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  • Archive Binge: Google Books makes it relatively easier to enjoy Pedro, or indeed any Boys' Life comic serial, without month-long gaps in between each page. Unfortunately, if you can't remember the exact month and year in which BL published a certain comic, be prepared to scour several issues for it, since the search feature doesn't always work on comics.
  • Bizarro Episode: The strips with Pedro and Emeralda deformed and marooned on Parchnote  somehow stretch credibility even thinner than usual, and contribute nothing but delaying the duo's return to Earth from Owrplannit by a few months. They don't even explain how Pedro and Emeralda turned back to normal, or how she got her ship back from the Space Pirates.
  • Broken Base: Readers during the transition between Tom Eaton and Stephen Gilpin can't seem to agree which of the two had a more appealing style.
  • Continuity Lockout: Unlike the other longest-running comics in Boys' Life, Eaton's run on Pedro could prove confusing for readers coming in late.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: Regarding this Halloween Episode, the sight of multiple Pedros would become less unusual after the addition of Ordep and Erpod/Derpo.
  • More Popular Spin-Off: Wacky Adventures appeared in more issues than Pedro's previous comic, The Pedro Patrol, which ran from September 1969-December 1989.
  • Nightmare Fuel: Pedro's nightmares could become pretty freaky sometimes, such as this one he has while floating through space without a helmet.
  • Older Than They Think: Boys' Life gave Pedro alliterative nicknames as early as The '40s, when his adventures (printed in the Hitchin' Rack column rather than on full pages) relied mostly on text. Some Hitchin' Rack stories even had Pedro don human clothes, long before he began wearing a purple sweater all of the time.

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