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| This is one strange comic. It suggests that if kids gulp this stuff when they're feeling tired they'll perk right up. Invitation to abuse? Especially since the stuff probably had alcohol in it.
I'd swear some of these panels, especially the Captain's face, were drawn by Jack Sparling! Only the rest of the drawing is too clumsy to be Jack. Maybe the artist swiped Hap Hopper faces??? |
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| FYI, Hadacol contained 12% "preservative"; i.e., alcohol. That made it 24-proof, or the same as many liqueurs. |
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| No wonder the kids were perked up! |
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| If the date on this is right, this book was published the same year that Hadacol's parent company collapsed under the combined weight of debt and an FTC investigation into misleading advertising. Looking at this, it's pretty easy to see why the FTC brought the hammer down. |
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| Publication | Pages: 1 |
| Notes | Cover is reproduced on the internet and is labeled as "Comic Book No. 2", released circa 1951, and is presumed to be a giveaway as it was a promotion for the company's product.....no price indicated.
No script, but lettering is found in the artwork.
This issue does officially exist and one copy is found in the Deborah LeBlanc collection, who supplied scans from the issue for use on the internet. |
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| Featuring | Captain Hadacol |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Hadacol [John Wright]; Red |
| Notes | Cover is reproduced on the internet and is labeled as "Comic Book No. 2", released circa 1951, and is presumed to be a giveaway as it was a promotion for the company's product.....no price indicated.
No script, but lettering is found in the artwork.
This issue does officially exist and one copy is found in the Deborah LeBlanc collection, who supplied scans from the issue for use on the internet. |
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| Synopsis | John takes his boy companion and a girl out to a friends' ranch where they enjoy ranch life, horse breaking, and nightly campfires. At one of the campfires, Ed tells John and the kids that he has never been able to located a hidden treasure on his ranch...a story overheard by a pair of criminals who enter the home that night and locate the treasure map.They make a noise overheard by Wright, who attempts, with Ed, to stop them. Failing, Wright retires to his room and downs some Hadacol, turns into Captain Hadacol, and sets out after them, nailing them at their hideout. |
| Featuring | Captain Hadacol |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Hadacol [John Wright]; Red (companion to Wright); Red's sister; Ed (ranch owner); criminals (villains) |
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| Featuring | Captain Hadacol Fan Club |
| Credits | Letters:?; some typeset |
| Content | Genre: Children; Superhero | Characters: Captain Hadacol [John Wright] |
| Notes | Found on the back cover.
Illustrated advertisement for the Captain Hadacol Fan Club. For one Hadacol box top and 25 cents, a child could get a membership card, a swell Captain Hadacol T-shirt (whose emblem glowed in the dark and had the child's first name printed to the top of the emblem), and an illustrated prize folder, displaying swell prizes the kids could get, simply by saving Hadacol box tops.
The box top and 25 cents for club membership, as well as requests for the prize folder (sent with a penny postcard), were to be mailed to: Captain Hadacol, P. O. Box 582, Lafayette, Louisiana.
The bottom of the page is dated to January of 1951. |
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