American Update: Gold Key Extravaganza! Cartoon Classics, Adventure Series, and Film/TV Crossovers!
*Gold Key/Whitman: Gold Key, after splitting off from its parent company Dell, followed Dell’s lead by grabbing a wide range of franchises and running with them, as well as generating many interesting new series of its own. This update, of approximately 60 issues, is spread over three broad themes: Cartoon/Comedy (Bugs Bunny, Flintstones, Mighty Mouse, Popeye and Uncle Scrooge), ‘Straight’ adaptations of movies or TV series (Condorman, Green Hornet, Lassie, My Favourite Martian and the ‘Movie Comic’ Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm) and original fantasy/adventure sci-fi series (Brothers of the Spear, Captain Johner and the Aliens, Dagar the Invincible, Magnus Robot Fighter, Mighty Samson, Space Family Robinson, Starstream, Total War (Wally Wood art), Tragg and the Sky Gods, and Turok, Son of Stone!). Covering three decades – 1962 to 1981 – this is a snapshot of one of newsstand comics’ most eclectic publishers!