# Comics with "footnotes"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** comic-books-manga, star-trek-paramount\ **Created:** [January 20, 2025, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-with-footnotes/1013144 "2025-01-20T01:28:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-with-footnotes/1013144/41 "2025-01-24T12:53:05Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > DC wasn’t always superheroes. In addition to the above comics for children, they also published comic versions of Jerry Lewis and Bob Hope. I’ve never forgotten the name of Bob’s hapless assistant: Tadwallader Jutefruice. And if I recall correctly, DC also had some romance comics too. For some reason, although the stores that sold comic books in my area had the DC Jerry Lewis comic, but never the Bob Hope one (nor Sugar and Spike, or Fox and Crow), so I didn’t get to experience this firsthand. But I picked up and have frequently re-read Jon Morris’ book **The League of Regrettable Sidekicks** , where I learned about Jutefruce and his alter ego, _Super Hip!_. In the section devoted to Super Hip, Morris gives as the reason for introducing the character “To keep Hope alive”. Apparently it didn’t do so. Less than a dozen issues after the character first appeared, _The Adventures of Bob Hope_ folded. I also looked up some of those last issues. One thing that Morris’ book didn’t mention was that at the time the story lines were heavily involved with a university sat which the professors looked like Universal Horror monsters. A few years earlier the Jerry Lewis comic was obsessed with Universal monsters, but had since ,oved on to exploiting its DC connections by having Jerry impersonating DC superheroes. > **[Amazon.com: The League of Regrettable Sidekicks: Heroic Helpers from Comic Book...](https://www.amazon.com/League-Regrettable-Sidekicks-Helpers-History/dp/1683690761)** > > Amazon.com: The League of Regrettable Sidekicks: Heroic Helpers from Comic Book History!: 9781683690764: Morris, Jon: Books ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2025, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-with-footnotes/1013144/42 "2025-01-25T13:14:46Z")
A lot of those old “children’s comics” from DC have been archived on the Internet. I spent last evening leafing through issues of _ **Sugar and Spike** _ that go all the way back to No. 1, and was amazed at the memories they evoked. I’ll start looking at _ **The Fox and the Crow** _ when I have the time, but haven’t found _ **The Three Mouseketeers** _ yet. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2025, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-with-footnotes/1013144/43 "2025-01-25T15:21:46Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > DC wasn’t always superheroes. Originally, presumably, detectives. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-with-footnotes/1013144.md?page=2)