One of my favorite conventions/tropes of American super hero comic books has always been the anthropomorphic funny animal super hero parody....characters such as DC Comics' CAPTAIN CARROT (and his Amazing Zoo Crew) and Marvel's PETER PORKER, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-HAM have amused and fascinated me since childhood, and this fascination stretches back to the Golden Age. Admittedly, I've spent way too much time and money tracking down back issues of Fawcett's HOPPY THE MARVEL BUNNY, Charlton's ATOMIC MOUSE, and DC's FUNNY STUFF (home of Golden Age Flash parody, The Terrific Whatzit!)...
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| Electric Tiki's fantastic mini maquette from 2014 that's way too expensive for my tastes these days. |
From Wikipedia:
"Super Goof is Goofy's superhero alter ego who gets his powers by eating super goobers (peanuts). Goofy became the first Disney character to also be a superhero, but several would follow, including Donald Duck as Paperinik.
The initial concept was developed by Disney Publications Dept. head George Sherman and Disney United Kingdom merchandising representative Peter Woods. It was passed on to Western Publishing scripter Del Connell who refined it, including the eventual device of peanuts providing superpowers.
The initial version of Super Goof appeared in "The Phantom Blot meets Super Goof", in Walt Disney's The Phantom Blot No. 2 (Feb. 1965) by Connell (story) and Paul Murry (art). There Goofy mistakenly believes he has developed superpowers. A second version appeared as an actual superhero in the four-page story "All's Well That Ends Awful" in Donald Duck No. 102 (July 1965), also by Connell and Murry."
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| The first two appearances of Super Goof |
As I mentioned above, Gold Key's SUPER GOOF was a childhood favorite that slowly became the comic book equivalent of comfort food for me. Any time I ran across a copy of the book in the wild, whether it be at an LCS, used bookstore, flea market, wherever...especially if it was cheap (it always was), I'd make the purchase. Recently, I began the task of acquiring a complete run of the book, actually making a concentrated and focused effort to obtain the issues I need (at this point I own around 40 issues, including the first two appearances outside the ongoing solo series, a little over half of the book's 74 issue run).
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| Super Goof #1 (October 1965, Gold Key/ Western Publishing) |
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| Super Goof #61 (1980, Whitman/Western Publishing) |
SUPER GOOF #61 has the distinction of being possibly the rarest Western Publishing book from their decades long history due to it having had no newsstand distribution at all, available only in select "Whitman 3 Packs" distributed primarily to toy stores in 1980, and nobody really knows how many were printed and distributed for each title sold in this manner...or how many copies actually survive today.
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