With 2012 right around the corner...
...let's look at a typical evening at the drive-in, supposedly set in 2012...as presented in 1952!
(I'm still waiting for my flying car!)
If the art style looks familiar, it's the work of Dan DeCarlo, who helped establish the iconic "look" of
Archie Comics!
Dan actually started at
Atlas Comics (the 1940s-50s predecessor to
Marvel Comics) doing a variety of humor strips before beginning a long-term run on various
Archie titles in 1951.
Even then, he continued to work for a number of other publishers, including
Standard Comics, who asked him to create, write, and illustrate a teen-humor series.
(
Every publisher had at least one of them!)
Exactly whose idea it was to set it in the "far future" of the 21st Century is unknown, but the resultant strip, though extremely derivative of
Archie, was unique in the teen-humor genre for it's
Jetsons-style setting and "futuristic" slang.
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