Showing posts with label 1954. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1954. Show all posts

03 February 2020

Brief Oddities

We've got an extra post with a smattering of oddities, as mentioned above, and no real theme beyond having accumulated in the blog files. And, y'know... being Odd.

Here's a beautiful and mysterious first page from Omandu -


You may perhaps wonder where the figure absent from the white space in the middle has gone?

He escaped to the cover -


I admire an artist who is wholly committed to the work over the modern obsession for Branding. In fact, the only way to know that this is the cover for The Little Book Of Inner Space #1 is from the indicia box, hand written at the bottom of the first page -


Sadly, this seems almost completely forgotten today. The Grand Comics Database has almost no info, only the front cover.
Every time i put together a list of titles to update in their database, i lose it.
Somebody remind me after a bit and see if i've entered the particulars on this comic.

Elsewhere in Time and California...

What's this crowd waiting for...?


...the chance to party with Mary Fleener
Why me not there?


For a purely odd sidestep in time and space, yet somehow reminiscent of now, here's a one-pager from Look Magazine's second issue, just over 80 years ago...


And buried way down here is the single page comic that started this post going. A simple piece in every way, that works so nicely from the team of Ross Andru and Mike Esposito...


Omandu say bye-bye -


pages from The Little Book Of Inner Space #1, Life Of The Party, Look v.1#2, and Get Lost #3 (1937, 1954, 1972, 1996)

02 February 2020

Not Quite SMF

Continuing with yesterday's theme - more Sunday Morning Funnies, kinda sort of. It's not Sunday morning any more*, and they're not quite...

Well, see for yourselves -







Wait a minute! This is supposed to be Sunday Morning Funnies. Shouldn't we have some colour?



Hmm...

I think we can do better than that... 


That's better. 
One more time!
 

Are we all feeling funnified now?

page art by Don Orehek, Bill Elder, and ???
for Zany #s 1 & 3, Nuts #4, and Panic #8 (1954, 1955, 1958, 1959)


*(This post was originally scheduled for 12:03pm. I got tired of waiting)

01 February 2020

SMF It Ain't

I'm in the mood for some Sunday Morning Funnies, but it's only Saturday afternoon. What to do...?

Well, if it's not quite Sunday, we'll do some funnies that are "not quite" to fit right in, starting with a bit of Howie Post's doppelcomix of Al Capp's classic...


...and some 'Chester Gould' from Bill Elder...


...and to complete our typical trio, here's Joe Maneely's riff on Hank Ketchum's strip...


Like Stan said - "We have to end this somewhere..."

page art from Riot #s 3 & 6 and Panic #5 (1954)

31 January 2020

Sorry, John & Marsha - They Got The Names Wrong (+FF&G)

One of the (many) great things about Stan Freberg is that i can run across a comic from 65 years ago and still hear Stan's recordings in my head when i read it...


Some odd fun for us old folks, and perhaps younger listeners of good ol' Doctor D. If you were wondering, the comic came out just 3 years after the release of John And Marsha.

But, it sure doesn't make a lot of post, does it?

Hey! We just saw Frank Borth again this past week. How about we let him show us how to draw Benjamin Franklin?
 

Yes, i've been digging into the old blog piles. Maybe we'll finally get back to one of those dangling threads around here and follow up on one of the first gender swaps which are so fashionable these days.

Meanwhile, you know what else i've been missing?

Friday Fun & Games.
Think we can get that ball rolling again?
Let's find out...
 





It's possible that the puzzle page above was drawn by the same guy who did the one below from later in the same issue: our old fave, Ellis Chambers


Okay, that'll do for a restart. Maybe it'll even continue. Either way, we'll have what answers there be on the morrow...

page art by Ed Haas from Get Lost #1 and Frank Borth from Treasure Chest Of Fun And Fact v.21#18 (1954, 1966)
plus puzzles (not telling yet)