Sugar and Spike and Spike" series...is the most charming thing I've ever seen in comics." DC attempted to license "Sugar and Spike" as a syndicated newspaper strip but was unsuccessful. Sales on the "Sugar and Spike" issues of "The Best of DC" were strong enough that DC announced plans for a new ongoing series featuring the characters. The project was never launched for unknown reasons. Mayer had an agreement with DC that no one else could write Sugar and Spike. However, they have occasionally made cameo appearances in modern comic books. They are rescued by the underwater heroine Dolphin in "Showcase" #100. They
Motion comic book, "The Blue Cephalopod Man from Titan", created by mad Italian artist Oral Giacomini. Dick describes both the storyline and the animated panels of this comic book in detail. In the mid 1960's, Marvel Comics Animation used the technique for the television show "The Marvel Super Heroes". Actual artwork from the originally published comic books was augmented by voices, music, and a small amount of animation. The term "Motion comic" did not exist yet. In 1982, the comic strip Jane was made into a TV series by BBC. It featured brief sequences of a stylized approach to comic panels, partly