3/23/2023 0 Comments Bookshelf 2 comic tallahassee![]() ![]() “There’s nothing north of town,” he noted. So Tom recently decided to open a second Bookshelf somewhere to the north of the present store. “The last few years have been a little tougher.”īut things have been picking up. “I mean, it’s pretty amazing,” Davis said as he rang up a long line of customers. Tom Davis and his wife Mary have owned the place for 22 of those years. It was also the store's 35th anniversary. And that meant lots of people wearing superhero costumes. Saturday was "free comics day" at the Bookshelf on South Monroe Street. At the same time, the venerable store is expanding its reach into the northeast part of the city. Maybe there was a contractual obligation to publish a second issue or maybe it had been written and inked and printed before the show ended, so Dell decided to publish it and hopefully make a little money.ĭid you watch The New People on ABC during the 1969-1970 season? Did you read this issue of Dell’s tie-in comic? Hit the comments with your thoughts.This weekend marked an anniversary milestone for a Tallahassee book store that's literally a "Mom and Pop" operation. It’s also a little surprising Dell published this second issue when the TV show had flopped. ![]() I’m curious why Dell didn’t use characters from the TV show. The topic of guns came up in at least one episode of the TV show. It’s interesting that both involve the “new people” having to arm themselves with guns. The stories in this issue aren’t spectacular and the fact that they don’t involve the characters from the TV show is disappointing. The artwork is too generic to match any character to their television counterpart. It’s impossible to say for sure whether they’re supposed to be the same characters or not. Or at least they feature characters with the same names (Bob and George) as characters on the TV show. Page from The New People #2 (May 1970)Īlthough neither of the stories in the first issue featured characters from the TV show, both stories in this issue do. I will say the identity of the man in the scuba gear is underwhelming. During a climactic scene, the man in the scuba gear is shot and tumbles off a cliff. Someone follows him, hoping to talk to him and discover how he got to the island. The man in the scuba gear climbs up a cliff. She’s able to scream for help when a branch tears off the piece of cloth tied around her mouth. Despite their guard, Carol is abducted by the mysterious man in scuba gear.Ī frantic search for Carol begins. Carol insists on going with some of the other girls to pick fruit. But just in case she was, they decide to have armed guards accompany work crews and anyone else who leaves town. She’s not sure what attacked her and the others aren’t sure they believe she was attacked at all. The second story is titled “Odd Man Out” and starts with a man in scuba gear attacking Carol while she’s sunbathing. I won’t spoil the ending but it shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone how the story wraps up. But Tom suddenly spots a ship in the distance. Once everyone else loses hope of being rescued, they’ll be able to focus on forming their own society on the island. Nobody wants to shoot him but he doesn’t have the right to stop them from being rescued.Īs the story draws to a close, Tom lights the dynamite atop the signal tower. The others decide they need a police force with guns to protect themselves from Tom. Tom then runs off and eventually gets his hands on dynamite. He tries to sabotage the signal tower and is able to weaken it enough so it collapses, breaking the arm of the group’s only carpenter. One of them, a young man named Tom, doesn’t want to be rescued. The first story is titled “So Close…So Far” and involves the “new people” trying to build a signal tower. Cover to The New People #2 (May 1970)Ĭopyright 1970 Dell Publishing Co., Inc and Thomas/Spelling Productions Like the first issue (which I reviewed in September 2014), this issue includes two 16-page stories. Fortunately, a town had been built on the island, stocked with food and mannequins, intended for an aborted nuclear test. If you’ve never heard of the show, here’s the basic premise: a group of college students are stranded on an island and forced to build their own society. With a cover date of May 1970, the issue likely hit newsstands a few months earlier The New People went off the air in January 1970. The New People (ABC, 1969-1970) celebrated its 50th anniversary last month so I decided it was finally time to review the second (and final) issue of Dell’s comic book based on the show. While I love watching TV, I also love reading about it, from tie-in novels to TV Guides, from vintage television magazines to old newspaper articles. Bookshelf examines printed matter relating to television. ![]()
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