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Here's a few for All Hallows' Day...

THE MIGHTY DUCKS (1992)
dir: Stephen Herek

MIGHTY DORKS 2 1/2
Cracked Collectors' Edition #99, July 1994
w: Lou Silverstone
a: Walter Brogan

Though the title takes off on the sequel and was published in anticipation of it, it mainly parodies the first one in flashbacks, since the contents of the sequel wouldn't be known at the time of execution. There were three in all, as well as remakes and an actual hockey team.

The movie is about Gordon Bombay (Emilio Estevez), a lawyer attested for drunk driving and sentenced to community service by having to coach a little league hockey team.

In this splash page are Tonya Harding, an olympic skating hopeful disqualified for arranging to kneecap her rival, Erik and Lyle Menendez, twins convicted of killing their parents, and Lorena Bobbitt, who made headlines for cutting off her husband's penis. It's strange that Beavis and Butthead are there too since they were always being compared to the Menendez brothers.

Gordon having to coach a hockey team brings back memories of being a child hockey player himself and lost the championship while coping with the loss of his father.

The team Gordon played on as a kid, the Hawks, is now the team the Ducks has to go up against.

The worst player is given a chance and ends up winning the game, a concept that has never been used in any sports movie for kids before or after.

EXODUS (1960)
dir: Otto Preminger

SAL MINEO GOES TO WAR
Sick #5, April 1961

FLAMING STAR (1960)
dir: Don Siegel

STARR FLAME
Sick #5, April 1961

FOUR FOR TEXAS (1963)
dir: Robert Aldrich

FOUR FACES VEST
Sick #27, March 1964

HOW THE WEST WAS WON (1962)
dirs: Henry Hathaway, John Ford, George Marshall
HOW THE WEST WAS LOST
Sick #22, August 1963