posted February 15, 2003 12:33 AM            

Nickelodeon ran a show every weekday called video comics. The program opened to the thundering music of Wagner's Ride Of The Valkries as a young boy and girl ran into a store and straight to the spinner rack (Hey kids!COMICS!). They gleefully pawed through Firestorm and other ex/implosion titles. Then the show began.

The format of the show was this- panels of (mostly) Silver Age DC comics shown on the screen as actors read the dialog. Music and sound effects sometimes accompanied the presentation.

It was a great introduction to me of some of DC's best (or strangest) stuff-
Green Lantern, Flash, Swamp Thing, The Three Mousketeers, Space Cabbie, Space Ranger, Adam Strange, Ultra The Multi-Alien, The Atom,and random Mystery In Space stories.

It also introduced me to Sugar and Spike.

It was a wonderful crash course on DC history for the comics obsessed 10 year old I was then. It was another 5 years before I was able to track down issues of Sugar & Spike and Swamp Thing. The Green Lantern stories made Crisis a little clearer when that came around. It also got me into Carmine Infantino's work more than the Star Wars work of the time did.

In the early 90's I started buying up a lot of the early-mid 70's DC reprint comics. Some of what was on the show was reprinted during that time. Three Mousketeers and Adam Strange material being standouts.

All that said-
Does anyone remember this show? Did anyone have cable then??

Patrick Joseph

PS to Bob G.- I am first in line for Sugar and Spike and Adam Strange Archives. I know you're tired of hearing the S&S pleas, but I put my vote in anyway. I have most of the later issues, the DC digests, and the recent reprint. I need to see a volume one of this stuff in my lifetime. I'm 32 now. One book every five years would get me through....