Don Martin is one of my favorite cartoonists. He is best known for his work in MAD Magazine, where he drew strips from 1956-1987 (!!!). I know him from the great work he did after that with the MAD-imitator CRACKED Magazine (which I always preferred over MAD).
After leaving CRACKED in 1993, he released his own short-lived humor magazine, filled with MAD work that he owned the rights to. I had one or two of those issues and if I remember correctly, it had a fairly small page count and was rather pricey for that era.
As for the candy itself, Jolly Ranchers bring back great memories of going to a cool old-timey candy store that was near the campus of Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. I remember paying five cents a piece and getting my fill of those green apple “stix”. It’s a darn shame they don’t make those JR Stix anymore.
While I’m on the subject, it’s a darn shame you can’t get a full bag of green apple or even strawberry anymore and I don’t care about these Double Blasts or Sour Blasts flavors either! I want my lemon Jolly Rancher back too, not that raspberry-lemonade they’re trying to squeak by with these days.
You want to know the original Jolly Rancher flavors? Grape, lemon, watermelon, green apple, strawberry, peach, orange, and cherry. We didn’t have blue raspberry years ago and we didn’t want it in the first place!
But just like McDonald’s peppermint sundae and S’mores Crunch, I guess we’ll never see lemon Jolly Ranchers again…
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