Showing posts with label humor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label humor. Show all posts

Friday, January 17, 2025

Frigid Friday Fun ARRGH! "Beauty and the Bigfoot!"

As the Deep Freeze continues...
Art by Marie Severin and Alfredo Alcala
...lets look at a half-century old, never-reprinted tale about someone who actually enjoys this sort of weather!
Written by Don Glut, penciled by Mike Sekowsky, and inked by Mike Vosburg, this story about the legendary Sasquatch appeared in Marvel's Arrgh! #3 (1974) as a new surge of interest in the creature swept America.
Most older pop culture fans remember that a Sasquatch/Bigfoot appeared several times on both The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman (including a two-part crossover), played initially by pro wrestler/actor Andre the Giant, and later by Ted (Lurch) Cassidy!
This particular Bigfoot was an alien-created cyborg in a plotline that combined the twin 1970s fads of Bigfoot and Chariots of the Gods!
It was also one of three "enemy" figures released (as "Bionic Bigfoot: the Sasquatch Beast") in Kenner's Six Million Dollasr Man/Bionic Woman action figure series! (The others were a Fembot and Maskatron/Mr X!

Friday, January 10, 2025

Frigid Friday Fun WILD! "Frozen North"

A never-reprinted story from one of Atlas Comics' many MAD comic clones...
...is our snowbound story for today, as a cold wave continues to cover most of America!
Did you catch the cameo by the Golden Age Human Torch on page 3 panel 3, asking if this book was Young Men Comics (where he was appearing in 1954)?
This tale from Wild! #1 (1954) was illustrated by Sol Brodsky, who, while better-known to aficionados as Atlas/Marvel's production manager than as an artist, actually had over 1,000 stories and covers to his credit!
(He inked Jack Kirby's Fantastic Four #3 and #4 as well as Kirby's iconic cover for Avengers #16!)
Sadly, little of the material from Atlas' four humor titles from the 1950s has been reprinted, despite the fact that some of their "big names" like Bill Everett, Joe Maneely, Gene Colan, and Russ Heath all contributed stories that went far afield from their usual "realistic" styles...with amazing results!
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Sunday, January 5, 2025

Reading Room MIRTH OF A NATION

Some things never go out-of-date...
...like dumb jokes and juvenile humor, as these panels from Mirth of a Nation #5 (1943) demonstrate!
Five issues were produced by the Harry "A" Chesler Jr. Features Syndicate for the short-lived Wm H Wise & Company.
Each issue had this notice on the first page...

Friday, January 3, 2025

Friday Fun MODNIKS "Noel Talent: the Most Unkindest Cut"

By the early 1970s, Jack Davis was an established, successful, and busy, commercial artist...
...so when was this weird filler piece, published in 1970, created?
Written by Gary Poole and illustrated by Davis, this one-off tale appeared in the second (and final) issue of Gold Key's Modniks in 1970.
But here's the weird part...
The previous issue of this title appeared three years earlier...in 1967!
That's a loooonnng time between issues!
Plus, Davis had never done any work for Gold Key, and it had been years since Jack had done any work for Dell (which Gold Key split off from)!
And, Poole didn't start working in comics until the mid-1960s, after GK had split from Dell, so this wasn't inventory from that period!
Did Davis know Poole (who had been a radio/tv writer for years before coming to comics) and illustrated this as a favor for a friend entering the field?
We'll never know...
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Saturday, December 28, 2024

Space Heroine Saturdays ALICE "Flying Saucers"

I always wondered what happens when someone takes the concept of "flying saucers" literally...
...as the amazing Dave Berg did in this Allen Anderson cover-featured tale from Ziff-Davis' Alice #11 (1953)!
And, yes, this strip is about an updated version of Lewis Carroll's Alice from Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass!
Not quite the sort of "flying saucers" we usually present, eh?
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Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Monday, November 25, 2024

Monday Madness / Thanksgiving Turkey TINY TOT COMICS "Dunny the Flying Donkey on Christmas Eve!"

Before EC Comics Became Entertaining Comics and Did Xmas Tales Like This...
...they were known as Educational Comics, and told Xmas tales like this never-reprinted story from EC's Tiny Tot Comics #10 (1947) that qualifies as our "Thanksgiving Turkey" for 2024!






Dunny the Flying Donkey was one of several ongoing strips in Tiny Tot Comics created, written, and illustrated by Burton Geller.
When EC changed direction and cancelled all its' humor and funny animal titles, Geller moved on to other publishers, patricularly Pflaum's Treasure Chest of Fun and Fact, where he remained until he retired in 1963.

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Saturday, November 9, 2024

Space Hero Saturdays WHACK "Flush Jordan"

Yes, it's a Flash Gordon spoof...

..but it has a cultural reference readers under 50 won't recognize!
Ming the Merciless usually looks like this...
...so who's "Bing", the golf-playing guy in the Hawaiian shirt and porkpie hat?
He's Bing Crosby, singer, comedian, obsessive golfer, and (when this comic was published) a pop culture icon!
With that in mind, please read...
The guy at the end, whining about "Thanks for the Memory" is comedian Bob Hope...
...Bing's co-star/rival in the 1940s-50s "Road to..." movie series as well as a pop culture legend in his own right!
Note: Thanks for the Memory" was Hope's personal theme song, used primarily to close his radio show, live appearances, and TV specials!
This never-reprinted story from #2 of St John's MAD clone WHACK was illustrated by William Overgard for 3-D use, but the collapse of the 3-D comic market forced St John to publish it in regular color comic format!
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