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Lou Costello reads a comic book that’ll probably never be identified

Posted by: Scott    Tags:  comics    Posted date:  February 12, 2015  |  1 Comment


Over on News From Me the other day, Mark Evanier posted an episode of The Abbott & Costello Show which is well worth watching, and not just for the classic bits. There’s also a scene during which Lou Costello is shown reading a comic book, one seen so briefly and so incompletely that we’ll likely never learn which comic book.

And you know how I get when I can’t identify a comic being used as a prop!

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As you can see from the screen grab above, we never get a glimpse of the cover, just some blurry panels that would probably only be recognizable to someone who had completely memorized the interiors of every comic from that period.

That person isn’t me, and probably isn’t you either. But in the hope this might reach someone who does have such an eidetic memory, I’m putting the info out there.

Because if I don’t find out what comic book that was, how will I ever know peace?





Comment for Lou Costello reads a comic book that’ll probably never be identified


Steve Green

Incidentally, one of the characters in Big Hero 6 is shown looking through a handful of comics, one of which is the issue of Marvel Premiere featuring Monark Starstalker.(#32, October 1976).



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