Friday, April 19, 2024
Friday Fun RIOT the Complete "Why Izzit?"
Friday, January 5, 2024
Friday Fun HOMER THE HAPPY GHOST "Meet the Neighbors!"
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Friday, October 27, 2023
Frightening Friday Fun CHILLING ADVENTURES IN SORCERY AS TOLD BY SABRINA "Boy Who Cried Vampire"
Speaking of survival, reruns of the TV version of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina can be seen on Netflix!
Friday, May 26, 2023
Friday Fun JETTA OF THE 21st CENTURY "Jet-Heeled Prom" and "Zingbats"
Friday, January 14, 2022
Friday Fun MY GAL PEARL "Football"
In the mid-1950s, there were a spate of "dumb blonde" comics...
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Friday, August 27, 2021
Friday Fun TIPPY TEEN "Kiss and Tell"
BTW, this story was reprinted several years later...but with the clothing and hairstyles updated to the 1970s, and the lead character changed!
Be here next Friday to see it!
Friday, May 28, 2021
Friday Fun JETTA OF THE 21st CENTURY "What a Specimen"
Friday, January 22, 2021
Friday Fun JETTA OF THE 21st CENTURY "My Cosmic Hero"
If the art style looks familiar, it's the work of Dan DeCarlo, who helped establish the iconic "look" of Archie Comics!
Dan actually started at Atlas Comics (the 1940s-50s predecessor to Marvel Comics) doing a variety of humor strips before beginning a long-term run on various Archie titles in 1951.
Even then, he continued to work for a number of other publishers, including Standard Comics, who asked him to create, write, and illustrate a teen-humor series.
(Every publisher had at least one of them!)
Exactly whose idea it was to set it in the "far future" of the early 21st Century is unknown, but the resultant strip, though extremely derivative of Archie, was unique in the teen-humor genre for it's Jetsons-style setting and "futuristic" slang.