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Folks who didn't live through it may not realize the gigantic, seemingly overnight frenzy Don Rickles created in entertainment circles after he was finally introduced to TV audiences as an insult comic.

By 1965, he had become the hardest-working guest star in the business, appearing everywhere from "The Dick Van Dyke Show," "The Beverly Hillbillies," "The Andy Griffith Show," "The Munsters," "The Addams Family," "Get Smart," "The Lucy Show," "F Troop," "Gomer Pyle," "I Dream of Jeannie," and "Gilligan's Island" to nearly all of the talk programs and comedy-variety series on the air.

But the true measurement of major league stardom, as the prophets foretold, is determined in just one way: comic books.


Legendary cartoonist Jack Kirby immortalized Don Rickles in a two-part DC Comics arc, 1971.

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