Everybody Loves Jimminy

Everybody...

...and not just for answering the age old question: "Who would win in a fight between a goat and a lion?" -

Now we know.

But - Damn. I was wrong, again.
There are five Jimminy and the Magic Book tales in the final issue of More Fun Comics, not four. That means either my story count (and that of the Grand Comics Database) is off by one, or an earlier issue only had one story. But i thought i saw two in each? Was one of the five in the final a reprint? (Nope)
I'll have to go looking for the answer.

At any rate, all three of today's stories come from that final issue - #127.
We go off into three different directions with these tales - Prehistory, Outer Space and the Spirit World. (The other two stories were tall tales & treasure hunting with Captain Burly and an adventure with The Lonesome Wizard, if you was one of  them curious types.) As always, Jimminy was written by Jack Mendelsohn with art from Howie Post.

I found the answer to the question posed above: There was only one Jimminy tale in issue #123. So the total story count still stands at 16 Jimminy And The Magic Book adventures.

Here's the cover to #125, from which the Superman/Jimminy pic topping this post was pulled:

The cover on the issue for these stories is an ugly mess. I'll try to clean it up for a later post. (...but it'll take a lot of time with the currently available machine and tools.)

stories by Jack Mendelsohn and art by Howie Post for More Fun Comics #127 (1947)

More Friday Night Fun With Jimminy

Let's have some More Fun tonight with a return to Jack Mendelsohn and Howie Post's quirky little series, Jimminy and the Magic Book.
Oh - one minor correction from yesterday: I remembered incorrectly when i stated that they included three Jimminy stories per issue for the last couple issues of More Fun. They actually ran four in the final issue, not three in each of the last two. A small thing, but i noticed i had been wrong when reading through last night.

First up, Jimminy meets King Arthur in "Sir Jimminy!" -

Next, Jimminy and "the headless horseman" give us a demonstration on how humour changes and evolves over the decades...

Remember - that ending was kid's humour, not adult dark humour or anything of that nature, though not entirely atypical for the time. However, we saw it more often with cartoon cats.

Here are the covers from today's tales. Despite any impression my phrasing may have conveyed yesterday, that first cover was not his only cover. Jimminy owned the cover of every issue in which he appeared.

stories by Jack Mendelsohn and Howie Post for More Fun Comics #s 122 & 124 (1947)

No Jumping, No Crickets

This morning was fun, wasn't it? How about some More Fun?

In the last days of More Fun Comics back in 1947, they debuted an odd bit of fun from Jack Mendelsohn and Howie Post (whose Sooper Hippie we've seen before) entitled Jimminy And The Magic Book:

Jimminy premiered in issue 121 of More Fun and had 16 adventures in the final 7 issues of the comic.
Besides the cover promotion on his first appearance, Jimminy got a pretty decent advertising push, with inside back cover adverts and house ads appearing in Action, Detective, Adventure and a host of others ranging from Buzzy to Animal Antics to Star Spangled Comics -

I'm sure you'd rather see the comics than the advertisements. I just wanted to note that it seemed like they thought they had something pretty good here, and it's easy to wonder how the series might have fared if introduced earlier, before the title was on the decline. Once they realized the book was going to stop, they started using three stories per issue, seemingly to make sure they were seen rather than lost to inventory.

From issue #121, here are the first two Jimminy and the Magic Book stories -

There were 14 more tales...

story by Jack Mendelsohn, art by Howie Post from More Fun Comics #121 (1947)