Wednesday, December 2, 2015
THE GONE&FORGOTTEN ADVENT(ure) CALENDAR: DAY TWO
The Adventures of Bob Hope
Starting out its existence as some sort of sexual harassment how-to manual, The Adventures of Bob Hope found its footing later on by expanding its cast to include a high school full of Universal Movie Monsters and a shape-changing super-nephew - and reducing Hope's role primarly to a constantly alarmed bystander. The earliest issues of the series, however, made Bill Cosby look like the Bill Cosby of thirty years ago by comparison.
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