Jimmy Wears Pink Too!

I mentioned yesterday that we'd be revisiting with folks who've appeared here previously. 'Folks' is used here to refer to creators, characters, and publications. Sounds much better than 'topics' to my inner ear.

To kick things off, let's welcome back Grass Green, making 3 Stooges with Mark Burbey and Eddie Eddings. I guess that works either way you read it. This one comes from RBCC #152...

Hmm...
Y'know, i don't think we've looked at Eddie Eddings yet...

We'll have to peek soon, eh?

Up next, we've got a one-shot Fly Girl, from Trina Robbins, no less. (How has Trina not appeared here yet? She's done some damned Odd things over the years.) 

At least, i think she's a one shot. There might have been some strips featuring her in The East Village Other, but i've only got maybe a half dozen issues and it's not exactly cataloged. This one pager comes from Gothic Blimp Works, which was published by the EVO back in 1968...

Trina's Sky Doll is not to be confused with Barbuci & Canepa's somewhat more famous Sky Doll, who has at least 3 books out there.


Now let's visit once again with a favorite of this blog (and of The 1940's Funny Animalphabet), that mysterious maker of madness - Ellis Chambers. This short tale is from a 1950 issue of Dizzy Duck (#32, for the curious who don't want to go all the way down to the credits notice), and so it belongs here and not there.

To wrap up our batch of bits & pieces, here's a lovely Ralph Bakshi based wrap-around cover from #149 of the Rocket's Blast Comic Collector from Wendy Pini -

Yeah - we need to run another batch of RBCC covers soon.

page art by Grass Green & Eddie Eddings, Trina Robbins, Ellis Holly Chambers, and Wendy Pini for RBCC #s 148, 149 & 152, Gothic Blimp Works #2, and Dizzy Duck #32 (1950, 1968, 1979, 1982)

Ho! Ho! I Say, You Chaps, Look At This!

I made my monthly trek down the hill into town for supplies and now i'm fair knackered. And so we have an appropriately short post featuring The Shortest Code In History...

As one following recent posts might suspect, that strip comes from Treasure Chest Of Fun & Fact.

A quick bonus before i go collapse. Here's a sample of why this book stands out from other religiously published comics with which i'm familiar...

Note the date. It was back in the mid-40s and instead of pressure to conform they're telling young readers it's okay to follow your own heart. You can still be a good person even if you're not just like everyone else.

page art by Frank Huffman and John Norris from Treasure Chest Of Fun & Fact #s 181 & 450 (1946, 1968)

The Monkees Meet The Beezles

In case you wandered in due to a misundertaking* about the title of this post, we already looked at when The Monkees met The Beatles.

Back in the days before ancient mariners returning from the far east gave out Gremlins, they tried Beezles. And Peter, of course, brought one home...

Perhaps not surprisingly, Beezles were not the only thing Peter brought home...

And so it went...

page art by Jose Delbo for The Monkees #s 14 & 16 (1968)

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*(Misundertaking/misundertake: to mistake based upon a misunderstanding.)

DamnIt! We Lost Pete Again

As most of you likely already know, we lost Peter Tork on the 21st of February.

I guess it could be an advantage in being as isolated as i've been lately - for me, Peter was with us for a couple weeks longer. He passed peacefully, his family reported, at the age of 77. I'm sure others have already been reporting on his life and death. I've nothing new to add to the conversation. Instead, we'll go old - back to the 60s and, of course, The Monkees. Let's mix comics and articles (or excerpts) from 1967-68, all featuring Pete, of course -

For a final little brain melting bit of oddness - did you know that Jim Aparo drew a few Monkees comic strips?

In case you were wondering, Valleri was written by Boyce & Hart, so she's probably not actually from Pete's past.

So long, Pete. I'll miss you even though i'll hear you quite frequently.

The music lives on.

pages from The Monkees #s 6, 8, 13 & 16 (US), Monkees Annual '67 (UK), Meet The Monkees, TV Guide and Teen Times/Tunes (1967, 1968, unpub)

illustrations by -3- and Scott Shaw!