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Original Vintage Art & Text

Art possibly by Murphy Anderson. From the story “All Aboard for the Moon” in Rangers Comics #64, April 1952. (Fiction House.)
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SCENE: 1950s-early 1960s. Mom, Dad and Buck are in their TV room. Mom is trying to use a remote control--which clearly didn't exist back then--to change the channel on the old TV. Dad is reading the newspaper. Bucky's face is on the TV screen. Meanwhile the real life Bucky is playing with a train set on the floor.
MOM: Why can’t I change the channel? I want to watch the Golden Bachlorette!
DAD: Sorry, dear, Bucky has the parental controls.
BUCKY: It’s for your own good. I can’t let my mom...watch brain-draining reality TV shows.
Bucky created by Jack Enyart & John Lustig
1952 Art: Murphy Anderson Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
djp_LK731_Murphy Anderson_Ranger Comics #64
MOM: Why can’t I change the channel? I want to watch the Golden Bachlorette!
DAD: Sorry, dear, Bucky has the parental controls.
BUCKY: It’s for your own good. I can’t let my mom...watch brain-draining reality TV shows.
Bucky created by Jack Enyart & John Lustig
1952 Art: Murphy Anderson Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
djp_LK731_Murphy Anderson_Ranger Comics #64
I gotta say that the Tim Gunn older version of Project Runway provided my wife and me with many a wtf laugh.
If you ran survey of the reader reaction I suspect there are age and emotional strata that might affect the responses.
Like the screen size being referenced as to 1952– but the story was not set in 1952, it was set in the time for a “trip to the moon” instead of the era it was written in.
It gets very different reactions for those who watched Alan Shepard being launched versus those who saw men walk on the moon versus those who have always lived in a world with space shuttles and space stations.
Makes it fun,
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I remember televisions that had a back you could remove if something wasn’t working. That back panel had the wiring diagram. Suspected bad vacuum tubes were pulled out. Your dad would send you to the local drug store to visit a miraculous piece of equipment called a tube tester. If the tube tested bad you bought a replacement tube. Put it in place, put the back on the television and once again you could watch the ONLY FOOTBALL GAME BROADCAST ON A SUNDAY.
You could watch the Chicago Bears (Monsters of the Midway) play whoever. Red Grange was the voice you heard. Red was a U of Illinois All-American who played for Chicago after college. No sense of favoritism there!
By the way… If the tube was bad on a Sunday you were out of luck because stores were prohibited by law from operating on Sundays.
Go Eagles. I’m a big KC Fan but I’m also a Philly fan. I think Eagles are going to put a hurt on KC’s defense.
It appears we might have some shared timeframe memories– different aspects, same world/time.
Sundays? Although I do remember some stores open on Sunday– the druggist being one– and I vividly remember adults relaxing a bit when “the Korean War” ended– a lot of radio in the rural areas but little television.
I feel history is cut into segments based on events– which is why so many segments are based on the start or closure of a war. It threw me when someone noted that there are less than sixty five thousand WW2 vets still breathing now. While I was pondering that a woman with her grandkids said that was before her time, she was born two days after Shepard took his trip on top of the rocket.
History– segment by segment.
Sometimes find your segment lets you define your history.
That is tough on me– too much “ouch” seems to show up.
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I am getting serious “Twilight Zone” vibes from that kid.