Why Would They Name this Comic Dick Cole?

[@OtakuD50]

Dick Cole is a reliable fella. You can always count on him to come, no matter how hard it gets.

[@AxeGaijin]

It is rumoured that sometimes he even arrives too early, but I've been told that happens to the best of us....

[@rojaws1183]

He is usually a big softie.

[@alfan0079]

i see what you did there

[@bfdidc6604]

@@rojaws1183 But don't piss him off!

[@rojaws1183]

@@bfdidc6604 Yeah he can be a straight hard guy if he need to.

[@spectacularlysentimental]

"But after reading all 151 Dick Cole comics..." WHAT THE HECK? The amount of dedication to your videos are insane. Hope this does well!

[@ComicTropes]

Most of the stories were only 8 to 10 pages.

[@Enigmanaut]

@@ComicTropes So, 1200 to 1500 pages? Selling yourself short...

[@facespaz]

@@ComicTropes That's still an abnormal amount of Dick Cole

[@ridhosamudro2199]

That's a lot of Dick!

[@wellesradio]

@@Enigmanaut All in all, about 4-6 hours of reading.

[@MariaVosa]

Chris: The name was a deliberate innuendo Me: I'm not sure, what about Dick Grays... Chris: He had a brother named Rod Me: ... Ok, you're right.

[@a.champagne6238]

Dick grazing?

[@scriptmonkeys71]

I was saddened when you didn’t read the Professor’s dialogue bubble because it had to be the funniest one: “No one would believe me- no one would give me a chance to prove my theories. But now we’ll show ‘em, Dick!” Sage advice in any era.

[@thattinawoman5119]

Every time I think about the panel with the tiny muscular baby posing under the heat lamp wearing sunglasses/goggles repeating "I am Dick Cole"...straight up giggles every time.

[@JonathanFournier]

A baby lounging in gamma rays and saying "My name is Dick Cole" may be my new favorite comic panel of all time.

[@JonathanFournier]

May have spoke too soon. Just got to the panel with the poor sea turtle.

[@trevorghalt1881]

Dick Cole looks like he got balls of steel and I feel like he would make a great seaman

[@GleeChan]

I have to admit, I didn't think I'd see a video about Dick Cole coming. Thank you Chris for cranking these out. You're hard work really is a pleasure.

[@TheDing1701]

🤣🤣

[@Jezee213]

haha! ok, that got me, nicely done.

[@michaelwalsh9616]

Fun fact about novelty: they made the blue bolt to be their big title ala superman. However the character didn't garner much attention, where as Cole who was published in side stories became more popular. Rather than immediately making a separate magazine for Cole, Novelty kept futily promoting BB, going so far as eliminating his fantastical origin and making him MORE like Dick Cole. By the time they did concied to giving Col his own title, the company was already falling under and the character had lost his initial popularity

[@TheEndKing]

Now that's some Vince McMahon thinking.

[@leress]

Comic Tropes did a video pretty recently about Blue Bolt.

[@michaelwalsh9616]

@@leress I learned about it from Austin McConnell who made a video about the blue bolt

[@leress]

@@michaelwalsh9616 Yeah, I got them confused I also watched that video from Austin. That was the video I was talking about.

[@cha5]

Blue Bolt’s glory days were during the earliest Simon & Kirby run IMHO, after they left that comic he was pretty much redundant.

[@Jackferrett6781]

Richard Head

[@dante_0962]

Richard Diamond.

[@Electric-vo9zv]

Mike Hunt

[@ragnadrabinowitz7629]

jack mehoffer

[@paulheap1982]

A company I used to work for had an area manager named Richard Cheese.

[@dc9662]

Headmaster Richard de Balzac

[@alejoparedes2388]

"Our editors keep objectionable material out of this publication."

[@catsofsherman1316]

Why did Marvel publish a comic called "Giant Size Man Thing"?

[@legoarkhamiteproductions4869]

I think that was intentional. If I’m not mistaken Steve Gerber created that title, and he loved jokes like that, particularly in Howard The Duck. The title I think was initially in reference to Marvel’s Giant Size issues, basically the equivalent of DC’s 80 Page Giants, but the innuendo probably made him want to use the title more.

[@ComicPower]

I guess calling him Harry Balls would have been too much.

[@princecharon]

I wonder if a modern innuendo-laden Dick Cole comic would be able to take off.

[@tommylakindasorta3068]

You might say it would face some ... stiff competition.

[@alchemistofsteel8099]

It could be like Venture bros

[@Clay3613]

Campy Gay military men?

[@benw9949]

He got his expert marksmanship award. they said he was a straight shooter. Well...possibly in one sense but not the other? Anyway, he had great aim.

[@Chairmangoodchild]

I certainly hope Dick will rise again!

[@aikisteven0616]

Wow, I'm going to have to find some of these Dick Cole stories. I never thought I'd be so interested in Dick, but I can honestly say I'd like to grab as much Dick Cole as I can get my hands on! Yes, from this moment on, I'm a big fan of Dick!

[@enzovulkoor]

That comic just kept dad jokes going, in one, long, incredibly unbroken arc. Moving from innuendo to innuendo.

[@archmagefrey]

It was really quite hypnotic.

[@shavedape6679]

The first duty of every comic tropes video is to the truth, whether it's scientific truth or historical truth or personal truth

[@patricktilton5377]

So, did Dick Cole ever wrestle with the One-Eyed Wonder Worm?

[@Shamax0]

Just opened the video, but wanted to leave comment so I don't forget to do so later! Thanks for everything you do Chris, I've been watching for a while, and you definitely got me back into reading comics Wish you all the best man!

[@monoinyo]

I'm giving a like before I even watch because chris don't miss

[@Rob_Gibson]

I needed to start my week with something silly. Superhero timing as always, Chris. Thank you!

[@WanArk86]

I first thought that "Why does his named Dick but he's not a detective" until Rod was mention then I was like "Ahhh... Yeah that was intentional" Made me think that was one of the reason why it was much more popular then the Blue Bolt.

[@jameshowlettii761]

@@simonbrehm358 🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀💀👌

[@BadMovieRealm]

I am very impressed by the restraint shown in this video in regards to not throwing in a ton of extra "Dick Cole" jokes and innuendo. I would not have been able to resist that low-hanging fruit.

[@TCMcBiscuits]

My favourite Dick Cole story is the one where he rescues his girlfriend Amy Atus from a one-eyed monster.

[@albaniahenry-franklin2829]

Let us not forget there was also a syndicated radio program that starred our intrepid hero made in the mid 1940s! At least one episode is here on KZbin😉

[@randomnerdery6511]

These golden age deep dives are literally the best!

[@tinstrings6312]

See Dick Cole vault to the tip of his majestic pole! See Dick Cole doing his own sounding on the white water rapids! See Dick Cole dock his vessle with Carrot's dinghy! GET IT?!

[@graphosxp]

Dick Cole was also a real dude! this comic character was *not* based upon him though. "Richard Eugene Cole (September 7, 1915 - April 9, 2019) was a United States Air Force colonel. During World War II, he was one of the airmen who took part in the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, Japan, on April 18, 1942. He served as the co-pilot to Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle in the lead airplane of the raid by sixteen B-25 bombers, which for the first time took off from an aircraft carrier on a bombing mission."

[@tommylakindasorta3068]

To the people claiming it was all innocent and we just have our minds in the gutter, I defy you to explain the panel at 6:26 that reads: Bongo ties Dick to the ducking stool with leather thongs taken from an exhibit. "I'm gonna dunk you, woodenhead, until you're waterlogged ... O-oh! Somebody's comin'!"

[@Ninjabread01]

This is the first new Comic Tropes video I've watched, so glad the intro got a facelift. Love the channel!

[@kennysp666]

No comment to the note "Our editors keep objectionable material out of this publication."?

[@ComicTropes]

I figured if I simply included it, plenty of folks like yourself would notice.

[@SoulStarSketchin]

There was more Dick in this episode than anything else and I managed to sit through it without laughing too much. I've seen this comic a long time ago somewhere at a comic shop but had no clue what in the world it was but the name was still laugh out loud funny and glad to see the creators were definitely in on the joke. Those times were wild man.

[@AshMashDashSplash]

These types of videos are my favourite, always really enjoy the humour

[@profjeff9]

Great video. Hope you're doing okay. I remember you mentioned health issues earlier.

[@bengordon2330]

Thanks!

[@stephenmumford9995]

I also enjoyed reading The Adventures of Mike Hunt.

[@nobel11]

And who can forget when they had that epic crossover with Mike Ox?

[@tommylakindasorta3068]

@@nobel11 And the time he went up against Jack Mehoff.

[@deliusmyth5063]

And his brother Isaac.

[@kanna-san.]

​@@deliusmyth5063and their sister Yora.

[@In.New.York.I.Milly.Rock.]

Yay, more golden age!!! My favorite content you make, Chris!

[@sunilsdesigns1232]

Always enjoy watching your content, Chris, your channel is my favourite one for comics by far! Thanks for sharing your content, all the best!

[@johnjohnson8575]

I had a teacher whose name was surnames was pronounced the same as "pretty". And his first name was Richard. I alway laughed at him being Dick Pretty or Pretty, Dick.

[@RickReasonnz]

Oh, that reminds me on when in school we had a Roll of Honour read out every year during our memorial day.. "Brown, I" says the headmaster, and the immature young kids would crack up giggling every damn time.

[@kaboombox1581]

Missed opportunity to have his rival/arch nemesis be named Mike Hunt.

[@danieldickholtz6405]

Given my own last name, I was a little wary of where this video was going to go. However, I was pleasantly surprised and really enjoyed hearing about all those weird and wonderful adventures!

[@KevinSorbo.]

Daniel dick holes is an epic name. Flex that shit

[@philliphessel6788]

This research seems to counter Jeff Rovin’s old hypothesis that the height of Golden Age double entendres was the meeting of the Red Torpedo and Queen Klitra.

[@joedent3323]

" Dick Cole Vs. Fish Stix Vs. Fact Hunt "... now there is a slobber-knocker (arf) for the Ages. Fun video Chris. I like these light ones :) Cheers! JpD.

[@skarloey1214]

Before the video i got a survey about which store i would consider buying from and one of them was Dick's Sporting Goods

[@tommylakindasorta3068]

Wouldn't it be interesting if Dick's merged with Kohl's?

[@johnmitchelljr]

Thanks for the golden age comics series.

[@Keihzaru]

Why WOULDN'T you call your comic Dick Cole if you had the chance?

[@pattongilbert]

I actually already knew about Dick Cole! Austin McConnell made a video about Blue Bolt in his process of making a copyright-free superhero universe; he mentioned Dick Cole while telling the story.😊

[@jasonreid4220]

Kind of surreal. I'm sitting hear watching this @ work and had to pause and go back when Chris mentioned the Saturday Evening Post and Novelty Press being a subsidiary of Curtis Publishing. My job is in the Curtis Building, which I never expected to be tangentially referenced in a comic tropes video. Ha!

[@facespaz]

Holy innuendo Batman! Great job as always!

[@corrosivecabal]

All this modern-day "gay-panick" with children when meanwhile in the 1940's...

[@-Teague-]

The more things change the more things stay the same 😂

[@corrosivecabal]

@@-Teague- the joke is that they had more of a reason to suspect that was the case in the 40s, which makes it all the more obvious that people are just being intolerant bigoted liars today.

[@martincann5052]

Remember: Dick Cole be strokin', not smokin,.

[@TheZooropaBaby]

I like that compared to other Golden Age characters, this one doesnt seem that bad, at least it's got variety in stories etc

[@jabezcreed]

You're the most awesome comic KZbin host, Chris. Videos like this prove it with your selection of topics.

[@jabezcreed]

Most commentators wouldn't touch a character like Dick Cole, but I think it's safe to say Dick Cole will be long remembered thanks to your work.

[@SargentGrey]

Awesome video 🙂 Thank you. And I love the music intro/outro! Your content makes me feel good about comics again!

[@pious83]

This sounds like a character Grant Morrison or Alan Moore would have a field day with.

[@jonothanthrace1530]

Sadly, after WWII, his fortunes took a turn for the worse and he took up organized crime under the name Big Dix.

[@skarloey1214]

Until he was beating by blue beetle

[@Acrocanthosaurus]

Loved and studied comic books since the 70s and I've never even thought Dick Cole sounded like Dick Hole.

[@termsofusepolice]

Imagine being a comic book kid back in the day and going from your favorite character, Dick Cole, defeating a rampaging dinosaur one month while the next month's story just has him winning the school track meet. I don't think I would have stayed on that roller-coaster.

[@D_Fyre]

I had the same thought lol

[@CthulhusDream]

Oh man, I haven't thought of Strokin' in years 🤣🤣🤣 thank you for reminding me

[@davidmcmahon4633]

You should review Crimebuster from Boy Comics. His costume is basically his school hockey uniform. I found many of the stories to be very entertaining.

[@Oddlogical]

Haha, this was wild! I've never heard of this character, but that's what I appreciate about your videos - they can bring such things to my attention!

[@jasonbeatty831]

Do a feature on Holden and Sharon Cox next!

[@matthewhood7844]

Another fun golden age examination. You switching places with your puppet kinda freaked me out.

[@LorenzoVargas1981]

Man these Golden Age comics had a thing with these names,Dick Cole,Big Dix,Dick Tracy 😂lol

[@Aran_MD]

I can imagine the people making this comic, snickering all the time.

[@OomaGooma]

Videos like these are why I LOVE this channel. Never change, Chris.

[@reytorcaza2770]

Greetings from Cali Colombia My friend,keep the great work!!

[@richardcoleman3425]

Thank you for this, Chris! I'd never heard of this character, but he sounds hilarious! There'll be someone out there who is no doubt offended by this comic, by as a Gay man myself, I love both the comedy and the history. Brilliant! Thank you, my Dude. ;)

[@lizardguyNA]

This seems like a character that'd star in an Adult Swim show.

[@ShowdeQuetzal]

Nowdays you have to pray for your favorite hero to get a 4 issue mini, but Dick Cole got 151 comics

[@ROMANTIKILLER2]

One day I would love to see some work gathering together all those wacky Golden Age characters, especially since most of them are now public domain.

[@jonathand.t.5051]

Austin McConnell is trying to do just that lmao

[@LukeST83]

All of the double entendre aside, the funniest part for me was his rowing team getting mad at him when his oar broke. It wasn't his fault!

[@Bicornis]

It's kind of amusing how characters depicted running look more like they're flying just a little above the ground.

[@Vegitodraws]

Richard Rider. That's my response. If you don't get the joke, remember Nightwing

[@XcmShow]

I love golden age characters so much

[@mizukarate]

I created a new character. The great grandson of Dick Cole.......Dick Cole the Third. This way we can have a variety of Dick Cole's.😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@futurestoryteller]

When people say "It was a more innocent time" they always mean "We had plausible deniability"

[@stanwright4110]

"Dick Cole was ahead of the curve on that one." I see what you did there.

[@nobel11]

Thank you for this deep dive into Dick Cole.

[@tommylakindasorta3068]

This is already turning into one of the most entertaining comment sections in a long time. Thanks, Dick Cole!

[@mbp7060]

His friends called him Dick, everyone else called him Richard.

[@slinktan]

This was a ri-DICK-ulous episode! Bwa Ha Haa!

[@belgiumcomics2537]

This character needs a revival. It would be a great comedy. Edit: Does annyone knows if Dick Colle is public domain?

[@nickdirienzo2849]

Classic Comic Tropes humor! Great episode!😂

[@MrIamestranged]

I have been trying to catch up on your videos, and if you haven't talked about it already, I hope your feeling alot better and getting the best treatment buddy

[@supernova1969]

Very nice! Did you do any videos on KULL? Or GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY? Thanks a million from Iraq

[@wayneashford5697]

.... you have just got to be kidding me. "$3xual innuendos" aside...this is one of the funniest episodes you've done yet. Thank you for helping make my (1st day) at work a lot easier to get done...😅😅😅!!!

[@ComicDrake]

Oh wild! I just watched a video about Blue Bolt not that long ago.

[@vasp99]

This must be one of those gateway videos because now I'm really into Dick. Dick Cole to be precise .

[@deathby1kslimes945]

Dick Cole and Rod versus the Goons in: the Powerful Stroking Race

[@Sammmmmmmm617]

I find it hilarious how L.B. Cole bought the rights to Dick Cole 😂

[@ArispeMatt]

When I saw the title of this video, I assumed that it was because Richard Cole was his father, thank you very much.

[@ehanneken]

The usage of “Dick” as a nickname for Richard is older than its slang use. Are you sure you’re not seeing innuendo where none was intended?

[@ALIEN-DUDE]

His brothers name is rod

[@ehanneken]

@@ALIEN-DUDE According to the Social Security Administration’s baby name data, “Rodney,” “Roderick,” and even “Rod” were more popular male names in the 1940s than they are today.

[@themoviemaniac8416]

Hahaha, often innuendo is always there when you're really LOOKING for it. Sometimes finding it says more about you than about what you looking at.😄

[@wattsbelco2308]

Many coxswains used to have such megaphones strapped to their heads, because both hands were used to steer via cable. Electric mike and speakers are now more common.

[@mauriciomusso96]

Loving these editions

[@mikejones2681]

I know it’s hard for people younger than 60 to believe this, but this was probably genuinely all innocent. There were all kinds of characters with that name at the time, including Dick Tracy. And the word queer was always used to explain strange things. The term gay did not mean what it does today for a couple more decades. It’s hard to explain, but there was sort of a “ double mindedness” about such terms. While the crude interpretation did exist, in edited popular culture it was assumed to be innocent, because “surely they would never use that term if it wasn’t!“. You just had to be there. You’re looking at this through the lens of modern culture. But I thank you for the video.

[@grantbaugh2773]

Clearly he should be called "innuendo man"

[@will_sketch]

When you think you're so mature but a KZbin video about Dick Cole makes you laugh to tears. 🤦‍♂🤣🤣🤣

[@double0gold82]

This feels like a precursor to The Ambiguosly Gay Duo, from SNL.

[@dreadnok9195]

I love your videos on obscure Golden age comics.

[@robvangessel3766]

I think I spotted a dangling participle in there.