January 1957 Popular Electronics
 Table of Contents
Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles
from
Popular Electronics,
published October 1954 - April 1985. All copyrights are hereby acknowledged.
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"McWatts" was an electronics-themed
comic that appeared in Popular Electronics magazine back in the late 1957's. Artist
Carl Kohler's
main character is a stereotypical Joe Sixpack type electronics hobbyist who always dreams
up unique ways to deal with situations. This edition shows McWatts' way of keeping
the kids from using his prized tools as toys. My father would appreciate this if
he had read Popular Electronics back in the day. I was always leaving my poor father's
tools laying around the house and too often in the yard where they would get rained
on and start to rust. If I were him, I would have been harder on me for repeat offenses.
Carl was also the creator of the very popular series of humorous stories about
an electronics-obsessed husband and his barely tolerating wife.
Other Carl Kohler masterpieces: "Live Wire
with a Loot Locator," June 1969, "The
Great Electron-Pedantic Project," "Dig That Reel Flat Response,"
"I Married
a Superheterodyne," "Unpopular Electronics,"
"Operation Chaos,"
"Thin Air, My Foot,"
"High Tide in the
Tweeter," "The
R/C Cloud," "Hi-Fi Guest List,"
"Kool-Keeping Kwiz
," "Boner Box," and "McWatts." Also, be sure
to read "Carl
Kohler's Life & Times per Son, Christoverre."
McWatts
By Carl Kohler
Posted January 4, 2023
(updated from original
post on 2/27/2013)
These Technically-Themed Comics Appeared in Vintage Electronics Magazines. I
personally scanned and posted every one from copies I own (and even colorized some).
247 pages as of 12/3/2024
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