It All Started With This Purple Footed Ostrich Roller-Skating Down The Old Kent Road...

Whatdyaknow? I actually know what day it is today. So let's have some Sunday Morning Funnies. Since it's been a little while since they were monkeying around here, our stars today are The Monkees! (Yeah, i'm excited)

Most of today's funnies come from The Monkees' 1967 & 1969 UK Annuals, with one little bonus exception at the end...

Sometimes they liked to work with double page spreads for the stories. Those often had border art added to help fit the page format of the annuals. I've trimmed that to fit the page format of the blog. Well - sort of fit. They're big images, so they fits when you clicks...

See it, not saying it.

In one of the early posts on the boys, i ran a couple of panels from a story in which they added a robot to the band. Here's the full story from which those panels came: Volt's Concerto In DC Minor -

For our promised Bonus - more robot fun, this time from Steve Skeates and Jim Aparo -

Don't look so surprised. I did mention that Aparo did multiple Monkees comics last time i ran one. I know of at least one more...

page art from The Monkees Annual #s 1 & 3, and Teen Times #5 (1967, 1969)

Read Your Vegetables

While i have made mention of my favorite underground artist team - the Overland Vegetable Stagecoach - it recently hurt my brain to realize that we've only had a single feature on Dave Sheridan, and only a single page of Fred Schrier's work.

Let us fix that, shall we?

Due to the Id-based nature of such trips, much of today's post has been split to our back room for adult content, The Other Voice Of ODD! Unlike most such posts, the back room version of this post does not include most of the stories presented here. It does feature the story above, The Fun House, and The Line (presented below with black bars) with the uncensored page, as well as The Sex Evulsors Of Technicus. Please visit the other version of this post to enjoy those tales.

(This page has been lightly censored. Not redacted, or any other BS way of avoiding saying censorship.
Unexpurgated version available on the back room version of this post.)

When previously we saw Fred Schrier's artwork, he showed us How To Build A Time Machine. Next time we visit, he'll show us how travel in one.

pages from Balloon Vendor # 1 (1971), Meef # 1 (1973), Mother's Oats #s 1-3 (1969, 1971, 1977)

Blue Monday Calendar 2018 Week 17

This week's calendar painting from Gil Elvgren follows close suit to last week's piece - another advertising commission, this one for a Ditzler advertisement from 1969 -

art by Gil Elvgren (1969)

JET-A-REENO!

As noted last time, i spent years thinking that Jet Dream And Her Stunt-Girl Counterspies #1 was the only appearance of Jet and her team. Also noted: I was wrong.

I had long given up on seeing more of Jet's team. Another decade and more passed until, one day while digging through old UK Annuals, i ran into this story -

My brain melted. How did this come to be?
The hunt was on!

My first mistake in looking for more of Jet Dream was looking to the future after her comic - much of her stories took place before her comic was released. The second mistake was not digging through old back-up strips.

Jet Dream and her team had another 15 adventures beyond the two we've seen. They ran as a break between acts in The Man From U.N.C.L.E. comic from Gold Key. (The tale above was found in The Man From U.N.C.L.E.'s  1970 UK Annual - pointing us to the original source. It was actually the team's 9th adventure.)

The first tale appeared in TMFU #7 and she appeared every issue through #22, the final issue. Oddly enough, she never seems to have shown up in The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. despite seeming to be a natural companion piece. A pity, because that would have meant more stories.
Here's her introductory tale, scripted by Dick Wood, with art by Mike Sekowsky & Mike Peppe -

For balance, here's the final Jet Dream story from TMFU #22. Like The Set-Up Sultan that opened this post, artwork is by Joe Certa; the writer is unknown on both -

These days those short little tales would each be decompressed into a 3 issue mini-series, but i enjoy those old stories that packed all they could into just a few pages.

Want more Jet Dream?
Join us this weekend when we'll be revisiting old friends including Jet, Joe, Koppy and Ulysses.

Jet Dream pages by Dick Wood, Mike Sekowsky, Mike Peppe, and Joe Certa for The Man From U.N.C.L.E. #s 7 & 22 and 1970 Annual (UK) (1966, 1969, 1970)