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CHOSE WITHERS - among microwave foods is the piping hot baked potato You can have stearning spuds in their jackets about four times faster than their conventionally baked counterparts Top sauce and you've got a fast them off with spunky chicken-tomatand filling family meal teen-ager- out-of-pri- nt tO SHELDON & JANICE LOVELESS 1 Best-love- d Unlike the animated children's series USA's "Swamp Thing" is written for an older audience of s and young adults niker who also were the executive producers of the blockbuster film "Batman" are the adoptive parents of Swamp Thing In 1982 BatfiIm resurrected the then comic book character with the movie version of "Swamp Thing" starring Dick Durock as the title character Adrienne Barbeau and Louis Jourdan Us Ian himself was a comic book buff who had been moved by the DC Comics character of the early '70s "I said 'I know if we breathe some life into it it will hit a chord with the public It's a modern-ag- e beauty and the beast story' " Ian says "He was more human than any of the humans he dealt: C":310) 1 I enve- e -- tions poster created by Jim Henson Productions for the ALA For a free bookmark send a business-siz- SO 5 Magazine For AP Special Features exposure" Reysen says series but the most marketable interpretation says Michael Us Ian a principal in the New York production company Batfi 1m Produc- y self-address- 4 IVI''fb r'''' ' ''' k o' e - - e i e 4 11 - — 1 w t ' 'i - I i- ' It -' ii i 4 - v -- 1 c V t :i - 4t 2' - - n 1t : - Although 1 ‘ ' t t NEW YORK (AP) — Jim Henson's Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog are featured on a new American Library Association poster and bookmark designed to encourage young people to "Read — Fall in Love with Books" h The Cleopigtra and Kermit poster stars Miss Piggy as the glamorous Queen of the Nile with Mark "Kermit" Anthony serving as her personal book valet Jim Henson Productions has been a supporter of the American Library Asseciation since 1980 Cleopigtra and Kermit is the fifth 1 :' w 1 992 Nancy Ilya Food Editor ry better Homes and Gardens live-actio- --- A A 0 - ik144 4 Miss Piggy Kermit want kids to read 22-b- y I it- - 'H: ?L I five-pa- rt 1 r u6 ' ‘ d "Swamp Thing" originated in the comic books 20 years ago recent media attention to the character has elevated him from cult status to more widespread fame In addition to the USA show Fox Network aired an animated "Swamp Thing" series on Saturday mornings in 1990 and 1991 (Its producers are working to get the cartoon back on the air) The animated series was backed by Kenner Toys which introduced a full line of "Swamp Thing" fig ures and play sets last year and also sells the animated miniseries on videocassette Other "Swamp Thing" merchandise now or soon to be on the market includes pajamas slippers tennis shoes sleeping bags jigsaw puzzles and video games Nobody is claiming that "Swamp Thing" will ever be Ninja Turtle-ho- t but the creature's promoters believe the ecologically minded has as yet untapped potential among the national and worldwide audiences "Kids especially tend to love this character" says Cheryl Rubin di live-actio- " ' '''''''-'-''- 4 a Thing" paraphernalia At least that's what the folks at Comics hope - : Nt 0 ('kv' ici: 7 sons — come home soon beseeching you for "Swamp DC t p ' ' it 64C ikt - n-addicted he er N ' - i- 'C't t11 tt 11 actio- is t '' 44I A '"---' ' 11- ' 1 sj44 J 1 d at- series in 1984 and a cottage industry has since grown up around it "As a result of that growing hoopla" Us lan says "Swamp Thing just refused to die" Bath lin produced a sequel to the first movie "Return of Swamp Thing" In 1989 following which Swarnpy appeared in public service Announcements for the envirorunental protection organization Greenpeace Uslan and Melniker are also executive producers of both the animated Fox series and n USA's series Batlihn is currently negotiating the return of the animated "Swamp Thing" series to television Max Lichy vice president of marketing for domestic footwear at Suave Footwear in Miami Lakes Fla which is selling its "Swamp Thing" tennis shoe for boys in Kmart stores believes the merchandise needs the support of the animated series if the character's popularity is to grow While the product is selling well Lichy says "It's not going to be as hot as the (Isiinja) Turtles "Swamp Thing" still has a lot to prove" Frank Reysen Jr editor of the trade publication Playthings magazine says the Kenner Swamp Thing toy line is selling well across the country "It helps to have ongoing media I 4 Microwave cooking - 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