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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 20, 2016 22:08:54 GMT -5
When I was a kid, we used to get the Sunday Pix booklet, in Sunday School. It featured comic adaptations of biblical stories and some original features, chief one being Tullus. tullus is about an early Roman christian, who travels the region and were quite well done (as were the biblical stories). Anyone else read these? Greg Hatcher did a column about these, at the old CBR site: www.cbr.com/sunday-funnies/ |
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Post by Rob Allen on Nov 28, 2016 15:56:15 GMT -5
I didn't read them, but I do have a peripheral connection. There was a "special edition" of PIX in 1971 that featured an adaptation of Nicky Cruz' book Run Baby Run. Cruz was the former gang leader whose conversion was chronicled in "The Cross and the Switchblade". Three years later, the publisher of the book decided to get into comics themselves, and they published a new version of "Run Baby Run" along with three other comic books. My father worked for the publisher at the time; he was the managing editor of their monthly magazine but had nothing to do with the comics, which were handled by the book division since they were all adaptations of books that the company had published. This is all described here, including a quote from me: www.christiancomicsinternational.org/series_logos.htmlThe fact that you got PIX in Sunday School means that you went to a Protestant church. Catholic kids were given Treasure Chest instead. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 28, 2016 23:55:45 GMT -5
I didn't read them, but I do have a peripheral connection. There was a "special edition" of PIX in 1971 that featured an adaptation of Nicky Cruz' book Run Baby Run. Cruz was the former gang leader whose conversion was chronicled in "The Cross and the Switchblade". Three years later, the publisher of the book decided to get into comics themselves, and they published a new version of "Run Baby Run" along with three other comic books. My father worked for the publisher at the time; he was the managing editor of their monthly magazine but had nothing to do with the comics, which were handled by the book division since they were all adaptations of books that the company had published. This is all described here, including a quote from me: www.christiancomicsinternational.org/series_logos.htmlThe fact that you got PIX in Sunday School means that you went to a Protestant church. Catholic kids were given Treasure Chest instead. Yep. Disciples of Christ. Didn't stop me from becoming an atheist, though. Still, good stories are good stories and I still have a few scans of some of the Spire Christian Comics, from the 70s. I've also got some scans of Treasure Chest. Wish it included more Sock Jones, though. A neighbor had bought a stack of them at a garage sale, for a pittance, then passed them on to me when he was done. The sequence included most of a Sock Jones story (kind of Tom Swift and Jonny Quest) and wouldn't have minded more of that, depending on how many stories there actually were. I have discovered that the Catholic University of America has a digital collection available, online. |
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Post by Rob Allen on Nov 29, 2016 19:25:06 GMT -5
The fact that you got PIX in Sunday School means that you went to a Protestant church. Catholic kids were given Treasure Chest instead. Yep. Disciples of Christ. Didn't stop me from becoming an atheist, though. Still, good stories are good stories and I still have a few scans of some of the Spire Christian Comics, from the 70s. I've also got some scans of Treasure Chest. Wish it included more Sock Jones, though. A neighbor had bought a stack of them at a garage sale, for a pittance, then passed them on to me when he was done. The sequence included most of a Sock Jones story (kind of Tom Swift and Jonny Quest) and wouldn't have minded more of that, depending on how many stories there actually were. I have discovered that the Catholic University of America has a digital collection available, online. Yeah, after a childhood of intermittently attending a Methodist church and then a Methodist-affiliated college, I've ended up as a sort of pagan atheist. Never saw Pix or Treasure Chest back then, but have seen enough scans to be interested in seeing more. The Spire comics were everywhere back then, but I find them uninteresting except as historical artifacts. Do you have Spire's "Archie's Love Scene"? That's the one where Reggie might be doing something like date rape. From what I've read, that was the one that led to the Archie company declining to renew Spire's license to the characters. Let's see if this link works:  |
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 30, 2016 2:17:48 GMT -5
Yep. Disciples of Christ. Didn't stop me from becoming an atheist, though. Still, good stories are good stories and I still have a few scans of some of the Spire Christian Comics, from the 70s. I've also got some scans of Treasure Chest. Wish it included more Sock Jones, though. A neighbor had bought a stack of them at a garage sale, for a pittance, then passed them on to me when he was done. The sequence included most of a Sock Jones story (kind of Tom Swift and Jonny Quest) and wouldn't have minded more of that, depending on how many stories there actually were. I have discovered that the Catholic University of America has a digital collection available, online. Yeah, after a childhood of intermittently attending a Methodist church and then a Methodist-affiliated college, I've ended up as a sort of pagan atheist. Never saw Pix or Treasure Chest back then, but have seen enough scans to be interested in seeing more. The Spire comics were everywhere back then, but I find them uninteresting except as historical artifacts. Do you have Spire's "Archie's Love Scene"? That's the one where Reggie might be doing something like date rape. From what I've read, that was the one that led to the Archie company declining to renew Spire's license to the characters. Let's see if this link works: I'd have to dig out the disc. The set included several of the ones with Archie characters. the only one I recall actually reading in print form was The Hiding Place, which was one of my earliest introductions to the Holocaust. Pix varied a bit. The Tullus stories were good and I want to say they ran a serial at least once a year, though, I don't really recall. The Bible stories were well done and mixed biblical passages with interpreted dialogue. I do remember, at one point, it ran an adaptation of Swiss Family Robinson that was pretty good. Pix had a look that was rather like Classic Comics. |
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