Sunday Morning Trip

50 years back in 1968 was the focal point of the counter cultural revolution. It was the biggest societal shift in this country, among others, perhaps foreshadowing days to come. We'll see.

I'm going to step on someone else's toes (Hiya, Groovy! Welcome to the blog roll) and label the period of about a half dozen years on either side of '68 as The Groovy Age. I'll be hanging out there for a fair bit on my regular cultural archeology digs, and we'll be seeing a lot of it here. That's already started, as you may have noted, but i figured we should shove it out to center stage and hit the spotlights.

And so, for our Sunday Morning Funnies we're boarding the Groove Train and cruising on back through the odd times...

NOTE: This comic merely contains plump cartoon nudity
but still has been moved to our back room for adult content, 

as well as the next-to-last panel above being slightly censored.
Please follow this link to The Other Voice Of ODD! archive
of the original post to view the artwork.  

comics from Balloon Vendor, Aardvark, Purita, Illuminations, Animal Weirdness, O.K. Comics, and Commited Comix

Adam Stranger

I'm feeling like a Saturday Matinee - how about you?
 Sci-Fi heroes like Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers have been a matinee staple since before most of us were born, and their comic descendants aren't too hard to find.

Though sometimes, what we find might not be quite what we were seeking. Go looking for an Adam Strange, and one might instead find a strange Addam ...

A strange Addam indeed. It's hard to define it as a parody when played so straight.

As you might guess from that final blurb, this tale comes to us from Magic Carpet - their 2nd issue released 40 years back in '78 by Comics & Comix. Located in Berkley*, CA, C&C was another very local operation, primarily a comic shop and briefly a small publisher. But they did better than many others on the distribution front. Though their print catalog was quite small, it included some excellent material including the first six issues of Jack Katz's classic The First Kingdom. Though at least a cover was prepared, there was no 3rd issue. Magic Carpet #2 was the final comic book published by Comics & Comix.

We'll see more from them before long. For now, you'd probably like the cover of this issue, eh?

Alien Confrontation written & drawn by Jim Pinkoski for Magic Carpet #2 (1978)

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*(...and San Francisco, Sacramento, Palo Alto, and Citrus Heights) 

Otis G. Firefly (Saturday Solutions)

44 years back, O.G. had an entirely different reference...

Professor O.G. and his catalog of phantasmagoric knowledge are the source of this week's fun & games. Before we proceed to the answers for yesterday's questions, a note on our esteemed expert:

Okay, not that we've covered that, here's our solutions to the quizzes:

Let us continue perusing the Almanac, shall we?
Among many other topics, Prof. Firefly's book covers simple things, like the months...

...general living...

...environmental dangers...

...oddities of history...

...and even the Cartoon History Of The World, before Larry got to it...

...modern (1974) entertainment...

...general knowledge...

...and the wonders of history ...

Only 80 pages (including covers), but jammed full of Tom(Eaton)foolery goodness -

Professor Otis G. Firefly was probably my 3rd favorite teacher in High School.

the works by Tom Eaton for Otis G. Firefly's Phantasmagoric Almanac and Calendar (1974)

Oh, Gee, Friday (Fun & Games)

As regulars know, i'm too scattered to participate in Friday Night Fights, so around these parts we do

Today we journey back a bit over 4 decades to the mid-70s and one of the odder books i found through the old Scholastic Book Service. We'll look at the book itself tomorrow with the solutions. Now, let us away to the puzzles & games. We begin with the quiz that inspired my impomptu puzzle a few weeks back (which, in turn, led to digging up this old book)

(NOTE: When contemplating answers, remember that this quiz takes place in 1974)

sources and solutions tomorrow - see you then