The kids of today should defend themselves against the seventies

 

Escape to Witch Mountain and other 70s weirdness.

Gross Anatomy

 

Some (relatively) work-safe pages from 1976's Bicentennial Gross-Outs:

That's about all I want to post, follow the link for the unforgettable conclusion.

Mystery Solved

 

Since I was like 3 years old I have been haunted by this stupid cartoon

Which in my little kid memory I had mixed up with this disco Disney thing

All these years I thought it was some kinda churchy anti-drug propaganda but it turns out it’s just Canadian.

The Wonderful World of Promotional Giveaways

 

Maybe the Baby Boomers have a point when they say things were better back in the day. Specifically, in 1970 a kid could accompany their parents to their local Gulf station and receive one of these, The Wonderful World of Disney Magazine.

This magazine's got everything.  Haunted houses from around the world,

Behind the scenes of the Haunted Mansion,

A rare U.S. appearance of Fethry Duck, as drawn by Tony Strobhl,

How to draw Chip and Dale,

The Junior Woodchucks,

And great vintage gasoline ads.

Oil crisis, shmoil crisis, let's make gas stations great again, America!

The Celery Stalks At Midnight

 

Watch Tim Burton's earliest animated short film "Stalk of the Celery Monster"

Sacre Bleu!

 

Ad from Metal Hurlant #1, 1975

Migod! Hippies have taken over our mine!

What if they'd made the Avengers movie in the 70s?

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

Mad Magazine's "Reality World"

By Larry Siegel and Al Jaffee



Tell Us All About You

Spotted in a late-1970s issue of Mighty Mouse:

My mom ordered books like these for my sister and me when we were kids.  I think mine was called "The Fox and The Hound and Me." 

Look Todd, it's our best pal   ERIK   and his good friend   STEVE   .  Let's go say hi!



Is this the Disney equivalent of the Star Wars Holiday Special?

Gabba Gabba Hey

Not Disney: Sunday I'm In Love

It's got nothing to do with Disney, but it's not like anybody reads this blog on the weekends anyway.

Pirate Bay

Air Pirates jam piece from the 1976 Phil Sueling Comic Art Convention

from Golden Age Comic Book Stories

Dy-no-brite

Is it just me, or do these Whitman Dynabrite covers look like they belong on a dorm room wall?

Stuck Rubber Ducky

Rubber Duck Tales
From i09's gallery of 1970's undergrounds.

:-(

I was all set to make fun of this clip for the parade of 1970's stars (Cheryl Ladd! Burt Reynolds! Gerald Ford!), but then poor Karen came on and something got in my eye. The Mickey costume is pretty ugly though, that's weird I guess.

If you want to see a really goofy 70's Disney special, click here.

The kids of today should defend themselves against the 70's.

Hey, remember the time Bambi fought Dr. Strange and the Hulk?

It happened (kind of) in the pages of Steve Gerber's Defenders.

Undercover Brother

Marvel's iconic funny animal Howard the Duck is featured in this week's Comic Book Legends Revealed over on Comic Book Resources.

I'm a huge fan of Howard and his creator, Steve Gerber. If you haven't already done so, you owe it to yourself to pick up the Essential Howard collection...truly one of the great comics of the 1970's.