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Cory Vandernet
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Back in 1940 the Fleischer Studio released 12 'Stone Age' cartoons with the modern stone age concept similar to The Flintstones. Some of the cartoons can be found on YouTube.
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Cory Vandernet
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The similarities between Marvel's Deathlok (1974) and Robocop (1987) bothers me a bit.
Luther Manning Army officer / Alex Murphy Police officer, is killed in the line of duty, his corpse reanimated as a cyborg rebels against his programming reclaiming his humanity.
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Matt Hawes
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I might have seen those "Stone Age Cartoons" in the past, but forgot. It looks familiar:
Mix that with "The Honeymooners," and it does look a lot like "The Flintstones," I agree. It likely was an influence, I would think.
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John Byrne
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Altho THE FLINTSTONES is often compared to THE HONEYMOONERS, it really has more in common with THE LIFE OF RILEY.
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Bill Collins
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Robbie Moubert, i vaguely remember U.K. comics in my 70's
childhood being on sale on Wednesday's but having a "Week
Ending" cover date, so Lew Stringer is correct, they would
have been on sale days before the cover date.
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Robbie Moubert
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Yes, it was the standard practice for the comics to be dated anything from a few days to a week ahead. Just to confuse things even more, I used to get Valiant which said "Every Monday" on the cover but it would be delivered by the newsagent on a Saturday morning!
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John Byrne
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American comics were usually dated at least four months ahead. Never did get a good explanation for why, tho I was amused by the suggestion it was to trick the vendors into leaving the books on the rack for an extra few months.
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(Incidentally, I recognized the RILEY connection to THE FLINTSTONES when I was about 11 years old, and read a FLINTSTONES comic that contained a story lifted whole from a RILEY episode that had been broadcast just a few months before. The middle class trappings of RILEY fit Fred and Wilma much better than the near poverty of Ralph and Alice.)
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Robbie Moubert
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I wasn't familiar with The Life of Riley but having now watched some clips I can see what you mean.
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John Cole
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I Always found Deadpool to be a much less funny version of Ambush Bug.
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Eric Jansen
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I mentioned them but I neglected to point out that the villain teams the Brotherhood of Evil and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants both premiered in books dated March, 1964.
It really does make you wonder if one company had a spy at the other.
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And the magnetic villains Magneto (Sept., 1963) and Dr. Polaris (June, 1963) appeared just a couple of bi-monthly issues apart, but this one does seem to be just a coincidence as the two series (X-MEN and GREEN LANTERN) had nothing in common.
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