A huge thanks goes out to Shane Gline’s Cartoon Retro Blog for these wonderful scans of the first appearance of the fearsome…and incredibly funny Goose Rider! He made his first appearance as a back-up tale in the Marvel Tails Vol 1: Peter Porker – The Spectacular Spider-Ham, which also featured the Incredible Hulk Bunny and Captain Americat’s first appearance as well.
drquest: I use to work at a Bugles Boys store back when malls were all the rage.
Drahken: Yeah, that’s the one. Man, it’s been a long time since I saw one of those. I had completely...
Doug: @Drahken, you mean this?: http://www.ebay.com/ itm/Vintage-Pac-Man- Wind-Up-Plastic-Toy- Tomy-1980s-/16072...
Peter FoxHusky: Dar, no monitor but a color TV for both the C64 and for just watching television. Drahken: Dunno about the toys, I never had any. The commercials made them look good, but they also look like a lot...
ClaymationWerewolf: @Doug that’s really funny! When I watched the episode I actually did wonder if I was... Drahken: I vaguely remember sky commanders, though I never watched it at the time, I mostly just remember the ads...
Daniel Th1rte3n: Another excellent piece! I was aware of this property as a kid, but never owned any of the toys,... Doug: Yeah, there were toys. I had one. Were the Aussy and Jamaican bad guys? The way you describe them and the...
vinvectrex: This one near the top of my list of toys I wanted but never got. And, had I gotten it, I wouldn’t...
This is weird, just yesterday I unearthed my copy of Marvel Tails to show my 6 year old son. He couldn’t stop giggling at the cover. Also, I think Mellor used to have comic strips in Marvel’s Crazy magazine (their version of Mad).
I read through my copy of this comic book hundreds of times. It was brilliant, funny and totally cool, at least, to my eight year-old self. In addition to the awesome variations of the classic Marvel characters, I was pleased that my favorite character, The Incredible Hulk, was not re-named like the other ones. They just added something to his name: The Incredible Hulk-Bunny.