Friday, September 12, 2025

HARVEY "Raquel in 'Socking It to Uncle' "

We Ran Medical-Themed Archie Comics Stories HERE & HERE...

...and though this tale looks like an Archie comic, it ain't!





This never-reprinted final story of the final issue (#6 in 1972) of Marvel's Harvey was the last gasp of the legendary House of Ideas' attempt to keep Archie Comics from total dominance of the teen humor genre!
In fact, artist Henry Scarpelli moved to Archie after this book and Millie the Model were cancelled!
He remained there, working steadily on both their comic books and the Archie newspaper strip until his passing in 2010.

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Friday, September 5, 2025

Marvel Comics, The American Cancer Society and the Story So Nice, They Told it Twice!

Actually, it wasn't a "nice" tale, but we wanted an alliterative title...

In 1982, Marvel and the American Cancer Society co-produced a giveaway comic against under-21 smoking starring Spider-Man, Storm of The X-Men and Luke Cage: Power Man vs the villain called...SmokeScreen!
In 1998, they reprinted the comic, but the response from medical offices was poor, with kids not interested in the "old-fashioned" artwork!
So it was decided to keep the script (almost verbatim) and redraw it, start to finish!


Here are both versions for you to "compare and contrast"!

Which do you prefer?

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HARVEY "Raquel in 'Socking It to Uncle' "

We Ran Medical-Themed Archie Comics Stories HERE & HERE ... ...and though this tale looks like an Archie comic, it ain't ! This ...