Why Would They Name this Comic Dick Cole?
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Golden Age comic books can be a grab bag of genres and quality but Dick Cole adds something unique to the mix: some bizarre innuendo. Dick Cole was a military cadet who got into adventures like sports competitions and mysteries with gangsters. And every once in a while something stranger, like battling a dinosaur. But what was up with his name?
Dick Cole is a reliable fella. You can always count on him to come, no matter how hard it gets.
It is rumoured that sometimes he even arrives too early, but I've been told that happens to the best of us....
He is usually a big softie.
i see what you did there
@@rojaws1183 But don't piss him off!
@@bfdidc6604 Yeah he can be a straight hard guy if he need to.
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.
"But after reading all 151 Dick Cole comics..." WHAT THE HECK? The amount of dedication to your videos are insane. Hope this does well!
Most of the stories were only 8 to 10 pages.
@@ComicTropes So, 1200 to 1500 pages? Selling yourself short...
@@ComicTropes That's still an abnormal amount of Dick Cole
That's a lot of Dick!
@@Enigmanaut All in all, about 4-6 hours of reading.
Richard Head
Richard Diamond.
Mike Hunt
jack mehoffer
A company I used to work for had an area manager named Richard Cheese.
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.
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
Now that's some Vince McMahon thinking.
Comic Tropes did a video pretty recently about Blue Bolt.
@@leress I learned about it from Austin McConnell who made a video about the blue bolt
@@michaelwalsh9616 Yeah, I got them confused I also watched that video from Austin. That was the video I was talking about.
Blue Bolt’s glory days were during the earliest Simon & Kirby run IMHO, after they left that comic he was pretty much redundant.
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.
🤣🤣
haha! ok, that got me, nicely done.
I wonder if a modern innuendo-laden Dick Cole comic would be able to take off.
You might say it would face some ... stiff competition.
It could be like Venture bros
Campy Gay military men?
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.
I certainly hope Dick will rise again!
Dick Cole looks like he got balls of steel and I feel like he would make a great seaman
"Our editors keep objectionable material out of this publication."
So, did Dick Cole ever wrestle with the One-Eyed Wonder Worm?
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.
@@simonbrehm358 🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀💀👌
My favourite Dick Cole story is the one where he rescues his girlfriend Amy Atus from a one-eyed monster.
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 RUclips😉
I also enjoyed reading The Adventures of Mike Hunt.
And who can forget when they had that epic crossover with Mike Ox?
@@nobel11 And the time he went up against Jack Mehoff.
And his brother Isaac.
@@deliusmyth5063and their sister Yora.
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."
These golden age deep dives are literally the best!
Why WOULDN'T you call your comic Dick Cole if you had the chance?
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.
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.
Holy innuendo Batman!
Great job as always!
Before the video i got a survey about which store i would consider buying from and one of them was Dick's Sporting Goods
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!
Daniel dick holes is an epic name. Flex that shit
I love golden age characters so much
All this modern-day "gay-panick" with children when meanwhile in the 1940's...
The more things change the more things stay the same 😂
@@-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.
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.
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.😊
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.
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!
Yay, more golden age!!! My favorite content you make, Chris!
This is the first new Comic Tropes video I've watched, so glad the intro got a facelift. Love the channel!
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'!"
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
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.
Austin McConnell is trying to do just that lmao
Loved and studied comic books since the 70s and I've never even thought Dick Cole sounded like Dick Hole.
I think I spotted a dangling participle in there.
Sadly, after WWII, his fortunes took a turn for the worse and he took up organized crime under the name Big Dix.
Until he was beating by blue beetle
" 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.
No comment to the note "Our editors keep objectionable material out of this publication."?
I figured if I simply included it, plenty of folks like yourself would notice.
I find it hilarious how L.B. Cole bought the rights to Dick Cole 😂
Dick Cole is gonna be my new alter ego
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. ;)
Oh man, I haven't thought of Strokin' in years 🤣🤣🤣 thank you for reminding me
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!
I can imagine the people making this comic, snickering all the time.
Mike Rotch
Has anyone seen Mike rotch?
I feel called out
Beavis and Butt-Head would've loved this comic!
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.
Another fun golden age examination. You switching places with your puppet kinda freaked me out.
Never imagined I would see Clarence Carter show up on Comic Tropes. Ain't complaining
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.😄
Clearly he should be called "innuendo man"
Found myself laughing out loud at 6:00. I wonder if my grandpa ever read Dick Cole.
5:00 "Our editors keep objectionable material out of this publication."🤨
this is the type of jokes in the sham comics that if you have never seen they are worth every penny.
I have just made myself familiar with this character courtesy of the Comic Book Plus website heartily recommended by yourself. The name Dick Cole would have been the Carry On character that escaped (if you're familiar with Carry On films as us British, you'll know what I'm on about).
One point about this video: there's a disclaimer note at 4:56 that says "Our editors keep objectionable material out of this publication". Yeah, right...😜
Good to see you're keeping the British end up. 😳
This is already turning into one of the most entertaining comment sections in a long time. Thanks, Dick Cole!
3:13 That's an awesome drawing!
Very nice! Did you do any videos on KULL? Or GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY? Thanks a million from Iraq
I love the part where Dick is strokin
The super-baby treatment is reminiscent of Philip Wylie’s Hugo Danner, as well as Doc Savage and Captain Future (the pulp magazine one, not the comicbook one).
2:22 The Art by Jim WilCOX is a perfect touch
I can't stop laughing everytime you say Dick Cole.
Thank you for covering D.C. comic books
Classic Comic Tropes humor! Great episode!😂
See Dick Cole vault to the tip of his majestic pole! See Dick Cole doing his own sounding on the white water rapids! See Dick Cole dock his vessle with Carrot's dinghy! GET IT?!
I tried to buy a copy of Dick Cole, but had to pay the troll toll first.
Obviously they should've named him Private Dick P. Johnson instead.
Greetings from Cali Colombia My friend,keep the great work!!
"we kin quick see who's got a load 'o rock salt in 'im!" And with that my dinner came out my nose.
Thanks for sharing Chris. (My wife and child will never be the same.)
I wasn't expecting to see Clarence Carter pop up in a Comic Tropes video 🤣
I created a new character. The great grandson of Dick Cole.......Dick Cole the Third. This way we can have a variety of Dick Cole's.😂😂😂😂😂😂
Thanks for the golden age comics series.
The usage of “Dick” as a nickname for Richard is older than its slang use. Are you sure you’re not seeing innuendo where none was intended?
His brothers name is rod
@@ALIEN-DUDE According to the Social Security Administration’s baby name data, “Rodney,” “Roderick,” and even “Rod” were more popular male names in the 1940s than they are today.
This feels like a precursor to The Ambiguosly Gay Duo, from SNL.
Nowdays you have to pray for your favorite hero to get a 4 issue mini, but Dick Cole got 151 comics
.... 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...😅😅😅!!!
@4:48 Also notice how he's holding the dummy. While saying: Phony gag.
I used to work with Paul Maringelli, who was a former colorist for Harvey Comics. He said one time he was working on a "men's sophisticate" magazine (e.g. Playboy competitor) in the early seventies, when his boss, a World War II veteran, asked him to come up with funny names. Paul suggested Dick Hertz, but his boss said, "What's funny about that? It's just a name!"
Do you know about Toni Gay and Butch Dykeman?
"Dick Cole was ahead of the curve on that one." I see what you did there.
Well, this didn't go at all where I thought it would... I'll have to watch that again later to keep track of the quick-fire hilarity.
I love your videos on obscure Golden age comics.
Maaaan. Thay dude had to be laughing when he wrote 'polish his bobsled'
Damn that intro goes hard!
I wonder whether this was mentioned in Seduction of the Innocent...
Prof. finds the baby: Maybe I should change that name. Nah!
We never got a Dick Cole v. Big Dix crossover. Someone needs to get on that.
3:48 Carrot Smith looks like an evil scarecrow who found an ill-fitting human costume.
Jonathan Crane: Origins
It's hard to imagine something bigger than Dick Cole.
Turtle: What the hell, Dick?! Im not even dangerous!
Whoa. There was some strange sh&* back then...
Thanks for the video!
Oh!,, after you said the name the third time I finally figured out the name.
I'll have to do a deep dive into Dick Cole, myself!! Thanks for the heads up
I always look forward to these bonkers Golden Age episodes. Now all I want is to see Dick Cole versus Big Dix!
Dick Cole sounds like a character from that Bucky Larson movie 🤣
You should definitely make a video about Blue Bolt! I think its the first time Jack Kirby and Joe Simon worked together?
Why name him Dick Cole? Because they didn't have room to write Richard. 😆 Sorry. I'm feeling silly too.
That's the coal Santa leaves behind for bad children as opposed to the BBQ , diamond stuff
I mean... with a character like that, I would be happy to read a webcomic or webtoon about him, getting a good laugh at innuendos and reading very casually in the modern era.