Moonday Morning With Genius Jones

Running late today, and i could use the help of Genius Jones. I've spent most of the morning trying to figure out where the few dozen issues of comics i had set aside for this feature have gone. Quite disappeared, they have.

While there were quite a few boy inventors in old comics, most familiarly around these parts, Ulysses Q. Wacky, Genius Jones was a different sort. Rather than inventor, he was a boy problem solver. Jones ran for over 50 episodes starting in Adventure Comics #77, later switching over to More Fun Comics by way of All Funny Comics. While i'm trying to find where those earlier issues are hiding, let's look at a couple of later tales to introduce our young hero -

Jones also owned the covers of these two issues. Stan Kaye is the presumed artist of the tales above, and definitely the delineator of the covers below -

When i can find the material, we'll go back to his beginnings - and the creators of Genius Jones. The boy's got him some pedigree.

page art by Stan Kaye(?) from More Fun Comics #s 115 &120 (1946, 1947)