Comments on: Bookshelf: Cain’s Hundred #2 http://www.tvobscurities.com/2009/10/bookshelf-cains-hundred-2/ Keeping Obscure TV From Fading Away Forever Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:46:10 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Barry I. Grauman http://www.tvobscurities.com/2009/10/bookshelf-cains-hundred-2/comment-page-1/#comment-16584 Barry I. Grauman Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:52:22 +0000 http://www.tvobscurities.com/?p=4408#comment-16584 Since the TV series lasted only one season, Dell only bothered to publish two issues (most of their TV tie-ins, with rare exceptions, lasted about two issues). (Peter) Mark Richman's face was the only one that was "authoroized" to be reproduced in the comic, but as usual, the artist was a little "haphazard" about trying to duplicate his mug [publicity photos were often used to get the star's facial features as "accurately" as possible]. Even Liz Montgomery & Dick York weren't "exactly" the way looked on TV in Dell's adaptations of "BEWITCHED". Dell's artists sometimes made mistakes about where the character's "word balloon" was supposed to point to; I remember the last panel in the last issue {#2} of "I DREAM OF JEANNIE" [yes, that one again], when Tony and Roger are in a ticker-tape parade- Roger is supposed to be saying, "We're heroes, Tony!"...but the balloon is pointing towards TONY. And the ending was kind of a letdown to the book-length story that preceded it; it was almost as if the writer had just "mailed it in", figuring, aw, let's end this shit already and move on to something else...say, aren't we supposed to adapt "The Pruitts Of Southampton" next? What's the big deal about the prices in the Junior Sales Club Of America? That outfit's probably been out of business for years...do you personally know anyone who's been trying to sell YOU Christmas cards from an order blank they sent from the back of a comic book lately? "Honest, Mr. RGJ, I need to sell 300 packs of these cards or the company says I'll never see my folks again, ya' GOTTA buy them!!". Since the TV series lasted only one season, Dell only bothered to publish two issues (most of their TV tie-ins, with rare exceptions, lasted about two issues). (Peter) Mark Richman’s face was the only one that was “authoroized” to be reproduced in the comic, but as usual, the artist was a little “haphazard” about trying to duplicate his mug [publicity photos were often used to get the star's facial features as "accurately" as possible]. Even Liz Montgomery & Dick York weren’t “exactly” the way looked on TV in Dell’s adaptations of “BEWITCHED”.

Dell’s artists sometimes made mistakes about where the character’s “word balloon” was supposed to point to; I remember the last panel in the last issue {#2} of “I DREAM OF JEANNIE” [yes, that one again], when Tony and Roger are in a ticker-tape parade- Roger is supposed to be saying, “We’re heroes, Tony!”…but the balloon is pointing towards TONY. And the ending was kind of a letdown to the book-length story that preceded it; it was almost as if the writer had just “mailed it in”, figuring, aw, let’s end this s*** already and move on to something else…say, aren’t we supposed to adapt “The Pruitts Of Southampton” next?

What’s the big deal about the prices in the Junior Sales Club Of America? That outfit’s probably been out of business for years…do you personally know anyone who’s been trying to sell YOU Christmas cards from an order blank they sent from the back of a comic book lately? “Honest, Mr. RGJ, I need to sell 300 packs of these cards or the company says I’ll never see my folks again, ya’ GOTTA buy them!!”.

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