Captain's Library & Theatre BEN CASEY FILM STORIES "Operation Tycoon" Conclusion

 We Have Already Seen...

(on our "brother" RetroBlog, Medical Comics and Stories)

...abrasive Type-A business tycoon Walter Tyson, ordered to the hospital for emergency surgery runs up against abrasive medical genius (and rule breaker) Doctor Ben Casey.

"When Titans Clash" doesn't begin to describe the telenovella-level goings-on in this fumetti-style adaptation of the TV episode "An Expensive Glass of Water" as the rich man's scheming shrew of a wife enters the picture...

The adaptation by comics scripter Paul S Newman tones down the surprisingly-adult original story...which you can see right here...

Enjoy!
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Captain's Library THE ADDAMS FAMILY "Visit to Fun City" Conclusion

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...the Addams Family pause in their cross-country journey to stay overnight in New York City's Central Park.

They encounter Benny and Ripoff, two disreputable sorts who perceive the Addamses to be "easy marks"!

Ignoring the extremely-improbable coincidence of having that particular document stuffed into Gomez's sleeve, there's two totally-ridiculous aspects to the letter!

1) Central Park wasn't even conceived until 1840, as the city of Manhattan grew northward!

So there's no way a First Nations chief in 1626 could have known of it!

2) "Powhattan" was Pocahontas' father...in Virginia!

We don't know the name of the Native American chief who sold Manhattan Island!

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Captain's Library THE ADDAMS FAMILY "Visit to Fun City" Part 1

Adapted from the first episode aired (which we presented yesterday)..

...this is my personal favorite of the comic series' short run, mostly because I'm a native New Yorker!

To Be Concluded...

TOMORROW!

You'll note the non-Addams characters aren't "on-model" (ie matching) the animated versions.

That, and the variations in the script from the aired episode "Addams Family in New York" would indicate that scripter Mark Evanier and artist Bill Ziegler were working from earlier versions of the script for "and had no model sheets for the non-Addams characters!

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(from 1973, and yes, they're in color)

Captain's Theatre ADDAMS FAMILY in Animation!

After the 1960s live-action TV series, the Addams Family's next video appearance was on...

...The New Scooby Doo Movies in 1972!

The episode"Wednesday is Missing" featured live-action cast members John Astin (Gomez), Carolyn Jones (Morticia), Ted Cassidy (Lurch), and Jackie Coogan (Uncle Fester) reprising their roles.

The others were performed by Hanna-Barbera voice actors including actress Jodie Foster as Pugsley!

Apparently the audience response (and ratings) were positive, because the next year featured an Addams Family animated series!

The show featured the family traveling around the country in a mobile home resembling their house!

One unusual aspect was that the characters gained supernatural abilities they never displayed in the original New Yorker magazine cartoons or the live-action TV series!
(One other note, the episode is the only one not included in the New Scooby Doo Movies DVD sets from Warner Brothers!

Ted Cassidy, and Jackie Coogan voiced their characters again, while Jodie Foster reprised her role as Pugsley! 

Sadly, we can't show more than the opening credits from that show in color, but we can do the next best thing...

...the episode, but in black and white!

You can see it in color...

...with this comic book adapted from the episode seen above!

Be Here Tomorrow to Enjoy this Never-Reprinted, Almost 50 year-old Tale!

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Captain's Library & Theatre: Asian Avengers AMAZING CHAN AND THE CHAN CLAN "Hot Ice Cream Man" Conclusion

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...visiting a museum, legendary detective Charlie Chan and his family become witnesses to a baffling robbery of jewels from an exhibit.

When a ransom note demands $100,000 for the jewels' return, Lord Buckley hires Charlie to lay a trap at the ransom drop-off.

The impetuous kids want to help their dad, and, in separate groups, proceed to the site, with each group laying a trap...without telling the others!

As they used to say in TV Guide listings, "Hilarity Ensues!" as the kids trap each other!

However, they do notice an ice-cream truck in the park...at midnight...and theorize the thief is using it as "cover"...

"I would've gotten away with it, if not for that mob of kids...and the world's smartest living detective!"

Yeah, the show's basically Scooby Doo, Where Are You? with more than double the amount of kids, a less obtrusive dog, and the smartest guy in any room, Charlie Chan!

Doesn't the show's credit sequence have a "Scooby Doo" vibe?

Remember we mentioned there were differences between the comic and the aired episode?

No "Chan Van" (though it's in the credits above)!

No explanation as to how the kids set up their traps!

And we don't get to see how Chan recovered the jewels!

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The Hidden Connection between the cartoon and the 1940s Charlie Chan movies!

The Case of the Missing Chan Child!

The Hidden Connection Between Chan Clan, the Archies, and...Spider-Man???

And, the Chan Clan voice actor who became an Oscar winner!

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