The Chicago Bears Beat the Green Bay Packers in the Playoffs for the First Time in Decades!

Celebrate the Chicago Bears' Playoff Victory Against Their Eternal Regional Rivals, the Green Bay Packers...

...with this cool, never-reprinted tale from Prize Comics' Babe V1N4 (1948-49) about the "Chicago Crushers" pro football team by writer/artist Gordon "Boody" Rogers, a graduate of the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and the Art Institute of Chicago, who obviously was a Chicago football fan!

(Though we're uncertain if the strip's Crushers were a variation of the Chicago Bears...or the Chicago Cardinals, who later moved to St Louis, then to Arizona!)
But the guys in green she's mopping the gridiron against on the cover (whom she never actually plays against in the tale) are pretty clearly the Green Bay Packers!

...we thought we'd re-present an almost century-old example of how the game might be with a woman super-star...and what a woman she is!

Note: Though I'm a born-and-raised New Yorker (specifically Brooklyn), I currently have "dual citizenship" with residences in both Chicago and Manhattan,
Sadly, though, neither the Jets or Giants made the playoffs, so, this year I'm going with the Bears...
One of writer/artist Boody Rogers' wildest creations, Babe: the Darling of the Hills, was one of several hillbilly series "inspired" by the phenomenal 1940s success of Al Capp's Li'l Abner!

Babe Boone derived her abilities from "lightning juice" which was fermented from the bark of trees struck by lightning!

When it and Rogers' other ongoing series, Sparky Watts, were cancelled, Boody retired from commercial art and comics, opening a pair of art supply stores!

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Now THIS is a SUPER-HERO Bowl!

Today, we PARTY, with our own Super-HERO Bowl!

A marathon of comic book-based DVDs and BluRays from around the world (including the Japanese Spider-Man live-action series with the giant Spider-Robot!).

Thank the tech gods for multi-region players!

See you tomorrow with more exciting tales!

Friday Football Fun BABE "and the Chicago Crushers Football Team..." Conclusion

When Last We Left the Bodacious Babe...

...she was demonstrating her proficiency on the gridiron!

One of writer/artist Boody Rogers' wildest creations, Babe: the Darling of the Hills, was another hillbilly series "inspired" by the phenomenal success of Al Capp's Li'l Abner!

Babe Boone derived her abilities from "lightning juice" which was fermented from the bark of trees struck by lightning!

When it and Rogers' other ongoing series, Sparky Watts, were cancelled, Boody retired from commercial art and comics, opening a pair of art supply stores!

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Friday Football Fun BABE "and the Chicago Crushers Football Team..." Part 1

With female interest in the Super Bowl at an all-time high...

...we thought we'd re-present an almost century-old example of how the game might be with a woman super-star...and what a woman she is!

This never-reprinted, intellectually-stimulating adventure from Prize's Babe #4 (1948-49) continues...
NEXT FRIDAY!

One of writer/artist Boody Rogers' wildest creations (and that's saying a lot), Babe: the Darling of the Hills, was a hillbilly series "inspired" by the phenomenal success of Al Capp's Li'l Abner in the late 1940s!

Babe Boone derived her abilities from "lightning juice" which was fermented from the bark of trees struck by lightning!

The series ran 11 issues.

When it and Rogers' other series, Sparky Watts, were cancelled, Boody retired from commercial art and comics, opening a pair of art supply stores!

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This is what a "Super Bowl" SHOULD Be!

Monday Madness OZARK IKE

As SuperBowl Sunday approaches...

...lets see how rurals, including hillbillies, outside the big cities, play football...in the comics, of course!

The rest of the issue deals with the multi-talented Ike playing baseball, so we'll run it during baseball season.

Yes, the King Features strip was created in the mid-1940s as a competitor to Al Capp's wildly-successful Li'l Abner series!

No, it was nowhere near as successful.

The only known licensed spin-offs were this one-shot reprint collection in Dell's Four Color Comics #180 (1948), a subsequent short-lived 1950s comic series for Standard/Better/Nedor. and a couple of 1980s reprint paperbacks from Blackthorne Publishing.

Writer/artist Ray Gotto, though not a familiar name to comics fans today, achieved sports immortality for designing one of the iconic graphics in baseball history...still in use 61 years later:

The New York Mets' logo!

BTW, this month's Monday Madness theme is SPORTS!

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