Saturday, June 8, 2013

Bible Stories, 1997

(Continued from 1996)

The story of "Joseph" conctinues.  This marked the 8th time the BOYS' LIFE series would cover this material.  As before, the story of "Moses" (also 8th version) follows.

In the 1st installment this year, note the last line, "The Midianites had sold Joseph in Egypt to Pontiphar" has been corrected to "Joseph has been sold in Egypt to Pontiphar".  In the 1976 and 1986 versions, it said that the Midianites sold Joseph to Pontiphar, even though they had already sold him to the Ishmaelites!

The trend of REUSED text and NEW art continues. At this point, the same text (by Al Stenzel, who had passed away in 1979) was being used for 3rd time!  If you click "Open Link In New Window" for each set of links, you can flip between them and compare.

September 1976  /  December 1986  /  January 1997
     (Note the similar poses; was this redrawn or reworked by some production department?)   
October 1976  /  January 1987  /  February 1997
     (Ditto; similar but different)

The November 1976  /  February 1987 episode,
     "Pharaoh Meets Joseph", was skipped this time!

December 1976  /  March 1987  /  March 1997
     (Now this one's completely new!)
January 1977  /  April 1987  /  April 1997
     (Some elements reused, some new)
February 1977  /   May 1987  May 1997
     (Another VERY similar one) 
March 1977  /   June 1987  /  June 1997   
April 1977  /   July 1987  /  July 1997   
     (This one's completely new!)
May 1977  /  August 1987  /  August 1997
June 1977  /  September 1987  /  September 1997   
     (Another VERY similar one) 
July 1977  /  October 1987  /  October 1997
August 1977  /  November 1987  /  November 1997
September 1977  /  December 1987  /  December 1997
     (Finally, different drawing but similar layout.)

One noticable change this year is that with the February 1997 episode, they switched to using a COMPUTER font.  It vaguely looks hand-drawn, but is too cold & sterile to actually be. (There are better, more "natural"-looking fonts around than the one seen here.)

Story by (??)  /  Art by FRANK BOLLE
BOYS' LIFE  /  January 1997
BOYS' LIFE  /  February 1997
BOYS' LIFE  /  March 1997
BOYS' LIFE  /  April 1997
BOYS' LIFE  /  May 1997
BOYS' LIFE  /  June 1997
BOYS' LIFE  /  July 1997
BOYS' LIFE  /  August 1997
BOYS' LIFE  /  September 1997
BOYS' LIFE  /  October 1997
BOYS' LIFE  /  November 1997
BOYS' LIFE  /  December 1997
(Continued in 1998)

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