{"id":5198,"date":"2012-01-18T21:33:39","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T02:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=5198"},"modified":"2012-01-18T21:33:39","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T02:33:39","slug":"can-you-identify-this-comic-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/18\/can-you-identify-this-comic-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you identify this comic book?"},"content":{"rendered":"

NBC aired a 90th birthday tribute to Betty White last night, and the telecast included a montage of her funniest appearances as Sue Ann Nivens on Mary Tyler Moore<\/em> from 1973 through 1977. One moment stood out more than the others. (To me, at least.)<\/p>\n

It involved a kid reading a comic book. And what makes it interesting is that it’s a comic book with a title I can’t make quite decipher and a logo I don’t recognize.<\/p>\n

Take a look below and tell me if you can do better. (I wish the screen shot could have been sharper, but this is the best I could do.)<\/p>\n

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So … what comic book was<\/em> that?<\/p>\n

Fantastic Blob<\/em>? Apparently not, since according to the Grand Comics Database<\/a>, the only comic with the word Blob<\/em> in the title was published in 1988 … in Sweden. Searching on the word Slob<\/em> <\/a>was no help. If there’s some other word that ends with “lob” that was used in a title, I have no idea what that could be. And a search<\/a> on the word Fantastic<\/em> alone doesn’t yield any possibilities either.<\/p>\n

I considered that perhaps the word in the title wasn’t Fantastic<\/em>, but Funtastic<\/em>. However, there seems to have only been a single title<\/a> that ever included the world Funtastic<\/em>— The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera<\/em>—and none of that book’s three issues<\/a> matches the cover seen on screen. <\/p>\n

Could it be that this is one of those fake covers assembled solely for the purposes of being seen on TV without the show needing to worry about getting permissions?<\/p>\n

Any comics gurus out there have any better ideas?<\/p>\n

Boy … it was a heck of a lot easier tracking down the comic that appeared<\/a> on an episode of Law & Order: SVU<\/em> back in 2010!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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