Stupor, Snooper, or Blooper?

Today we've got a semi-random sampling of old comics with little connective tissue. They're all comedy strips and they offer up the choices titling this post - StuporMan, the Snooper Man, and BlooperMan.  The first two come from the '40s, and the last one comes from the '60s; twice. They all just jumped out as i was passing while thinking about another, harder to write, post.

Nonsense is always easier. Just ask our government.

From the first issue of Joker Comics, by Douglas Grant and Harry Ramsey, we've got StuporMan -

Twas only single digit minutes later when i bumbed into Soapy Sam, the Snooper Man - close enough for the rhyme to ring...
 

And not 15 minutes after that, BlooperMan got in on the act - and so a post was born. We've actually seen Blooperman before, on the cover of Go-Go Comics, back when we were looking at Bunny Luv, i think. Or maybe while visiting Grass Green's work on Superella. Either way, now we can finally see who that guy on the cover was, with Jon D'Agostino drawing the strip...

Some days are sillier than others.

page art by Douglas Grant & Harry Ramsey, ???, and Jon D'Agostino from Joker Comics #1, Terry And The Pirates #4, and Go-Go Comics #s 3 & 4 (1942, 1947, 1966)

Blond Abner's Chief Problem

Finally!
On the third attempt this morning, Blogger deigned to allow me to add images to the post. We may proceed...


I mentioned that we'd be cruising past Blond Abner and Starving Abner on our way to Ringer Abner, but  we really need to stomp on the brakes here as we hit Blond Abner.

Eustis or Eustace Hayseed, depending on the point in the run, had a most unusual, and rather discomfiting, sidekick early on. Perhaps we got some greater detail on him along the way; if so it's fallen through one of the holes in my mind. In the first episode, the only explanatory reference is in the first sentence - "...his newly acquired friend, Chief Blackfeet..."

The Chief is named and speaks like a stereotypical "Injun" which is perhaps not too surprising for a strip about a backwater hayseed. But his appearance is that of a rudely caricatured African headhunter style native of the times. And he speaks like a British blue blood, when not "Ugh"ing and "You betchum"ing. In all, he's the very definition of Cringe-worthy.

Eustis continues to embrace the cringe, as highlighted in the next tale by his righteous anger at someone beating a woman - who is not his wife...

Hayseed appeared in a couple dozen issues of three different titles, primarily the first 21 issues of Joker Comics. Along the way his look varied, he switched from blond to redhead, and he dumped the Chief in favor of a girl named Choo-Choo. 

Eventually, they gave up trying to hide his Abner origins and just went with it...
 

Eustace had a real self-image problem, too.

page art by Gar Dean, Kosti Ruohomaa, and ??? from Joker Comics #s 1 & 2 and Gay Comics #21 (1942, 1945)

Alec Could've Been Great

We're back with another edition of

Alec The Great comes to us from the first issue of Joker Comics back in 1942. Creator, writer, and artists are all lost to history, as are any plans they may have had for the character. What we're left with is an introduction to a character who might have been a lot of fun. And another character inspired to become a superhero by reading a comic book. (Always fun, eh, Mindbender?)

Meet the right man to clean up crime -

Nope. Not This Magazine nor any other.

But then, if he had, this wouldn't be a ONES Upon A Time feature, would it?

page art by ??? from Joker Comics #1 (1942)

Zorching Zimmy Zilch

Zing...

Zowie?

Zip.

zource Joker #11 (1943)