[DennyWilson]

I know that "Howdy Doody" is the first comic title based on a TV Show , but what are the first and last comics based on a radio show?

(I believe JERICHO  is the most recent comic title based on a TV Show - and a twice cancled show at that!)

[narfstar]

Spartacus is probably the latest. Chuck is also a comic.

[darkmark]

Hard to answer, because there were a few comic strips (I think) that may have been based on radio shows and then reprinted in early comic books.  About the last radio drama, I think, was Johnny Dollar, though I may be wrong, and it didn't make it into the comics.  There were radio versions of a few TV shows like Have Gun, Will Travel, but I doubt that they'd count.  However, Ralston-Purina did release a new Tom Mix giveaway maybe in the '90's.  Wonder if that'd count?

[JVJ]

I know that "Howdy Doody" is the first comic title based on a TV Show , but what are the first and last comics based on a radio show?

(I believe JERICHO  is the most recent comic title based on a TV Show - and a twice cancled show at that!)

Timely/Atlas had a comic book titled Suspense in 1949 that was billed on the cover as being from the Radio Show. The Lone Ranger Dell comic book goes back to Jan. 1948, but he may have earlier appearances in cb's. DC had Gang Busters as early as 1947. I'm sure none of them is the earliest, but then I'm not an OTR fan.

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[JonTheScanner]

The last is going to be hard to define.  Lone Ranger and Green Hornet were both originally radio shows and there are current comics featuring both of those characters so we haven't yet (probably) seen the last comic based on a radio show.

Unless you mean the last time something that originated on radio got its first-ever comic.  In that case I nominate Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy which started on radio in 1978 and finally got a comic book from DC in 1993.

[darkmark]

The Shadow either started out as a radio show or a pulp, but the comic came out in 1940, fairly late in the scheme of things.  GANG BUSTERS began as a radio show and was a comic strip, iirc, long before DC came out with the comic of the same name.  The strip was reprinted in one of Dell's titles, I believe, and that would have been back in the late 30's.  Anyone got an antecedent?

[DennyWilson]

Spartacus is probably the latest. Chuck is also a comic.

I know CHUCK is a comic, been around for awhile  - I was refering to the most recent new title - JERICHO #1 was released in November, when was SPARTACUS issue #1 released?

[DennyWilson]

The last is going to be hard to define.  Lone Ranger and Green Hornet were both originally radio shows and there are current comics featuring both of those characters so we haven't yet (probably) seen the last comic based on a radio show.

Unless you mean the last time something that originated on radio got its first-ever comic.  In that case I nominate Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy which started on radio in 1978 and finally got a comic book from DC in 1993.

Good points - perhaps I should have said last comic based on a Radio show prior to 1960 - which is consitered the last year of regular Radio Dramas.

[narfstar]

Spartacus was OCT 09

[DennyWilson]

Spartacus was OCT 09

Ok, then JERICHO is the most recent new title based on a TV series.