Captain Caveman’s first and second seasons were originally broadcast as segments on the package shows Scooby’s All-Star Laff-A-Lympics and Scooby’s All-Stars from 1977 to 1979.
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Chris and Christy Cross are Micro Woman and Super Stretch, a fictional, shape-shifting, husband and wife crime fighting team. They were the first Black Superhero duo
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In April 1972, Gold Key Comics launched a comic adaptation of the Harlem Globetrotters animated series; their first comic book appearance was
Who could forget the days of Cheech and Chong. Up In Smoke and all the rest of their comedy reflected their hippie and drug based
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I came across this sister’s site while scoping the web for some Funky Stuff! and I was blown away by her creativity with keeping the
The Art I co-owned an art gallery for 4 years and I had the privilege to meet some fascinating collectors, dealers and celebrity artists. They
If you want to ease the minds of film fans about a remake you’re working on, just compare it to Ocean’s 11. That’s what
Lt Uhura was the first positive Black character from a TV series to appear as that character in a Saturday morning cartoon series.
It was the little show that could. Beginning its ride as a local dance show on Chicago’s WCIU-TV, “Soul Train” chugged its way to Los
A Baad Asssss Blasian Is Coming Back To Collect His Dues…. For all the brothers and sisters who dig Blaxploitation films, have seen the
What??? Looks like champagne, pours like champagne, tastes like champagne! But it cost PENNIES more than beer! Yeah right! This ad was straight from Madison
Torchy Brown first appeared in the Pittsburgh Courier in the 1937-38 comic strip Dixie to Harlem, drawn by the first Black Female Cartoonist, Jackie Ormes.
“Josie and the Pussycats! Long tails — and ears for hats! Guitars in sharps and flats! Neat, sweet, a groovy song! You’re invited, come
Wacky Packages are a series of trading cards featuring parodies of North American consumer products. The cards were produced by the Topps Company beginning
For a short time in the early 1970’s, Crazy magazine, a competitor of Mad and Cracked magazines was published by Marvel Comics. In 1973,
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