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One Writer, Two Hostess Fruit Pie Comics

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In 1978, we met the Ding-A-Ling family, courtesy of Thor, in a Marvel Hostess Fruit Pie ad.

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Yesterday, in Silver Surfer, we met them again. Ma, Auntie, Sister, Brother, Cousin Bee, Cousin Bye and Grandma, thirty-for years on, with the same obsessions – as well as weaknesses for fruit pies, courtesy of Dan Slott and Mike Allred.

Silver Surfer #7 (2015) - Page 10But of that wasn't enough, the writer, Dan Slott also brought back the Hostess Fruit Pie-verse to Spider-Verse #1.

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What can we say? The man likes his pies!

 

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Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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