Thursday, November 25, 2010

REMINISCING … SPIN AND MARTY

 

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Spin and Marty was a popular series of television shorts that aired as part of ABC’s Mickey Mouse Club show of the mid-1950s produced by Walt Disney.

The series starred David Stollery as the rich, orphaned Martin "Marty" Markham and Tim Considine as the poorer Spin Evans, the most athletic and popular boy at the Triple R Ranch.

There were three serials in all, set at the Triple R Ranch, a boys' western-style summer camp. The first series of 25 eleven-minute episodes, The Adventures of Spin and Marty, was filmed in 1955. Its popularity led to two sequels – The Further Adventures of Spin and Marty in 1956 and The New Adventures of Spin and Marty in 1957.

Western Publishing published comic book adventures of Spin and Marty beginning in 1956, first under Dell Comics Four Color  title (#714, 767, 808, 826) , then under their own title (#5-9), then in Four Color again (#1026 and 1082).

The comic books continued even after the television series had ended, such as issue number 7 in September, 1958 (pictured): Stollery and Considine, by then 17-year olds, are depicted on the cover in their Spin and Marty characters, as they confront danger at the Triple-R Ranch. Disney included this cover with its 2005 DVD release. Gold Key Comics would later reprint some of these stories in their titles, such as the Walt Disney Showcase comic book issue of 1975, "The Treasure of Old Fort Resolute"

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