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Friday, May 12, 2023

Friday Fun ROWAN & MARTIN'S LAUGH IN "Five Year Plan for the Moon" & "...as Used by Our Astronaughts in Space!"

Though largely-forgotten today...

Wraparound cover of #12

Artist Unknown

...this 1960s comedy-variety TV series was ground-breaking in a number of ways.

Besides the show's anti-Establishment content, which was always a source of contention with NBC network censors, it had an amazing amount of tie-in merchandise...including a MAD-style magazine!
In 1969, with the first Moon landing about to occur, the mag took a couple of looks at the space program...

...and...

By the time these features appeared in the final issue of Laufer Publishing's Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (#12 in 1969), the use of images of the actual performers from the show had been reduced to the cover and a couple of one-pagers based on long-running gags like the "Flying Fickle Finger of Fate Award".
Laufer Publishing was best-known for the legendary 1960s-70s teen magazine Tiger Beat!,...

...which continues to this day as a website, though not a print magazine!

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MEOW!

My Groovy Life with Tiger Beat's Teen Idols!

Friday, May 5, 2023

Friday Fun YAK YAK "How to Identify Road Nuts!"

"Road rage" is not a new phenomenon...

...although, as shown on TV shows like Road Wars, it's gone to new extremes!

Though this feature (written and illustrated by the legendary Jack Davis) from Dell's Four Color Comics: Yak Yak #1348 (1962) is over sixty years old, it's as applicable today as it was then!

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Art of Jack Davis

Friday, April 28, 2023

Friday Fun NUTS! "Comics is Wonderful!"

We keep telling you "comics can be educational"!

This feature, though it looks like it, is not an example of that!

How "meta" can you get?

A comic that spoofs other comics' genres!

This feature illustrated by Hy Fleishman from Premier Magazine's Nuts! #4 (1954) demonstrates the quality this undeservedly-obscure, short-lived (1953-1956) company gave to the titles in its' multi-genre lineup!

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Sincerest Form of Parody

Monday, April 3, 2023

Monday Madness TRUMP'S SPACE FORCE Conclusion

When Last We Left Our Protagonist (No way are we calling him a "hero"!) in This Fantasy...

...Don da Con, in his Spanx-reinforced spacesuit, has left the ship to engage the enemy on a more personal level...

Superb satire or conservative wet dream?

Only writer Chuck Dixon and artist Timothy Lim know, and they ain't telling!

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Trump's Space Force

(either for yourself, or as a gift for a con friend/relative)

Saturday, April 1, 2023

Space Force Saturdays TRUMP'S SPACE FORCE Part 2

We Have Already Seen...

The Celestial Peacekeeping Astral Coalition contacts the President of the United States, Donald Trump, to deliver a dire warning: Earth is in danger of takeover by another group of aliens from somewhere in the far left wing of the galaxy.

This insidious force, the Sienn’en, have an armada ready to invade Earth for its resources.
But with the CPAC’s help, Trump puts together a team ready to take the battle into orbit and beyond!

A force to make space great again!

(You can tell today is April Fools Day, right?)