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Cory Vandernet
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Back in 1940 the Fleischer Studio released 12 'Stone Age' cartoons with the modern stone age concept similar to The Flintstones. Some of the cartoons can be found on YouTube.
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Cory Vandernet
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| Posted: 31 March 2025 at 10:59pm | IP Logged | 2
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The similarities between Marvel's Deathlok (1974) and Robocop (1987) bothers me a bit.
Luther Manning Army officer / Alex Murphy Police officer, is killed in the line of duty, his corpse reanimated as a cyborg rebels against his programming reclaiming his humanity.
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Matt Hawes
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I might have seen those "Stone Age Cartoons" in the past, but forgot. It looks familiar:
Mix that with "The Honeymooners," and it does look a lot like "The Flintstones," I agree. It likely was an influence, I would think.
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John Byrne
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Altho THE FLINTSTONES is often compared to THE HONEYMOONERS, it really has more in common with THE LIFE OF RILEY.
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Bill Collins
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Robbie Moubert, i vaguely remember U.K. comics in my 70's
childhood being on sale on Wednesday's but having a "Week
Ending" cover date, so Lew Stringer is correct, they would
have been on sale days before the cover date.
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Robbie Moubert
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Yes, it was the standard practice for the comics to be dated anything from a few days to a week ahead. Just to confuse things even more, I used to get Valiant which said "Every Monday" on the cover but it would be delivered by the newsagent on a Saturday morning!
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John Byrne
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American comics were usually dated at least four months ahead. Never did get a good explanation for why, tho I was amused by the suggestion it was to trick the vendors into leaving the books on the rack for an extra few months.
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John Byrne
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(Incidentally, I recognized the RILEY connection to THE FLINTSTONES when I was about 11 years old, and read a FLINTSTONES comic that contained a story lifted whole from a RILEY episode that had been broadcast just a few months before. The middle class trappings of RILEY fit Fred and Wilma much better than the near poverty of Ralph and Alice.)
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Robbie Moubert
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I wasn't familiar with The Life of Riley but having now watched some clips I can see what you mean.
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John Cole
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I Always found Deadpool to be a much less funny version of Ambush Bug.
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