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Issue #2
The second issue of The Dick Van Dyke Show comic book from Gold Key was not quite as good as the first issue. It featured two stories, each twelve pages in length. In the first, "Sally of the Jungle," a Johnny Weismuller-type actor guest-stars on The Alan Brady Show and he and Sally hit it off. When he has to go back to Africa to film his next Jungle Man movie, Sally agrees to quit her job and go off with him. (He promises they'll be married by "an authentic tribal chieftain and witch doctor.") Unfortunately, when Sally gets a look at how the guy eats (all raw plants and insects) and how they'll have to live — to say nothing of her prospective mother-in-law, who she refers to as "Cheetah" — it's back to New York, the single life and the TV business for her. This was the only appearance in the comic of Sally's occasional boy friend from the TV show, Herman Glimsher but the artist obviously didn't have any reference on Bill Idelson, the actor who played the role. Herman looks more like Buddy Hackett. In the second story in the issue, "Rob's Bad Luck Day," Rob Petrie accidentally bumps a little old gypsy woman at the supermarket and she angrily puts what she calls a "bad luck curse" on him. Rob doesn't believe in curses but as one thing after another goes wrong, he starts believing. After he accidentally spills an entire vat of fruit punch on Mel Cooley, Rob panics. He and Buddy go racing around town, looking for the old gypsy woman so he can beg her to remove the curse. It's kind of a silly plot and the ending (except for the part about the blintzes) is rather predictable. I don't know who did the scripts or art on this issue and the latter, after the nice job by Dan Spiegle in #1, is a definite letdown. Dan doesn't know why he was taken off the book after only one issue, as he very much enjoyed the assignment. The best things about this issue are the little one-page gag where Laura installs a mechanical safety net on the ottoman for when Rob trips, and the two-page filler story of "Buddy Sorrell, the Human Joke Machine." All in all, a definite disappointment. |
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