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'''Video Comic Books''' is a segment on the 1977 show ''[[Pinwheel (partially found Nickelodeon puppet series; 1977-1990)|Pinwheel]]''. It was broadcasted on the Pinwheel block in 1979 as a segment, along with PopClips and Hocus Focus, and was later renamed '''Video Comicz''' in 1980. The segment focused on reading comic books, featuring the voices of Diane Disque, William Hamilton, and Charles Pickard. It only read comics published by DC Comics (since, at the time, Nickelodeon and DC Comics were both owned by Warner Communications), and it aired around the times of 3:00 PM, 5:00 PM, 7:00 PM, and 9:00 PM on weekdays, and 2:00 PM, 3:30 PM, and 5:00 PM on weekends. | '''Video Comic Books''' is a segment on the 1977 show ''[[Pinwheel (partially found Nickelodeon puppet series; 1977-1990)|Pinwheel]]''. It was broadcasted on the Pinwheel block in 1979 as a segment, along with PopClips and Hocus Focus, and was later renamed '''Video Comicz''' in 1980. The segment focused on reading comic books, featuring the voices of Diane Disque, William Hamilton, and Charles Pickard. It only read comics published by DC Comics (since, at the time, Nickelodeon and DC Comics were both owned by Warner Communications), and it aired around the times of 3:00 PM, 5:00 PM, 7:00 PM, and 9:00 PM on weekdays, and 2:00 PM, 3:30 PM, and 5:00 PM on weekends. | ||
Not much is really known about the segment, and the only evidence of its existence is one clip from a reading of "Swamp Thing" and a promo. | Not much is really known about the segment, and the only evidence of its existence is one clip from a reading of "Swamp Thing" and a promo. | ||
==Comics Known | ==Comics Known to Have Been Read on the Show== | ||
•Swamp Thing | •Swamp Thing | ||
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==Videos== | ==Videos== | ||
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|description1 =Reading of 'Swamp Thing' | |||
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|description2 =Promo for Video Comic Books | |||
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[[Category:Lost TV]] | [[Category:Lost TV]] | ||
[[Category:Partially lost media]] | [[Category:Partially lost media]] | ||
Revision as of 12:00, 5 April 2018
Title card for 'Video Comic Books'.
Status: Partially Lost
Video Comic Books is a segment on the 1977 show Pinwheel. It was broadcasted on the Pinwheel block in 1979 as a segment, along with PopClips and Hocus Focus, and was later renamed Video Comicz in 1980. The segment focused on reading comic books, featuring the voices of Diane Disque, William Hamilton, and Charles Pickard. It only read comics published by DC Comics (since, at the time, Nickelodeon and DC Comics were both owned by Warner Communications), and it aired around the times of 3:00 PM, 5:00 PM, 7:00 PM, and 9:00 PM on weekdays, and 2:00 PM, 3:30 PM, and 5:00 PM on weekends.
Not much is really known about the segment, and the only evidence of its existence is one clip from a reading of "Swamp Thing" and a promo.
Comics Known to Have Been Read on the Show
•Swamp Thing
•Green Lantern
•The Flash
•Sugar and Spike
•Adam Strange
•Doodles Duck
•The Atom
•The Three Musketeers
•Nutsy Squirrel