Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Are you ready? Yeah. Are you with it? Yeah. Okay, let's go. You know what to do. The whole world's watching and counting on you. And all you people listening out there.
Everybody everywhere.
[00:00:13] Speaker B: Hang on, hang on, hang on.
Welcome to Checkered Past, a loving postmodern examination of the. Go. Go. Check branded comic magazines published by DC Comics between February 1966 and August 1967. I'm Dr. Bob and each week I'll be your guide on this TR Trippy Tour through 535 mid century masterpieces of graphic noveldom. This week, our army at War 178. Cover date March 1967 cover price $0.12. Cover artist Joe Kupert. Edited by Robert Kanigher Featuring only one medal for Easy Written by Robert Kanaker. Art by Russ Heath and Tomahawk109 cover date March 1967 cover price $0.12. Cover artist Bob Brown Edited by Murray Boltnoff Featuring the Caveman Ranger Written by Bill Finger Art by Fred Ray. Are you ready? Are you with it? Then away we go. Go.
[00:01:23] Speaker C: See how the fluffy clouds move by us. See how the clouds.
[00:01:40] Speaker B: Sergeant Rock's commanding officer orders him to give out a medal to the most deserving soldier in Easy Company. Trouble is, Rock believes every man is deserving. Then to fight the British, Tomahawk enlists a caveman Ranger.
[00:01:56] Speaker C: What?
[00:01:56] Speaker B: Confused? Don't worry, I'll be right back with doctor Husband to explain everything.
[00:02:16] Speaker C: They don't give medals to yesterday's heroes.
Cause yesterday is over and I've got to live for today I'm going places and nothing can stand in my way Yesterday is over no, they don't give me to yesterday's heroes I know my way now I'll never look back from this day on.
[00:03:03] Speaker A: Hot potato, hot potato, hot potato Hot potato Hot potato, hot potato, hot potato, hot potato doo doo doo.
[00:03:13] Speaker B: Why are you singing that?
[00:03:14] Speaker A: Oh, well, you'll understand once we get into our army at war, Sergeant Rock. But yeah, obviously it's something you pass around from one person to another, you know.
Right.
Boy, what a day. My goodness.
[00:03:28] Speaker B: What do you mean?
[00:03:29] Speaker A: Well, I had nothing on my schedule, right? But I had to get up at 7, which was great. Fine, you know, glad to do it, whatever. I'm on vacation. Right.
[00:03:39] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:03:40] Speaker A: And I had to call at 7:30 to see if they could squeeze me in for a last minute cancellation visit to the vet to take Butler in for his skin irritation. Yes, well, of course they said yes. We can see you at 10:30. I'm there. Right. So then I got Absorbed in a task. I took care of the dogs, fed them all that sort of stuff. Got absorbed by a task. I was writing something and you sent me a text and you said, shouldn't you be leaving soon because you were in a meeting.
[00:04:07] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:04:08] Speaker A: Right. And I was like, oh, my God, I gotta go now. So, you know, luckily I was ready to go and I zoomed out of here, got home.
I need to cut the grass. The grass is very long.
[00:04:18] Speaker B: Well, it's pouring down rain every day.
[00:04:21] Speaker A: I was planning on cutting the grass this morning.
[00:04:23] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:04:23] Speaker A: But then I had to take a butler to the back.
[00:04:25] Speaker B: You got waylaid?
[00:04:26] Speaker A: And I got waylaid. And then when I got home, we just had rain all afternoon.
[00:04:30] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:04:30] Speaker A: And so I said, well, the other thing I had to do because we have family coming into town.
[00:04:34] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:04:34] Speaker A: Is I've got to clean the house. You know, I don't know why I'm cleaning the house and she's bringing two dogs. You know, we're gonna. With our two dogs, but yeah, it'll be fine. Well, she always does such a nice job of cleaning for us.
[00:04:44] Speaker B: I know.
[00:04:44] Speaker A: The bedroom's always nice and the bathroom's always nice. Bathrooms has been cleaned by cleaning through when we go there.
[00:04:49] Speaker B: Sure.
[00:04:50] Speaker A: So I did the same thing for her. So. And I had. Of course I had to bathe butler, because I have a special shampoo.
[00:04:55] Speaker B: Yes, yes.
[00:04:55] Speaker A: Just like one thing after another. And then I look at, it's 4 o' clock. I'm like, oh, we got to do our podcast at 5, you know, and.
[00:05:01] Speaker B: So, yes, we're on a very tight schedule. My goodness.
[00:05:04] Speaker A: And my day was when I thought about it was going to be get up, mow the lawn, take a shower, enjoy lunch, take a nap, practice all afternoon. I figure I'll clean the house on Wednesday.
So now I don't have much to do tomorrow except figure out when to cut the grass because we've got more thunderstorms tomorrow.
[00:05:24] Speaker B: It'll all work out.
[00:05:25] Speaker A: I know it's total first world problems. It's just. It's fine.
[00:05:30] Speaker B: Hey, I have a correction.
[00:05:32] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:05:33] Speaker B: Sean from the Cinnamon Chop Shop.
[00:05:36] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:05:37] Speaker B: Podcast. And our longtime friend. Yes, it is pronounced Marc Evanier, the letter writer and future comics professional.
[00:05:49] Speaker A: Oh, hi, Sean. Sean, I've got that book. I've got. It's been sitting. I'm going to mail it back to you. I have loved it. That Nick Offerman book, if you're listening, it's coming back in the mail. I literally have it sitting there to mail to you on the Counter.
[00:06:01] Speaker B: Okay, maybe you can just text him that instead of telling the whole world about it.
[00:06:05] Speaker A: Well, maybe it'll encourage somebody else to give us a secret shout out.
[00:06:08] Speaker B: Maybe it will.
Also, I've got some sad news to report. What just learned this morning? Well, the world learned of the death of Jim Shooter.
[00:06:18] Speaker A: Oh, I know that name.
[00:06:20] Speaker B: You do? He's the.
For our purposes, he's very important because he was the teenage writer of Legion of Superhero stories in adventure comics and also some Supergirl backups. And later would become the editor in chief of Marvel Comics.
[00:06:36] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:06:38] Speaker B: And had somewhat of a controversial tenure there because people had some problems with his management style, but he turned that organization around in the 1980s and sort of made it what it is today.
[00:06:52] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:06:53] Speaker B: Not that we're Marvel guys on this podcast.
[00:06:58] Speaker A: But we do enjoy Marvel Comics. And, of course, X Men was a real big thing.
[00:07:03] Speaker B: Well, yes. And that's during his editorship. Editor in chiefship is when the X Men became a thing.
[00:07:11] Speaker A: Oh. And I don't think I've ever mentioned this. I read some X Men comics when you and I first met. You would have me read some things that you thought.
[00:07:18] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, but that was 90s X Men. The 80s. X Men was transformative.
[00:07:23] Speaker A: Oh, okay. Okay.
[00:07:25] Speaker B: Yeah. So rest in peace, Jim Shooter.
[00:07:27] Speaker A: My goodness.
[00:07:28] Speaker B: I've been seeing tributes online, and people always mention his controversial management, but what a nice guy he was and how kind he was to young creators especially.
[00:07:38] Speaker A: Oh, nice.
[00:07:38] Speaker B: Yeah.
All right.
[00:07:41] Speaker A: All right.
[00:07:41] Speaker B: Are you ready to honor both the birth of our nation and the release of Jurassic World Rebirth happening in the same week? I thought we were the odds.
We are.
[00:07:51] Speaker A: Oh, okay.
[00:07:52] Speaker B: All right, don't panic.
[00:07:53] Speaker A: All right, all right, all right.
[00:07:55] Speaker B: Our army at War, number 178, featuring Sergeant Rock and Easy Company.
Who wins it?
There's only one medal for easy. Which guy can I give it to? Bulldozer. Ice Cream Soldier. Little sure Shot. Jackie Wild Man. I know one person that won't be getting a medal.
[00:08:13] Speaker A: Captain Butler.
[00:08:14] Speaker B: That dog.
[00:08:15] Speaker A: I don't know what he's barking at. There's no one walking by.
[00:08:19] Speaker B: Did you close the blinds?
[00:08:20] Speaker A: I closed them all, but this much.
[00:08:22] Speaker B: Oh, well, see? Okay.
In fact, thinking about reducing him in rank. Oh, what's below captain?
Commander?
[00:08:33] Speaker A: No, I think a commander's above a captain.
[00:08:35] Speaker B: Ensign.
[00:08:36] Speaker A: Ensign. I don't know. Sergeant. Sergeant's a.
[00:08:39] Speaker B: Not in the Navy.
[00:08:41] Speaker A: Oh, Captain Rhett Butler was in the navy? No, he was not in the navy.
[00:08:45] Speaker B: Are you sure?
[00:08:46] Speaker A: In the Confederate Navy?
[00:08:48] Speaker B: Yes. The Confederacy had a navy? Yes.
[00:08:50] Speaker A: But he was in the navy, wasn't he? Been in the army?
[00:08:53] Speaker B: Well, I don't know. He was a scalawag. But he came from good stock.
[00:08:56] Speaker A: Let's go back to this, to our our army at war.
[00:09:01] Speaker B: How do you give out one medal to a bunch of men, all of whom are metal material?
That was my job. That's Sergeant Rock speaking. And it couldn't be done.
I couldn't make it stick. I couldn't hand out only one medal for Easy.
[00:09:19] Speaker A: Gosh, this Coke Zero is delicious.
[00:09:20] Speaker B: Art by. They're not a sponsor by the way. Art by Russ Heath.
Although the COVID was by Joe Kubert, which is superior in my opinion. But that's neither here nor there.
The CO that's commanding officer to you and me barked at Sergeant Rock like a wolf with a bad toothache.
[00:09:40] Speaker A: You heard me Rock. You're the non com. Best qualified, non commissioned officer best qualified to know which easy man most deserves this battle star. A two day pass with all the trimmings goes with this award. All you got to do is hand it out.
[00:09:54] Speaker B: By the way, I learned today that the New York Times puzzle page.
I guess once a month they do a special bonus puzzle and today's was all about comic books I had. Easy Company was one of the answers.
[00:10:08] Speaker A: Oh my goodness.
[00:10:10] Speaker B: Halo.
Who's a member of the Outsiders? That was a deep cut.
It was amazing.
[00:10:16] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:10:18] Speaker B: Sergeant Rock gets the medal and is ordered to give it out to the combat happy Joe he finds most deserving.
[00:10:28] Speaker A: Right.
[00:10:29] Speaker B: Well who could it be? There they all are. Ice Cream Soldier, Bulldozer, Little Sure Shot, Jackie Wild Man. They all deserve it. But he's only got one medal to give out, right? What's he gonna do?
[00:10:42] Speaker A: So what do we do?
I knew where this story was going right away.
[00:10:47] Speaker B: Oh yeah.
So the CO gets into his jeep. Just then here comes a panzer strafing. I don't know why they're all out in an open field like that. That doesn't make much sense.
Everyone flattens except Bulldozer. He gets up on top of the jeep. So he's eye to eye with this strafing German plane and he just starts firing.
Until the plane starts to smoke and flies off.
[00:11:18] Speaker A: That's right.
[00:11:20] Speaker B: So story over. Gonna give the medal to Bulldozer. Done.
[00:11:24] Speaker A: Done. That's what Sergeant Ross gonna do. But after the CO left, he does the pinning. He says this star is yours, Bulldozer, for standing up to that ship when everybody else was eating dirt.
And a two day pass goes with it.
[00:11:36] Speaker B: Thanks Sword.
You shouldn't have done it. But about the pass. I'll take it later if you don't mind. When the heat's off. Easy.
[00:11:46] Speaker A: So that's how it stood. Bulldozer's a good choice. And everybody's satisfied. And I've got that metal off my hands. I don't have to worry about who gets it.
Gets it anymore. Yep. Right. That's when tanks rumble at the woods. Out of the woods happened.
[00:11:58] Speaker B: Yeah, you'd think after the plane strafed them. What?
[00:12:01] Speaker A: There's the walkers.
[00:12:02] Speaker B: Oh.
Expect some barking here from ensign Butler.
[00:12:06] Speaker A: So the ensign butler. So that's. There you go. Right on cue. That's when the tank rumbled. Oh, he's running now. He's running out to the world.
[00:12:15] Speaker B: If you're a new listener, there's a couple who walks through our neighborhood.
[00:12:19] Speaker A: They're very nice. They're very nice.
[00:12:20] Speaker B: Very nice. They. They don't live here. They don't go to our school.
[00:12:24] Speaker A: Well, no, they. I mean, they don't live in the neighborhood, but their. Their property backs right up to ours.
[00:12:28] Speaker B: Yes, but still, I'm trying to make a point that they don't live here.
[00:12:34] Speaker A: All right, all right. But this isn't an exclusive and restricted neighborhood.
[00:12:38] Speaker B: No, it isn't. It's not gated or anything. No, we're not that rich.
[00:12:41] Speaker A: No.
[00:12:42] Speaker B: In fact, we're not rich at all.
[00:12:43] Speaker A: No.
[00:12:45] Speaker B: Anyway, anyway, the woman has bouncy hair and Butler hates her.
[00:12:48] Speaker A: He hates her. And they're the nicest people in the world.
[00:12:51] Speaker B: Very nice.
[00:12:52] Speaker A: Educator, farmer. Great people. Wonderful people. Very friendly. We like them a lot. But Butler hates her. Oh, my God. He goes crazy.
Anyway, anyway, the tanks rumbled at them.
[00:13:03] Speaker B: From the woods after being strafed by a panzer. You'd think they would have gotten out of this field. But no, they just stand there in the open air so the tank can rumble out of the woods towards them.
[00:13:14] Speaker A: I like this.
[00:13:17] Speaker B: Sequence.
[00:13:18] Speaker A: Oh, God, yes. Did you?
[00:13:20] Speaker B: Well, yeah, it's all right. Daring.
So everybody flattens except ice cream soldier.
He charges at this tank, rolls under it. Rolls under it.
[00:13:31] Speaker A: Grabs a hand grenade, plants a grenade and plants it under it, which blows the treads off.
[00:13:38] Speaker B: Yeah. Gives the rest of easy company a chance to attack the tank, which they.
[00:13:44] Speaker A: Do, and fire in any hole they can and kill everybody inside.
[00:13:50] Speaker B: The tank explodes, goes off like a fourth of July firecracker.
And bulldozer goes right over to ice cream soldier and says, you deserve this medal more than I do.
And the pass that goes with it.
[00:14:06] Speaker A: I don't think these.
These Guys aren't officers.
I don't know that they can actually do this, like, pass this medal around, but they all continue to do it for acts of extreme bravery.
[00:14:18] Speaker B: Soldier says, I'll keep the metal bulldozer, but I'll pass up that pass until the heat's off. Eas.
[00:14:24] Speaker A: That's what. That's what bulldozer said.
[00:14:26] Speaker B: Well, nobody can take that pass now because Bulldozer set the tone.
[00:14:30] Speaker A: Right. And so Easy Company starts out again for its position in the lines before an attack.
Okay, so Ice cream soldier has a medal instead of bulldozer. This is what he's thinking. Here goes. It figures either one of them deserves it, but the important thing is that it's out of my hands. Out of my hand. I use your dad's voice when I do this.
And I did what the CO wanted. I handed it out to the combat happy Joe who most deserved it, and he handed it out to someone who thinks he deserves it more. It's a fair swap. And my job's over.
Of course, I'm using your father's voice, but I'm speaking about five times faster than he would have.
[00:15:04] Speaker B: Yes, and not repeating the same sentence over and over and over again for emphasis.
[00:15:08] Speaker A: That's what I believe.
[00:15:10] Speaker B: Suddenly, because they're still out in an open field, a bunch of German soldiers bust out the woods, come after as one does.
[00:15:20] Speaker A: As one group of soldiers does.
[00:15:23] Speaker B: Yeah.
So, of course, Sergeant Rock and Easy Company start punching. Fists are flying.
Sergeant Rock is knocked to the ground.
[00:15:35] Speaker A: Jackie stands over Jackie, who for some.
[00:15:38] Speaker B: Reason, has had his shirt ripped off.
[00:15:41] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:15:44] Speaker B: Stands around, knocks this whole German battalion.
[00:15:47] Speaker A: To their knees, takes them all on.
[00:15:49] Speaker B: One, he's an Xbox.
[00:15:50] Speaker A: Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Guys.
[00:15:55] Speaker B: Thud. Buff. Crap.
When it's over, ice cream's older.
I think Jackie deserves the medal for keeping Rock still among the living and the past.
[00:16:08] Speaker A: I'm glad he doesn't try to pin it onto Jackie's skin.
[00:16:10] Speaker B: Right. The shirt's gone.
[00:16:12] Speaker A: The shirt's gone.
[00:16:13] Speaker B: Of course, Jackie, as predictable does not, is gonna hold the medal, but he'll wait on the pass.
Too many interesting things happening around Easy.
[00:16:27] Speaker A: Yep. So amazing. And so you know, Sergeant Rock's going, that medal just changed hands. That's all. Yeah, but it's still easy. It's still an easy. And I did what Skipper. And he is repeating like your dad and I did what Skipper said.
Everything's okay. Nothing's going to happen to it now. Now, change anything, it's gonna all be all right. I did, I repeat, I did what skipper said.
[00:16:55] Speaker B: So. They are a little light later crossing a stream. Sorry? Crossing a stream.
When they are take fire from the other side of the creek, Rock orders them to dive under the water. But Little Sure Shot dives under and swims toward the far shore, comes out in front of the machine gunners and tosses a grenade. These grenades are getting a lot of service.
[00:17:25] Speaker A: They sure are.
Yeah.
[00:17:28] Speaker B: Of course, the machine gun and its operators are blown to smithereens.
And guess what, Jackie.
He's got his shirt back now.
Is gonna give the medal to Little Sure Shot.
[00:17:42] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:17:43] Speaker B: And who accepts the medal, but again is turning down the two day pass because he wants to stay with the guys.
Sergeant Rock is still obsessed with his role in this drama.
[00:17:56] Speaker A: Yeah. He goes, that sure is the swingin est medal I ever saw. But I still. I repeat, I still obeyed orders.
I gave that medal out and it's done.
And all it's done was to change hands a couple of times. That's all. But this must be the end. The last time that'll happen.
[00:18:17] Speaker B: Well, I don't know why you would think that. There's at least 16 other men in the background here also.
[00:18:25] Speaker A: What?
[00:18:26] Speaker B: Why does he. Why is he paying so much attention?
Look, I'm out of it.
I did my job.
[00:18:33] Speaker A: That's your dad.
[00:18:34] Speaker B: Y' all can take metal, do whatever you want. I repeat, I'm out of it.
Easy Reaches, their position, wherever it is they've been headed.
[00:18:52] Speaker A: Didn't your dad serve in two wars?
[00:18:55] Speaker B: He didn't serve in any. Well, Korea, but that was not officially a war.
No, he served in two branches in Marines and the Navy.
[00:19:03] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:19:05] Speaker B: And he tried to get out.
He tried to pretend he was crazy and get section date out, but it didn't work.
[00:19:12] Speaker A: I didn't know that.
[00:19:13] Speaker B: Oh, Lord. Yes.
[00:19:15] Speaker A: Really? Mm.
[00:19:17] Speaker B: He hate. I don't know which branch he was when he was in Hawaii, but I guess he was on KP duty a lot. And we weren't allowed to have pineapple in the home when I was growing up because he'd had to eat nothing but pineapple for his entire time.
[00:19:33] Speaker A: Oh, my God.
[00:19:35] Speaker B: Oh, sure, he had a million stories.
You know, he did a Huck Finn when he was a boy, built a raft and floated down the Kanawha river and everyone thought he was dead.
[00:19:43] Speaker A: I knew that.
[00:19:44] Speaker B: I knew that him and his friend Froggy or whoever.
Froggy?
[00:19:50] Speaker A: Well, his nickname was Hamee.
[00:19:52] Speaker B: Hamee. Yes.
So Easy reaches its position where they're gonna camp for the couple of days and they gotta dig trenches and, oh, foxholes is what we're calling foxholes.
[00:20:04] Speaker A: Foxholes, trenches or something else.
[00:20:07] Speaker B: After they get settled, Sergeant Rock orders them to have some chow while he has a look around to make sure there's no enemies patrolling the woods. Yep, Little Sure Shot is going with him. Cover.
And suddenly slugs whistle in from the side and slammed their helmets from snipers. It's a sniper.
[00:20:32] Speaker A: Sure shots out.
[00:20:33] Speaker B: Sure Shots out. Sergeant Rock is still conscious, but he sees the jack boots coming their way and ambushes one with his gun and whirls up and KOS the other with a left hook.
So they continue to look around. Brock and Little Sure Shot and here comes a German mortar crew.
They didn't hear the burst from Sergeant Rock's rifle.
[00:21:05] Speaker A: A little bit of time has passed since that fight and the guys coming up, the mortar crews coming up.
[00:21:10] Speaker B: So Sarge has a plan. But he orders Little Sure Shot not to fire a gun unless you have no other choice. Yeah, because I'm just gonna go in with my fists and pound them.
[00:21:21] Speaker A: Pound them. So the fallen light helped. Sergeant Rock got a little close to them before they.
He surprised the German troops.
[00:21:30] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:21:30] Speaker A: Americana.
[00:21:32] Speaker B: Sergeant Rock is KO'd.
[00:21:35] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:21:35] Speaker B: Loses consciousness.
Then when he wakes up, he sees two tanks coming towards Easy's position.
[00:21:48] Speaker A: So how does he. He sneaks up on them because the light's in his favor is that it's.
[00:21:52] Speaker B: Either dusk or foggy or both.
[00:21:55] Speaker A: I think it's dusk.
[00:21:58] Speaker B: So the tanks are buttoned up. They don't see Rock. He's able to climb on top of one tank.
[00:22:03] Speaker A: He opens up the top port hole.
[00:22:07] Speaker B: Well, he opens it up by banging on it. Yeah, as if he's a German soldier that's been trapped outside.
[00:22:12] Speaker A: And they open up the hatch and he tosses in a grenade.
[00:22:15] Speaker B: Well, they open up the hatch and fire at him first.
[00:22:17] Speaker A: No, no, bom, bom, bom. Oh, yeah. Okay. They do fire on him. Then he tosses.
[00:22:22] Speaker B: Then he tosses the grenade in, which kills everyone inside. Yeah, that's one tank down.
And suddenly machine gun bullets begin sizzling all around him.
[00:22:34] Speaker A: From the other tank.
[00:22:35] Speaker B: From the other tank.
So he manages to get up inside the first tank, which is now full of blood and gore and dead people still smoking inside. But he can see the other tank through the.
Would you call it a porthole in a tank?
[00:22:53] Speaker A: I don't know.
I don't know.
[00:22:56] Speaker B: A gun turret, something. I don't know either.
[00:22:59] Speaker A: Yeah, a site. I would call it a sight hole, but I guess a gun hole or.
I'm Sorry, Billy, I don't know.
Right.
Billy listens to this.
[00:23:09] Speaker B: Oh, Billy, Yes.
[00:23:10] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:23:12] Speaker B: You're thinking of Max and Rich from Weird Warriors.
[00:23:16] Speaker A: Oh, okay. All right, all right. Sorry. But yeah, I don't know what it's called.
[00:23:22] Speaker B: Well, we'll find out. We'll do our research after the fact. As per usual, he fires on the other tank and destroys it.
So that's the end of both tanks.
And when he limps over to Little Sure Shot, Little Sure Shot gives the medal right back to Sergeant Rock.
But when they get back to the lines, guess who's there? The C.O.
yeah.
[00:23:49] Speaker A: I gave you a job like handing out a medal, and then you still haven't done it. What's the matter? Can't you find anyone worthy?
The trouble is, Skipper, every Combat Happy Joe and Easy deserves a medal. You can't give out one. You have to give them all one.
And that's how it ends.
[00:24:11] Speaker B: Yeah, I.
I feel like this was a downgrade in quality from stories we've seen in Sergeant Rock.
This is like a sitcom plot.
[00:24:22] Speaker A: I have to say, I did like the artwork and I liked the quality.
[00:24:26] Speaker B: Oh, I don't have a problem with the artwork. It's just not as good as Kuboot's.
[00:24:31] Speaker A: No, no.
And I knew from the splash page exactly what was going to happen with the metal.
[00:24:39] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:24:40] Speaker A: I knew it was just gonna be passed around from one person and that the entire story was just gonna be that.
Right. Which is not very often that I know what's gonna happen, but, I mean, I'm not a genius.
[00:24:50] Speaker B: You're very prescient.
[00:24:51] Speaker A: Prescient.
[00:24:52] Speaker B: All right, now, from the sublime to the ridiculous.
[00:24:58] Speaker A: No kidding. Where is it? Tomahawk.
[00:25:01] Speaker B: Tomahawk.
[00:25:02] Speaker A: Oh, my God.
[00:25:03] Speaker B: Tomahawk.
[00:25:04] Speaker A: This almost made me just scream.
So what happened with the Easy Company? I read that on Sunday. Yeah, I read Sergeant Rock on Sunday. And of course, I fell asleep while I was reading it because it's awesome.
Honestly, I don't know if anyone else is induced into sleep with comics like I am.
[00:25:22] Speaker B: Nope, just you.
[00:25:23] Speaker A: And specifically this era of comics.
And then I read the other one on Monday.
[00:25:30] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, Tomahawk.
[00:25:32] Speaker A: And I did not fall asleep because I was enraged.
[00:25:37] Speaker B: Tomahawk number 109.
Who was the savage ape man that first battled, then joined the Rip Roaring Rangers?
[00:25:51] Speaker A: Let's find out.
[00:25:53] Speaker B: Tomahawk listener, as you may recall, is a Revolutionary War era American hero who is battling the British pre.
[00:26:04] Speaker A: The Declaration of Independence with his band of.
[00:26:07] Speaker B: Or would it be post Declaration of Independence, but Pre Constitution.
[00:26:13] Speaker A: I don't know.
[00:26:15] Speaker B: Again, we didn't do our research.
[00:26:17] Speaker A: Well, no, we did. Yeah. Okay, go ahead.
It would have probably been post Declaration of Independence, but pre Constitution.
[00:26:26] Speaker B: That's what I think. Yes, Tomahawk wears buckskin and travels around the.
I'm gonna say country. But it's probably like confined to New England with other buckskinned gentlemen in various states of undress because we have big anvil. He doesn't have a shirt at all. He's my favorite.
You got to be a special breed to be a ranger. Part fox, part wildcat and all man.
Rangers come in all kinds, from all places, from big towns and small. From a blacksmith forge in Maine to a sea going schooner in Boston. But strangest of all was the one who came from the prehistoric past.
So get set. Here come flying bullets and flying dinosaurs. Here comes touch and go trouble with the caveman Ranger Caveman caveman story by Bill Finger, who's no slouch.
Art by Fred Ray, who's kind of a slouch but co creator of Congo Bill. So he can't be all bad.
[00:27:39] Speaker A: Okay, okay.
[00:27:44] Speaker B: You're familiar with Batman, of course, and.
[00:27:47] Speaker A: The.
[00:27:50] Speaker B: Kind of story where they'd have like a villain would set a trap that would be like a giant typewriter and if Batman and Robin would be tied to the keys and if a certain word was typed, they'd be smashed against the. That's Bill Finger.
[00:28:05] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:28:07] Speaker B: This little village nestling on a river's edge. This is the target of the rip roaring rangers. I'm guessing this is somewhere on the Hudson River. But based on those cliffs in the distance, I think you're right.
They've reached the village at last. And you know what we gotta do, Rangers. The villagers are keen boat builders. We gotta talk them into joining our fight before the British enlist em into building warships to be used against the yanks.
[00:28:41] Speaker A: So they go into the village and they find that there's been some signs of struggle.
[00:28:46] Speaker B: A struggle?
A hurricane or something.
[00:28:48] Speaker A: A hurricane or something. What happened here to this place?
Looks like something blew through. Something sure tore it apart. But what? We haven't seen such devastation in a long time. The people.
Sorry, different story. The people aren't putting out any welcome carpet for them at all. They're just disappeared. It's quiet. So finally Tomahawk sees somebody. He says, howdy, what happened here? Looks like you were hit by a whale of a tornado. He goes, I mean that's it.
[00:29:16] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a tornado.
[00:29:17] Speaker A: He goes, a storm? Yes, that's it. A storm tooth turn. A storm tore through here last night.
That's my New Englandy kind of.
[00:29:26] Speaker B: That's good.
[00:29:27] Speaker A: Is it?
[00:29:27] Speaker B: Yeah.
Well, Stovepipe, so called because it wears a stove pipe hat.
[00:29:34] Speaker A: So stupid.
[00:29:35] Speaker B: What?
[00:29:36] Speaker A: That's all the guys that are in the Tomahawk Company, right.
Are dressed for rough terrain.
Except for Stovepipe.
[00:29:48] Speaker B: No. What about Brass Buttons?
Brass Buttons has a brass button coat.
You'll get to him all right.
Listen, you can't abandon your sense of style just because you're fighting in a war.
[00:30:02] Speaker A: What is he, a dandy?
[00:30:04] Speaker B: Well, you just had Sergeant Rock with a little sure shot with the feathers in his helmet, and that's okay.
[00:30:11] Speaker A: He was far from the bones of his people.
[00:30:16] Speaker B: So one of these gentlemen says, we came here to persuade. Oh, we know you came here to persuade us to fight the British, but you're wasting your time. We demand that you leave us alone. Go away from here at once, my good man.
[00:30:31] Speaker A: Go away from here at once.
[00:30:34] Speaker B: Now, Tomahawk says these men are terrified by something, but I know they won't tell me if I ask. So we've gotta keep our eyes open.
[00:30:41] Speaker A: Okay, Rangers, we're pulling out. Let's move on. So, but from the bell tower of the town hall, unfriendly eyes glare at the ranger's blow. I'd better give this signal before they escape.
[00:30:54] Speaker B: I say I'd better give the signal before they can escape. It's a redcoat up in the bell tower, the townspeople start running for their lives.
[00:31:07] Speaker A: Run for your lives.
Big anvil's going, uh huh. What's going on here? Who's ringing that bell? Oh, wait, he's from Maine, isn't he?
[00:31:14] Speaker B: Big anvil. Yeah, yeah.
[00:31:18] Speaker A: What's going on here? What's going on here?
Who's ringing that bell?
[00:31:25] Speaker B: Well, Brass Buttons and somebody are enlisted to get up that bell tower and stop that British agent.
[00:31:33] Speaker A: But they better not, because they.
Oh, my God. Tomahawk yells hold it, you two men. Stay put. Something's flying from. I can't get this out.
Something's flying from across that river. It's pterodactyls.
[00:31:47] Speaker B: Pterodactyls? It could be pteranodons. We don't know the exact species.
Some sort of flying monster.
Hey, Stovepipe, you're the one with book learning. What are they now? I did actually do some research to.
[00:32:06] Speaker A: Find out when they started discovering.
[00:32:07] Speaker B: To find out if people knew.
[00:32:12] Speaker A: About dinosaurs.
[00:32:12] Speaker B: About dinosaurs?
[00:32:13] Speaker A: Yes, in revolutionary America. Like when they started discovering dinosaur bones.
[00:32:19] Speaker B: And, well, I think people in the world did know. I'm not so sure about colonial Americans, but I suppose anything's possible if you've got book learning back in the day.
[00:32:36] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:32:36] Speaker B: I was more wondering about if they would have an idea of the concept of cavemen, although they certainly did know of native peoples.
But if they saw any correlation between that and kind of an evolutionary track. Of course they didn't know anything about evolution yet because it was before Charles Darwin.
[00:33:01] Speaker A: But I'm just curious to think about that. You know, that's not a part of history that I've ever like. I don't know when the study of prehistoric artifacts and such came into the civilized world. Knowledge.
[00:33:19] Speaker B: Well, they had, you know, evidence of dinosaur bones and that's probably.
[00:33:24] Speaker A: Yeah, but you never, you never in your, in your reading of the ancient Roman Empire. You never hear. Oh yes. And they. Here are some notes that were sent to.
Here's a note from Emperor so and so on the recent discovery of a dinosaur Bones of liberty.
[00:33:41] Speaker B: Well, they didn't know they were dinosaurs, but they were. You know, talk about leviathans or ancient beasts. Ancient beasts or dragons, things like that.
[00:33:49] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:33:52] Speaker B: So. But Stovepipe knows exactly that they're giant prehistoric dinosaurs, but alive in our time. And will you look at what's riding one of them? It's a caveman and he's leading the flock.
[00:34:06] Speaker A: So they are attacked by this flock of.
Lets call them pteranodons.
[00:34:10] Speaker B: Okay. Pteranodons.
[00:34:11] Speaker A: Pteranodons.
[00:34:14] Speaker B: Whose great wings are causing a windstorm and that's what destroyed the town earlier.
Now they've got to start firing, but it's no use because their musket fire just bounces off them like they was marbles.
[00:34:32] Speaker A: They're tough, leathery hides.
[00:34:34] Speaker B: Nothing can penetrate their scaly hides. It's like armor.
It looks like we've had it.
[00:34:40] Speaker A: One reptile dives and picks up.
No, that hasn't happened yet. That won't happen in a minute.
[00:34:46] Speaker B: But this caveman dives down and with his mighty wooden club has tried to beat Tomahawk. Tomahawk or somebody.
If only Anvil could get his hands on that wild man, he'd wrap that club around his neck.
One of the pteranodons goes right after Brass Buttons.
[00:35:07] Speaker A: There we go. Brass Buttons gets picked up in the beak.
[00:35:10] Speaker B: In the beak.
Big Anvil is too late to save him.
Tomahawk throws his Tomahawk throws his namesake.
[00:35:24] Speaker A: Throws the weapon for which he received his namesake.
[00:35:28] Speaker B: Brass Buttons is knocked loose. Big Anvil catches him in his manly arm.
Lucky Brass Buttons and Tomahawk takes off now at last for the bell tower, and gets up there, knocks that limey Brit right in the jaw, Punches out.
[00:35:48] Speaker A: With an awesome right hook.
[00:35:51] Speaker B: But he has also led the pteranodons toward the bell tower, giving Tomahawk a chance to leap from the bell tower onto the back of flying pteranodon, which is heading back across the river to its cave shelter.
[00:36:12] Speaker A: So he's following the caveman, who's taking them all back to their lair.
[00:36:17] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:36:17] Speaker A: Though the caveman hasn't noticed that Tomahawk is on the back of one of the pteranodons.
[00:36:23] Speaker B: So Tomahawk gets inside unnoticed and tries to find a hiding place behind a pile of bones.
But he makes a noise.
And here comes the caveman.
[00:36:38] Speaker A: And Tomahawk tries.
[00:36:40] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:36:41] Speaker A: He runs toward him and tries to.
[00:36:42] Speaker B: Throw a right hook right in the solar plexus.
[00:36:45] Speaker A: He says, oh, my God. It's like trying to knock over an oak tree. Then he takes a flying leap towards him and uses his legs. Has no effect on the caveman.
[00:36:54] Speaker B: No.
[00:36:55] Speaker A: And the caveman knocks out Tomahawk with one right hook, knocks him out, and.
[00:37:01] Speaker B: Then knocks the reader out by speaking English.
[00:37:05] Speaker A: That is.
This is my first scream when I read this. I mean, enough. Second, because the caveman was like, what? Come on. Really? And then speaking English, I was just.
[00:37:17] Speaker B: Like, okay, this is.
[00:37:18] Speaker A: This is a Bob Haney comic.
[00:37:20] Speaker B: No. Bill Finger.
[00:37:22] Speaker A: No, no. I was like. When I was reading it, I was like, is this a Bob Haney comic? This is ridiculous.
[00:37:27] Speaker B: Later.
[00:37:28] Speaker A: This is what I would refer to later on as jumping the shark.
[00:37:32] Speaker B: Yes.
Later, when Tomahawk regains consciousness, he asks the caveman, did you say something in English or did I imagine it? Who are you?
[00:37:45] Speaker A: I am Goggle, the last of my tribe. Once we were many and lived in the valley with the winged ones and only scaly beasts. But all died. Only I had a few winged ones. Only I and a few winged ones are left now. So I leave valley and steal to village and see your people. I hide, I watch, I listen, I learn your language. Then I find this cave. Wow. You know, I've seen a lot of telenovelas.
[00:38:11] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:38:12] Speaker A: I listen to a lot of Hispanic media.
I've not been able to passively figure out how to speak Spanish.
[00:38:20] Speaker B: Well, you're not a caveman.
[00:38:25] Speaker A: What do you say? My life is far too complicated that I don't possess the kind of uncanny knowledge that cavemen have to.
[00:38:33] Speaker B: Well, we don't know.
[00:38:34] Speaker A: To figure out how to speak intelligibly in another language. Just by passive observation, we don't know.
[00:38:42] Speaker B: If this gentleman is a Homo sapiens or a Homo neanderthalus.
And if it's the latter, they're a different species. They may have had a different brain function than we do. We just don't know.
[00:38:56] Speaker A: We don't know.
[00:38:58] Speaker B: They did make art and jewelry.
[00:39:01] Speaker A: So he says, here is where what.
[00:39:03] Speaker B: I find hard to believe.
Well, I don't find it hard to believe because the colonists slaughtered all the native peoples, who probably could have told them that there was a valley with cavemen and dinosaurs. And in fact, the cavemen probably would have been integrated into native society, perhaps instead of hidden away like monsters.
[00:39:25] Speaker A: That's the last of my Coke Zero.
[00:39:26] Speaker B: I'm so sorry.
[00:39:27] Speaker A: It's so refreshing.
[00:39:29] Speaker B: And so Goggle left the valley and came to the village to see the colonists.
Oh, you already said that. He hid and learned the language. Yes, and found the cave where he and his pets will live. The sun is warm, and your eggs will hatch. We will be alone and free.
[00:39:50] Speaker A: So the sun he's referring to, like there's an opening in the cave where the sun comes through and warms the eggs of the winged beast.
[00:39:55] Speaker B: Yes.
Tomahawk understands that among my people, you'd be a freak. Maybe they'd even lock you up like a wild animal. But tell me, why are you working with our enemy, the Redcoats?
[00:40:10] Speaker A: He says they somehow find this place, surprise me. I fight, but I cannot beat so many men when. So they capture me, and they ask me to help them to be on their side, but I refuse until they see the eggs of my winged friends.
[00:40:25] Speaker B: Oh, I say the sunlight incubates the eggs, eh? Now I know how to make you help us force the village boat builders to work for us.
[00:40:34] Speaker A: So the Redcoats take eggs, hide them somewhere, say they will bring them back after I frighten boat builders in village. I do not want to do it, but I must.
[00:40:44] Speaker B: Well, Gog, you had no choice.
You wanted those eggs to hatch to preserve your flock of flowers flying friends, or you'd be left all alone.
[00:40:54] Speaker A: He says we have talked enough. Now I cook and we eat.
Hold it.
[00:40:59] Speaker B: You're doing that all wrong. We ought to give that meat some flavor so it'll taste better. Here, let me show you. You see, by holding a skin over the fire, then taking it off, you make some of the smoke go into the pot, and you give the meat a smoky taste that makes it delicious. Guess where you learned that trick, Tomahawk? From native peoples, yes. He probably already knows how to make his meat taste good?
[00:41:24] Speaker A: Yes. Well, what he's doing is sending smoke signals out to his men because he knows that the smoke will go out.
Which this decision right now that he's made.
[00:41:35] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:41:36] Speaker A: Will eventually bring his men to the cave and will end in death of this caveman.
This is it.
[00:41:46] Speaker B: Spoiler alert.
[00:41:46] Speaker A: This is the beginning of the end. This is it. Like, I mean, he made his decision when he jumped on the back of the pteranodon. Yeah, but like this is it.
Like, this is. The caveman has no idea, but his hours are numbered.
[00:42:00] Speaker B: Again, spoiler alert.
[00:42:01] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:42:03] Speaker B: The Rangers arrive at the cave, but.
[00:42:06] Speaker A: Not before we get a big fight with Big Anvil.
[00:42:08] Speaker B: Yes.
Tomahawk tells the story to the Rangers. And the only way we'll gain Gog's respect is for one of us to beat him in single combat.
Anvil elects himself for the job.
And anybody who objects is gonna have his head hammered down to his toes.
Gog agrees to the fight.
And fight they do. With the incredible power and savagery of two behemoths, the giant combatants rush at each other even as Gog's great arms grip Big Anvil in a rib cracking bear hug. The ex blacksmith breaks it with a sudden surge of strength.
Following up his advantage, Big Anvil lashes out with a granite like fist.
[00:42:59] Speaker A: He's got a left hook there.
[00:43:01] Speaker B: Hurtling back from the terrific impact.
[00:43:03] Speaker A: Big Anvil winds up imprisoned in some bands of dinosaurs.
[00:43:10] Speaker B: Bones.
[00:43:11] Speaker A: Bones.
[00:43:12] Speaker B: All right.
The fight's still going on. It's a two pager, folks.
[00:43:18] Speaker A: It's a two pager. Yep.
[00:43:20] Speaker B: Big Anvil has licked mountain lions and men bigger than you, you peanut brained giant. I'm Big Anvil, see? The toughest of these rough and ready rangers. And now you're gonna learn. I'm as stubborn as a mule and I can kick like one. I can stretch and kick.
[00:43:40] Speaker A: You sound like Joan Crawford at the board table at PepsiCo and ram my.
[00:43:45] Speaker B: Head right into your abdomen. How do you like them apples? If this don't do it, nothing will.
Both fists.
[00:43:53] Speaker A: Don't fuck with me, fellas. This ain't my first time at the rodeo, you know.
[00:43:58] Speaker B: Joan Crawford's final film was the cinematic masterpiece Trog.
[00:44:03] Speaker A: Trog.
[00:44:03] Speaker B: Which was also about a prehistoric gentleman found in isolation.
Well, Big Anvil did it. He knocked Gog out and nobody for a minute didn't think he wouldn't.
[00:44:16] Speaker A: Mm.
[00:44:20] Speaker B: Now Big Anvil and Gog are fast friends and Gog promises to join the Rangers.
Although Tomahawk makes sure to tell him he'll be A temporary Ranger.
[00:44:34] Speaker A: Funny if he gave him a little badge to wear on his loincloth.
You know, like a little star or something. Or temporary Ranger. A Junior Ranger.
[00:44:47] Speaker B: Out they go. They see some enemy soldiers up there on the top of the ridge.
[00:44:51] Speaker A: They decide to scale the cliffs because if they were to fly with the flying creatures, they would definitely see them.
[00:44:57] Speaker B: In advance and might smash the eggs.
[00:44:59] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:45:01] Speaker B: So up they go. They ambush the Redcoats.
[00:45:04] Speaker A: And look, there's a Native American there too.
[00:45:07] Speaker B: Yes, well, some natives did fight with the British.
Stunned by the unexpected sight of the Rangers, the unnerved troops are panicked into defeat.
The Rangers are firing away. They find the eggs safe, meaning more winged ones will be born and Gog will never be alone.
[00:45:28] Speaker A: Exactly. But it's too late. Somehow, in the span of time between the Tomahawk group coming upon the village and now, they've finished the ship they've built and finished a ship.
[00:45:44] Speaker B: Just one, though.
[00:45:45] Speaker A: Still. Come on.
[00:45:47] Speaker B: Just one warship. That isn't much.
But one of the Redcoat soldiers tells Tomahawk it holds a secret weapon that'll smash your rebel defenses.
[00:45:58] Speaker A: Mm.
[00:45:59] Speaker B: Tomahawk's gotta destroy that ship. But how?
Later, as the vessel speeds on its initial mission of destruction, suddenly it is beset upon by the caveman's flock of flying lizards. And look who's riding them.
[00:46:17] Speaker A: The Rangers and little cavemen.
Big cavemen. Sorry, Junior Ranger Cavemen.
[00:46:25] Speaker B: Now, the Rangers use these pteranodons as aerial combat vehicles and start strafing the warship.
[00:46:37] Speaker A: Unfortunately, the warship has cannons.
[00:46:39] Speaker B: Cannons. And.
[00:46:40] Speaker A: And while mere bullets from muskets do not pierce the hides of these cannon.
[00:46:46] Speaker B: Cannonballs.
[00:46:47] Speaker A: Cannonballs.
[00:46:47] Speaker B: And like broken planes, the flying prehistoric pets spiral down to their watery doom.
[00:46:53] Speaker A: They're dying.
[00:46:55] Speaker B: Gog's very upset again. The cannons flame death and destruction, tearing the formation to ribbons. Tomahawk tells Gog we can't survive much longer. There's only one thing left for us to do. Rip the sails and cripple the ship, even if we have to sacrifice ourselves.
And Gog tells the winged ones to do as he asks, like suicidal Japanese Kamikaze of World War II. The Lizard Squadron dives into the barrier barrage of bursting shot and shell.
Frenchie is hit.
Stovepipe is hit.
But Tomahawk and Gog do get through and rake beak and claw through the.
[00:47:44] Speaker A: Warship'S canvas, making a complete wreckage of the sails.
[00:47:50] Speaker B: The ship is disabled and drifting toward shore.
And now we learn of the secret weapon.
[00:47:58] Speaker A: So I am curious.
[00:48:00] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:48:00] Speaker A: How are. So, the secret weapon is that the ship has Wheels and gears.
[00:48:06] Speaker B: Wheels and gears. And can move on land and I guess is steam powered or something.
[00:48:11] Speaker A: That's it.
[00:48:11] Speaker B: Steam power.
[00:48:13] Speaker A: Steam powered. Right. Steam was not invented. I mean, we don't know about steam until the Industrial Revolution.
That's what it was. Steam that fueled the Industrial Revolution.
[00:48:26] Speaker B: Yes.
Well, it has gears. Maybe there's a crew on the inside turning the crank.
[00:48:32] Speaker A: Crank. Crank.
[00:48:33] Speaker B: I mean, that's possible. We don't know. We don't have a cutaway diagram.
[00:48:39] Speaker A: I think it's probably extremely less efficient to move a ship on land than it is to move it in water.
[00:48:46] Speaker B: Especially a ship that was built conservatively. In 12 hours or less from scratch, not only could this ship smash our river forts, but our inland defenses too.
What are we gonna do?
Well, Tomahawk tells Gog there's only one thing to do. He has to blow the ship up. I've got to get onto the deck and try to touch off the store of gunpowder with a rival shot. But just then, his lizard is blasted and falls into the river, dead.
Gog thinks to himself that brave Tomahawk and the Rangers are willing to give up their lives to stop the enemy. But they have failed.
Now only I and one last winged one remain.
The caveman ranger, lone survivor of another time, makes his grim, fateful decision.
[00:49:44] Speaker A: Even when eggs hatch, the young will perish because there are no mother lizards to feed them.
[00:49:50] Speaker B: Sigh, Sigh.
[00:49:52] Speaker A: I have lived too long. Now I die but to do a good thing for my friends.
[00:49:59] Speaker B: He is wounded, winged one. Do not fall yet. We must do this last thing for our friends.
Carry me, my pet. Carry me down.
[00:50:10] Speaker A: Mortally hurt, the creature from another era is spurred on by its master's urgent pleas and somehow manages to limp down, down to its target and final resting place, the deck of the ship.
[00:50:24] Speaker B: The soldiers start firing at Gog. He's punching and punching.
Bullets slam into him, but he struggles to keep going, stumbles and falls, drags himself forward, grabs one of the rifles from the soldier and fires at the gunpowder, blowing up the ship, the soldiers, himself and himself.
As Tomahawk tells us in the final panel, Gog's old world was dead. He died so our new world could live and be free.
Let's go, Rangers. We gotta round up those survivors.
Do, do, do, do, do, do.
[00:51:06] Speaker A: That's it. That's the end of the story.
[00:51:08] Speaker B: That's sad.
[00:51:12] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:51:12] Speaker B: It's a tearjerker.
[00:51:14] Speaker A: Yeah. The very last known caveman to be alive. And his flock of pteranodons. Pteranodons, all killed because the British Tried to destroy the new colony.
To take to seize control of the new colony.
[00:51:31] Speaker B: This is why we needed some kind of interlinked continuity before it actually happened in real time. Because they could have taken all of these creatures and Gog to Dinosaur Island.
[00:51:47] Speaker A: Yeah, sure.
[00:51:48] Speaker B: Where they could have lived out their days happily ever after.
[00:51:50] Speaker A: Being dinosaurs.
[00:51:52] Speaker B: They could have taken Gog to Skartaris, the world inside Earth where there's other cavemen and dinosaurs.
[00:51:58] Speaker A: Oh, he could have.
[00:51:59] Speaker B: He could have had a whole family.
[00:52:01] Speaker A: Yeah, sure.
[00:52:02] Speaker B: There's certainly other hidden valleys around the globe. There must be with cavemen.
[00:52:06] Speaker A: Oh, sure.
[00:52:08] Speaker B: In fact, didn't Tomahawk meet a caveman earlier? No, that was a Frankenstein monster.
The frontier Frankenstein monster.
[00:52:15] Speaker A: How long does Tomahawk go on?
[00:52:19] Speaker B: A while yet.
Goes on, gets into the 70s and then it's we lose the Rangers and it is retitled Hawk Son of Tomahawk.
Because Tomahawk marries an Indian princess and they have a son named Hawk.
[00:52:39] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:52:41] Speaker B: And.
Yeah, I mean, not much longer. Maybe like 130 issues, something like that.
[00:52:46] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
[00:52:48] Speaker B: Well, yeah, I mean, this is just like. Plus, this is his own title. He appeared also in world's finest comics for a long time.
[00:52:56] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:52:57] Speaker B: You know, back in the 50s, buckskin and coonskin hats were all the rage.
So that's it for this week.
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Very excited for that new Superman movie starring Krypto the Superdog. And we will have a special story featuring Crypto and the return of the Space Canine Patrol agents.
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[00:54:10] Speaker A: Right.
[00:54:11] Speaker B: Anything to add?
[00:54:12] Speaker A: No, no. I'm just gonna finally practice.
[00:54:16] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:54:17] Speaker A: After this.
[00:54:17] Speaker B: Congratulations.
Bye.
[00:54:22] Speaker C: Hey, Mr. Wind just keep us sailing Keep us sailing along in the sky there's no curtain yes, we'll have fun so everyone, come on.
Hey, you wanna take a look up and see what we found?
Nothing to tie us Blue birds come up to guide us when you're beside me we can fly oh, we can fly.
We can fly.
[00:55:05] Speaker A: Hey.
[00:55:06] Speaker C: Everyone on the ground. Let's fly.
Sam.
