Slapstick Firetop

"Have you had your dose of thrills and excitement lately?"

So opens the adventures of Firetop, one of Munson Paddock's more odd endeavors. Not to be confused with Firetop Fink who appeared 3 years prior in Simon & Kirby's Sandman (in Adventure Comics #86), this Firetop appeared in 1946 in the only issue of Slapstick Comics -

 As gloriously Odd as that cover is, it's only the beginning. Our 'hero' is so bad that the strip had to be named after the villain. (In case you were wondering why Firetop was burning the ropes supporting the safe in the image above - now you know)

Rather than try to describe it to you, here's the one and only appearance of Firetop -

Coming up - Back To Mars!

page art by Munson Paddock for Slapstick Comics #1 (1946)