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Monday, April 6, 2026

The Partridges in comic book form! Part 1!

I love digging through longboxes for TV and movie comic books, and this is one I bought well before we decided to cover the series on the podcast. This Charlton publication is dated September 1971.



Artist Don Sherwood has some interesting work in here. I kept thinking there was an odd quality to the art, like it relied on stills and publicity photos. Well, I looked him up, and sure enough, he had a reputation for swiping other artists and for tracing photos.




The stories are unexceptional, but the cast does look like the cast! What jumps out at me is the number of ads promoting Partridge merch--almost all of it sold by Charlton. It's like the comic is a vehicle to publish ads to push the stuff. 



And by the way, all that merch is David Cassidy material with the exception of Susan Dey's Private Journal:



Come back tomorrow for more pics!

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