What The Hell's Going On Out There?

It's been said that Love knows no boundaries...

Ah... The Brain and Mssr. Mallah. Such a pair - an enhanced French Gorilla and a jar of grey matter. The classic story of the scientist who creates his own love. Mad Science indeed.

But - who is The Brain? How did he grow up to be this twisted fellow (term used loosely)?

What could he have been like as a child?

Let's find out...

Hmm.

It all seems quite the natural development now, doesn't it?

Who knows how long it may be before i try to resume any of the regular features around here. Meanwhile, here's some Friday Fun & Games tucked into this post:

Yeah. They got some bad kids over across the water. You should compare the Menace level of our Dennises...  Dennii...  What's the plural of Dennis?

page art from Doom Patrol v2#34 and The Brain #1 (or #18, take your pick) (1956, 1990)

Full Spectrum Gray - Short Tales

When i say Short Tales, i mean only 4 pages apiece - quite short indeed. So here are a half dozen of them illustrated by Gray Morrow from 1956 -

Silver Age Science - 1950s Style!

Hopefully, I'll have more words for you tomorrow. My brain is rather frazzled from hours of hunting & sorting data and prepping images for the Funny Animalphabet. Kind of lost track of time, but progress was made.

page art by Gray Morrow for  Journey Into Mystery #41, Journey Into Unknown Worlds #48, Marvel Tales #s 150 & 152, Uncanny Tales #46 (1956)

Hunting Season

November is here, as noted earlier, and hunting season is in full swing sixty-one years ago. (I've mentioned my relationship with time is kind of loopy, right?)

To mark the season, we turn to Professor Tom Lehrer, a most noteworthy social educator. For the unfamiliar heathenry, other songs from our delightful maestro include The Masochism Tango and The Vatican Rag, classics & personal faves both, and many others.

The Dude brought in Jim Davis to illustrate their presentation of Prof. Lehrer's words and music for The Hunting Song:

The Hunting Song
by Prof. Tom Lehrer

I always will remember,
'Twas a year ago November,
I went out to hunt some deer
on a morning bright and clear.
I went and shot the maximum the game laws would allow -
Two game wardens, seven hunters, and a cow.

I was in no mood to trifle,
I took down my trusty rifle
and went out to stalk my prey.
What a haul I made that day!
I tied them to my fender and I drome them home somehow -
Two game wardens, seven hunters, and a cow.

The Law was very firm, it
took away my permit,
the worst punishment I ever endured.
It turned out the was a reason,
cows were out of season,
and one of the hunters wasn't insured.

People ask me how I do it,
and I say there's nothing to it.
You just stand there looking cute,
and when something moves, you shoot!
And there's ten stuffed heads in my trophy room right now -
Two game wardens, seven hunters, and a purebred Guernsey cow.

Jim Davis banner art was savaged in the presentation above, so here's the original page layout for your perusal:

We'll definitely have to come back to The Dude again. Not only did they pair Davis & Lehrer as we've seen here, but you might have noticed some names on the cover tucked up the corner there. Top of the list is D.H. Lawrence, who provided a social essay:

and hidden in the back unannounced was new fiction from Harlan Ellison:

Most certainly worth a return visit, don't you think?

the works from The Dude v.1 # 2 (1956)

Kirby Komics (King Kirby 075)

Welcome once again to Sunday Morning Funnies. For our first selection this morning, let's jump all the way back to 1947, to Punch & Judy Comics, v.3 #1. Jack Kirby is drawing Earl, The Rich Rabbit, a precursor to Disney's Uncle Scrooge, who debuted the following year-

I have to say, this makes me want to see more Jack Kirby cartoon work. He would have kicked ass in this market, too.
How about some parody work? In Crazy, Man, Crazy magazine, he illustrated an adaptation of the 1955 John Wayne film, Blood Alley, in a piece entitled

BLOODSHOT ALLEY

The piece included text that stood separate from the illustrated adaptation, so we'll ignore it. Jack's illustrations are covered with the captions:

Okay, some of our readers >*cough cough*< might be less than thrilled reading a parody of something they've never seen; probably never heard of. So how about we wrap up today's funnies with a Jack Kirby drawn parody of one of his popular Marvel creations?

Now go thou forth and smile this day!

all page art by Jack Kirby from Punch & Judy v3#1(1947), Crazy, Man, Crazy v2#2 (1956), and Not Brand Echh #2 (with Frank Giacoia) (1967)