COMIC BOOK COMPULSIVE — Bert The Turtle Says Duck and Cover
Image via Wikipedia
I don’t download every comic book or strip I come across, only the one which interest me. Unfortunately just about everything in comic book form interests me which is how I ended up with roughly half a hundred DVR discs full of assorted comics. And of course me being me roughly a dozen of them had nothing written on them so I spent last night going through them one by one. This probably sounds like quite the chore but happily I’ve discovered that one sure way to beat the blues is to distract myself with some mindless task well suited to my ADD. Which is how I came to discover that I possessed Bert the Turtle Says Duck and Cover.
Duck and Cover is a civil defense/social guidance/propaganda film that was shown in 1952 that the current generation probably know from the 80′s documentary film The Atomic Cafe…
…and if you’ve seen it you also no doubt no Bert’s catchy theme song:
There was a turtle by the name of Bert
and Bert the turtle was very alert;
when danger threatened him he never got hurt
he knew just what to do…
He’d duck! [gasp]
And cover!
Duck! [gasp]
And cover! (male) He did what we all must learn to do
(male) You (female) And you (male) And you (deeper male) And you!’
[bang, gasp] Duck, and cover!’
Image via Wikipedia
Having been born in 1959 I have vague memories of vague ‘disaster drills” that involved covering your head at your desk at school. But to be sure the threat of mutually assured helped form my generally apocalyptic worldview and generally anxious nature.
Image via Wikipedia
More often than not, this is what the inside of my head looks like.
— Steve Bennett
