Dick Cole is a reliable fella. You can always count on him to come, no matter how hard it gets.

@AxeGaijin

Жыл бұрын

It is rumoured that sometimes he even arrives too early, but I've been told that happens to the best of us....

@rojaws1183

Жыл бұрын

He is usually a big softie.

@papaonta

Жыл бұрын

i see what you did there

@bfdidc6604

Жыл бұрын

@@rojaws1183 But don't piss him off!

@rojaws1183

Жыл бұрын

@@bfdidc6604 Yeah he can be a straight hard guy if he need to.

"But after reading all 151 Dick Cole comics..." WHAT THE HECK? The amount of dedication to your videos are insane. Hope this does well!

@ComicTropes

Жыл бұрын

Most of the stories were only 8 to 10 pages.

@Enigmanaut

Жыл бұрын

@@ComicTropes So, 1200 to 1500 pages? Selling yourself short...

@facespaz

Жыл бұрын

@@ComicTropes That's still an abnormal amount of Dick Cole

@ridhosamudro2199

Жыл бұрын

That's a lot of Dick!

@wellesradio

Жыл бұрын

@@Enigmanaut All in all, about 4-6 hours of reading.

Chris: The name was a deliberate innuendo Me: I'm not sure, what about Dick Grays... Chris: He had a brother named Rod Me: ... Ok, you're right.

@a.champagne6238

Жыл бұрын

Dick grazing?

I was saddened when you didn’t read the Professor’s dialogue bubble because it had to be the funniest one: “No one would believe me- no one would give me a chance to prove my theories. But now we’ll show ‘em, Dick!” Sage advice in any era.

Richard Head

@dante_0962

Жыл бұрын

Richard Diamond.

@Electric-vo9zv

Жыл бұрын

Mike Hunt

@ragnadrabinowitz7629

Жыл бұрын

jack mehoffer

@paulheap1982

Жыл бұрын

A company I used to work for had an area manager named Richard Cheese.

@dc9662

Жыл бұрын

Headmaster Richard de Balzac

A baby lounging in gamma rays and saying "My name is Dick Cole" may be my new favorite comic panel of all time.

@JonathanFournier

Жыл бұрын

May have spoke too soon. Just got to the panel with the poor sea turtle.

Fun fact about novelty: they made the blue bolt to be their big title ala superman. However the character didn't garner much attention, where as Cole who was published in side stories became more popular. Rather than immediately making a separate magazine for Cole, Novelty kept futily promoting BB, going so far as eliminating his fantastical origin and making him MORE like Dick Cole. By the time they did concied to giving Col his own title, the company was already falling under and the character had lost his initial popularity

@TheEndKing

Жыл бұрын

Now that's some Vince McMahon thinking.

@leress

Жыл бұрын

Comic Tropes did a video pretty recently about Blue Bolt.

@michaelwalsh9616

Жыл бұрын

@@leress I learned about it from Austin McConnell who made a video about the blue bolt

@leress

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelwalsh9616 Yeah, I got them confused I also watched that video from Austin. That was the video I was talking about.

@cha5

Жыл бұрын

Blue Bolt’s glory days were during the earliest Simon & Kirby run IMHO, after they left that comic he was pretty much redundant.

Dick Cole looks like he got balls of steel and I feel like he would make a great seaman

I have to admit, I didn't think I'd see a video about Dick Cole coming. Thank you Chris for cranking these out. You're hard work really is a pleasure.

@TheDing1701

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣

@Jezee213

Жыл бұрын

haha! ok, that got me, nicely done.

"Our editors keep objectionable material out of this publication."

Why did Marvel publish a comic called "Giant Size Man Thing"?

@legoarkhamiteproductions4869

Жыл бұрын

I think that was intentional. If I’m not mistaken Steve Gerber created that title, and he loved jokes like that, particularly in Howard The Duck. The title I think was initially in reference to Marvel’s Giant Size issues, basically the equivalent of DC’s 80 Page Giants, but the innuendo probably made him want to use the title more.

I wonder if a modern innuendo-laden Dick Cole comic would be able to take off.

@tommylakindasorta3068

Жыл бұрын

You might say it would face some ... stiff competition.

@alchemistofsteel8099

Жыл бұрын

It could be like Venture bros

@Clay3613

Жыл бұрын

Campy Gay military men?

@benw9949

Жыл бұрын

He got his expert marksmanship award. they said he was a straight shooter. Well...possibly in one sense but not the other? Anyway, he had great aim.

@Chairmangoodchild

Жыл бұрын

I certainly hope Dick will rise again!

So, did Dick Cole ever wrestle with the One-Eyed Wonder Worm?

That comic just kept dad jokes going, in one, long, incredibly unbroken arc. Moving from innuendo to innuendo.

@archmagefrey

Жыл бұрын

It was really quite hypnotic.

@shavedape6679

Жыл бұрын

The first duty of every comic tropes video is to the truth, whether it's scientific truth or historical truth or personal truth

Wow, I'm going to have to find some of these Dick Cole stories. I never thought I'd be so interested in Dick, but I can honestly say I'd like to grab as much Dick Cole as I can get my hands on! Yes, from this moment on, I'm a big fan of Dick!

Just opened the video, but wanted to leave comment so I don't forget to do so later! Thanks for everything you do Chris, I've been watching for a while, and you definitely got me back into reading comics Wish you all the best man!

@monoinyo

Жыл бұрын

I'm giving a like before I even watch because chris don't miss

I first thought that "Why does his named Dick but he's not a detective" until Rod was mention then I was like "Ahhh... Yeah that was intentional" Made me think that was one of the reason why it was much more popular then the Blue Bolt.

@jameshowlettii761

Жыл бұрын

@@simonbrehm358 🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀💀👌

I guess calling him Harry Balls would have been too much.

I needed to start my week with something silly. Superhero timing as always, Chris. Thank you!

Let us not forget there was also a syndicated radio program that starred our intrepid hero made in the mid 1940s! At least one episode is here on KZread😉

My favourite Dick Cole story is the one where he rescues his girlfriend Amy Atus from a one-eyed monster.

These golden age deep dives are literally the best!

I also enjoyed reading The Adventures of Mike Hunt.

@nobel11

Жыл бұрын

And who can forget when they had that epic crossover with Mike Ox?

@tommylakindasorta3068

Жыл бұрын

@@nobel11 And the time he went up against Jack Mehoff.

@deliusmyth5063

Жыл бұрын

And his brother Isaac.

@kanna-san.

4 ай бұрын

​@@deliusmyth5063and their sister Yora.

I am very impressed by the restraint shown in this video in regards to not throwing in a ton of extra "Dick Cole" jokes and innuendo. I would not have been able to resist that low-hanging fruit.

Dick Cole was also a real dude! this comic character was *not* based upon him though. "Richard Eugene Cole (September 7, 1915 - April 9, 2019) was a United States Air Force colonel. During World War II, he was one of the airmen who took part in the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, Japan, on April 18, 1942. He served as the co-pilot to Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle in the lead airplane of the raid by sixteen B-25 bombers, which for the first time took off from an aircraft carrier on a bombing mission."

I had a teacher whose name was surnames was pronounced the same as "pretty". And his first name was Richard. I alway laughed at him being Dick Pretty or Pretty, Dick.

@RickReasonnz

Жыл бұрын

Oh, that reminds me on when in school we had a Roll of Honour read out every year during our memorial day.. "Brown, I" says the headmaster, and the immature young kids would crack up giggling every damn time.

These types of videos are my favourite, always really enjoy the humour

I love golden age characters so much

Missed opportunity to have his rival/arch nemesis be named Mike Hunt.

Yay, more golden age!!! My favorite content you make, Chris!

There was more Dick in this episode than anything else and I managed to sit through it without laughing too much. I've seen this comic a long time ago somewhere at a comic shop but had no clue what in the world it was but the name was still laugh out loud funny and glad to see the creators were definitely in on the joke. Those times were wild man.

Do a feature on Holden and Sharon Cox next!

You should review Crimebuster from Boy Comics. His costume is basically his school hockey uniform. I found many of the stories to be very entertaining.

Kind of surreal. I'm sitting hear watching this @ work and had to pause and go back when Chris mentioned the Saturday Evening Post and Novelty Press being a subsidiary of Curtis Publishing. My job is in the Curtis Building, which I never expected to be tangentially referenced in a comic tropes video. Ha!

Why WOULDN'T you call your comic Dick Cole if you had the chance?

This sounds like a character Grant Morrison or Alan Moore would have a field day with.

Before the video i got a survey about which store i would consider buying from and one of them was Dick's Sporting Goods

@tommylakindasorta3068

Жыл бұрын

Wouldn't it be interesting if Dick's merged with Kohl's?

Given my own last name, I was a little wary of where this video was going to go. However, I was pleasantly surprised and really enjoyed hearing about all those weird and wonderful adventures!

@KevinSorbo.

Жыл бұрын

Daniel dick holes is an epic name. Flex that shit

Holy innuendo Batman! Great job as always!

Always enjoy watching your content, Chris, your channel is my favourite one for comics by far! Thanks for sharing your content, all the best!

I actually already knew about Dick Cole! Austin McConnell made a video about Blue Bolt in his process of making a copyright-free superhero universe; he mentioned Dick Cole while telling the story.😊

All this modern-day "gay-panick" with children when meanwhile in the 1940's...

@-Teague-

Жыл бұрын

The more things change the more things stay the same 😂

@corrosivecabal

Жыл бұрын

@@-Teague- the joke is that they had more of a reason to suspect that was the case in the 40s, which makes it all the more obvious that people are just being intolerant bigoted liars today.

This is the first new Comic Tropes video I've watched, so glad the intro got a facelift. Love the channel!

Great video. Hope you're doing okay. I remember you mentioned health issues earlier.

Every time I think about the panel with the tiny muscular baby posing under the heat lamp wearing sunglasses/goggles repeating "I am Dick Cole"...straight up giggles every time.

I like that compared to other Golden Age characters, this one doesnt seem that bad, at least it's got variety in stories etc

To the people claiming it was all innocent and we just have our minds in the gutter, I defy you to explain the panel at 6:26 that reads: Bongo ties Dick to the ducking stool with leather thongs taken from an exhibit. "I'm gonna dunk you, woodenhead, until you're waterlogged ... O-oh! Somebody's comin'!"

" Dick Cole Vs. Fish Stix Vs. Fact Hunt "... now there is a slobber-knocker (arf) for the Ages. Fun video Chris. I like these light ones :) Cheers! JpD.

This research seems to counter Jeff Rovin’s old hypothesis that the height of Golden Age double entendres was the meeting of the Red Torpedo and Queen Klitra.

I think I spotted a dangling participle in there.

Thank you for this deep dive into Dick Cole.

Awesome video 🙂 Thank you. And I love the music intro/outro! Your content makes me feel good about comics again!

Videos like these are why I LOVE this channel. Never change, Chris.

Oh man, I haven't thought of Strokin' in years 🤣🤣🤣 thank you for reminding me

Haha, this was wild! I've never heard of this character, but that's what I appreciate about your videos - they can bring such things to my attention!

Remember: Dick Cole be strokin', not smokin,.

Dick Cole is gonna be my new alter ego

One day I would love to see some work gathering together all those wacky Golden Age characters, especially since most of them are now public domain.

@jonathand.t.5051

Жыл бұрын

Austin McConnell is trying to do just that lmao

I find it hilarious how L.B. Cole bought the rights to Dick Cole 😂

You're the most awesome comic KZread host, Chris. Videos like this prove it with your selection of topics.

@jabezcreed

Жыл бұрын

Most commentators wouldn't touch a character like Dick Cole, but I think it's safe to say Dick Cole will be long remembered thanks to your work.

This was a ri-DICK-ulous episode! Bwa Ha Haa!

Thank you for this, Chris! I'd never heard of this character, but he sounds hilarious! There'll be someone out there who is no doubt offended by this comic, by as a Gay man myself, I love both the comedy and the history. Brilliant! Thank you, my Dude. ;)

All of the double entendre aside, the funniest part for me was his rowing team getting mad at him when his oar broke. It wasn't his fault!

Mike Rotch

@ALIEN-DUDE

Жыл бұрын

Has anyone seen Mike rotch?

this was great thanks for doing it.

Love when you do golden age video! Thx bro

Greetings from Cali Colombia My friend,keep the great work!!

I love your videos on obscure Golden age comics.

Beavis and Butt-Head would've loved this comic!

Loving these editions

No comment to the note "Our editors keep objectionable material out of this publication."?

@ComicTropes

Жыл бұрын

I figured if I simply included it, plenty of folks like yourself would notice.

Classic Comic Tropes humor! Great episode!😂

This character needs a revival. It would be a great comedy. Edit: Does annyone knows if Dick Colle is public domain?

This must be one of those gateway videos because now I'm really into Dick. Dick Cole to be precise .

Another fun golden age examination. You switching places with your puppet kinda freaked me out.

Another great episode

Imagine being a comic book kid back in the day and going from your favorite character, Dick Cole, defeating a rampaging dinosaur one month while the next month's story just has him winning the school track meet. I don't think I would have stayed on that roller-coaster.

@D_Fyre

Жыл бұрын

I had the same thought lol

Potty humor is timeless

This is already turning into one of the most entertaining comment sections in a long time. Thanks, Dick Cole!

Never imagined I would see Clarence Carter show up on Comic Tropes. Ain't complaining

Very nice! Did you do any videos on KULL? Or GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY? Thanks a million from Iraq

Oh wild! I just watched a video about Blue Bolt not that long ago.

Sadly, after WWII, his fortunes took a turn for the worse and he took up organized crime under the name Big Dix.

@skarloey1214

Жыл бұрын

Until he was beating by blue beetle

I have been trying to catch up on your videos, and if you haven't talked about it already, I hope your feeling alot better and getting the best treatment buddy

I feel called out

With your quest for innuendo I don’t believe you missed at 10 minutes and 27 seconds what his friend calls the lion he is about to go wrestle.

@ComicTropes

Жыл бұрын

Oh, I had LOTS more examples and didn't call all of them out. Check out the first baseball image I use right BEFORE I mention football.

I can imagine the people making this comic, snickering all the time.

Thanks for the golden age comics series.

Many coxswains used to have such megaphones strapped to their heads, because both hands were used to steer via cable. Electric mike and speakers are now more common.

Found myself laughing out loud at 6:00. I wonder if my grandpa ever read Dick Cole.

This had me dying great vid

.... you have just got to be kidding me. "$3xual innuendos" aside...this is one of the funniest episodes you've done yet. Thank you for helping make my (1st day) at work a lot easier to get done...😅😅😅!!!

Whoa. There was some strange sh&* back then... Thanks for the video!

I can't stop laughing everytime you say Dick Cole.

It was the 1940’s, he was a much more innocent time, and that sounds like the kind of “rough and tumble” name that was popular then

Damn that intro goes hard!

Hahaha, often innuendo is always there when you're really LOOKING for it. Sometimes finding it says more about you than about what you looking at.😄

The amount of innuendos in this video is killing me

2:22 The Art by Jim WilCOX is a perfect touch

I always look forward to these bonkers Golden Age episodes. Now all I want is to see Dick Cole versus Big Dix!