool McCool didn't quite hit the heights of the Dark Knight Detective. Perhaps if Kane had asked Bill Finger to flesh out the concept, things could have gone differently.
Triple header with Courageous Cat (#3818) as already added to the mix. Dick Sprang has a strong style as well. Pure fun cover.
ReplyDeleteNow, as far as suggestions go...
would you consider She-Hulk and Harley Quinn? The defense lawyer and the shrink.
They wouldn't even need to go to the roller rink.
WoW! Thanks so much for bringing these two together, and for naming me as a co-conspirator! As always, a great cover!
ReplyDeleteFor some reason, this made me suddenly think of those characters who were the support for the Dick Tracy animated series. Guys(?) like Hemlock Holmes and the assortment of culturally insensitives.
Funny that you mentioned Kane and Bill Finger. The jpg below was featured recently on Calvins Cave Of Cool Blog. You probably have to paste it in but it's an interesting/humorous take on Kane and Finger.
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Thanks again.
Here's a wild pairing. Buffy and The Watcher. Since she had a group looking out for her called "The Watchers", it only makes (a twisted kind of) sense that "The Big" Watcher would take an interest in her.
ReplyDeleteNow THAT'S a team-up I would love to see!
ReplyDeleteI vaguely remember that cartoon series! It came on after the Secret Squirrel/Atom Ant Show (11AM-12PM) circa 1967. Which, I guess, technically made it an early Saturday afternoon show! But, to me, Saturday morning lasted right up till the last cartoon show signed off for the weekend. Obliging me to reluctantly turn over custody of the TV room to my folks!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the nostalgia, Ross and Jeff. :-)
This is my first exposure to Cool McCool. Hopefully, this won't be his last time on this blog; I could see him being paired with his cyborg successor-in-spirit, Inspector Gadget. You could also pair him with Astro City's Jack in the Box, to battle the latter's near-namesake McCool villain (probably with a certain fast food restaurant's mascot in the frame as well).
ReplyDelete@Bob: if I recall correctly, he was supposed to be a send-up of Maxwell Smart(a spoof of a spoof???). Albeit, drawn to look like David Niven!
ReplyDeleteBut, yeah, I agree. If Ross could team him up with Inspector Gadget, Agent Tom of T.H.U.M.B. and Inch High, Private Eye, we'd have a whole new version of the Trenchcoat Brigade! It would especially be fitting with Gadget and Agent Tom, seeing as they both contended with subversive organizations acronymically known as M.A.D.
@bigjeffoh: So it was Finger who came up with Robin? That's actually kind of ironic given the controversy surrounding the whole concept of the "kid sidekick". In fact, Stan Lee created Spider-Man partly out of distaste for that trope.
ReplyDeleteBTW In case anyone's wondering, I've been coming to this blog long enough to know that Ross doesn't really observe Valentine's Day.
Well, let's face it. Valentine's Day is just a candy company conspiracy! The total opposite of Halloween, of course. ;-)
ReplyDelete@Carycomic. Cool may have been meant as a riff on Maxwell Smart, but he sounded like Jack Benny.
ReplyDelete"Now, cut that out!"
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Wow, Ross! You've successfully captured three different styles of animation, here. Cool McCool from King Features/Artransa. The Filmation version of the Penguin (from the 1968 Saturday morning show with Superman and Batman). And the Kane/Finger-style of Batman from the opening credits of the live-action ABC series that starred Adam West in the title role!
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