You've likely already heard that we lost another comics star - David Cassidy.
Granted, you might not think of him as a comics star. But lest we forget...
...and not just any comic - the GROOVIEST!
Okay. Maybe you don't count The Partridge Family comic books, saying they were merely a tv product tie-in and not true "comics". (I'd disagree with you, but you might say that)
But he also had his own title...
...and not just in the USA...
How's your Dutch? They gave David & the family about 100 pages - lots to read!
But, that is still with The Partridge Family, so maybe doubts linger. Very well, then. Let's skip over to Britain and an old title of which i'm rather fond, we've gone there before and we'll go there again - Look-In. In late 1972, David popped up with his own ongoing strip, and took the cover while doing so:
As mentioned previously, these comics were generally short installments, only two pages per chapter. Here's the first 3 issues worth:
You might be wondering what happens next. As am i. My collection is spotty, at best, and i'm missing the first few issues of 1973. However, we do have a complete short tale here from the Look-In 1973 Holiday Special for you, that you might find a little closure of sorts:
It's also worth noting that when David Cassidy gets together with the boys, he drives-
There you have it - bona fide comic star.
And yet, in the internet age, there are always those doubters in the back of the digital room. So let's drive a stake through the heart of that, shall we?
David Cassidy also played one of the classic Rogue's Gallery villains on The Flash - Sam Scudder, the Mirror Master:
David Cassidy - Comics Star, any way you want to look at him.
Sadly, he did.
He'll be missed by a lot of fans of other media, but comic book fans should remember him, too.
So long, David. I'll always be a fan...
Granted, you might not think of him as a comics star. But lest we forget...
...and not just any comic - the GROOVIEST!
Okay. Maybe you don't count The Partridge Family comic books, saying they were merely a tv product tie-in and not true "comics". (I'd disagree with you, but you might say that)
But he also had his own title...
...and not just in the USA...
How's your Dutch? They gave David & the family about 100 pages - lots to read!
But, that is still with The Partridge Family, so maybe doubts linger. Very well, then. Let's skip over to Britain and an old title of which i'm rather fond, we've gone there before and we'll go there again - Look-In. In late 1972, David popped up with his own ongoing strip, and took the cover while doing so:
As mentioned previously, these comics were generally short installments, only two pages per chapter. Here's the first 3 issues worth:
You might be wondering what happens next. As am i. My collection is spotty, at best, and i'm missing the first few issues of 1973. However, we do have a complete short tale here from the Look-In 1973 Holiday Special for you, that you might find a little closure of sorts:
It's also worth noting that when David Cassidy gets together with the boys, he drives-
There you have it - bona fide comic star.
And yet, in the internet age, there are always those doubters in the back of the digital room. So let's drive a stake through the heart of that, shall we?
David Cassidy also played one of the classic Rogue's Gallery villains on The Flash - Sam Scudder, the Mirror Master:
David Cassidy - Comics Star, any way you want to look at him.
Sadly, he did.
He'll be missed by a lot of fans of other media, but comic book fans should remember him, too.
So long, David. I'll always be a fan...
images from indicated titles, top image from David Cassidy en de Partridge Familie, bottom image from Look-In 1973 Holiday Special
Cant't say I was ever a fan, but I remember him in The Partridge Family on Saturday morning TV from the early '70s, so it's a shame that both he and another part of my youth are now gone forever. We're not getting any younger, are we?
ReplyDeleteOops - "can't". not "cant't". Must've pressed the 't' key too hard.
DeleteI can't say that I was a fan, either, but I can remember when every teen-age and tween-age girl in America had pin-ups of him all over her bedroom.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, i was never a fan in his heyday. Never got into the Partridge Family, my TV Music came from The Monkees and The Archies (who put out some surprisingly good songs for cartoons)
ReplyDeleteI gained appreciation for him later, and he cemented his place for me with that Mirror Master role, one of the better villains of the show. Later, though chronologically earlier, i found his strips in Look-In and that added to his cool factor for me.
BTW - I finally remembered why Timeslip seemed so familiar without having seen the shows before. The Timeslip comics that ran in Look-In.
Did you get to watch the show (Timeslip)? If so, what did you think of it?
DeleteI've only watched the first couple episodes thus far. I need to spend time extracting subtitles from the youtube vids so i can follow the dvd. Most annoying, and it pushes them back a bit while i'm catching up on the Arrowverse shows for next week's big crossover movie.
DeleteMore Timeslip before The Punisher, though.
(What a time for comicbook video geeks)
In the early episodes, i'm liking the writing and characters, but i'm really enjoying the fact that it was made less than 20 years after the end of World War II, so the time travel factor is much closer to home with tighter ramifications than one would usually see in a WW2 time travel tale.
Of course, there's that anticipation in the back of my head while watching, knowing things are going to get much more Odd as things progress...