Some Cavemen Are More Cavemen Than Others

Before we get back to Tragg & Lorn (and we will get back to them), let's stop in to check out a rather different caveman. From the pencil of Joe Beck (often aided & abetted by Otto Eppers) comes the world of Prehistoric Pete. 

Pete first appeared in Spotlight Comics back in 1944. Spotlight only lasted three issues, but it didn't take Pete down with it. He also appeared in an issue of Punch Comics, and enough issues of Red Seal Comics to bring him up to an even dozen stories.

Today, let's take a look at those first three tales from Spotlight -

Get the feeling that perhaps this was where Dogpatch might eventually evolve?

page art by Joe Beck and Otto Eppers from Spotlight Comics #s 1-3 (1944, 1945)

Retro-Modern Sunday Morning Funnies (on Sunday!)

Modern times require modern heroes. No matter how deranged the times. In a world where characters like Rambo have twisted the definition of "Hero" into "the psychopath who kills people we don't like" pretty much anything goes. But, that's not entirely new.

Let's jump back about 80 years to find someone to embody our times - Alibi Alice.
Ruth Leslie brings us a potential president with the motto "She Fibs" -

Alice had only 3 adventures, but i've never seen the first issue of Superworld, so the first one remains a mystery.

Meanwhile, also back in 1940, long before society exploded into dot com and dot net and dot this, that & the other...  Looy already staked out dot dope. (That one's out there now, isn't it?)

...and so it went. Looy was actually around for a fair bit, first appearing in comics back in 1936, usually in Comics On Parade or Tip Top Comics, but he also got his own single issue title in '38. 

Just because i have that obsession for 3s, let's toss in another strip from a few years later (1946), but moving the other way in time - Prehistoric Pete, another short-lived, migrating strip. Pete had at least a half dozen adventures, but was also reprinted several times in multiple countries, so it can be hard to track the exact number. And it's Sunday morning, so let's just get to the comic, eh?

page art by Ruth Leslie, Bernard Dibble, Joe Beck & Otto Eppers for Superworld #s 2 & 3, Comics On Parade #s 25 & 26, and Red Seal Comics # 18 (1940, 1946)