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Monday, February 6, 2023

Monday Madness OZARK IKE

As SuperBowl Sunday approaches...
...lets see how rurals, including hillbillies, outside the big cities, play football...in the comics, of course!
The rest of the issue deals with the multi-talented Ike playing baseball, so we'll run it during baseball season.
Yes, the King Features strip was created in the mid-1940s as a competitor to Al Capp's wildly-successful Li'l Abner series!
No, it was nowhere near as successful.
The only known licensed spin-offs were this one-shot reprint collection in Dell's Four Color Comics #180 (1948), a subsequent short-lived 1950s comic series for Standard/Better/Nedor. and a couple of 1980s reprint paperbacks from Blackthorne Publishing.
Writer/artist Ray Gotto, though not a familiar name to comics fans today, achieved sports immortality for designing one of the iconic graphics in baseball history...still in use 61 years later:
BTW, this month's Monday Madness theme is SPORTS!
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