I'll Have This Solved In 24 Hours----

 It's time for Sunday Morn...

Oops.

Kind of got distracted and skipped a day along the way. You got today's post yesterday, so now it's time for Monday Morning Funnies with Fred!

Fred Schwab, that is. Fred passed with the 20th century, but was there for the dawn of comics. He was there for the beginnings of the Big Two comic publishers, his work appearing in both Detective Comics #1 and Marvel Comics #1, not to mention working with Eisner-Iger Studios. His gag cartoons appeared in glossy magazines of the time as well.

Today, however, we're sticking with some of his work for Fox from the first years of Mystery Men Comics. We were already looking at the rather deranged adventures of Hemlock Shomes and Dr. Potsam - let us carry on...

Schwab had another sleuth appearing in the early issues of Mystery Men Comics to whom i alluded a couple of days ago. Meet Billy Bounce, The Kid Detective -

(Is it just me, or did that trail of spinach lead to a slightly better dressed Wimpy?)

You may have noticed that Fred, like many others of the time, worked under a variety of names. By the late '40s, Schwab quit comics for a real job with The New York Times and stayed there for the next 30+ years until he retired.

But he left us of lots of comics to enjoy during the decade he spent creating them.

page art by Fred Schwab from Mystery Men Comics #s 3-7, 10, 14, & 15 (1939, 1940)