Okay , does anybody have anything to say about Fauntelroy (Sp.??) Fox and Crawford Crow ?????
They were part of DC.s schedule during the SA , they were discontinued during it , there have been very very few reprints of the stories post-LBJ.s administration and I have never seen a single episode of the Columbia Pictures short series that it was based upon
. Has anyone here ???
It has been pointed out that the comics version , anyway , was " classically minimalistic " in approach , with few if any characters (Spoiler!) other than F. or C. - Or , Crow in disguise . - ever appearing onstage .
Tooopedia.s piece on the series told me as much as I ever found out about it , but with it down now.........
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I've read a couple of episodes. Mark Evanier wrote a column on the feature for Comics Buyer's Guide which has been included in his collection Wertham Was Right!: Another Collection of POV Columns. Mister Silver Age wrote about them in this article. I found an article on the feature here from which I learned that some Fox and the Crow pieces were included in the 2009 collection The Toon Treasury of Classic Children's Comics. According to the GCD these were a one page story, two half-page stories and an eight page story. This article has some sample pages and a link to some cartoons. (I do not know whether these are in the public domain.) There is a page on the cartoon series at Wikipedia.
The Silver Age Comics blog has a review of an issue here.
The first F&C story I ever read was in The Greatest 1950s Stories Ever Told... and I loved it. It was my favorite story of the bunch.
I've since picked up a few issues here and there if I can find them cheap, and I think they're a blast.
...Belated thank you , Luke , I'll try and check those toons after I write this !!!!!!!!!
Now , I did not spell this out , but I read & bought the TFATC book during its last two years , (when it was perhaps more than 50% Stanley and his Monster) , I was more familiar than the comic than I spelled out there , although I wasn't unaccurate . By the last issues , was it running some - or all - reprints of the TFATC material ??? It was it kinda - In a good sense . - old-fashioned " vaudeville/minstrel show/burlesque "-type of material that , maybe , could've been originally done anytime between , roughly , 1935 and 1975 , say , almost...
Some while ago , on a board , bringing up the subject of TFATC and Columbia cartoons , someone answere whoo said that he had been involved with compiling a TV series of Columbia's cartoon , with some kind of " Tooned " usage in the title IIRC , that he thought was maybe not meant for US showing...