Showing posts with label Zoo Funnies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Zoo Funnies. Show all posts

13 June 2019

Is It Sooperman? NAW!

Nearly a full decade before Krypto came along in Adventure Comics, we got Superdog in Zoo Funnies. For extra fun & oddness, the strip combined some old faves from around these parts - take one part from characters like Koppy "Supersnipe" McFadd and "Comics" McCormick, who essentially receive their 'powers' from comic books, and mix them with the semi-insane stylings of Ellis Chambers for this short little 6 page oddity from 1946...


Do you think he was trying to get kids to bang their heads against trees?

Alas - there were no further adventures of Superdog, nor have i found any other references to "the Spirit Of Comic Book Super Animals". But, i'm looking...

(And, yes - further posts to follow. I'll talk about down time, but first get things up and running again)

page art by Ellis Holly Chambers for Zoo Funnies #5 (1946)

24 July 2018

More E.C. Funnies

I got a bit caught up in a project which, barring a sudden bout with sanity, i'll tell you all about soon.
Meanwhile, let's just relax with another trio of tales from Ellis Chambers -

(A note from Mephisto? Well - I guess, since Spider-Man vouches for him...)




page art by Ellis Holly Chambers for Crown Comics #1 (1945), Ribtickler #7 (1947), and Zoo Funnies #7 (1946)