Getting Snoody Again

As you may expect, we've got the second half of the run of The Fumble Family and Uncle Amos featuring Amos Q. Snood of Tom Mix's Straight Shooters radio company. As with Jane, the War came to the TM Bar Ranch and the last 3 tales come from Tom Mix Commandos instead of Tom Mix Comics, with Snood becoming a Neighborhood Warden.

Here're the remaining six from Stan Schendel and Charles Biro -

...and that's how we won the war.
(Kids, don't put that on your tests!)

page art by Charles Biro from Tom Mix Comics #s 7-9 and Tom Mix Commandos #s10-12 (1941, 1942)

Fumbling With Snood

It's the weekend and i'm in the mood for some Funnies. So, let's jump back to Tom Mix and the Straight Shooters, and to the same pic we used while talking about Jane -

On the bottom left, we've got Amos Q. Snood. As one might guess from the name, (and the expression on his face) he provided a heapin' helpin' of comedy relief for the crew.

Like Jane, he received an ongoing strip in Tom Mix Comics (and later Tom Mix Commandos) - four pages every issue with The Fumble Family. And, as with Jane, we're going to go ahead and break it into two sets and run them all. As you might suspect with a family name like Fumble, it leans heavily into slapstick comedy. That sounds like the kind of funnies we could use this weekend.

As with Jane (again), the strip is written by Stan Schendel. Artwork comes from one of the old Golden Age greats - Charles Biro.

And now we're all set for some Sunday Morning Funnies with part two.

page art by Charles Biro from Tom Mix Comics #s 1-6 (1940, 1941)

I Would Have Expected Johnny Dark

Okay, okay...
You can have a real post today, too.

As you may recall, when we were looking at the line-up in Daredevil Comics, we saw Pat Patriot's first splash. Not this guy, who came out the same year (1941)...

...we're talking Pat Patriot, America's Joan Of Arc! Here's her first tale which accompanied that introductory page (repeated here for convenience)...

Hmm... 
We need an Odd Bit - they've been running light lately. 
How about this one...

Both Pat Patriot characters were created & written by Bob Wood (with Charles Biro on America's Joan Of Arc - the two using "Chuck" Woodro as a combination name) Wood is also the artist on the one-pager. To my knowledge, after deciding to use the name for the latter strip, the former character never appeared again.

Patricia's first adventure was noticed by TPTB, leading to a second...

Despite the seeming physical toll taken by her adventures, Pat was soon engaging in all sorts of excitement...

...even donning underwater Iron Man armor to battle a big octopus in the first story confirmed to be drawn by Frank Borth...

It would be decades before we saw such a spectacle again...

...or maybe not...

identified page art by Frank Borth and Bob Wood from Daredevil Comics #s 2, 3, 5, & 7 and Silver Streak #10, screen cap from Giant Woman Vs. Big Octopus (1941, 1942, 2011)