Showing posts with label Hit Comics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hit Comics. Show all posts

09 August 2019

Hot Zig! My Greatest Discovery!

I'm feeling in the mood for some simple silliness today. Might be good for all of us.

Meet Dan Tootin, The Madcap Dentist -


Dan debuted in Hit Comics #9 (1941), from Jack Cole working under the name Ralph Johns. He had about 3 dozen one-page adventures over the next few years.

Here's about half of them...


















"Now, Why can't I invent something like that?" became his final line. Seems like a good way to wrap up his series.

page art from Hit Comics #s 14, 17, 18, 20, 22, 27, 29-33, 37, 38, 40, 42, 43, & 46 (1941-1947)