Sunday, October 19, 2025

Flopcast 702: Weather Bird Treasure Bird

We're back from a quick visit to Albany, New York, where Kevin ran a half marathon (finishing in 309th place, probably not qualifying for the Olympics) and learned the shocking truth about Alice from The Brady Bunch. Now here in Chickentown, we're looking at an odd 1959 comic book called Weather-Bird. It stars a chicken and a goat, and the whole thing is a promotional gimmick to sell children's shoes. We love it. And we were reminded of some other weird comic book shoe ads. Several 1970s ads star a shoe-themed superhero called the AAU Shuperstar. One of his enemies is called Missile-Toe. And we can't stop thinking about them. We might have a problem.

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Show Notes

Reach out if you can hook us up with a Treasure Bird (but you can keep the candy)!

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Eventually, it would take more than cute animals to sell shoes. Kids love puns, right?

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Let's bring in some sports heroes...Whoops!

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