Friday Night Fights: The Road to (Barbara) Eden

This week's contribution to the weekly free-for-all decreed by the the Master of the Funk Cosmic is jam-packed with crudely drawn, slightly off-model, sitcom-licensed action. Can you dig it, cats and kittens?

It comes courtesy of Dell's I Dream of Jeannie #1 (April 1966). The comic version diverges from the television show in that Major Nelson is portrayed as the sort of guy who frequently goes mano-a-mano with man-eating tigers, killer crocodiles, and harem guards, as opposed to the kind of fellow who has difficulty bluffing Hayden Rorke about why there's an ostrich on his patio.

I was relieved, however, to see that the writers chose to carry the show's strong feminist message over into the comic version...


Hugo Montenegro & His Orchestra - Jeannie (from AM Gold: TV Themes of the 60's, 1996) - Featuring lyrics by Buddy Kaye.

That's right, lyrics.