Friday Fun HILLBILLY COMICS "Man Who Hated the Moon!"

Here's a tale of a guy like the good ol' boys who support the disgraced, impeached President...

...from a short-lived 1950s title telling their stories!

Yep, these are the people Don da Con and other Republicans play to while decrying the "educated elites".

"Bubbleville', according to Repug Mike Huckabee, represents the big cities of New York, Washington and Hollywood where the educated (but not smart) people live.

"Bubbaville", I guess, is everywhere else in the good ol' USA.

And that's where the "real people" are.

The ones who are smart...without all that fancy book-learnin'. 
The ones we city-folk call "deplorables"!

Written and illustrated by the highly-underrated Art Gates, this never-reprinted piece from Charlton's Hillbilly Comics #1 (1955) shows the "wisdom" the Cheeto Benito's audience is famous for!

Reading Room ANYTHING GOES "Heroes"

Sometimes you come across a beautiful piece that speaks for itself...

...such as this never-reprinted Alex Toth piece from Fantagraphics' "benefit book" Anything Goes! #1 (1986)

Exactly what Anything Goes was can be discovered HERE.

Several such "benefit books" (and "benefit portfolios") were produced in the 1980s, including Eclipse's Destroyer Duck (to aid Steve Gerber in his Howard the Duck lawsuit against Marvel), and Last Gasp's Strip AIDS U.S.A. (benefiting the Shanti Project, an AIDS education and support organization!)

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Wednesday Worlds of Wonder BOMBA THE JUNGLE BOY "Krag" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

In the millennia before our recorded history, a barbarian and his allies tried...and failed..to conquer the Earth.

They avoided capture by placing themselves in suspended animation in a secret underground location.
Fast-forward through the centuries to the "present day" of 1968...

Bomba and his friend, Jobo, discover gigantic grey humanoids transporting a pulsating green globe which alters organic matter into...something hideous!

Trivia: When this story was reprinted in France, the cover was different...

Was this the original version of the cover, or was it modified to avoid giving away the plot-point of Jobo's death?

Don't Miss the Next Chapter...

Next Wednesday!

It's a Tale THRICE-Told! WEIRD "Eye of Evil!"

Remember when we ran these two stories last week?

A run of the mill sci-fi tale...

...and it's original, more horror-oriented, version...

As you might have guessed, Eerie Publications got its' claws on these two versions of a story from a defunct publisher Ajax-Farrell and...

...reprinted the heavily-edited, Comics Code-approved version...

...and redid the original story in a rather...unique...way!

Antonio Reynoso brought his surreal style to this redo which appeared in Eerie Publications' Weird V8N2 (1974).

Reynoso was one of numerous South American artists used by Eerie to re-interpret old comics stories in an updated, usually gorier, style for the b/w magazine market.

In fact, he did more stories (over 80 of them) than any other artist!

And, unlike most of their other illustrators, he worked exclusively for Eerie in the American comics business!

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Holiday Reading Room EVERY DAY'S A HOLLY DAY "Labor Day"

With at least two available jobs for every applicant who wants to work...

...the power of the worker has never been stronger!

Why is this 1955 comic entitled "Every Day's a Holly Day" instead of "Every Day's a Holiday"?

Because it was given away to kids by grocers who sold Holly Sugar!

Illustrated by John Rosenberger, it's a unique pamphlet covering a number of American holidays, including both Lincoln and Washington's Birthdays (before they were combined into "Presidents' Day" in 1962), Mothers' Day (though not Fathers' Day), Flag Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and a couple of holidays we've largely abandoned...Pan-American Day and American Indian Day!

We'll be presenting the other chapters on the dates they fall upon.

Watch for them!
(BTW, Monday Madness will return next week...)

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Cartoon History of the United States