Though the Series' Title was Hot Dog...
...the character's name was Harry Hotdog, who can best be described as Curb Your Enthusiasm's Larry David as a generic yellow canine!
Cue the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme...
This never-reprinted story from Magazine Enterprises' Hot Dog #3 (1954) aka A-1 #124 (1954) satirizes the "Greatest Generation's" attitude towards "modern art"!
If you're wondering why the comic has two titles and numberings, let me explain...
Like Dell's Four Color Comics, A-1 was an anthology title which served as a tryout platform for various concepts, so it had both the strip's numbering and the title's numbering.
That way, if the strip didn't sell well, the publisher wouldn't have to pay for another second-class mailing permit (which was required for each title published) for a new series!
Numerous ME strips were published this way, including Cave Girl, I Am a Cop, Trail Colt, Manhunt, Ghost Rider, Undercover Girl, and Thun'da!
This issue was the third of four Harry Hotdog-starring issues!
Writer/Artist George Crenshaw began as an animator for Walt Disney, then MGM before going to comic strips and books.
Besides being a longtime "ghost" on Dennis the Menace, he created his own long-running strip, Belevdere, about (surprise) a dog...but not an anthropomorphic one like Harry!
If you're wondering why the comic has two titles and numberings, let me explain...
Like Dell's Four Color Comics, A-1 was an anthology title which served as a tryout platform for various concepts, so it had both the strip's numbering and the title's numbering.
That way, if the strip didn't sell well, the publisher wouldn't have to pay for another second-class mailing permit (which was required for each title published) for a new series!
Numerous ME strips were published this way, including Cave Girl, I Am a Cop, Trail Colt, Manhunt, Ghost Rider, Undercover Girl, and Thun'da!
This issue was the third of four Harry Hotdog-starring issues!
Writer/Artist George Crenshaw began as an animator for Walt Disney, then MGM before going to comic strips and books.
Besides being a longtime "ghost" on Dennis the Menace, he created his own long-running strip, Belevdere, about (surprise) a dog...but not an anthropomorphic one like Harry!
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