Continuing proof we are the same person, OL. Please do dig those up and scan em! There's a few on the internet but not many.
Also also: "Peanut Butter" and "Wow" for the younger set.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link
hell yeah Dynamite was the shit used to order it from school
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 19:47 (four years ago) link
need the 411 on John Schneider and Tom Wopat
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 19:48 (four years ago) link
I loved these. One of my older cousins had a big stack of them. I also used to buy issues at the Woolworth at the mall- I believe they were 10 cents each. I think I still have a few issues of Dynamite- Hot Dog possibly-Bananas less likely. In general, I think magazines are one of the things which we are most strongly encouraged to get rid of, but which I most wish I had kept.
― MrDasher, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 19:56 (four years ago) link
Hot tip I didn't pick up on until decades later: R.L. Stine was (I believe) EIC of at least Bananas. Jovial Bob Stine, as John Holmstrom used to refer to him in his strips.
― Welcome To My Lifemare (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 20:19 (four years ago) link
this were the biggest, biggest deal at my grade school. I think I had a Bananas subscription -- I was really fond of it because it was the more "mature" of the two.
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 20:35 (four years ago) link
btw JCLC, this thread got started cuz of the font on Welcome to Passaic
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 21:08 (four years ago) link
basically anyone on this board who has still issues of dynamite or bananas is obliged to scan them in and post them here is how i break it down to an extentbananas is, strangely, even harder to find and feels more like a dream of possible puberty
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 21:09 (four years ago) link
I remember that the Dynamite cover story of "The Bee Gees vs The Beatles" set off a good 5-10 min debate in my 4th (or 5th?)-grade classroom.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 21:10 (four years ago) link
who won
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 21:14 (four years ago) link
I was banned from watching You Can't Do That on Television (which I watched anyway because rebel) but I remember thinking that all those issues of Bananas my mom let me buy with abandon were a helluva lot more subversive than anything Moose and the gang were up to.
― Welcome To My Lifemare (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 21:20 (four years ago) link
xp We were like 9 and had no conception of pop music's past so the Bee Gees enjoyed a decisive level of popular support due to being hot at the moment, coming off of Saturday Night Fever
― Josefa, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 21:22 (four years ago) link
Hot tip I didn't pick up on until decades later: R.L. Stine was (I believe) EIC of at least Bananas. Jovial Bob Stine
Goddamn, I am zero seconds old re learning this information. Never knew!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link
There was another one of these mags called Pizzazz wasn’t there? Did I dream that during a chicken pox fever?
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 22:53 (four years ago) link
Pizzazz was a Marvel title; kind of their stab at being a brand x (ecch?) dynamite. i have all those; could post some images if it's of interest.Stein's wife was another person on the Dynamite staff if I recall correctly... and, more interestingly, Dynamite turns out to have been an early creation of one-time DC Comics editor in chief Jenette Kahn.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 23:18 (four years ago) link
more neat-o stuffhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUeGf2TVL2g
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 23:25 (four years ago) link
Some Pizzazz clipshttp://i.imgur.com/5e3qymA.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/O8gQWBJ.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/ZbaO1gq.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/QS3KENn.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/v4fYzaU.png
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 23:28 (four years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-T5dQ5WFMYKE/W7dnFxcNeKI/AAAAAAABAt4/o6zIizndOPkoBt8jobkLjRq3juoED_y7wCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/count+morbida+1.jpg
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 23:33 (four years ago) link
I am completely knocked out by this information
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 23:47 (four years ago) link
def read these, can't remember a damn thing
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 September 2019 00:23 (four years ago) link
Same
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 26 September 2019 00:40 (four years ago) link
wow huge plot twist!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 26 September 2019 13:04 (four years ago) link
I looked it up and from what I can tell Stine actually wrote the bulk of the material in Bananas. So y'all might've been R.L. Stine fans before it was cool and didn't even know it.
― Welcome To My Lifemare (Old Lunch), Thursday, 26 September 2019 13:12 (four years ago) link
All I remember is that they were big Kotterheads.
https://i.ibb.co/bRdRfQH/juanepstein.jpg
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 26 September 2019 14:09 (four years ago) link
I'm an early Xer, so I only read Dynamite during it's first few years—then moved on to Starlogs and Fangorias—but what I remember most about them are the "origins of super heroes" reprint strips that ran—frequently?—in every issue? I can't remember. I had no idea that it ran until 1992! I've always thought of it as quintessentially 70's.
Oh, someone corrects me here. It was a series called "Superheroes Confidential."
― Françoise, Laurel, and Hardy (K. Rrosé), Thursday, 26 September 2019 19:57 (four years ago) link
Super Hero Confidential ran both DC _and_ Marvel comics; I have no idea how they pulled that off.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 26 September 2019 20:23 (four years ago) link
also: note the author here: https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Dynamite_Book_of_Bummers.html?id=KCJSAAAACAAJ
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 26 September 2019 20:26 (four years ago) link
really tangential but just because we were talking about rl stine here a second ago:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2n5NSJNe9A
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 02:37 (four years ago) link
OMG I had that Count Morbidia record, thanks for the reminder! Now I'm wondering what other flexis I had.
― Chicken-Fried Sparta FC, Piping Hot! (I M Losted), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 01:05 (four years ago) link