THE COMICS
The Great Foodini can be found in two comic book series
(and in one interesting variant comic.) The first series was known as "The Great Foodini" and ran
for four issues only. It was published by Continental
Publications, Inc., Leon Jason, Executive Editor. All four
had 52 "fun filled" pages and sold for 10 cents each.
Featured in the comics were stories involving the adventures
and misadventures of Foodini, Pinhead, Jolo, Dilly Dolly,
Cicero, Phineas Pitch and Hotchkiss. There were occasional
stories involving Jingle Dingle and other characters not in
the Foodini arena. In addition to the ads for a variety of
novelty products commonly found in comics of this era, there
were ads for Foodini liscensed products offered by the R. C.
Cox Corporation. The series started in March, 1950 and ended
in August of 1950. After a delay of ten months, the second comic series
(also limited to 4 issues) : "Pinhead and Foodini" was
published by The Fawcett Publications company. Issue number
one came out in July of 1951 and the last issue was
published in Dec, 1951. This series clearly has a new
artist. The characters are drawn with a closer resemblance
to the actual TV puppets. The covers featured photographs of
the actual puppets and Doris Brown. The first issue at least was still promising "Big 52
Pages Of Exciting Adventures in Full Color." The creators
were obviously giving Pinhead the top billing in an attempt
to attract more readers. These comics had the same mixture
of stories featuring all of the Foodini cast but
increasingly there were stories which had nothing to do with
Foodini - often characters from other Fawcett publications.
There were also fewer ads for licensed products. The cover
price for these comics was still 10 cents. Interestingly,
Doris Brown's picture appears on three of the four covers
(missing on issue #4.) The Great Foodini. Vol 1, No 1,
March 1950 Pinhead and Foodini. Vol 1, No
1, July 1951 An issue of "Jingle Dingle Christmas Stocking Comics",
Vol 2, No 1, 1951 - Stanhall Publications, has on the cover:
" Featuring your favorite characters from radio, television
& comics" and "the Bunin Puppets Foodini &
Pinhead."
The Adventures of Foodini The
Great. Vol 1, No 2, April 1950
The Great Foodini, Vol 1, No 3,
May 1950
The Great Foodini, Vol 1, No 4,
August 1950
Pinhead and Foodini. Vol. 1, No
2, Sept 1951
Pinhead and Foodini. Vol 1 No 3,
Nov 1951
Pinhead and Foodini. Vol 1, No 4,
Dec 1951
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©2004 Rhett Bryson
If you have ANY Foodini stories, pictures, material or
information,
Please eMail Rhett
Bryson (rhett.bryson@furman.edu)
Last Updated 03/18/2004