Jack Rabbit & Lockjaw The Not-Dog

Sleep continues to grow more erratic, leaving me less and less functional between slumber sessions - what there is of them. But finally grabbed enough Zs to make words, so let's pretend this is Sunday Morning Funnies - even if the sun is setting in these parts.

A few years back, during the King Kirby 100, we got a gander at some of Jack Kirby's Funny Animal comics. Lockjaw The Alligator and Earl The Rich Rabbit ran in Punch & Judy Comics back in 1947. I kind of thought i'd ran them all, but apparently not. So here's another trio of tales from The King in a different style -

BTW - it's worth noting that Earl The Rich Rabbit debuted a year before Scrooge McDuck, so there's no copyrabbiting happening here...
 

Jack could have had a very different career path, no?

Now to go see if maybe caffeine and food will help...

page art by Jack Kirby from Punch & Judy Comics v.2 #s 11 & 12, v.3 #1 (1947)

No Candlesticks

Slowly finding my body again. While bod & brain get reacquainted, how about a little quick Jack to get the day rolling.

First, a couple of one-pagers from Jack Kirby - a bit different than one might be used to seeing, from the pages of My Date Comics...

In an entirely different vein, we've got another caveman comic, though this one is a bit younger than most, being both a boy and from way back in Captain America Comics #1 from 1941. Tuk, Caveboy appeared in four out of the first five issues of Captain America before going extinct. All were written by Simon & Kirby, but only the first installment was drawn by Kirby -

Damn. I'd have liked to seen Kirby drawing Atlantis here.
Ah, well...

I expect we'll be seeing more Kirby later today, if the ol' peripatetic mind can be herded. Otherwise, we'll continue our King Kirby Weekend on the morrow. But for now, i've got this overwhelming urge to read the run of Jack Kirby's Black Panther comics...

page art by Jack Kirby from My Date #s 1 & 2 and Captain America Comics #1 (1941, 1947)

As Usual, Jack Was There Before Us

I'm awake! First time i've gotten more than 2-3 hours of sleep in a single block in weeks. Kinda forgot what that was like.
 Others are busy not forgetting.

A lot of folks in this country (the USA) got their first introduction to Guy Fawkes, or "Guy Fox" as many seem to believe, in the movie V For Vendetta. And most of those folks don't seem to realize that he was an actual person from history, and one of your more bizarre holidays.

Fortunately, Jack Kirby is here to educate as well as entertain. Let's jump back almost 75 years to Headline Comics #23 and Jack & Joe Simon will learn ya some -

Remember, remember, the 5th of November
The gunpowder treason and plot...

page art by Simon & Kirby from Headline Comics #23 (1947)

Can Termites Be Romantic?

I like to say that Jack Kirby is the reason that this blog's lifespan is measured in years instead of weeks, but that seems kind of like laying blame. He might have been the reason, but it's not his fault.

You see, i started this blog in late July, and then a few days later i realized that The King's 100th birthday was just a month later in late August. That realization begat the King Kirby 100 - 100 (+2) post on Jack Kirby in his centennial month. That period of intense posting kind of ingrained this blog in the patterns of my life. 

Another, unintentional, result was that we don't do Jack very often. In no small part because it's sometimes very hard to sort out what i've already done.

Tomorrow, August 28th, is Jack's birthday - so let's work on rectifying that a bit and have a King Kirby Weekend, eh? And since Jack is about the only one who saw and predicted comics dominating the movies the way they do these days (when we actually have movies, that is), let's do it Hollywood style and start the weekend early for the extra numbers. (Of course, i'm just talking Number Of Posts, not them yummy box office dollars) And let's try to lean into some of what might be termed Odder works - or, at least less familiar and expected.

Now, you might not know it, but Swifty Chase is known for his unique automobiles. But i think i prefer the one he built for that "romantic termite" House-Date Harry. Here's Jack & Joe Simon to tell you all about it -

Here's the cover for the tale -
 

Swifty starred in the four issues of My Date Comics that were published, and Harry got one short tale of his own. Odds are good we'll catch a bit more with them this weekend.

page art by Simon & Kirby from My Date Comics #3 (1947)

Fighting Blogger For Dale

Hey!
It looks like we get a post today after all.

So far, the biggest effect of the latest Upgrade to blogger is that the image uploader is even more frelled than before.

It used to be that the uploader would hang on a few images in the batch and just spin its wheels. So, the easy fix was close the window, then open it again and let it reload what was there. Then you could grab the couple/few it missed.

But now, when you close the window and re-open, it doesn't even try to remember what it had been doing - so start all over again and cross those extraneous digits. Maybe it'll get 'em all this time.

Half an hour later, we've got all the pages, but by now my mind has wandered and i've got no clue what i was going to write about them. So, those of you that dread wading through my blabbage to get to the comics, Thank Blogger.

And those of you who might actually wonder what i had to say - Thank Blogger, but in a different way.

Here's the complete run of Lucky Dale - Um...  something something something. I forgets...

While setting the tags, i realized that one of these stories ran here before from when it reprinted in Space Detective. Although Dale only had 5 stories, she appeared over a dozen times with reprints.

page art from The Saint #s 1, 2, & 4-6 (1947, 1948, 1949)