And by “Four Issue Mini-Series,” they meant “Three Issue.”

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Koosh Kins #1 (October 1991), art by Stan Goldberg and Henry Scarpelli

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  2. Like Keith Giffen’s PUNX we talked about on the pod, solicited as four issues, only three ever came out. Very similar topics, I’m sure!

  3. Goldberg and Scarpelli are underrated –they did great work for Archie Comics and also DC teen humor mags like Swing With Scooter, Debbie, Binky, etc.

  4. Sean, I think you’re on to something.

    At the end of issue #3 Zak was seen talking all night with a girl believed to be from Earth-2.

    So that’s probably why there is no issue #4.

  6. I’ll never understand how some IP gets the full Hollywood/Network TV/Streaming treatment and properties like Kooshkins remain ignored and neglected in the dustbin of comics history.

    Oh. Wait. Nevermind. I actually do.

  9. Peter Bagge anticipated the Koosh Kins with the panel of his in which the protagonist rails against a shop selling nothing but ‘Fuzzy-Wuzzles’.

  10. “Like Keith Giffen’s PUNX we talked about on the pod”

    Love Giffen!

    But NOT that one. Or Trencher.

    Curious, he ripped off Lobo (who he co-created) with Trencher, but never did a LEGION rip-off.

    “I have a full run of March Hare!”

    I have the full run of Ambush Bug! All ten (?) issues!

    Not much harder to collect than March Hare, really.

  13. So they all have human faces except the one who only has eyestalks, and he uses his hands as feet? No, thank you.

  14. @ Thom H.

    That character with eyestalks seems like he could have been ripped off from a somewhat similar looking character that Wally Wood created that appeared as the narrator for some stories Wood did for Warren magazines in the ’70s (and also as a supporting character in Sally Forth comix); although the Wood character wasn’t fuzzy.

    @ Snark Shark

    I think the “Legion of Misfit Heroes” should include:

    1. Oddman
    2. Ultra the Multi-Alien
    3. Brother Power the Geek
    4. Man-Bat
    5. Stompa
    6. Thorn
    8. Beppo
    9. And, as leader of the team, Danzig

  16. * Snorky is the name of the Wally Wood character with eyestalks. I think he first appeared in Witzend.

  18. I meant a “Legion” of his own characters, so Giffen could own it, as he did Trencher.

    Otherwise, I’d say he should have done another Legion of Substitute Heroes Special!

  19. @ Snark Shark

    Okay–I guess The Giffen “Legion of Misfit Heroes” could include:

    Trencher, March Hare, Heckler, Ambush Bug, and Lobo — although technically DC owns some of those characters.

  21. @ Pete

    Are the three issues sufficient–or are there dangling plotlines which are irksomely left unresolved?

    What are Koosh Kins anyway? Fuzzy meteors? Was it a toy line?

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