Hey guys! Happy Friday! How's it going? I'm doing pretty great. Superman & Lois premieres on Tuesday, and it's airing on CTV Sci-Fi Channel here in Canada, so I'll actually get to watch it as it's airing this time around, AND The Hardy Boys is finally premiering on YTV on March 5th, so I am really excited for that. Especially since the show's entire first season dropped on Hulu in the U.S. on my birthday. In the meantime though, today I decided I was going to talk about a few comic books that I had when I was a kid, that I don't have anymore. I was gonna do a full comic book review of a comic that I do have, but I decided I'd go with this for today. So let's get into it.
The first comic I want to talk about is Casper, the Friendly Ghost #13, published by Harvey Comics in 1993. The Casper comic was done in the way that Archie Comics had done their Riverdale books, multiple stories in a single issue. This issue contained a three part story, and then a fourth story featuring Casper's cousin, Spooky, the Tuff Little Ghost. I don't remember a whole lot about this issue, but, I thought it was pretty cool. I'm pretty sure someone got this for me at the hospital gift shop, but I don't remember.
Up next is Scooby-Doo #3, also published by Harvey Comics in 1993. It also had multiple stories in it. These are your typical Scooby-Doo stories, though there's also a Flintstones story in here as well, which is weird. This was the only Scooby-Doo comic I ever owned. And I do remember where I got it. My mom bought it for either me or my brother, or both, from the hospital gift shop since there actually weren't any Batman or Star Trek comics there that I didn't already have at that point. I think this comic was actually my first exposure to Scooby-Doo since I got it before I saw reruns of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! on TV.
Next is Aladdin #4 published by Marvel Comics in 1995. I don't really remember what the story was about, but I think there's another thief who is a kid, stealing things from Aladdin and the Sultan's palace. I think that's what the story is. What actually stands out to me about this issue is that on the back cover is an ad for one of the Tiger Electronics handheld Mighty Morphin Power Rangers games with the White Ranger in the ad. This issue came out right near the end of the second season, not that long after Tommy had become the White Ranger and Rocky, Adam and Aisha had replaced Jason, Zack and Trini on the show so the White Ranger was still everywhere at this point.
Up next is Beauty and the Beast #2 published by Disney Comics in 1992. This was the second of two issues published in this series meant as a prequel to the movie, which had come out less than a year before this issue was published. This was more my sister's comic than mine, but I read it a few times. There wasn't much to it, the Beast falls off a cliff and Chip has to rescue him, and Belle has a feeling that her destiny lies beyond her father's house just outside the village. This was another hospital gift shop purchase.
Muppet Babies #3, also published by Harvey Comics in 1993, was also a hospital gift shop purchase. There were two stories in this one, but the only one I remember is the second story where the Muppet Babies are pretending to be the crew of a starship in a Star Trek-esque setting, with Kermit as the captain, which is funny since Captain Mercer has a Kermit the Frog plush on his desk in his ready room on The Orville. They all had uniforms and everything. It was pretty cool.
Next up we have Mickey and Donald #16, which is actually a movie adaptation, sort of. The comic adapts the "Mickey and the Beanstalk" segment from Fun and Fancy Free. This was also a hospital gift shop purchase. However, my mom bought this for me for a different reason than for me being good after a test or examination. She bought this for me because I had a long day ahead of me since I was at the hospital to see the Hematologist, and have a blood transfusion, so I was going to be there all day. She bought it for me to read/look at to pass the time while I was having the blood transfusion. Of course, when it got later in the day and there were fewer kids in the Medical Day Unit's playroom, I got the chance to play Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time on the Super Nintendo, but the comic was for the rest of the afternoon and for when my arm was too sore from the blood transfusion to play the game anymore.
Next is another issue of Aladdin. This time it was Aladdin #7, also published by Marvel Comics in 1995. This is the comic I remember the most about because I probably read it more times than the other Aladdin comic I've already mentioned. This one involves the Genie hosting a Genie convention at the Sultan's palace, which quickly gets out of hand, resulting in the palace nearly getting destroyed. Once again, this was a hospital gift shop purchase. It was a funny issue though and seeing all of those Genies together was a blast.
The final comic I'm going to be talking about is Beauty and the Beast #7 published by Marvel Comics in 1995. However, I don't remember for sure if we had this one or if I just saw it on the rack at the hospital gift shop. I'm about 90% sure we did have it because of the cover, but I don't think I read it all that often. The Beauty and the Beast comics were more for my sister back then because as much as I loved the movie and watched it with her all the time, she's the one that had the merchandise.
That's going to be it for me for today. I think tomorrow's movie review is going to be another overview style post, because I can't decide on a movie and The Muppet Show is on Disney+ now, so that's what I'm gonna be watching. So until then have a great evening and I will talk to you all later. Take care.
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