Friday Fun ABBOTT & COSTELLO "Biscuit Eater"

They were one of the top comedy acts in every existing media of the 1940s/50s including comic books...

...with simple but effective storylines, almost always leading up to a satisfying, entertaining conclusion!

This tale from St John's Abbott and Costello Comics #8 (1949) certainly wouldn't have been out of place on their 1950s TV series...if they had the budget to pull off either animal costuming or trained animals (which the low-budget series rarely did).
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Abbott & Costello Story
Sixty Years of "Who's on First?"

Friday Fun RICHIE RICH "Military Mix-Up"

The Dreaded Deadline Doom caught us this week...

...so enjoy this carry-over from our brother RetroBlog, Hero Histories, featuring The Poor Little Rich Boy kicking Russkie butt in this tale from Harvey's Richie Rich #51 (1966)!

Whatta guy!

And he didn't even have to become Super-Richie/Rippy...

...to do it!

(If you think there's a lot of Spider-Man or Batman titles out now...and there are quite a few...it's nothing compared to Richie Rich at his peak, when there were...take a deep breath...

32 simultaneous monthly, bi-monthly and quarterly Richie Rich Universe titles!
And that's not including Casper, Sad Sack, and all the other non-Richie Rich Harvey titles! 

You read that right, True Believer!
By the way, they were all selling better than almost everything Marvel and DC has out there now!

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Harvey Comics Classics Volume 2

Richie Rich

Friday Fun DUNC AND LOO "Loo and Strongboy Stoop in 'Muscle Bound' "

Let's return to an unusually-urban humor comic series...

...with this never-reprinted short from Dell's Dunc and Loo #8 (1963)!

Trivia: The book was originally-titled Around the Block with Dunc and Loo, but was shortened to just Dunc and Loo as of #4.
(Apparently suburban and rural readers use "corner" or "street" instead of "block" when referring to addresses, so the original title confused them!)
You'll note two major differences from most teen humor tales we present here...

1) the art doesn't mimic the Archie Comics "house" art style, which became synonymous with "teen humor" in the late 1950s!

2) the series is set in a big city with apartment houses and other urban elements.

(Most "teen humor" series are set in suburbs/small towns!)

Written by John Stanley and illustrated by Bill Williams (the series' co-creators).

It was one of three "teen humor" series created for Dell by Stanley, including Kookie and Thirteen (Going on Eighteen) for Dell.

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Thirteen Going on Eighteen

by John Stanley

Friday Fun YAK YAK "Hysterical Historical Quizzical Quiz"

Since it's the 4th of July weekend...

...we thought we'd go with a post with a historical theme and let writer/artist Jack Davis test your knowledge with this (astonishingly) never-reprinted feature from the first appearance of Yak Yak in Dell's Four Color Comics #1186 (1961)!

So, how did you do?

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Art of Jack Davis!

Friday Fun NUTS! "Popular Pictorial Science Handicrafts"

We brought you a similarly-themed tale about comic books from the same MAD-clone series HERE!

And now, our host/instructor (who originally-had a red mustache and hair) presents popular "slick" magazine genres...

This feature, illustrated by Hy Fleishman, from Premier Magazine's Nuts! #5 (1954) demonstrates the quality this undeservedly-obscure, short-lived (1953-1956) company gave to the titles in its' multi-genre (humor/Western/horror/romance/crime/funny animal) lineup!

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Sincerest Form of Parody

Friday Fun CRAZY, MAN, CRAZY! "Hollywood Version"

Some complain that movies and TV shows take too many liberties when adapting classic literature...

...and to that we say...DAMN STRAIGHT!

This never-reprinted feature from Charlton's short-lived MAD Magazine clone Crazy Man, Crazy! V2N1 (1955) shows they were already doing it almost 70 years ago!

You think artist Art Gates and the unknown scripter (possibly editor Al Fago) were as perturbed about the "creative re-imaging"/mangling of classics back then as we are today?

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Sincerest Form of Parody

Friday Fun 50s FUNNIES "Hot Sox the Teenage Devil Delinquent! in 'I Sold My Soul for Rock'N'Roll!' "

He's not who you think...

...he's a lot snarkier, but still PG-13, so kids can read him!

But he's not Comics Code-approved!

You've been warned!

As you may have guessed, Hot Sox was a parody of...

..."taken to 11" as they said in This is Spinal Tap!

Written by Larry Shell & Scott Shaw! and illustrated by Shaw! (Yes, the "!" is part of his name), he made his one and only appearance in Kitchen Sink Press' 50s Funnies (1980), a one-shot (and never-reprinted) anthology about (you guessed it) 1950s pop culture...from a 1980s viewpoint!
The impressive list of contributors included Steve Bissette, William Stout, Rick Veitch, Will Meugniot, John Totleben, and Alfredo Alcala!

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50s Funnies

(The Hot Sox color pageat the beginning of the post was the comic's back cover!)

Friday Fun JETTA OF THE 21st CENTURY "Jet-Heeled Prom" and "Zingbats"

Like most comics of the era, Jetta of the 21st Century had text stories...

...to qualify for second-class (magazine) mailing rates!

The text stories featured other characters from the "Jetta-verse"!

Written by "Dixon Wells" (a pen-name used only for Jetta text stories), this never-reprinted piece from Standard's Jetta of the 21st Century #7 (1953) would've made a pretty good comic story.

Perhaps it was scripted by Dan DeCarlo?

Also included in this final issue of the series was this one-pager totally-unrelated to the "Jetta-verse"...

No credits are available for this short, which probably was meant for one of Standard's sci-fi comics, Lost Worlds or Fantastic Worlds!

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Dan DeCarlo's Jetta

Friday Fun HICKORY "Reel Life"

With Ron DeSantis' war on Disney now costing Florida over a billion (with a B") dollars...

...in business development and taxes, let's look at how ReichWing rural Repugs like his followers see the media in this never-reprinted tale from Quality's Hickory #6 (1949)!

Illustrated (and probably written) by Harry Sahle, this comic series began in the anthology All-Humor Comics, then spun-off into it's own, short-lived, title when All-Humor was cancelled.

In 1948-49, superheroes were all but kaput.

Comics were experimenting with every genre imaginable to see what would sell.

Li'l Abner was a major success in newspapers and had already spawned a radio series and feature film!

Strips like Looie Lazybones had long been a part of anthology titles, and series like Ozark Ike, and Babe had earned their own titles, though it was probably due more to their emphasis on the characters' involvement in sports than their rural origins.

Hickory, the comic, only lasted six issues.

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Best of Li'l Abner

by Al Capp