The great comedy duo of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy will be returning in the form of comic book characters. These new comics will be released by American Mythology Comics, which has also made comic books featuring The Three Stooges, Pink Panther, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Rocky and Bullwinkle and Underdog. The series will be written by S.A. Check and Jordon Gershowitz and will have art by Jorge Pacheco (Looney Tunes and Scooby Doo comic books). American Mythology will both create new material with Laurel and Hardy as well as reprint some of the duo's previous comic book appearances dating back to 1949. This will include material previously published by Dell Comics, Gold Key Comics and DC Comics. The first issue of the new series of Laurel and Hardy comics will be released this April. Below is the cover of this first issue. Notice how the design of Stan and Ollie highly resemble that of the Hanna-Barbera and Larry Harmon animated Laurel and Hardy tv series of the 1960's.
As mentioned earlier this was hardly the first appearance of Laurel and Hardy in comic books. Their previous comic book career include comics from various different companies with the earliest examples being in 1949 and the latest being in 1987. It is great to see this tradition continue as well as letting the timeless Stan and Ollie characters live on. For an overview of the comic book careers of these two characters I recommend clicking here. I can't wait to see Stan get Ollie into more nice messes and hopefully you can't either.
-Michael J. Ruhland
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