

A Guide to the Bill and Ted comics which appeared in
Look-in! Magazine
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Adaptation of DIC animated episode The Totally Gross Anatomy of a Gym Coach. The story continued for three weeks.
February 8 - February 29, 1992
Adaptation of Hanna-Barbera animated episode When the Going Gets Tough Bill and Ted are History. The story continued for four weeks.
An original comic story in which Bill and Ted decide to go back in time to get a missing page for their guitar "play in a week" tutor from the author, Mr. Rick N. Bacher. But before they can leave a short-sighted neighbor steps into the phone booth to make a call to Tallahassee and disappears! Bill and Ted sit outside the Cozy Corner lamenting where their booth might have gone when it ends up reappearing again nearby, the confused neighbor complaining that you can never find a public phone booth that works. This was a one issue comic.
Adaptation of Hanna-Barbera animated episode Birds of a Feather Stick to the Roof of Your Mouth. The story continued for four weeks.
An original story in which Bill and Ted go back to find Robin Hood to help them get some money to pay for birthday presents for the Princess Babes. Robin Hood turns out to be a bad guy and the dudes are captured for being members of his group. They eventually find out that a witch had taken the place of Maid Marian, so they go back in time to set things right and set Robin Hood back on the path of righteousness. The story continued for three weeks.
Adaptation of DIC animated episode Excellent Adventures in Babysitting. The story continued for three weeks.
Original story in which Bill and Ted decide to go back to prehistoric times to help with a school assignment about dinosaur prints. They find an egg they think is a football but ends up belonging to a T-Rex! They manage to escape and find the dinosaur they're looking for to take a picture, but when they get back to the future they're surprised to find the fossil is now that of a sneaker footprint (Bill's high top having fallen off and landed on the dinosaur's foot)! This story continued for two weeks.
Original story in which Bill and Ted find out the CD player they have purchased the day before is broken. They realize they've thrown away the receipt, so they go back in time to warn themselves to save it. Only they are so busy discussing whether or not the CD player works all four of them miss the trash truck once again. This was a one issue comic.
Adaptation of Hanna-Barbera animated episode A Most Excellent Roman Holiday. The Incan rain dance part of the story was left out and adapted into a new story for the following issues. The story continued for two weeks.
An original story adapted at least in part by the Incan Rain Dance segment of A Most Excellent Roman Holiday. In this variation, Ted's dad leaves town and tells Ted to be sure to care for the lawn. One raucous party later and the lawn is forgotten and browning in the sun. With a broken sprinkler system keeping them from watering the grass, Bill and Ted go back to learn how to rain dance, only they end up making it rain too much and flooding the lawn instead. This story continued for two weeks.
An original story in which Bill and Ted need to find costumes for a party so they go back to the old west. They first have a run in with a guy who wants to shoot them (he ends up getting run down by a stage), then they head into a saloon (thinking it's a salon) where they ask to "hire" some guns (thinking they're going to get prop guns for their cowboy costumes). They inadvertently hire "The Wild Bunch" but are then arrested for the murder of the guy who was run over. They face hanging until their "gang" breaks them out of jail. They head to the O.K. Corral where they learn the Wild Bunch are actually a bunch of children's entertainers. Bill and Ted return to their time and find that everyone at the costume party is dressed in cowboy gear. This story continued for three weeks.
An original story in which Bill is plagued by nightmares about kissing Granny S. Preston, Esq. Ted decides to try to cure Bill of his problem and tries to drag Bill to see her. But Bill falls asleep on the way so Ted brings Granny S. Preston to him instead. When he wakes up to see her up close he passes out entirely! This was a one issue comic.
An original story in which Bill and Ted are about to give a concert but are concerned about no girls being in the audience. They decide to go back in time to visit The Boodles (caricatures of The Beatles, of course) to find out how to attract babes. At the Cavern Club Bill and Ted step up to the mike and win over the Boodles audience, causing the Boodles to break up. Rufus explains that if the band doesn't become famous then rock music will be forever changed and Wyld Stallyns won't exist. Bill and Ted work to get "Ron" and "Saul" back together to write hit songs, inspiring them to come up with several tunes based on things around them. This story continued for three weeks.
August
29 - September 12, 1992
An original story which finds Bill and Ted going back to medieval England to visit the Princess Babes. Instead they go back too far and find themselves in Camelot. They see a young Arthur off on his quest to slay two dragons, but Arthur gets fed up and Bill and Ted talk him into going to the beach on vacation. They surf using Arthur's shield until a gnarly surf-dude Merlin shows up and tells them to get lost. Merlin explains he is from the future and was surfing in the Bermuda Triangle and ended up in the dark ages in England. Arthur finds the Holy Grail in the sand, then they all go to a broth shop for lunch and play some touch football. The ball is punctured on a sword sticking out of a lake. Arthur recognizes it as Excalibur and thinks the Lady in the Lake is drowning, but instead she's practicing her synchronized swimming. They take the phone booth back to Camelot and Merlin pretends to make it disappear when Bill and Ted leave. This story continued for three weeks.
An original story and one which takes place after Bogus Journey! Bill and Ted receive an invitation to a Death Day party from Death himself! A strange limousine arrives to take them to the underworld where they find the other three Horsemen of the Apocalypse have crashed Death's shindig and are ruining the festivities. Bill and Ted beat the foes at Battleship, Hungry Hungry Hippos and Twister (which Death wins most triumphantly). This was a one issue comic.
An original story in which Bill and Ted go back in time to meet Nostradamus and tell him how great his predictions were. Nostradamus shows them his pre-published book and it's fraught with incorrect predictions, so they give him one of their history books, which he then uses to make his predictions. This was a one issue comic.
An original post-Bogus Journey story. The good robot Bill and Ted are spending the original Bill and Ted out of house and home with their extravagant lifestyles. They've been given their own recording contract and are planning to take Bill and Ted's babes away from them! Bill and Ted from the future show up along with Rufus to warn them that the good robots have engulfed too many Frosty Slushes and are malfunctioning to the point they plan to wipe Bill and Ted off the face of the earth and take their places! They go find Station at Malibu and bring him back to build good robot babes for the robots instead (this segment has one mistake in that Station is shown as one and splits apart to build the robots, the exact opposite as in the movie). We're missing the final installment of this episode, so if anyone can fill us in on how this one ends we'd be most appreciative! This story continued for three weeks.
An original story in which Bill and Ted crave a Chicago-style pizza but don't have the money to buy one. They decide to go back in time to when pizza was less expensive and end up in Chicago in 1930 where they run into gangsters who are commandeering a pizza shipment for a pizza smuggling operation. Elliot Mess and the Uncrustables show up and arrest the gangsters. Bill and Ted learn pizza is under prohibition and escape, only to find out later they are wanted dudes. Caught by a policeman, they are taken to see The Gobfather who tells them pizza was made illegal after the Mayor ordered an extra spicy one and deemed it was not safe for people to eat. Bill and Ted deliver a delicious pizza to the Mayor and pizza is spared, although alcohol is prohibited instead. This story continued for three weeks.
November
14 - November 28, 1992
An original story in which Bill and Ted run afoul of Dwayne Darson, a hulking bully who picks on not only the dudes but a nerdy kid named Melvin. Curious to see how these guys turn out, Bill and Ted visit the future and are shocked to find Dwayne is a successful used car dealership manager while Melvin is working as a scrub boy for him. Melvin explains that Dwayne forced him to take all his exams for him, so Dwayne qualified for business school while Melvin didn't. They return to their time and decide Ted will take the exam for Dwayne instead, only Ted's dad shows up at the test! Bill causes a diversion by having Vikings invade the police station, and one sticks around to bully Dwayne as well. They return to the future to find things exactly the same . . . Dwayne owning the car dealership and Melvin working there. Only this time the Viking has sided with Dwayne and co-owns the lot with him! This story continued for three weeks.
December
5 - December 12, 1992
An original story which finds Bill and Ted in need of better instruments. Upon reading about the upcoming horse race they decide to go into the future to see who wins and come back and bet on the race. But when they reach the future they're accosted by an angry bookie who says he's lost everything because of them. They go back to the day of the race to apologize to the guy and make up for whatever it is they did by telling him the winner of the race. In the future, Rufus and the Three Most Important People watch worriedly. If Bill and Ted get new instruments and become too famous too fast they'll ruin their futures. Rufus is sent to stop the horse from winning. Sure enough, the horse loses and the bookie is furious at Bill and Ted for the bum tip. We find at the end that Rufus had disguised himself as the favorite horse's jockey and kept him from ever leaving the starting gate. This story continued for two weeks.
December
19 - 26, 1992 - Special Double Issue
A special Christmas issue finished the year with a four page Christman story. Bill and Ted awake Christmas morning to find all of their presents have been stolen! A message on the wall of Ted's house reads "Unhappy X-mas Detective Logan!" so they know it was someone with a grudge and figure it might have been the two kids who robbed Santa's Grotto at the department store. They go back to stop the robbery, dressed as Santas. Bill and Ted grab two kids instead of the crooks, but then spot the real robbers dressed as elves and catch them. Only when Bill and Ted go back to the future they find their houses still robbed and the message changed to read "Unhappy X-mas Bill & Ted!" So they go back to Christmas night to catch the kids robbing their houses, which they do successfully, and Bill and Ted each get a new guitar for Christmas.
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