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#1 2022-02-23 09:24:17
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Run, Buddy, Run
A TV show I'd never heard of, from the 60s, apparently preceding 'The Fugitive'.
Having just read a book on Roy Lichtenstein, I've been browsing Ebay for the Silver Age comic books I was buying between 1968 and 1970. Take a look at the example for this (to me unknown) series. Ivy League? Whatever it is, it's pure American style. I like it.
#2 2022-02-23 09:32:16
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If Alvey's looking in, I visited a great comic (etc.) shop in Brum in 2012. The upstairs, though, offering the items I used to buy with my pocket money, was closed to the public.
Reading up on Pop Art has given me a whole new perspective on this aspect of 'low' American culture.
#3 2022-02-23 10:14:10
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'Run, Buddy, Run' starred Jack Sheldon. He's mentioned in a couple of threads on here (jazz-wise), including one by Hard Bop Hank.
#4 2022-02-27 02:34:24
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I bought the Gold Key comic-book for a quid, just for the great cover.
#5 2022-02-27 16:16:30
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Birmingham used to have two great comic specialists. I think only one exists now.
Jack Sheldon. Pour yourself a drink and listen to his version of The Long Goodbye from the Altman Film. Superb. Sounds like Film Noir looks.
#6 2022-03-10 12:23:44
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A woman came in a record store I worked at a few years ago asking for Jack Sheldon LP's. I asked her if she'd seen Run Buddy Run, she'd found an episode on youtube. There are women into this stuff, a pity they don't seem to post on forums.
#7 2022-03-10 12:26:27
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slimmm, I'm delighted someone knows something about this. I came across Jack Sheldon's name this afternoon, reading Robert Gordon's book on the West Coast jazz scene.
#8 2022-03-10 12:32:24
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I should pick that up. I've read Ted Gioia's book on the topic. Unfortunately I didn't take advantage of the opportunity to see Sheldon performing, shortly before he passed away.
I like the Dell and Gold Key comic adaptations, sometimes of the unlikeliest series, like the Defenders, early 60's series with E.G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father/son lawyers.
#9 2022-03-10 12:37:58
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I remain a huge fan of Silver Age American comic-books, just catching the tail end in 1969. DC were my first love, closely followed by Marvel. I came across Gold Key, Dell, Charlton and others a little later. I don't actually buy any now and realise there was an awful lot more to Lichtenstein than that aspect of his work. But I loved the ads in them (and the Warren magazines like 'Famous Monsters Of Filmland') just as much as whatever it was The Flash or Spiderman happened to be getting up to.
#10 2022-03-10 12:52:23
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Steve Ditko continued to depict many of his characters dressed in "boom year" ivy well into the 1990's.
#11 2022-03-10 12:54:32
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Interesting chap, Ditko. Something of an enigma, I believe.