Sam and Max Ramble and 'Findings' Hell.

Don't take this as a 'professional' research account, 99% of what I post isn't gonna be new discoveries. I just like to dig up old things and learn a bit more about this franchise when I can, then post about it and go on lengthy rambles. Like a diary or image dumping ground. Enjoy!(?)

(The most it'll ever come to 'new discoveries' is when I post my own scans and files of stuff I've somehow got my hands on that haven't been posted before to my own knowledge)

If you wanna send asks or submissions, send and/or ask away! A, B, seein' ya!

Sullivan Entertainment's 'Sullivan Releasing' handled new VHS releases throughout Canada. At one point this included the Sam & Max cartoon on VHS in 1998. Here are the mentions of that acquisition from their own website, and their own official listing of the 'Y Files'. I'm assuming that July 1998 is the release date of the VHS, going by what the website says.

(Info about the different companies and their roles in the screenshot below)

Sources:

Sometime in 1998 you could get a free movie rental by taking a printed Sam & Max picture you had coloured in to a 'Pic-A-Flick' store. The colouring sheet was provided by Fox 21's website.

Around 1997-1998 on azfamily's website there was a Sam & Max 'coin game'. While the webpage for it has been archived, the image itself hasn't been. So we can't see the image that was meant to be printed out. The page describes the rules.

Toon Magazine issue #14 (Fall, 1997), has a small paragraph describing the Sam & Max cartoon. It also has that neat artwork on the back.

‘The Nelvana Story - Thirty Animated Years’ book mentions Sam & Max and how they ‘use their special powers to solve crimes’.

Here's a close up on Sam and Max, from the cover;

The official Portuguese Windows Vista June 2008 issue had a disc that contained demos for every season 1 and 2 episode for the Telltale Sam & Max games, and it had the full episode for 104.

Animation Magazine May 1997 Issue 

Best scan we’ll ever have of this cover for the magazine as it comes from the official website. 

Source: 

Animation Magazine’s website

Full Sam & Max pages are under the Read More.

The pages mentioning Sam and Max are under the read more, if you wanna see the whole magazine PDF yourself you can see it here.

Apparently a press kit shirt made for the 97-98 season of Fox Kids cartoons. And you can probably guess from the fact that it's featured on this blog- Sam & Max are on it.

A funny picture used in some publications talking about season one of these games. (Left the watermark on the last 3 because these aren't my scans and those ones originally had the watermark on them, source to the scans are linked below)

Fox 43's official kids club web page ('Pete McTee's Clubhouse') had a section dedicated to displaying panels of the Sam & Max comic 'The Kids Take Over!' back in the day.

Sources: Pete McTee's Clubhouse Comic's page

Here's almost all the panels and images to do with Sam & Max plonked onto this post for your convenience (or inconvenience);