A Pop Culture Miscellany

These articles appear off-site, at E2, and represent some of my writing on pop culture.

The Banana Splits Batwoman Beaver Buzz Black Alice The Black Cat Bozo the Clown Slam Bradley Before there was Batman.... Brady: The Brady Kids: Brady Toons! The Brady Bunch Hour: A Very Brady Low Geri Reischl: The Tale of the Fake Jan Brady Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft UFOlogy, Messianism, and Pop Music Cat-man Charlie Chan Corner Gas Danger Island Degrassi: Series Overview Ed the Sock Elmer the Safety Elephant The Flintstones Irving Forbush The Forest Rangers Classic Canuck Culture! G.I. Joe The Original Action Figure: From Simple Soldier to Superhero Gold Key A History of the Comic Company Granny Idiotcoms Jethro's Beverly Hillbillies Mansion and Casino By the gods, he's serious. Kiss Comics The Little Old Lady from Pasadena The Lucy Show Here's Lucy

The Mighty Hercules Triumph of Inept, Limited Animation Renee Montoya From Gotham cop to lesbian superhero Monster Scenes by Aurora The 70s Most Twisted Toys The Munsters Nelvana Nightwing Dick "Robin" Grayson grows up. The Partridge Family Peyton Place Porky Pig Bugs and Daffy run around nude. Foghorn Leghorn lives on a farm, the chattel of unseen rural folk. Porky Pig lives in a house, drives a car, and wears clothes. What's up with that? Red Raven Some superheroes have been more successful than others.... Sabrina Archie's Teenage Witch Santa Claus Spire Christian Comics Riverdale runs Evangelical Supergirl The on-site companion piece, with images, appears here. Sylvester Tijuana Bibles Dirty Little Comic Books from Days of Yore Dick Tracy Trailer Park Boys Turok Son of Stone to Dinosaur Hunter UFO Flying Saucers Gold Key's Guide to Matters Extra-Terrestrial When You and I Were Young, Maggie The Sad Tale Behind a Victorian Pop Classic The Dead End Kids: Dead End: The Origin Dead End Kids: The Early Years East Side Kids: The Mean Streets Turn Amusing The Bowery Boys: Slumming into Retirement

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