{"id":4218,"date":"2011-09-12T04:44:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T09:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=4218"},"modified":"2019-11-25T20:15:31","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T01:15:31","slug":"goofy-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/09\/12\/goofy-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Miss About Comics Goofy Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>This is DC Comics’ Strange Sports Stories<\/strong><\/em> No. 3 from 1974. I used to be annoyed at the presence of comics like these crowding my beloved costumed crime-fighter books on the spinning racks, but these are the sort of oddball comics that I gravitate to when I go rooting around the old long boxes. I miss that era when companies would take a chance on goofy ideas like this. At 20\u00a2, there wasn’t much of a risk to the consumer. It was an impulse buy. A no-brainer. Disposable entertainment. Read it and throw it to a kid brother. Why not?<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Strange Sports Stories<\/strong><\/em> was one of those anthology books sort of like a comic version of the Twilight Zone<\/strong><\/em>. They were science fiction stories with a sports bent. This issue had two different 10-page stories by two different creative teams. I imagine they must have been fun assignments and provided a respite to the same old super-heroes.<\/p>\n

The panel above is from a story called Man Who Leaped Over The Earth<\/strong><\/em>. The art is credited to Dick Giordano<\/strong>, but I thought this panel sort of looked like Neal Adams’<\/strong> work. Perhaps he pitched in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is DC Comics’ Strange Sports Stories No. 3 from 1974. I used to be annoyed at the presence of comics like these crowding my beloved costumed crime-fighter books on the spinning racks, but these are the sort of oddball … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/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":false,"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":[331,17,312,767,769,774,775,768,770,772,776,195,773,777,771],"class_list":["post-4218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-i-miss-about-comics","tag-331","tag-cartoon","tag-comic","tag-dc-comics","tag-dick-giordano","tag-football","tag-knight","tag-neal-adams","tag-newsprint","tag-oddball","tag-pole-vault","tag-science-fiction","tag-strange-sports-stories","tag-time-travel","tag-weird"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-162","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41180,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/08\/11\/friday-flashback-draculas-dirt\/","url_meta":{"origin":4218,"position":0},"title":"Friday Flashback: Dracula’s Dirt!","author":"Joe","date":"August 11, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/10\/10\/comics-jewelry-full-dirt\/ This is an interesting post from a while back featuring an oddball piece of jewelry in the form of a necklace with a small glass coffin charm containing a small sample of earth from Transylvania! 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