Sunday Funnies: From Newsprint to Comics!

[@aftacomics5865]

Great video! I keep my 1975-1979 New York Daily Sunday colors in Mylar and they're just important to me as my comics!

[@timetravelcomics]

I bet those are some nice Funny pages! Great to glance over your favorite comic strips and reminisce! Thank you for watching and stopping by. It's Sunday morning as I write this, so I have to check if my Sunday paper came!

[@billruppert5483]

Another fantastic video! I never thought of saving the newspaper funnies, what a great idea. I was going to say I wonder how many actually save them and there is Afta Comics saying he saved his, great. They sure have changed over the years, thanks for taking back through these times!

[@timetravelcomics]

Thank you Bill for stopping by and watching! The Sunday funnies offer a variety of strips and it is neat to re-visit them if you decide to collect a few. At first, I cut out and scrap booked a few strips then found saving the whole page was also fun! I don't have many newspapers but just the few that were sentimental to me! Thanks again for your comments Bill!

[@Woodwhittling66]

I love the Sunday Funnies! They were so awesome!

[@timetravelcomics]

They were like unwrapping a present every Sunday! The colors and characters! Thank you for watching!

[@Woodwhittling66]

@timetravelcomics I miss reading Calvin And Hobbes by my parents fireplace. Then again i also just miss Calvin And Hobbes.

[@timetravelcomics]

It was a joy reading Calvin and Hobbes and getting lost in the details and imagination in the panels. I used to order the treasury books in grade school. I miss it too. A great comic strip. Thank you for watching!

[@Rangersly]

Great episode Leo! I love seeing those vintage sunday pages! Never seen or even heard of Dell's Super Comics, so thanks for showing them! Vintage sundays and dailies are very collectible and can cost quite a lot, so hold on to those. I think the 1995 sundays you showed had the Terry and the Pirates sequences drawn by the famous fantasy painters Greg and Tim Hildebrandt! Too bad these were never collected in a TPB collection. * * * Comic strips are such an important aspect of popular culture. Not only did they gave birth to the comic book, but they created the whole storytelling techniques we take for granted today. * * * Until the 60's, the ultimate goal of any comic book artist was to graduate to a comic strip and many of them would get their start (such as Neal Adams on Ben Casey) as assistants or ''ghost'' on comic strips, or would drop comics to get a chance at doing a syndicated comic strip such as Will Eisner when he created The Spirit. Until the 60's, comic book art was considered the lowest point an artist could earn a living. Many were ashame of saying that their job was in comic books. On the other hand, comic strip creators were considered legitimate stars! They were invited to talk shows, would be featured in newspaper and magazine articles, and earned a very good living, especially when the lucrative merchandising money came in. Their creations were adapted into very popular radio shows, movie serials, film features, animated cartoons... And comic strips reached a far more wider public than comic books. Dou you have any favorites Leo?

[@timetravelcomics]

Ranger Sly! It is always great to hear your insights and knowledge! It is fascinating to note that comic strip artists were considered celebrities, whereas the comic book artist at the time was not so much. The days of studio artists feverishly working at wooden desks as "ghosts" artists without much credit was a unique time in history. I have many favorite comic strips, of particular note, is Peanuts because my mother would share her 1960s 'Snoopy' paperback books with me when I was "good" by Fawcett. She would keep them in a special place out of our view as my brother and I were kids. It was the earliest "comic book" that I was exposed to. Calvin & Hobbes was another favorite of mine. I would order them off school book club lists whenever I could- the first items I ever saved up money to buy. I wrote letters and created bookmarks and mailed them to the strip's artist Bill Watterson suggesting that he can create merchandise and toys (like the Peanuts had). I did get a response from his publisher and that was a treat. I'll have to make a video of that! The Far Side, Garfield, and Blondie were my next favorites! Lots of fun racing to read them all every Sunday! I hope that you are doing well Ranger and I thank you for stopping by!

[@Rangersly]

@@timetravelcomics Peanuts is my favorite as well. I think we are in a pretty huge club in that regard. I have always had a soft spot for Hagar the Horrible too. The unique art style and clean line of Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy is another favorite. Mandrake is the earliest adventure strip I discoverd as a kid and still like to read to this day. EC Segar's Popeye collections and of many of the older strip are on my bookshelves. They are in class on their own.

[@timetravelcomics]

@@Rangersly Very nice! My brother had an affinity for Nancy and Sluggo! I always enjoy Popeye and have a few from King Syndicate and Charlton comics! George Wildman took over a lot of Popeye for Charlton comics.

[@anthonyperdue3557]

🤗😋🍧Sundae Fun Knees! The optical and emotional senses being treated while the knees move up and down with overjoyed satisfaction! Comic strips , comic strips my #1 reading pleasure since childhood! My parents subscribed to one paper , my maternal grandparents to another and my paternal grandparents to yet another! Dailies and Sundays ! Four panel and single panel strips ( which on Sunday would either have a montage of single panels or an entire page like Our Boarding House and Out Our Way ) ! Have Sunday and dailies mostly mid 60s- early 1970s , some late 40s - mid 50s. Books that are either collections of strips or histories on strips , magazines , paperbacks , anything devoted to comic strips I try to acquire. I read comic sections on a digital newspaper site on a regular basis. The two strips that started my interest were.Li'l Abner ( my #1 favorite) and Dick Tracy. Anything related to comic strips always caught my attention : movies , radio shows , plays , documentaries , articles , advertisements... At comic cons any vendor selling comic strips had my business. You forgot to include Mutt and Jeff (1907-present) in that list of longest running strips. Super Comics was obviously associated with the Chicago Tribune since all of the strips featured where syndicated property of theirs. Experimentation in storylines became noticeable in certain strips during the 1950s. 🤗comic strips, 🤗comic strips... ! I would go with my Dad and Uncle Manny to the racetrack just so I could collect the comic sections from the different newspapers that were sold there and that people left lying around. The discovery of a comic strip I never knew of or had only seen reprinted was 🌋💥 to my senses!

[@timetravelcomics]

Thank you for stopping by Anthony and for also sharing your great memories with the Sundae Fun Knees (clever, I see what you did there!) I can't believe I forgot Mutt & Jeff. I have a few of their DC books but my mother would always my brother and I Mutt & Jeff when we got into trouble! I will have to see if comic strips are still sold at visiting comic cons. The artwork and layout to me is fantastic! Thank you again for watching and for your comments always!

[@michaelsergejhelgesson1637]

14:30 A Patrol Torpedo boat, just like the one JFK served on as a Lieutenant the year before, when it was rammed by a japanese destroyer!

[@timetravelcomics]

Oh! That is interesting Michael! Have to give it another read!

[@Fredhalldirectedition]

Really nice old school the pages are not that yellow so you can tell that they're old-school comics

[@timetravelcomics]

Thank you for stopping by Fred Hall Direct Edition! It's a fun viewing syndicated comic strips and the comic books that they eventually found their ways into! Welcome to the channel!

[@captainstrangelife]

Hey! What’s Dick Tracy doing with Alfred the butler?!

[@timetravelcomics]

Honestly Dick Tracy and Batman were similar is a few ways! Maybe Alfred Pennyworth just got confused and went to work with the wrong hero! Thank you for stopping by and watching!

[@captainstrangelife]

@@timetravelcomics It was a interesting seeing the very notable deterioration (in my opinion) of the art styles from the 50’s, 60’s great strips to the horrible art and scripting beginning the decline in the late 1960’s and culminating in the trash (in my opinion) of the 90’s to present days. Damn “funnies” just ain’t funny anymore. This was a very good video showing that noticeable difference.👍

[@timetravelcomics]

@@captainstrangelife The artwork and cinematic picture angles were in their prime in the 1930s through 1950s. The attention to detail and the quality made the funnies a true work of art! (And collector worthy) I just read my Sunday paper and it is amazing to see how simply drawn a lot of the comics are now- lacking the cartoony looks and gesturing that makes comics fun!