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dr_hermes (dr_hermes) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-09-28 00:04:00

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creator: jack kirby, era: silver age, publisher: marvel comics

Some of those people on the Rainbow Bridge look awful familiar
From the tenth of issue of NOT BRAND ECCH, Jack Kirby decides to throw in some celebrities from 1968. I imagine that, in a lot less than four decades, current hot numbers like Megan Fox or Will Smith will have become the answer to trivia questions. ("Who were the MEN IN BLACK?" "Oh, heck, I know that... Dan Ackroyd, Bill Murray and Harold Ramis, right?")

(I believe the gorilla with the lollipop is not anyone in particular, just any of a number of lollipop gorillas you used to see on TV...)

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dr_hermes
2009-09-28 05:25 am UTC (link)

The guy with the baton is Mitch Miller. He had the corniest TV show you ever saw, with a chorus singing old songs like "The Yellow Rose of Texas" or "In the Good Old Summertime," with lyrics on the screen so audiences at home could join in. SING ALONG WITH MITCH was incredibly popular. The gimmick was used before in 1930s cartoons shown in theatres.

The fellow in the Hawaiian shirt looks to me like Adam Clayton Powell Jr. He was from Harlem and served in the House of Representatives for decades. Always in controversy, people loved him or hated him.

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	dr_hermes 2009-09-28 05:32 am UTC (link)
	Oh, and the guy with the prominent nose between J Jonah Jameson and the Munsters, that would be Charles De Gaulle. General of the Free French Forces during WW II (maybe he met Captain America or Sgt Fury in some story?). He was President of France in that era. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	arilou_skiff 2009-09-28 07:22 am UTC (link)
	The entire concept was launching, IIRC, in swedish television a few years later. It's still going and became ludicrously popular in the 2000's. Seriously. Had something like 3 million viewers in a country of 9. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dr_hermes 2009-09-28 08:41 pm UTC (link)
	There's no explaining these things, people are surprising. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	timgueguen 2009-09-29 04:31 am UTC (link)
	Mitch Miller's show was parodied in an episode of the original Flintstones cartoon as Hum Along With Herman. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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