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WAR! comic December 17, 2009 Sniper May 20, 2009. Proposed replacement to Mann Co. comics section content

Mann Co. comics postcard

Team Fortress 2 Saxton Hale Postcard Kit, The Valve Store.
Look back at the proud, checkered history of Mann Co. with these gorgeously illustrated comic book covers. Each postcard contains a brief history of Mann Co., ....

After The Insult That Made a "Jarate Master" Out of Sniper (May 20, 2009), but before Hale's multi-page debut in the comic War! (December 17, 2009), Valve presented the Saxton Series. The Saxton Series is a set of "commemorative" postcards showing covers of selected issues of Mann Co. Comics, published by TF Industries, and giving commentary on the back of each postcard. Hale's background given on each of these cards made its way into later multi-page Comics.

Publication history

While the Dapper Rouge was just update page artwork for the Sniper vs. Spy Update, some people clipped the order form and mailed it to Valve with money. Valve gifted each of the persons a set of the Saxton Hale postcards.[1] The set was made available for general purchase through the The Valve Store.

Mann-Conomy Update September 30, 2010 Patch.

When/where was the Saxton Hale's Mail Storm? The Saxton Hale page has a transcript for this, but I don't know where the confirmation is for the source.'

postcard table; raster (not intended as header)

I wanted to see how the table would look pivoted. I also want to try a rearrangement of the original table that might work better. (Mikado282)
Saxton Hale's
Mail Storm


Issue #1
Saxton Hale's
Mildly Thrilling
Tales

Issue #4
Girl's Adventure
Starring
Saxton Hale

Issue #6
Saxton Hale's
Barbershop Action


Issue #12
Saxton Hale's
Thrilling Tales


Issue #44
Saxton Hale's
Jungle Brawl


Issue #55
Mailstorm large.jpg Saxton turtle full.jpg Saxton fire full.jpg Saxton haircut full.jpg Junglebrawl full.jpg Saxton sharks full.jpg

Saxton Hale's Mail Storm had its first and only issue published in March 1964 to help explain the new Federal recall of all 36 million Gold Coast-Tweed personal apple corers, due to their tendency to not only core apples, but fingers, lamps, and small furry animals. When the government demanded the comic be issued for free, Mann Co. responded by raising its usual price of twelve cents an issue to twenty, reasoning that if anyone was going to get something for free, they were going to pay for it.

As the youth movement of the 1960s escalated, manufacturers produced fewer and fewer products for the elderly. By 1963, only four items remained: hats, meat, caskets, and Saxton Hale's Mildly Thrilling Tales. Naked from the forehead down, lying in their coffins gumming Salisbury steak, an entire generation of despondent, forgotten consumers was left with just one thing on which to spend their government checks: Hale's tepid, senior-friendly tales of modest suspense. Saxton Hale Visits His Mother Monthly and Soothing Stories of Familiar Things soon followed. Hale quickly became the wealthiest man in the Western Hemisphere.

Boy's Adventure with Saxton Hale came under fire from the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency in 1968 for teaching boys aged 6-16, among other things: moral turpitude, arson, vandalism, hippie assault, tax fraud, at-home laryngectomies, car theft, gorilla slaughter, and the Heimlich Maneuver (which had just been invented and was still considered controversial). Pressured by the Senate, Mann Co. changed the name to Girl's Adventure With Saxton Hale, as it was commonly thought at the time that girls couldn't do anything, so any lessons taught to them would be harmless.

Saxton Hale's Barbershop Action capitalized on the brief "haircut" fad of the early 60s. Its breakaway success would lead to the ancillary titles Saxton Hale's Barbershop Romance and Haircut Horrors Starring Saxton Hale's Ghost. By Issue #40, however, the Peacenik movement had gripped the US in its filthy, tangled mane, and haircut fiction saw a steep decline. This would be the start of a lifelong feud between Hale and hippies, which would culminate in his firebombing Woodstock from a helicopter.

Saxton Hale's Jungle Brawl debuted in the U.S. in 1962, riding a wave of anti-gorilla sentiment following Russia's successful launch of the first monkey, Vladimir Bananas, into space. The US's rage was not isolated to communist primates; that same year, monkeynaut Poopy Joe cruelly dashed the U.S.'s hopes of reaching the stars when its shuttle detonated on takeoff. Brawl was notorious for inflaming human-gorilla tensions during its ten-year run, most famously in issue #50, which was printed with gorillas' blood. Issue #50's print run of 17 million copies left only five gorillas on the planet.

Saxton Hale's Thrilling Tales first arrived on newsstands in 1961 as part of a bold Mann Co. initiative to sidestep an increase on postage costs for their weapons catalogs. The first 64-page issue contained four pages of thrilling tales and sixty pages of ads for exciting new Mann Co. products. But Thrilling's editors quickly discovered that showing Mann Co. founder Saxton Hale using a product in the story itself tripled its sales. Ads were cut to 32 pages to accommodate longer, product placement-based stories.

Turtle fight,
Unhappy Returns, page 15.
Saxtonette Summer Camp '68
Ring of Fired, page 11.
Cougar fight,
Loose Canon, page 4.
"Hippies!", War!, page 10.
"That poor monkey."
War!, page 10.
"HELENNNN!"
War!, page 9.
Shark trophies,
War!, page 10.

postcard table; roster (not intended as header)

The objectives with this change are to show the full postcard images with minimal vertical increase, to add the concordances, and to remove the sense that Valve released comics, not postcards. (Mikado282)
Comic Title
Issue
Postcard Image
with back
Comic commentary on postcard back
(concordance)
Saxton Hale's
Mail Storm

Issue #1

Mailstorm large.jpg

Saxton Hale's Mail Storm had its first and only issue published in March 1964 to help explain the new Federal recall of all 36 million Gold Coast-Tweed personal apple corers, due to their tendency to not only core apples, but fingers, lamps, and small furry animals. When the government demanded the comic be issued for free, Mann Co. responded by raising its usual price of twelve cents an issue to twenty, reasoning that if anyone was going to get something for free, they were going to pay for it.

Saxton Hale's
Mildly Thrilling Tales

Issue #4

Saxton turtle full.jpg

As the youth movement of the 1960s escalated, manufacturers produced fewer and fewer products for the elderly. By 1963, only four items remained: hats, meat, caskets, and Saxton Hale's Mildly Thrilling Tales. Naked from the forehead down, lying in their coffins gumming Salisbury steak, an entire generation of despondent, forgotten consumers was left with just one thing on which to spend their government checks: Hale's tepid, senior-friendly tales of modest suspense. Saxton Hale Visits His Mother Monthly and Soothing Stories of Familiar Things soon followed. Hale quickly became the wealthiest man in the Western Hemisphere.

( Unhappy Returns, page 15: Saxton also fights a giant turtle at Maggie's husband's funeral. )
Girl's Adventure
Starring
Saxton Hale

Issue #6

Saxton fire full.jpg

Boy's Adventure with Saxton Hale came under fire from the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency in 1968 for teaching boys aged 6-16, among other things: moral turpitude, arson, vandalism, hippie assault, tax fraud, at-home laryngectomies, car theft, gorilla slaughter, and the Heimlich Maneuver (which had just been invented and was still considered controversial). Pressured by the Senate, Mann Co. changed the name to Girl's Adventure With Saxton Hale, as it was commonly thought at the time that girls couldn't do anything, so any lessons taught to them would be harmless.

( Ring of Fired, page 11: Plaque on far wall: Saxtonette Summer Camp '68 )
Saxton Hale's
Barbershop Action

Issue #12

Saxton haircut full.jpg

Saxton Hale's Barbershop Action capitalized on the brief "haircut" fad of the early 60s. Its breakaway success would lead to the ancillary titles Saxton Hale's Barbershop Romance and Haircut Horrors Starring Saxton Hale's Ghost. By Issue #40, however, the Peacenik movement had gripped the America in its filthy, tangled mane, and haircut fiction saw a steep decline. This would be the start of a lifelong feud between Hale and hippies, which would culminate in his firebombing Woodstock from a helicopter.

( Loose Canon, page 4: Saxton's grandfather has a similar fight with a cougar. )
( WAR!, page 9: "What have they got their smelly ponytails in a twist about THIS time? [Referring to Hippies]. )
Saxton Hale's
Jungle Brawl

Issue #44

Junglebrawl full.jpg

Saxton Hale's Jungle Brawl debuted in the U.S. in 1962, riding a wave of anti-gorilla sentiment following Russia's successful launch of the first monkey, Vladimir Bananas, into space. The America's rage was not isolated to communist primates; that same year, monkeynaut Poopy Joe cruelly dashed the U.S.'s hopes of reaching the stars when its shuttle detonated on takeoff. Brawl was notorious for inflaming human-gorilla tensions during its ten-year run, most famously in issue #50, which was printed with gorillas' blood. Issue #50's print run of 17 million copies left only five gorillas on the planet.

( WAR!, page 10: "OOO, right, that poor monkey." [Referring to Poopy Joe]. )
( WAR!, page 9 : "HELENNNN! You chain smoking seductress!" [Implying a tryst with the Administrator]. )
Saxton Hale's
Thrilling Tales

Issue #55

Saxton sharks full.jpg

Saxton Hale's Thrilling Tales first arrived on newsstands in 1961 as part of a bold Mann Co. initiative to sidestep an increase on postage costs for their weapons catalogs. The first 64-page issue contained four pages of thrilling tales and sixty pages of ads for exciting new Mann Co. products. But Thrilling's editors quickly discovered that showing Mann Co. founder Saxton Hale using a product in the story itself tripled its sales. Ads were cut to 32 pages to accommodate longer, product placement-based stories.

( Ring of Fired, page 11: Shark jaw trophy and multiple shark images on the far wall. )
another version
[hide]Saxton Series
  • Saxton Hale's Mail Storm
  • Saxton Hale's Mildly Thrilling Tales
  • Girl's Adventure Starring Saxton Hale
  • Saxton Hale's Barbershop Action
  • Saxton Hale's Thrilling Tales
  • Saxton Hale's Jungle Brawl
Mailstorm large.jpg
Saxton Hale's Mail Storm had its first and only issue published in March 1964 to help explain the new Federal recall of all 36 million Gold Coast-Tweed personal apple corers, due to their tendency to not only core apples, but fingers, lamps, and small furry animals. When the government demanded the comic be issued for free, Mann Co. responded by raising its usual price of twelve cents an issue to twenty, reasoning that if anyone was going to get something for free, they were going to pay for it.
Saxton turtle.jpg
As the youth movement of the 1960s escalated, manufacturers produced fewer and fewer products for the elderly. By 1963, only four items remained: hats, meat, caskets, and Saxton Hale's Mildly Thrilling Tales. Naked from the forehead down, lying in their coffins gumming Salisbury steak, an entire generation of despondent, forgotten consumers was left with just one thing on which to spend their government checks: Hale's tepid, senior-friendly tales of modest suspense. Saxton Hale Visits His Mother Monthly and Soothing Stories of Familiar Things soon followed. Hale quickly became the wealthiest man in the Western Hemisphere.
( Unhappy Returns, page 15: Saxton also fights a giant turtle at Maggie's husband's funeral. )
Saxton fire.jpg
Boy's Adventure with Saxton Hale came under fire from the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency in 1968 for teaching boys aged 6-16, among other things: moral turpitude, arson, vandalism, hippie assault, tax fraud, at-home laryngectomies, car theft, gorilla slaughter, and the Heimlich Maneuver (which had just been invented and was still considered controversial). Pressured by the Senate, Mann Co. changed the name to Girl's Adventure With Saxton Hale, as it was commonly thought at the time that girls couldn't do anything, so any lessons taught to them would be harmless.
( Ring of Fired, page 11: Plaque on far wall: Saxtonette Summer Camp '68 )
Saxton haircut.jpg
Saxton Hale's Barbershop Action capitalized on the brief "haircut" fad of the early 60s. Its breakaway success would lead to the ancillary titles Saxton Hale's Barbershop Romance and Haircut Horrors Starring Saxton Hale's Ghost. By Issue #40, however, the Peacenik movement had gripped the US in its filthy, tangled mane, and haircut fiction saw a steep decline. This would be the start of a lifelong feud between Hale and hippies, which would culminate in his firebombing Woodstock from a helicopter.
( Loose Canon, page 4: Saxton's grandfather has a similar fight with a cougar. )
( WAR!, page 9: "What have they got their smelly ponytails in a twist about THIS time? [Referring to Hippies]. )
Junglebrawl.jpg
Saxton Hale's Jungle Brawl debuted in the U.S. in 1962, riding a wave of anti-gorilla sentiment following Russia's successful launch of the first monkey, Vladimir Bananas, into space. The US's rage was not isolated to communist primates; that same year, monkeynaut Poopy Joe cruelly dashed the U.S.'s hopes of reaching the stars when its shuttle detonated on takeoff. Brawl was notorious for inflaming human-gorilla tensions during its ten-year run, most famously in issue #50, which was printed with gorillas' blood. Issue #50's print run of 17 million copies left only five gorillas on the planet.
( WAR!, page 10: "OOO, right, that poor monkey." [Referring to Poopy Joe]. )
( WAR!, page 9 : "HELENNNN! You chain smoking seductress!" [Implying a tryst with the Administrator]. )
Saxton sharks.jpg
Saxton Hale's Thrilling Tales first arrived on newsstands in 1961 as part of a bold Mann Co. initiative to sidestep an increase on postage costs for their weapons catalogs. The first 64-page issue contained four pages of thrilling tales and sixty pages of ads for exciting new Mann Co. products. But Thrilling's editors quickly discovered that showing Mann Co. founder Saxton Hale using a product in the story itself tripled its sales. Ads were cut to 32 pages to accommodate longer, product placement-based stories.
( Ring of Fired, page 11: Shark jaw trophy and multiple shark images on the far wall. )
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Transcripts

I have an idea I am working on about a more efficient layout for the images and layout of the images and the commentary. (Mikado282)



Transcript of saxton postcard All postcards start with a "SHOW THAT STAMP WHO'S BOSS! SLAP IT HERE" and "POSTMAN: By God, you will guard this message with your life and see It safely to:"

Junglebrawl

Saxton Hale's Jungle Brawl debuted in the U.S. in 1962, riding a wave of anti-gorilla sentiment following Russia's successful launch of the first monkey, Vladimir Bananas, into space. America's rage was not isolated to Communist primates - that same year, monkeynaut Poopy Joe cruelly dashed the U.S.'s hopes of reaching the stars when its shuttle detonated on takeoff. Brawl was notori-ous for inflaming huamn-gorilla tensions during its ten-year run, most famously in issue #50, which was printed with gorilla's blood. Its print run of 17 million copies left only five gorillas on the planet.

Saxton haircut

Saxton Hale's Barbershop Action capitalized on the brief "haircut" fad of the early 60s. Its breakaway success would lead to the ancillary titles Saxton Hale's Barbershop Romance and Haircut Horrors Starring Saxton Hale's Ghost. By issue #40, however, the peacenik movement had gripped America in its filthy, tangled mane, and haircut fiction saw a steep decline. This would be the start of a longtime feud between Hale and hippies, which would culminate in his firebombing Woodstock from a helicopter.

Saxton sharks

Saxton Hale's Thrilling Tales first arrived on newsstands in 1961 as part of a bold Mann Co. initiative to sidestep an increase in postage costs for their weapons catalogs. The first 64-pages of ads for exciting new Mann Co. products. But Thrilling's editors quickly discovered that showing Mann Co. president Saxton Hale using a product in the story itself tripled its sales. Ads were cut to 32 pages to accommodate longer, product placement-based stories.

Saxton turtle

As the youth movement of the 1960s escalated, manufacturers produced fewer and fewer products for the elderly. By 1963, only four items remained: hats, meat, caskets, and Saxton Hale's Mildly Thrilling Tales. Naked from the forehead down, lying in their coffins gumming Salisbury steak, an entire generation of despondent, forgotten consumers was left with just one thing on which to spend their governments checks: Hale's tepid, senior-friendly tales of modest suspense. Saxton Hale Visits His Mother Monthly and Soothing Stories of Familiar Things soon followed. Hale quickly became the wealthiest man in the weastern hemisphere.

Saxton fire

Boy's Adventure with Saxton Hale came under fire from the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency in 1968 for teaching boys aged 6-16, among other things: moral turpitude, arson, vandalism, hippie assault, tax fraud, at-home laryngectomies, car theft, gorilla slaughter, and the Heimlich Maneuver (which had just been invented and was still considered controversial). Pressured by the Senate, Mann Co. changed the name to Girl's Adventure With Saxton Hale, as it was commonly thought at the time that girls couldn't do anything, so any lessons taught to them would be harmless.

Update history

August 15, 2010
  • The Saxton Hale postcard kit was added to the Valve store with the price of 9.99$ per set
  • When it was added it have a 50% discount.

October 14, 2010

  • The 50% discount expired.

December 14, 2010

  • The postcard are having a 50% discount.

December 14, 2010

  • The price of the postcard set were changed to 9.95$ from 9.99$.
  • When it changed it have a 50% discount.

April 14, 2011

  • The price of the postcard set were changed to 4.95$ from 9.95$.

January 06, 2012

  • Updated the description of the postcard set.
  • When it changed it have a 60% discount.

May 17, 2012

  • The 60% discount expired.

March 31, 2018

  • The Valve store changed into forfansbyfans powered and the postcards are no longer available for purchase.

Gallery

References

  1. TF2 Team, Team Fortress News Roundup, TF2 Official Blog, November 18, 2009.