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WAR! comic
December 17, 2009 Sniper
May 20, 2009.

''Proposed replacement to Mann Co. comics section content

== Mann Co. comics ==
[[File:Saxton postcards valvestore.png|thumb|173px|Team Fortress 2 Saxton Hale Postcard Kit, [[Valve Store]].]]
After ''[[The Insult That Made a "Jarate Master" Out of Sniper]]'' (May 20, 2009), but before the debut in the multiple comic ''[[WAR! Comic|War!]]'' (December 17, 2009), Valve presented the '''Saxton Series'''. The Saxton Series is a set of "commemorative" postcards showing covers of selected issues of Mann Co. Comics, published by TF Industries, and giving commentary on the back of each postcard. Hale's background given on each of these cards made its way into later multi-page [[Comics]].

=== Publication history ===
While the ''Gentleman Scoundrel" was just artwork for the Sniper vs. Spy Update, some people clipped the order form and mailed it to Valve with money. Valve gifted each of the persons a set of the Saxton Series postcards.<ref>TF2 Team, ''[https://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=3130 Team Fortress News Roundup]'', TF2 Official Blog, November 18, 2009.</ref> The set was then available for purchase through the [[Valve Store]].

Mann-Conomy Update  September 30, 2010 Patch.

''When/where was the [https://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=3578 ''Saxton Hale's Mail Storm'']? The Saxton Hale page has a transcript for this, but I don't know where the confirmation is for the source.'''

== References ==
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== Transcripts ==
'' I have an idea I am working on about a more efficient layout for the images and layout of the images and the commentary.''





Transcript of saxton postcard
All postcards start with a "SHOW THAT STAMP WHO'S BOSS! SLAP IT HERE" and "POSTMAN: By God, you will guard this message with your life and see It safely to:
;Junglebrawl:

Saxton Hale's Jungle Brawl debuted in the U.S. in 1962, riding a wave of anti-gorilla sentiment following Russia's successful launch of the first monkey, Vladimir Bananas, into space. America's rage was not isolated to Communist primates - that same year, monkeynaut Poopy Joe cruelly dashed the U.S.'s hopes of reaching the stars when its shuttle detonated on takeoff. Brawl was notori-ous for inflaming huamn-gorilla tensions during its ten-year run, most famously in issue #50, which was printed with gorilla's blood. Its print run of 17 million copies left only five gorillas on the planet.

;Saxton haircut:

Saxton Hale's Barbershop Action capitalized on the brief "haircut" fad of the early 60s. Its breakaway success would lead to the ancillary titles Saxton Hale's Barbershop Romance and Haircut Horrors Starring Saxton Hale's Ghost. By issue #40, however, the peacenik movement had gripped America in its filthy, tangled mane, and haircut fiction saw a steep decline. This would be the start of a longtime feud between Hale and hippies, which would culminate in his firebombing Woodstock from a helicopter.

;Saxton sharks:

Saxton Hale's Thrilling Tales first arrived on newsstands in 1961 as part of a bold Mann Co. initiative to sidestep an increase in postage costs for their weapons catalogs. The first 64-pages of ads for exciting new Mann Co. products. But Thrilling's editors quickly discovered that showing Mann Co. president Saxton Hale using a product in the story itself tripled its sales. Ads were cut to 32 pages to accommodate longer, product placement-based stories.

;Saxton turtle:

As the youth movement of the 1960s escalated, manufacturers produced fewer and fewer products for the elderly. By 1963, only four items remained: hats, meat, caskets, and Saxton Hale's Mildly Thrilling Tales. Naked from the forehead down, lying in their coffins gumming Salisbury steak, an entire generation of despondent, forgotten consumers was left with just one thing on which to spend their governments checks: Hale's tepid, senior-friendly tales of modest suspense. Saxton Hale Visits His Mother Monthly and Soothing Stories of Familiar Things soon followed. Hale quickly became the wealthiest man in the weastern hemisphere.

;Saxton fire:

Boy's Adventure with Saxton Hale came under fire from the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency in 1968 for teaching boys aged 6-16, among other things: moral turpitude, arson, vandalism, hippie assault, tax fraud, at-home laryngectomies, car theft, gorilla slaughter, and the Heimlich Maneuver (which had just been invented and was still considered controversial). Pressured by the Senate, Mann Co. changed the name to Girl's Adventure With Saxton Hale, as it was commonly thought at the time that girls couldn't do anything, so any lessons taught to them would be harmless.