Showing posts with label Bob Hope. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bob Hope. Show all posts

Saturday, November 9, 2024

Space Hero Saturdays WHACK "Flush Jordan"

Yes, it's a Flash Gordon spoof...

..but it has a cultural reference readers under 50 won't recognize!
Ming the Merciless usually looks like this...
...so who's "Bing", the golf-playing guy in the Hawaiian shirt and porkpie hat?
He's Bing Crosby, singer, comedian, obsessive golfer, and (when this comic was published) a pop culture icon!
With that in mind, please read...
The guy at the end, whining about "Thanks for the Memory" is comedian Bob Hope...
...Bing's co-star/rival in the 1940s-50s "Road to..." movie series as well as a pop culture legend in his own right!
Note: Thanks for the Memory" was Hope's personal theme song, used primarily to close his radio show, live appearances, and TV specials!
This never-reprinted story from #2 of St John's MAD clone WHACK was illustrated by William Overgard for 3-D use, but the collapse of the 3-D comic market forced St John to publish it in regular color comic format!
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Friday, January 24, 2020

Friday Fun SPOOF "What If...Celebrities Were the Last People on Earth?"

You know you're a baby boomer...
...if you recognize all the celebs in this never-reprinted tale from Marvel's Spoof #5 (1973)!
 Snoopy from the Peanuts comic strip!
 Julia Child, one of the first TV chefs!
 ABC sports announcer (and really annoying guy who deserves his fate) Howard Cosell!
And, finally...longtime comedy icon Bob Hope, whose annual tours to entertain our troops overseas are satirized!
Written by Marv Wolfman, penciled by master (or is that "mistress") caricaturist Marie Severin, and inked by John Costanza (a damn good cartoonist who made more money as one of the speediest letterers in the business), this piece was part of Marvel's failed 1970s attempt to return to the humor color comics market!
After trying three times with Spoof, ARRRGH! (horror humor), and Crazy (reprinting material from Not Brand Ecch), Marvel decided to switch their humor efforts to a b/w book...with the resulting revival of Crazy in that format running  over a decade with 94 issues and an oversized Special!
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