Anyway, here we are once again with Monday Sunday Morning Funnies featuring our old fave, Ellis Chambers. Our first two comics are from Two-Bit The Wacky Woodpecker. These were some of the last strips published from Chambers that weren't reprints from early books. As are all of today's tales.
The first story was drawn at an odd aspect ratio which required a spot illo to fill the space on a typical comicbook page. This is the drawing used:
It appeared at the bottom of each page of the tale. I've omitted it here, since we're presenting the stories and not the comics, to allow a slightly larger display size in the page code:
The second tale in the book was more typically formatted -
Two-Bit ran for only 3 issues, but these are the only two stories signed by E.C. that appeared in the book.
Meanwhile, other Frisky Animals were running around. This one is unsigned, but believed to be Chambers' work, and he has done other Senor Tamale stories, lending further credibility to the assumption.
Since we're not completely certain that the above tale is indeed from Ellis Chambers, here's one more to make sure we have 3 today. Marmaduke Mouse and King Louie from Marmaduke's own title -
Hmm...
I think i see and Marmaduke & King Louie and Egbert & The Count post coming up the street...
page art by Ellis Chambers from Two-Bit The Wacky Woodpecker #1, Frisky Animals #50, and Marmaduke Mouse #24 (1951, 1952)
