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During the 1970s, the entire comics industry experienced a downswing and Gold Key was among the hardest hit. [1] Its editorial policies had not kept pace with the changing times, and suffered an erosion of its base of sales among children, who instead of buying comic books, could now watch cartoons and other entertainment on television for free.
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The relationship between Dell Comics and Gold Key Comics "At Western: It's Fun, Games And Profit". Milwaukee Sentinel June 3, 1974; The Westerner Western Publishing House organ, #194 (Jan. 1966) Golden Anniversary Issue; v.3 #2 (Winter 1982), Commemorative Issue Sekvenskonst "The Comic World" by Charles Beaumont, Fortnight May 1955.
Comic books have been around since the 1930s and have remained popular throughout their nearly 100-year history. Even in the digital era, when we can view millions of videos on our smartphones or ...
The comic was hampered by distribution problems, as Western Publishing had recently been taken over by Mattel.The new owners wanted Gold Key to move away from single issue newstand sales and towards their successful bagged comics series, whereby three issues were packed in a single bag and sold on a non-returnable basis to chains that didn't deal with returnable monthly comics; these were ...
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A mini-story (called "Kong Joins the Circus") which was based on the King Kong from The King Kong Show was published in the one-shot comic America's Best TV Comics by Marvel Comics in 1967. [ 6 ] In Japan, the cartoon version of King Kong appeared in a comic strip in issue #34 of the Japanese magazine Shonen Magazine .
Mighty Samson was a comic book series published Gold Key Comics. A post-apocalyptic adventure, it was set in the area around New York City, now known as "N'Yark", on an Earth devastated by a nuclear war. [1] The series was created by writer Otto Binder and artist Frank Thorne. [2]