Classic Cartoon & Movie Comic Covers!

[droosan]

Think 80s pac-man cartoon but with cars. "Charge!!!" Loved this on usa cartoon express.

I have never been a vehicles guy, so this was one of the very few H-B DVD sets that I have skipped.

Wheelie & The Chopper Bunch also played on 'Boomerang' quite a bit, in the 2000s & 2010s .. that's mostly where I know it from.

[Daniel]

Yep, which bring to mind these bumpers:

[Ben]

So this is basically Herbie: TAS, by way of the Cars universe? That’s the vibe I was getting even before seeing Droo's bumpers (haha…BUMPERS! Geddit!?) post above. Looks quite fun.

[gaastra]

[droosan]

Andy Panda .. and Miranda Panda .. and .. Charlie Chicken!

Charlie Chicken only appeared in two Andy Panda cartoons: Andy Panda's Victory Garden and Meatless Tuesday -- both released in 1943. I'm not sure his name is ever mentioned 'on-screen', in either cartoon .. but he was never seen again -- in animated form.

However, Dell started printing Andy Panda comic books at around that time .. and -- since Walter Lantz' stable of recurring cartoon characters was so small -- Charlie became elevated to the role of 'co-star' in Andy Panda's adventures!

Charlie Chicken was prominently featured alongside Andy Panda in comic books, throughout the 1940s & 50s .. he was basically the 'Goofy' to Andy's 'Mickey Mouse' .. which is somewhat appropriate, since Andy's character design seen here is the one revised for Lantz by Freddy Moore, in 1949 -- who had also refined Mickey's look at Disney, several years earlier.

Dell ceased publishing Andy Panda comic books in 1962 .. but brought the title back (in 'reprint' form) from 1973-1977. Around that time, new comic-book adventures featuring Andy Panda and Charlie Chicken began appearing in Mexico .. in spanish language only, natch.

By the mid-1980s, Charlie Chicken had graduated to solo stories, apart from Andy Panda. He even gained a pair of identical-twin nephews: Chic & Chuc!
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A couple of Dell's Andy Panda comics are available to read in full on The Big Blog of Kids' Comics.

[gaastra]

Isn't that cheating?

[gaastra]

Let's see them get away with that cover today.

[gaastra]

[Ben]

What's an Omic…?

[gaastra]

[Daniel]

No price on Cro, guess it was a freebie.

[gaastra]

[EricJ]

Ah, the short-lived Fraggle Rock comic (from when Marvel tried to spin off the "Star" line for their kiddy-cartoon licenses):
First two issues had original stories, and by the third issue, they were just lazily transcribing classic TV episodes...So much for What Stories Could Have Been.

[gaastra]

[Randall]

DC did Rainbow Brite?! Okay, that was news to me.