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Monday, April 8, 2024
THE TOUCHABLES
THE UNTOUCHABLES
1959-1963 ABC
Yesterday, this blog looked at the movie, which was about how Elliott Ness assembled a group that brought down Al Capone. The series was also based on Ness' memoirs, but veered off into fiction as it was about how Ness (Robert Stack) stayed on with the Department of the Treasury and fought Frank Nitti (Bruce Gordon), who took over Capone's empire, and other gangsters, real and made up.
THE TOUCHABLES
Yak Yak #2, March-May 1962
a: Jack Davis
Jack Davis had his own humor comic for a couple issues through Dell's tryout series Four Color Comics, and probably didn't write the material himself.
The Lawless Years was a police show set in the twenties that existed prior to this.
THE UNTOUCHYBULLS
Cracked #16, October 1960
w: Paul Laikin
a: John Severin
The show was narrated by journalist Walter Winchell.
Jerry DeFuccio was an editor at MAD for a long time but was always good friends with John Severin and contributors to competing magazines, and when he was eventually let go by MAD became editor at Cracked for a while. And The Untouchables was one of many movies and TV shows that got complaints from Italian-Americans for stereotyping them.
From Channel Fem-9 in Cracked #38, August 1964, art by John Severin
MAD never did a full parody of the program but used it in several articles.
From When Culture Comes to Top-Rated TV Shows in #69, March 1962, by Larry Siegel and Mort Drucker
From TV's Effect on Children by Stan Hart and Wallace Wood in #79, July 1963.
From Combined TV Shows by Paul Laikin and Mort Drucker, in #47, June 1959. This is a combination of this with The Millonaire.
From Adult TV Cartoons by Al Jaffee and Wallace Wood in #63, June 1961.
THE RETOUCHABLES
Sick #1, August 1960
artist unknown
THE UNTOUCHABLES
Sick #11, February 1962
a: Angelo Torres
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