Does This Machine Have A License To Fly?

Welcome back for another chapter of The Enchanted Flivver from Capt. Frank T. Moss and Frank Borth. As we saw last time, Bobby has learned to control Henrietta, and now he's ready to show off what she can do...

On to our next chapter! We're doubling up so we'll finish the story on Sunday...

Well, yes - of course it's continued tomorrow.

page art by Frank Borth for Treasure Chest Of Fun & Fact #290 (1960)

I've Just Had A Blious Attack!

Let's get right into the next chapter of The Enchanted Flivver, from Capt. Frank T. Moss and Frank Borth. Those of you who may have missed the previous two chapters might want to catch up first.

For the rest of us, off we go...

page art by Frank Borth from Treasure Chest Of Fun & Fact #289 (1960)

He's Gobig To Blasht Off!

On her second outing, Henrietta - The Enchanted Flivver - starred on the cover of Treasure Chest Of Fun & Fact -

I can't be certain, but i'm pretty sure that grumpy sedan looking up at Henrietta later showed up in Cars. (I could be deranged)

As we saw last time, Bobby Lane received an old flivver from his Uncle, and restored the car to running order. On his first trip out the car acted up something fierce... it jumped over a tree laying across the road!

Let's see what Capt. Frank T. Moss and Frank Borth have in store for us in the second chapter...

I love that she stops in mid-air for the traffic light. She'll break the laws of gravity, but not traffic. Or maybe it was Bobby's influence?

We'll see how things develop in chapter 3.

page art by Frank Borth for Treasure Chest Of Fun & Fact #288 (1960)

Rattle Rattle Bang Bang

Oh, sure - we all knew that the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang had its roots in the book from the guy who created James Bond. But where did Ian Fleming get the idea?*

Y'don't suppose...

 A couple days ago we saw this cover tucked into a big batch from Treasure Chest Of Fun & Fact...

That cover is from 1966 - dead between the release of the book (1964) and the movie (1968). But Where's Henrietta? is a sequel to a story from six years earlier. The Enchanted Flivver debuted in the first issue published for the 1960/61 school year. Written by Capt. Frank Moss, the stories were illustrated by Frank Borth - the artist mentioned on my favourite cover in the above-mentioned post.

Young'uns - a 'flivver' was an automobile that did not possess an electric starter. You had to manually turn a crank mounted on the front to kick the engine over and get it running.
One of the things i found particular fascinating with this first chapter is the driving lesson information. For most folks these days manually operating the gears is too complicated. How many could manage to get from here to there if it was still like this...

Indeed - to be continued...

page art by Frank Borth for Treasure Chest Of Fun & Fact v16 #1 (1960)

*(Yes, we are absolutely ignoring Fred MacMurray here, just like everyone else did with Shazam!)

Blue Monday Blues

Hardware issues from last year re-manifesting in the main system, causing much difficulties around here. Posting might get a bit sporadic for a bit. Fortunately, i access the net through an ancient laptop, so we can still get a quickie post up for today's Blue Monday in our adult content back room.

We've got a trio of odds & ends that were in the digital pile - a set of plates from  D. Bruce Berry, whom i know best from his work inking Jack Kirby during his DC time in the 70s. These come to us from the Weirdbook zine back in '79. Following that, a brief History Of Art by Roy Lartigue from 1960's 7 11 magazine. (Whether Roy is a name, or a title for a more well-known Latrigue, i've yet to find time to ascertain) And lastly, Choice Cuts - a short piece by Cary Bates and Russ Heath coming to us from Vampirella 40 years ago.
Here are 4 of the 6 portfolio plates from Berry -

The other two plates, and other two features, may be viewed in the full version of this post on The Other Voice Of ODD!

 pages from Weirdbook #14, 7 11 (March'60), and Vampirella #67 (1960, 1978, 1979)

Warren Piece

What's this? Another cover post immediately following a cover post?
Yup.

I've spoken a few times of Warren's use of painted covers - let's pull up a pile and take a look. We'll stick to just Creepy and Eerie this time, and we'll still wind up with too many covers to fit in a single post.

First, an odd bit, just because - Odd. Check out the first issue of Eerie:

 With that cheaper-to-print black & white image giving it a small press feel, you might think this was perhaps the first Warren publication. But, as noted on the cover, Eerie came after Creepy, and Creepy had painted covers from the first issue. Not to mention that Warren had been publishing magazine for quite some time before Creepy debuted.

So why the stark b&w image? Sure, it's a great piece from  Joe Orlando  Jack Davis,  a great artist, but still... it's quite the anomaly and i'm left to wonder how the decision came about. I may not have that answer, but we do have 42 covers here so we need only find the question.

With a name like -3-, it's no surprise that i like things in threes, so next up - another cover post!
But one with a bit of purpose...

covers from the indicated issues of Creepy & Eerie (1964-1982)