What comic book character who is particularly appealing to teens was created by its producer who hoped to attract fans of the Andy Hardy movies starring Mickey Rooney?
"popular 'Andy Hardy' movies starring Mickey Rooney"", ""dreamed up the carrot-topped, freckle-faced character perpetually torn between two loves, one blond, one dark. He was a hapless teen-age Everyman counterpoised to the hyperpotent Superman, who had made his debut just a few years earlier."" Calling the character Archie, the name echoing that of a schoolfriend, Goldwater and series writer/artist Bob Montana surrounded him with a cast supposedly ""patterned after teen-agers he [Goldwater] had met in the Midwest."" Other sources give Montana credit for creating the main Archie characters (Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Jughead Jones, Veronica Lodge and Reggie Mantle). The success"
"He made forty-three pictures between the age of 15 and 25. Among those, his role as Andy Hardy became one of ""Hollywood's best-loved characters,"" with Marlon Brando calling him ""the best actor in films"". ""There was nothing he couldn't do"", said actress Margaret O'Brien. MGM boss Louis B. Mayer treated him like a son and saw in Rooney ""the embodiment of the amiable American boy who stands for family, humbug, and sentiment,"" writes critic and author, David Thomson. By the time Rooney was 20, his consistent portrayals of characters with youth and energy suggested that his future success was unlimited."
"Mickey Rooney Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule Jr.; September 23, 1920 – April 6, 2014) was an American actor, vaudevillian, comedian, producer and radio personality. In a career spanning nine decades and continuing until shortly before his death, he appeared in more than 300 films and was one of the last surviving stars of the silent film era. At the height of a career that was marked by precipitous declines and raging comebacks, Rooney performed the role of Andy Hardy in a series of 15 films in the 1930s and 1940s that epitomized American family values. A versatile performer, he"
"In June 1947, ""Fiction House's Movie Comics"" published a comic book adaptation of the film ""Love Laughs at Andy Hardy"". Andy Hardy was also the subject of a six comic books published by Dell in 1952–1954. Only in the former does the drawing of Andy Hardy resemble Mickey Rooney. In the 1960s, NBC considered an Andy Hardy TV series, and MGM shot a pilot episode for the network in early 1962. Jimmy Hawkins, who had teenage roles in several popular sitcoms, played Andy, and veteran character actor Philip Ober played Judge Hardy. Despite indications that the network would pick up"
"Andy Hardy Andrew ""Andy"" Hardy is a fictional character played by Mickey Rooney in a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer series of sixteen films from 1937 to 1946, and includes a final film released in 1958 in an unsuccessful attempt to continue the series. Hardy and others were based on characters in the play ""Skidding"" by Aurania Rouverol. Early films in the series were about the Hardy family as a whole, but later entries focused on the character of Andy Hardy. Rooney was the only member of the ensemble to appear in all 16 films. The Hardy films, which were enormously popular in their"
"Love Finds Andy Hardy Love Finds Andy Hardy is a 1938 American romantic comedy film that tells the story of a teenage boy who becomes entangled with three different girls all at the same time. It stars Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Fay Holden, Cecilia Parker, Judy Garland, Lana Turner, Ann Rutherford, Mary Howard and Gene Reynolds. The screenplay was written by William Ludwig, from stories by Vivien R. Bretherton, and based upon characters created by Aurania Rouverol. It was directed by George B. Seitz. In 2000, ""Love Finds Andy Hardy"" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film"
"marked the beginning of the Golden Age of Comic Books, in which the superhero genre was prominent. In the UK and the Commonwealth, the DC Thomson-created ""Dandy"" (1937) and ""Beano"" (1938) became successful humor-based titles, with a combined circulation of over 2 million copies by the 1950s. Their characters, including ""Dennis the Menace"", ""Desperate Dan"" and ""The Bash Street Kids"" have been read by generations of British schoolboys. The comics originally experimented with superheroes and action stories before settling on humorous strips featuring a mix of the Amalgamated Press and US comic book styles. The popularity of superhero comic books"
"Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever is a 1939 romantic comedy about Andy Hardy having a crush on his high school drama teacher, Miss Rose Meredith. This is the seventh of sixteen Andy Hardy films starring Mickey Rooney. Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) is upset that his girlfriend, Polly Benedict (Ann Rutherford), had fallen for Ensign Charles Copley (Robert Kent). Soon, Andy develops a crush on his drama teacher. After Andy's play is chosen for the school's annual production, he seizes the opportunity to spend time with his spring time crush. Andy's dad, Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone),"
"patriotic, generous, and tolerant. The town represented MGM mogul Louis B. Mayer's idealized vision of his adopted country. The early movies focused on the Hardy family as a whole, but the character Andy soon became the center of the series, and his name was featured in the title of the fourth film and all films after the seventh (inclusive). They were a big factor in Rooney's rise to stardom. The first two Hardy films dealt with the danger of adultery among the younger generation, but the later ones avoided such controversial themes. The central relationship in the movies was between"
"Andy Hardy Meets Debutante Andy Hardy Meets Debutante is a 1940 American romantic comedy film directed by George B. Seitz. The film stars Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden and Judy Garland. It is the 9th of the ""Andy Hardy"" full-length film series. Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) from Carvel becomes infatuated with a well-known young socialite, Daphne Fowler (Diana Lewis), from New York City. Even though he hasn’t met the woman in person, he drops her name to his friends and tells them that they are very well acquainted. He even lets his friends believe he is romantically"
"in 1999, with volume 2 of the series being published by Fantagraphics from 2001. A range of ""Angry Youth Comix"" action figures was launched in 2008, featuring Loady McGee and Sinus O'Gynus figures in ordinary and ""Toxic Waste"" variants. Angry Youth Comix Angry Youth Comix is an adult humor comic-book written and drawn by Johnny Ryan. It generally features the characters Loady McGee and Sinus O'Gynus, as well as Blecky Yuckerella, Boobs Pooter, and Sherlock McRape. The comic, like most of Ryan's oeuvre, is generally an attempt to be as shocking and politically incorrect as possible. ""Angry Youth Comix"" was"
"appeal to the show's audience, the Hardy Boys were portrayed as younger than in the books, seeming to be 11 or 12 years old. The script, written by Jackson Gillis, was based on the first Hardy Boys book, ""The Tower Treasure"", and the serial was aired in 19 episodes of 15 minutes each with production costs of $5,700. The main characters are Tim Considine as Frank Hardy and Tommy Kirk as Joe Hardy. Mickey Mouse Club (complete episode) 1 October 1956 includes: ""The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure: An Introduction"" Bonus Feature: ""From Dixon to Disney"" featurette Bonus Feature: ""The"
"knows that his son is destined for heartache, but he decides to let Andy find out for himself how young love can be. Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever is a 1939 romantic comedy about Andy Hardy having a crush on his high school drama teacher, Miss Rose Meredith. This is the seventh of sixteen Andy Hardy films starring Mickey Rooney. Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) is upset that his girlfriend, Polly Benedict (Ann Rutherford), had fallen for Ensign Charles Copley (Robert Kent). Soon, Andy develops a crush on his drama teacher. After Andy's play is chosen"
"Media group released thirty episodes of the series on Region 1 DVD in the United States. The Mickey Rooney Show The Mickey Rooney Show (also known as Hey, Mulligan) is an American sitcom that aired from 1954 to 1955 on NBC. The series stars Mickey Rooney (in his first television role) who was particularly remembered for his starring role in numerous Andy Hardy films made between 1937 and 1958, which overlapped with ""Hey Mulligan"". Rooney stars as Mickey Mulligan, an Irish American television studio page at the fictional International Broadcasting Company in Hollywood. Mulligan aspires through his night studies to"
"the comedies, running from 1927 to 1936, starting with ""Mickey's Circus"" (1927), his first starring role. During this period, he also briefly voiced Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. He made other films in his adolescence, including several more of the McGuire films. At age 15 he played the role of Puck in the Warner Brothers all-star adaptation of ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" in 1935. Rooney then moved to MGM, where he befriended Judy Garland, with whom he began making a series of musicals that propelled both of them to stardom. In 1937, Rooney was selected to portray Andy Hardy in ""A"
"is not restricted to continuity and establishes a fresh perspective for the latest generation of readership. According to Dan DiDio, ""[t]hese books are created to literally reach the widest audience possible, and not just the comic book audience, but anyone who has ever wanted to read or see anything about Superman or Batman."" An alternate Barbara Gordon was adapted into Frank Miller's ""All Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder"" (2005) as a teenage Batgirl. In addition, another variation of the character had been set to star in an eponymous ""All Star Batgirl"" title, written by Geoff Johns; however, the"
"Andy Hardy's Double Life Andy Hardy's Double Life is a 1942 comedy film directed by George B. Seitz. It was the thirteenth installment of MGM's enormously popular Andy Hardy film series starring Mickey Rooney as the title character. The movie included the feature film debut of Esther Williams. It was the last Hardy film to include the character Polly Benedict, Andy's long-suffering sweetheart, as well as the last to feature Ann Rutherford (who had taken over the role of Polly in the second film of the series). Preparing himself for college life, Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) promises himself to put"
"cartoons that appealed equally to adults, who appreciated Avery's speed, sarcasm, and irony, and to kids, who liked the nonstop action. Disney's ""cute and cuddly"" creatures, under Avery's guidance, were transformed into unflappable wits like Bugs Bunny, endearing buffoons like Porky Pig, or dazzling crazies like Daffy Duck. Even the classic fairy tale, a market that Disney had cornered, was appropriated by Avery, who made innocent heroines like Red Riding Hood into sexy jazz babes, more than a match for any Wolf. Avery also endeared himself to intellectuals by constantly breaking through the artifice of the cartoon, having characters leap"
"preteen boy generally beloved by his peers though regarded with suspicion and perhaps a hint of distaste by adults. The relatable and redemptive Otto and his misadventures will fare especially well with those looking for a character with a smart mouth and big heart."" Of ""The Rotten Adventures of Zachary Ruthless"", ""Publishers Weekly"" writes, ""If it's true that everyone loves a bad boy, Zachary should attract a sizable fan base,"" adding that ""Blecha's high-energy cartoons add extra absurdity to this pun-studded slice of frivolity, which is likely to snare reluctant readers with a fondness for slapstick."" Allan Woodrow (author) Allan"
"Rawhide Kid The Rawhide Kid (real name: Johnny Bart, originally given as Johnny Clay) is a fictional Old West cowboy appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. A heroic gunfighter of the 19th-century American West who was unjustly wanted as an outlaw, he is one of Marvel's most prolific Western characters. He and other Marvel western heroes have on rare occasions guest-starred through time travel in such contemporary titles as ""The Avengers"" and ""West Coast Avengers"". In two mature-audience miniseries, in 2003 and 2010, he is depicted as gay. The Rawhide Kid debuted in a 16-issue series (March"
"$865,000 elsewhere, making a profit of $1,499,000. Andy Hardy's Double Life Andy Hardy's Double Life is a 1942 comedy film directed by George B. Seitz. It was the thirteenth installment of MGM's enormously popular Andy Hardy film series starring Mickey Rooney as the title character. The movie included the feature film debut of Esther Williams. It was the last Hardy film to include the character Polly Benedict, Andy's long-suffering sweetheart, as well as the last to feature Ann Rutherford (who had taken over the role of Polly in the second film of the series). Preparing himself for college life, Andy"
"The Mickey Rooney Show The Mickey Rooney Show (also known as Hey, Mulligan) is an American sitcom that aired from 1954 to 1955 on NBC. The series stars Mickey Rooney (in his first television role) who was particularly remembered for his starring role in numerous Andy Hardy films made between 1937 and 1958, which overlapped with ""Hey Mulligan"". Rooney stars as Mickey Mulligan, an Irish American television studio page at the fictional International Broadcasting Company in Hollywood. Mulligan aspires through his night studies to become a recognized performer. Regis Toomey played Mickey's father, Joe Mulligan, a veteran Los Angeles police"
"Mickey McGuire (film series) Mickey McGuire is an American comedy series of short subjects from 1927 to 1934. Produced by Larry Darmour, the series was notable for essentially launching the careers of Mickey Rooney and Billy Barty. The series was based on Fontaine Fox's popular comic strip series, Toonerville Trolley. In 1925 Fox placed a newspaper ad for a dark-haired child to play the role of ""Mickey McGuire"" in a series of short films. This ad attracted the attention of Mrs Nell Yule, the recently separated wife of vaudevillian Joseph Yule, who believed her son Joseph ""Joe"" Yule, Jr. (later"
"first kiss, and they promise to write to each other regularly. According to MGM records the film earned USD$1,945,000 in the US and Canada and $678,000 elsewhere resulting in a profit of $1,409,000. Andy Hardy Meets Debutante Andy Hardy Meets Debutante is a 1940 American romantic comedy film directed by George B. Seitz. The film stars Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden and Judy Garland. It is the 9th of the ""Andy Hardy"" full-length film series. Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) from Carvel becomes infatuated with a well-known young socialite, Daphne Fowler (Diana Lewis), from New York City. Even"
"Andy Hardy's Private Secretary Andy Hardy's Private Secretary is a 1941 American family film comedy directed by George B. Seitz. The film stars Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Kathryn Grayson, Ann Rutherford and Fay Holden. This was the tenth of the 16-film Andy Hardy series. A week from the end of high school, Andy (Mickey Rooney) is keenly anticipating his graduation, but is putting more effort into running the various student committees - most of which he chairs - than studying for his examinations. His father, honorable judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) learns that Andy has been giving money for tuition to"
"starring in the sketch comedy series ""All That"", their own comedy sitcom ""Kenan & Kel"" and their movie ""Good Burger"". Nickelodeon also produced ""The Amanda Show"" which featured Amanda Bynes as well. In sport, Ronaldo was an idol for teens around the world, such as a teenage Zlatan Ibrahimović, with Jacob Steinberg of ""The Guardian"" writing, ""In 1998, no one was as ferociously talented as Ronaldo, whose supernatural mixture of power, pace and skill had made him the player every child in the playground wanted to be. The Walt Disney Company and its numerous outlets (e.g. Disney Channel, Radio Disney"
"is intimation of some law-enforcement function: As many covers note breathlessly, ""Ringo!"" is ""The name that makes killers tremble!"" Ringo Kid The Ringo Kid is a fictional Western hero in the Marvel Comics' universe, whose comic book series was originally released by the company's 1950s predecessor, Atlas Comics. A lesser-known character than the company's Kid Colt, Rawhide Kid, or Two-Gun Kid, he also appeared in a reprint series in the 1970s. The character is unrelated to the actor John Wayne's ""Ringo Kid"" in the Western film ""Stagecoach"". Atlas Comics' Ringo Kid debuted in the first issue of a series billed"
"his legal name, the film producer Larry Darmour did not owe the comic strip writers royalties). His mother also changed her surname to McGuire in an attempt to bolster the argument, but the film producers lost. The litigation settlement awarded damages to the owners of the cartoon character, as well as compelled the twelve-year-old actor to refrain from calling himself by the name Mickey McGuire on and off screen. Rooney later claimed that, during his Mickey McGuire days, he met cartoonist Walt Disney at the Warner Brothers studio, and that Disney was inspired to name Mickey Mouse after him, although"
"Kid Flash Kid Flash is the name of several fictional characters appearing in comic books published by DC Comics, originally created by John Broome and Carmine Infantino, as a junior counterpart to DC Comics superhero The Flash. The first version of the character, Wally West, debuted in ""The Flash"" (vol. 1) #110 (1959). The character, along with others like the first Wonder Girl, Aqualad, and Speedy, was created in response to the success of Batman's young sidekick Robin. These young heroes would later be spun off into their own superhero team, the Teen Titans. As Kid Flash, Wally West made"
"the extremely popular Andy Hardy movies in the late 1930s and early 1940s. She was in the original Hardy film, ""A Family Affair"", in 1937, and though the subsequent films had a largely different cast, she remained. Mickey Rooney played the main character in the series, supported by Lewis Stone, Ann Rutherford, and Fay Holden. The movies were directed by George B. Seitz. Parker's character, Marion, appeared in most of the movies, and her romances were a recurring feature of the series. Though she and the character she played were absent from the last two Andy Hardy films of the"
"asked by Annenberg to help revive a movie magazine. Although the concept of ""teenager"" as a distinct demographic segment of the population was a relatively new idea at that time, Valentine instead proposed a magazine for teen-age girls. Noticing the wide popularity of a King Features Syndicate comic strip by cartoonist Hilda Terry that focused on the trials and tribulations of a typical teenager's life entitled ""Teena"" which began running in July 1944, Valentine convinced Annenberg that teenage girls needed a magazine of their own and that the then unserved demographic had the potential to become an important and lucrative"
"and began a run that lasted nine years and 55 issues. Cookie is a rare example of a knock-off surpassing its inspiration. The explosive popularity of MLJ Comics’ “Archie” in the mid-1940s gave birth to an entire comics genre: the teen humor comic. While the Archie gang is clearly more iconic and enduring than Cookie and his pals ever hope to be, the Cookie comics are a much more entertaining read. Gordon continued to make comics for ACG (and ACG imprints like La Salle) until he was called back into animation service by his old friend Joseph Barbera. Bill Hanna"
"the show for its 1962–63 season, that never happened. Andy Hardy Andrew ""Andy"" Hardy is a fictional character played by Mickey Rooney in a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer series of sixteen films from 1937 to 1946, and includes a final film released in 1958 in an unsuccessful attempt to continue the series. Hardy and others were based on characters in the play ""Skidding"" by Aurania Rouverol. Early films in the series were about the Hardy family as a whole, but later entries focused on the character of Andy Hardy. Rooney was the only member of the ensemble to appear in all 16 films."