"When all's said and done Leonardo, there is such a thing as too much realism in hi-fi!"
Although spoken in 1964, the modern quest for high definition imagery leads down some thorny paths as well. Today we find our protagonist 'Clyde Crashcup', a Ross Bagdasarian creation, in the fifth book of his short five-issue run, seeking to improve his hi-fi set with mixed results.
From the John Stanley / Irving Tripp creative team that wrote and drew so many terrific 'Little Lulu' stories for Dell Comics comes this quirky series about a 'real gone' scientist and would-be inventor, adapted from his segments on the televised cartoon program The Alvin Show between October 1961 and September 1962 as voiced by Shepard Menken (in his impression of actor Richard Haydn).
Discover who really put the 'woof' in your woofers right after the jump!
Unfortunately, not many clips of Crashcup online, but here's a sample:
Even as a kid I wondered why his mustache ran under his nose rather than along his lip.
Posted by: Taxman | March 30, 2013 at 06:29 PM
I still have my "Alvin Show' soundtrack LP from childhood, and always loved the Clyde Crashcup parts. 'Re for Re and Cord for Cord....Rrrrecord'.
Posted by: Cal Zone! | April 01, 2013 at 03:49 PM