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

We Have Already Seen...

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

We Have Already Seen...

...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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TV series with Asian characters in the title role are a rarity.

American tv series starring Asian actors playing those characters are even rarer!

Before the current Kung Fu reboot/updating on The CW, there were less than a dozen, and the second one ever was an animated cartoon!*
Here's the never-reprinted first issue of the Gold Key comic based on the cartoon...

Writer Mark Evanier and artist Warren Tufts adapted the pilot episode "The Crown Jewel Caper" into a book-length comic tale on an incredibly-tight deadline, using an early script and storyboards.

As you'll see on Friday, there were some interesting alterations in the final aired version...

*The first series with an Asian performer as the title character, 1951's Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong, about an art gallery owner/amateur sleuth starring the legendary Anna May Wong, is long-lost with all videotapes and kinescopes destroyed during a legal dispute over the defunct DuMont network's assets.

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