Showing posts with label 1956. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1956. Show all posts

17 August 2020

Covering Out Of This World

This machine is still limping along without hard drive, running off of USB sticks. But it's actually the least impediment to posting lately. My mind is scuttling away from the outside world, making focusing on the posts more difficult, but fighting my way past that, too.

And then there's Blogger's 'upgrade' and the thoroughly frelled image uploads. That's a killer. It was only on the last attempt before giving up for the day that it finally upped the images for this post.

So, my apologies for the gaps lately - i'm working on it, but others are working against it. Hopefully things will smooth out soon.

Meanwhile, since the brain doesn't want to focus on wordly bits much, lets take a look at some covers. Out Of This World only had 16 issues between 1956 - 1959. That run of fewer than a dozen & a half issues sure produced a number of nice covers, don't you think...?

















Of course, it never hurts to have Steve Ditko on your team.

cover art by Bill Molno, Steve Ditko, Maurice Whitman, Pat Masulli, Rocco Mastroserio, Charles Nichola, Vince Alascia, and Dick Giordano from Out Of This World #s 1-16 (1956, 1959)

06 June 2020

Yes, We Have No Abners

Yesterday we took a gander at Gumbo Galahad, the star of Hillbilly Comics, from Art Gates. Today, we're doing the same damn thing again. (This might not come as a surprise, since i think i said we would.)

As noted above, despite any similarities to the contrary, we have no Abners here -


There were only two more issues after what we saw last time, but  Abner  Gumbo had three more tales in the two books. Let's be complete and view them all..
 



There was, of course, no next issue. I guess Gumbo ran off with thet strange gal...

page art by Art Gates from Hillbilly Comics #s 3 & 4 (1956)

26 January 2020

Spacing With The Mouse (One Of 'Em)

It's time for some Sunday Morning Funnies, so let's join Space Mouse again.


This morning we've got a trio of tales featuring a delightfully odd mix of science fiction in faerie tale realms. That tickles one of the right parts of my ol' broken brain.




As obvious from the top image, Space Mouse had his own title for a brief period, but today's tales are back-up stories from Peter Rabbit and Funny Tunes. He popped up in several titles beyond his own.
 
The big question:
If this is Space Mouse...



...then who's this guy...?
 

I guess we'll have to come back this way again, eh?

page art by Frank Carin from Peter Rabbit #s 30 & 34 and Funny Tunes #2 (1953, 1956)