Paramount Sales News #34: More Friggin’ Gabby
Tired of Gabby? Too bad! Perhaps the ever-optimistic Gabby became an atheist after his prayers went nowhere and his “fan mail” were really death threats. (Or maybe because he’s the…
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Paramount Sales News #33: Max Gets Gabby
There’s something rather unsettling about Gabby advertised as a laugh provoker equal to Popeye. And there’s something downright disturbing about Gabby’s face plastered over the globe (solve Sept. 18’s puzzle)….
Paramount Sales News #32: Popeye Fills Space
Back to the bread-and-butter, the Popeye series, in this one-eyed sailor batch. I think most readers will agree that Popeye began to lose his sheen once the Fleischer studio was…
Paramount Sales News #31: Gabby Takes Over!
As we enter the decade that quickly heralded the fall of the Fleischers, “all’s well,” as Gabby might say. Except for the little matter of the Stone Age series bombing…
Fleischer Promo Art #30: “Gulliver’s Travels”
“Hey, did these include ones for Gulliver?” “Are you going to get to Gulliver?” “Where’s Gulliver?” Right here, man. Starting in October 1939, Paramount Sales News started to heavily promote…
Entering The Stone Age: Fleischer Promo Art #29
Here’s a rather meaty post for you this round. We’re firmly in the Miami era of the Fleischer Studio, the period when the short cartoons arguably lost their sheen. But…
Fleischer Promo Art #28
Interestingly, Paramount Sales News has been getting a bit behind on the latest Fleischer cartoons by not just months but years. Lost and Foundry was arguably one of the bigger…
On With The New! Fleischer Promo Art #27
Upon closer inspection, these Paramount Sales News publicity drawings are not exactly the same art as the images prepared for the one-sheet posters for the Fleischer cartoons themselves. While the…
Max Fleischer Promo Art #26
The original artwork for these Paramount Sales News cartoons is probably next to nonexistent, but thanks to Bob Jaques (who else?), we know that at least the artwork for Sept….
New Characters: Max Fleischer Promo Art #25
What’s interesting about this batch (and last week’s) is that these are 1938 clippings promoting cartoons from 1937. Maybe they’re making up for the downtime during the strike? Note that…
