X was Y

It was one of those days...

You know what i mean?

brain pain from Animaniacs #19 (1996)

NOT A Cross-Gender Comedy

Despite sounding like an '80s cross-dressing comedy film, Undercover Girl was actually an adventure comic featuring Starr Flagg, Secret Agent. Here's the introduction from her first adventure back in 1947 -

Drawn by Ogden Whitney, Starr originally appeared in Manhunt, which ran for 11 issues in 1947 & '48 from Magazine Enterprizes. (Plus 2 reprint issues (skipping #12) they released under the ME imprint)

One of the things i enjoyed about her adventures was those opening panels -

Each tale had what amounted to a book cover splashed at the top of the first page -

After those 11 tales ran in Manhunt, Undercover Girl returned the following year for the two issue run of Trail Colt...

Three years later, she finally got her own title! (Starting with #5) -

Yeah... don't get too excited it. It only lasted three issues, and all of her stories were reprints - except one.
Oddly, that one is the only one not to run under the Undercover Girl banner...

Shall we return to look closer at her adventures?
Time will tell...

Damnfoolery Bonus:
Silly fanboy debate topic -
Colonel Flagg on M*A*S*H was actually her little brother, and that's the spawning point for all of his psychological problems.

page art by Ogden Whitney for Manhunt #s1-11, Trail Colt #s 1 & 2, and Undercover Girl #5 (1947-1949, 1952)

Joe Meets Dad!

Dug out of my hole while waiting for things to happen and got some prep work done.
What does that mean to the intrepid reader?

At Long Last! The pen-ultimate episode of Jim Stenstrum & Abel Laxamana's strip - Joe Guy: America's Foremost Hero!
If you haven't been reading along on Joe's previous three stories, Joe Guy was basically the illegitimate love-child of Superboy and Amelia Earhardt. Now, the time has come and Joe has finally received word from his long absent father...

Joe Guy by Jim Stenstrum and Abel Laxamana from The Rook #10 (1981)

A Case Of Don

Don Lomax was the feature of our first Un-Comic way back in our 13th post, but we haven't seen him since. Let's fix that with today's edition of

Case Morgan is something of a free dive into the murky waters of Don's primal urges and desires.
Let's let him explain it...

 To read the full article and see the artwork please visit the mirror of this post in our adult content back room, The Other Voice Of ODD!

all art by Don Lomax from Case Morgan #s 1-11 (1991, 1992)

Blue Monday Calendar 2018 Week 22

This week's lovely painting from Gil Elvgren is Upsetting Upset from 1968 -

Mighty Kona Madness

I think they're finally going to be sending someone out to the cave this week to deal with net connections.
We can hope.  Meanwhile, back in cave man country...

We met Kona - Monarch Of Monster Isle in a previous post. As noted, Kona faced more than dinosaurs. It was, after all, Monster Isle - a place so strange that spiders grow large enough to trap tyrannosaurs...

...and cats...
Live in fear of the cats...

One could regularly expect titanic clashes (illustrated by Sam Glanzman) in Kona's world...

Let us not forget mutated alien races...

At least the dai kaiju are useful for getting off the island...

Kona was a rather insanely odd caveman book, as you can see.
Despite that, it didn't hold the #1 place for caveman comics in my heart...

page art by Sam Glanzman from Kona #s 2-10 (1962-1964)

Help! In The Bath

Net connection issues worsening. Lucky to have a few hours of net per day currently. Mind slipping down into that dark pit. But, hopefully fixed soon?

Meanwhile - a quick dose of Odd to help things along. Let's screw with your perceptions of Gloria Steinem, shall we? (I'm just going to proceed on the presumption that folks know who she is, and not even try to explain her position as a feminist icon)

Back in 1961...

Things continue, just slowly for the nonce...

Susan Perl, Gloria Steinem and naked ladies from Help! #9 (1961)