The Soda Brand That Didn't Exist
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The history of Kooba Cola - the soda that never existed. Or soft drink. Or pop. Whatever you call it.
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0:00 A Bit of History
2:12 Meet The Con Man
5:26 The Kooba Con
6:53 The Plan Falls Apart
7:15 Kooba Cola and Beyond - Zábava
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I brought the book its legit good.
Please write a sequel ASAP
So years ago these poor artists created spider queen for a terrible guy who didn't pay them and now you are stealing their creation to make money off it yourself. I mean I'm sure it's in public domain so you were able to steal both things but damn. Talk about"not sitting right"
@@cptamerica13 the artists are mostly if not all dead, the company that owned the rights is gone, and megacorps do the same thing with every popular franchise.
Better to keep it from going to waste.
With the stache Austin now looks like he is a time traveller from a forgotten timeline where he operated a Kooba-Cola stand at the local carnival
I like that description 😅
Austin needs to make a cameo in Atlas as this character.
@@MayoOnIcecram Even in this other timeline Kooba-Cola went out of business decades ago
@@MayoOnIcecram because he's a soda vendor from the 30s
The Austin Lore is expanding
When Austin said that Kooba Cola is going to make a triumphant return, I thought he was going to announce that he was starting his own soda company
Don't tempt the man, you know he would do it 😂
@@comlitbeta7532Right? 😂😂😂 I also expected him to announce that.
*Kooba Cola
How the hell do you mess that one up?
Unironically would buy some because Soda flavors have stagnated
That's most likely the end goal mate.
I love how Austin's moustache just keeps getting bigger and more twirly.
A handlebar really.
I was noticing that too!
Like a 1920's villain. LOL
Die a hero or live long enough to become a 1920s villain.
I believe you're looking for the word majestic.
Back in the day, I would slam a whole six pack of koobas at the arcade before a game of Polybius. They advertised the hell out of the soda in Sinbad’s “Shazaam” movie!
lol
Baseball player Sidd Finch was famously a fan of the beverage.
The crazy part is this could be a legitimate time line 😳
You know Kooba and Shazaam are not real things, right?
@@captainalex8003 Yes it's a joke about several examples of the Mandela Effect
Austin is about two steps away from being the villain of the CZcams Cinematic Universe (YTCU)
Considering the kinds of people at the top of this platform he must’ve done something *really* bad in comparison lmao
Moxie is my favorite "sounds like a joke but is real " soda from that era
Moxie still exists and yet somehow tastes like it was made 100 years ago and was recently found in an abandoned factory and delivered to the nearby gas station.
@@ColeHrusovskythat is an amazingly accurate description of how it tastes
@@ColeHrusovsky yep and I can't get enough , I literally have ordered their drink holder and had 12 cans from Ohio delivered half way across the nation
@@Ike_of_pyke Suit yourself brother. I haven't had Moxie in years because of how awful it tastes. Though maybe I'll have to give it another shot
I recently had Moxie. It was a little weird, but still enjoyable.
That coupon thing was actually really clever. If I was a tiny kid and I saw the coupon had expired, I’d just think “oh, better get the next issue to use that coupon”. Then I’d pick up the next issue, notice the coupon had expired, and then the cycle would continue.
There's something funny to me about lifelong scammers like that. Like at a certain point it's gotta be easier to just run a legitimate business but nah, keep that grift wheel going.
It hasn't been easy to run a legitimate business for at least a hundred years. Sounds like you just call a corporation a "legitimate business" instead of a grift, and that's why your little brain can't handle the fact that people with successful grifts keep doing the successful grifts instead of switching to some other business.
Austin, don't tantalize us with Kooba Cola without going all in. Get. Into. The. Soda. Game.
the bargain bin cinematic universe is looking more exciting each video lol
With the logo I assumed that it would be some sort of subliminal marketing for KOOL cigarettes in childrens' magazines that they were either barred from or would look bad on them.
The truth is far funnier than I could've imagined. Great video and straight to the point!
“By working I mean committing mail fraud” a grind’s a grind Austin!
i was half expecting him to say "im happy to announce that kooba cola is going to be real i started making kooba and will sell it to anyone"
I hope someday a sci-author makes Kooba Cola a real product in a novella about another universe
Stop giving me ideas.
Be funny if kooba cola appeared in the blue beetle movie.
One in which Pepsi doesn't exist, but was marketed in... films, perhaps?
First You Make it Real in a Story.
Then someone else De-Fictionalizes it if it gets popular
The history behind golden age comics is honestly much more interesting to me than the comics themselves.
Honestly, yeah, the behind the scenes of comics can be just as interesting. I'd love to see some boo pics on comic writers and artists.
It would be great to make a cola that didn't contain phosphorus. Coke etc. is made with phosphoric acid, and _some people_ have serious dietary restrictions against phosphorus.
I think you mean phosphate
Usually uncolas, like Sprite, use citric acid instead. Root Beer also uses Citric acid or Malic Acid, as do orange and grape sodas, etc. so there are a lot of sodas out there that don’t use phosphoric acid. Sadly, Dr Pepper, like the Colas, does use phosphoric acid
@@RLucas3000 I think some root beers might be phosphoric acid, others citric, but I'm not super sure about that?
Anyway, make sure to read the labels carefully if you have dietary restrictions -- even the 'same product' can be slightly different formulations in different form factors, like the canned vs bottled vs fountain versions of a soda, to say nothing about regional variations or changes over time.
@@MyNameIsUnavailable No, the phosphorous in Coke etc. is phosphoric acid, which is not a phosphate (PO4[-3 anion]).
@@JohnDlugosz you lost me Science Experiment letters numbers symbols. You win. I lose.
Take care.
I love your enthusiasm for golden age American comics and its slightly forgotten history.
I am loving all the vintage comic content from this channel.
Okay, genuine question. If the name "Kooba Cola" is in the public domain now (which I'm assuming it is), could someone hypothetically sell a real soda and call it "Kooba Cola"?
Yeah, but so could anybody else.
@@BenoHourglass I’m not totally sure what you mean by “anyone else” unless you just mean that multiple people can do this. If so, good. I don’t want anyone to have a monopoly on this brand name. I want options.
@@GeorgeHarold1 That's what I mean. Anyone can make a Kooba Cola, so if you were hoping to corner some Kooba Cola market, it would be unlikely.
@@BenoHourglass I wasn't hoping to corner the market. I don't personally plan to mass produce Kooba Cola and I never did. I was just wondering if the possibility of Kooba Cola becoming real exists at all.
@@GeorgeHarold1 I'm also speaking hypothetically here.
Edit: The sticker is now real! It's here! :D
Could we possibly also get a Kooba Cola sticker in the merch lineup? Responsibly, I shouldn't buy more graphic tees for a good while, but I would LOVE to add a Kooba sticker to my collection. :)
Done. austinmcconnell.creator-spring.com/listing/kooba-cola-merch?product=663
THANK YOU :D
There is a certain level of humor about a brand of Soda will be added in a premiere of a healthy life & exercise-powered superhero.
Ah, but with Vitamin B1™, Kooba Cola is the healthiest and tastiest choice on the market!
It's comedic now, but for the first several decades of their existence, soda was mainly treated as a health drink. For one thing, carbonation was associated with mineral water (ie natural carbonation) and considered healthy for you. For another, sugar's negative health effects were almost completely misattributed to overeating, so its connection with medicine as a way to cut bitterness made it appear healthy by association. The "Dr" in Dr Pepper isn't just a cute flourish, they pushed that shit as being literally good for you.
Victor Fox looks aggressively 1930s
The kind of guy who would unironically describe WonderBread as a health food.
Linkara's Blue Beetle retrospective introduced me to Kooba Cola. Everything about Fox Comics, from the history, the guy in charge, and the comic books themselves are very entertaining to hear about and I would like to see an Ed Edd n' Eddy style comedy inspired by this company.
I can't believe Koopa Kola from the old Super Mario comics was a "real" soda
Kooba, not Koopa... but Koopa Cola should be a thing.
Nintendo could sell it at their mario theme park.
About 15 years ago I was searching online for information about Kooba Cola. I found an interesting post on an old message board; not a comics related forum. A guy said he had been a sidewalk peddler for one summer in Secaucus New Jersey circa 1940. He would pick up soda at a local bottling factory in the morning and there was a brand he had never seen before or since; it was called Kooba Cola. The guy didn’t mention Fox Features or anything about comics or advertising. The story seemed credible to me.
Fascinating. He could be misremembering, or there might have coincidentally been a local soda with the same name, since there were countless brands back then.
It wasn't credible though.
@@z-beeblebrox Possibly a case of not really fully remembering what it looked like/was pronounced like, trying to think back to it, and his brain filling in the blanks from an ad campaign he'd seen for a very similar looking/sounding product -- the Kooba Cola ad campaign.
I remember an old Super Mario comic I had from the 90s featuring a fake ad for Koopa Cola.
If you grew up in the 30s or 40s you probably also really like Austin's mustashe.
Austin, are you planning on joining the World Beard and Mustache Championships? Your 'stache is coming along nicely, and I wouldn't be surprised if you'll make a video out of it in a year or two.
Oh good, I was hoping just yesterday that you'd release another video like this!! I love these fascinating little snippets of history.
I am very slightly disappointed that you didn't play any audio from the Blue Beetle radio show. It is (as far as I can tell) out of copyright, it's widely available on old-time radio forums, and it is absolutely UNHINGED.
I downloaded some episodes because I was a fan of the lead actor, Frank Lovejoy, who also starred in a great noir series called Nightbeat. Imagine a man with the perfect voice for a hardboiled detective trying to voice a hyperviolent superhero when nobody has any idea what the script is going to do next ...
I cut it for time, but it is indeed crazy. I might do a deep dive on that entire show at some point. 😂
@@austinmcconnell Oh my God, PLEASE do. If you need someone to laugh hysterically about how weird it is compared to other radio of the time (The Adventures of Superman is a good point of comparison), I will happily gush about my most obscure fandom to one of my favorite CZcamsrs. Same handle on Twitter and Tumblr.
Old soda’s are so hard to say if real or not
One day- I fear that I’m gonna get involved in a Austin video only to realize that it was an “I, Libertine” moment where he literally made it all up
The Kooba Cola logotype and bottle look pretty darn good; too bad it never existed or that any bottles were manufactured. I do think someone should be making t-shirts and other clothing with this logo...maybe stickers as well. "5c - Big Enough For Two!"
Austin, you've got the perfect mustache for tying damsels to railroad tracks.
Pfft - didn't exist in your dimension, mayhap! *Takes a hearty swig of refreshing Kooba Cola - easily the most popular soft drink, here on Earth #23-alpha-pumpkin* Aah, delicious - you can really taste the extra vitamin B1! ^_^
What pumpkin?
Great insights you have there, Austin. You'll always have our support no matter what.
It was posted the same minute you posted don't pretend you saw.
this channel is the definition of underappreciated. every new video just oozes some weird charm that cannot be explained! I LOVE IT!!!
Austin, DC only owns the trademarks and later copyrights for Blue Beetle, hence why they rarely if ever use the Dan Garret/Dan Garrett version. he’s in a legal limbo, his comics before Charlton are in the public domain but he can’t be used by anyone because DC has the rights to print under the name Blue Beetle
he’s not alone in that gray area as Shazam/Captain Marvel is as well since his oldest works are public domain yet he’s pretty much impossible to use by anyone but DC
Something kinda funny:
Linkara, of AT4W, brought up Kooba Cola in his Blue Beetle retrospective, and subsequently used it as an ad bumper for his in universe event, the Contest of Champions, which is broadcast to a mulitverse. The bumpers basically just have a tagline of trying the possible taste of this hypothetical soda, or something to that effect.
I thought that Austin would be launching his own kooba cola by the end of the video lol
Also, am I the only one that for a moment I thought it was koopa cola and that this would be a great name for a super Mario soda drink?
>would be a great name for a super Mario soda drink?
actually I can get behind that too
@@jamesknapp64 koopa cola, the newest alcohol based soda from Nintendo, power up beyond any 7 ups that Mario can get, in a trip bigger than any super mushroom available until now.
Feel the wonder with Nintendo
You look so from the olden days with that facial hair, practically a bioshock infinite character.
6:25 Whoa, I can't believe they made ocarinas from Zelda into a real thing. And way back in the 30s, too!
Maybe Link dropped it while he was playing and sent it back in time. XD
Yeah the games were really big at they time. I heard of this Fitzgerald guy who named his wife after Zelda.
I really like your videos on the golden age of comics. I always feel like I'm learning something new and the stories are interesting. Please keep them up!
they really should make this a in universe soda that all 3 blue beetles enjoy
Man that handlebar mustache is really hitting the next level.
I wonder if ink cartridge scams will ever be a plot point in the McConnell-Verse.
😂😂 this better happen
Your channel is one of the only that consistenlty makes great videos. Always enjoy watching what ever you find interesting!
I remember growing up in the 30s and 40's and watching this exact video!!
You are absolutely ROCKING the handlebars, by the way.
Nuh uh I drank it, I just don’t remember it for some reason I think
Dude I LOVE your channel. Grew up in the seventies and eighties but always loved stuff from much earlier. I bought the Charles atlas course when I was 11! Keep this coming. Thank you!!
My grandfather was a printer and ran his own printing shop he never dealt with comic companies or printed comics but he did say when it came to getting paid from companies who filed bankruptcy or getting paid in general he said, “They always paid the printer last. Every time, Kid.”
If the guy went legit and made his own soda and advertised it in his own comics, he would have two revenue streams. But no, greed and stupidity blinded his chance.
I love the crazy stories you always seem to find! Though this one shows the more digusting sides of the industry, I still enjoyed learning about it
This was something I learned about when I was first learning how to read, and I'm so happy to see it discussed on CZcams.
Nice video as always Austin.
You only watched one minute in.
You have great enunciation. Makes the info very easy to digest.
Austin one of these days you need to do a video about tieing someone to rail road tracks dressed as a classic villain in a cape and top hat to go with that mustache for you to twirl
The alliteration in this video is actually amazing.
Victor A. Fox managed to be a genuine, real life comic book villain as a comic book publisher.
first time I have watched one of his videos in quite a while and, I freakin’ love the handle bar mustache! Very nice, Mr. McConnel!
I am now heavily invested in this Victor Fox. He seems like a notable guy that did a lot, yet there's no wikipedia page on him (he has a section in fox comics but not his own page). I am very curious on this man and will probably be doing a deep research dive now.
For the record, this man is a bit of a ghost.
Linkara went over him a bit in his Blue Beetle retrospective.
Wolf Cola clenches my thirst 😂
I absolutely love you Austin! I hope you have a great day.
Austin knows all the crazy stories!
I caved. I bought the Spider Woman book. I'm excited to read it and see what life you've given to a pulp golden age character! I'm enjoying the content immensely. Keep it up! Hope your health is improving!
The final Spider-Verse movie coming out should have Kooba Cola advertised in one of those worlds. That'd be a cool little Easter egg.
There is a brand of cola in Sweden called Cuba Cola. In Swedish that's pronounced very close to Kooba Cola. It was introduced in Sweden shortly before Coca-Cola made its way here.
How's it taste?
And it's called Cuba Cola because thats where Sweden got it's sugar from in the early 1950s. Now Sweden is self sufficient, growing sugar beets.
@@Igarappappa It was my favourite cola drink, unfortunately when Spendrups bought it out they seem to have changed the formula and now it tastes really generic. The re-design of the brand looks nice though.
brilliant video. Love your content. i hope you're in good health
oh man, what a magnificent mustache. i just came here cause i knew you from the ink carts vid, and all of a sudden you grew dapper right out of your face XD nice job.
i haven't checked back i a while and my guy that stache is godly
Fun fact: Sweden has had a brand of Cola named Cuba Cola since 1953. It's actually pretty good - less sickeningly sweet than Coke or Pepsi, and has a slightly higher caffeine ratio.
Gotta love the hustle.
funny how many old school comics already are in public domain
Theres an alternate universe somewhere where Kooba Cola is served at every McDonald's and I have girlfriend
I could've sworn there was a reference to Kooba Cola in your Spider-Queen novel, but I checked again, and it wasn't there. I think this should be part of the lore of the Superzeroes Universe.
I actually laughed out loud at that last line about putting an ad after another ad. Well done.
Your moustache.... is glorious.
I need that Kooba Cola hoodie, fingers crossed you make the soft drink too
It's not okay to profile people but the moment you showed that Fox guy, he looked like straight up mafioso and I wasn't too far off 😂
That mustache is majestic!
Are you saying that over the past 500 years every nice relaxing evening I had just sitting around drinking Kooba Cola was only a dream!!!???
Old ad and new ad with an ad at the end. Amazing
I'M THE KING OF COMICS!
I'M THE KIIIING OF COMIIIIICS!!
Victor Fox was a character
Bought a pint glass. This will be my soda glass. No matter what sort of soda I drink, it will be Kooba Cola. Coke? Pepsi? Orange Crush? 7-Up? It's all Kooba Cola in that glass.
love it!
AustinMcConnell is beginning his slow transformation into HEAVILY Pinning his entire Internet Channel on 'Talking about the Earliest Comic Books' that will aid in his Bargin Bin Cinematic Universe since the earliest Comic Books will go Public Domain in a Decade from now.
-provided the worst doesn't transpire with his medical issues-
Bravo as always
lovin the stache
I love these random comic book videos
Kooba Cola: the official sponsor of the Contest of Champions.
Like most golden age characters, the Spider Queen fell into the public domain. She was eventually appropriated by Marvel.
I have to wonder if Valiant Comics was poking fun at Fox with "Koopa Kola" advertisements in the Super Mario Bros comics.
Um, they weren't "literally a dine a dozen." That would mean you would have gotten 12 comic books for a dime. As you clearly pointed out, they were a dime for a single one.
They were figuratively a dime a dozen, meaning they were cheap. Adjusting for inflation, ten cents in the mid-1930s would roughly be about $1.90 in today's money. So yeah, that's pretty cheap for a comic book.
;)
The Pepsi vs Coke debate is settled. KOOBA IS SUPERIOR
your mustache is impressive
loving the mustache austin, truly glorious
I want to use Kooba in my novels now. This was a delightful video.
Somehow I already knew this existed because of Linkara's Blue Beetle retrospective.