It's January 1st, 2013, so it's time for FOOTBALL!
...or football as shown in the "future" (our present), as presented in 1952!
If the art style of this tale from
Standard's Jetta of the 21st Century #6 (1953) 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.
To see
more of
Jetta go
HERE!
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