{"id":17105,"date":"2014-08-19T02:44:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T07:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=17105"},"modified":"2019-11-26T06:59:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T11:59:30","slug":"double-shot-of-o-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2014\/08\/19\/double-shot-of-o-j\/","title":{"rendered":"Double Shot of O.J."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"COMICS-HEAD\"<\/a>\"autograph\"<\/a>If the boot doesn’t fit, you must…oh, never mind.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The 1970s and ’80s must have been pretty good for Orenthal James<\/b> “O. J.<\/b>” Simpson<\/b> because he seemed to be the king of all media back then. He was all over television and movie screens while his cartoon image adorned comic book advertising.<\/p>\n

\"spot-bilt\"<\/a>That must have been a pretty sweet gig. He didn’t even have to show up for filming or a photo shoot. An illustrator at an advertising agency probably worked from promo photos providing a reasonable facsimile of The Juice,<\/em> and the the former football star would collect a paycheck. Nice work if you can get it.<\/p>\n

\"dingo\"<\/a>Footwear manufacturers seemed to have a thing for Mr. Simpson back before he became the Lizzie Borden of the end of the twentieth century. It’s funny — O.J. and shoes. I imagine that Dingo<\/em> boots are considerably less expensive than what Bruno Magli <\/em>offers.<\/p>\n

This pair of O.J. Simpson<\/strong><\/em> shoe ads adorned the inside front and back covers of Shogun Warriors<\/strong><\/em> No. 17 published by Marvel Comics in 1980.<\/p>\n

\"sw-17\"<\/a>Similar to The Transformers<\/em>, The Shogun Warriors<\/em> was an attempt by an American toy company to cherry-pick existing Japanese toys based on Japanese cartoons and television shows, re-brand them and hopefully have a red hot toy that would fly off the shelves. They never quite made it. Maybe if it had a half-hour cartoon that would act like a commercial and help sell the crap out of it as The Transformers, G.I. Joe<\/em> and Masters of the Universe<\/em> did, it may have taken off. I’m not sure if such avenues of syndication were in place at the time. They had to settle for a comic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If the boot doesn’t fit, you must…oh, never mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[335],"tags":[312,3265,3269,308,3266,3267,1057,3268],"class_list":["post-17105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-i-miss-about-comics","tag-comic","tag-dingo","tag-herb-trimpe","tag-marvel","tag-oj","tag-orenthal-james-o-j-simpson","tag-shoes","tag-the-shogun-warriors"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-4rT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15021,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/12\/09\/just-like-o-j\/","url_meta":{"origin":17105,"position":0},"title":"Just Like O.J?","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"December 9, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"How'd that work out? 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