Sunday Morning Funnies - Old Friends Edition

Most of our friends for this morning's Sunday Morning Funnies come to us from Supersnipe. Koppy is here to help out his friend Ulysses, but his costumed persona won't be joining us this morning.
Before that, however, let's check in with a couple of residents of his book, but not his world. (I think. Y'never know...)

First up, the mad stylings of Dwig, creator of Huck Finn & Tom Sawyer and their Robot Duck. Another of his very odd strips that ran in Supersnipe was the castaway adventures of young Bobby Crusoe -

It gets stranger after that.

But strange was no stranger to Supersnipe & company. And Muffo The Magician has only gotten stranger since last we saw him...

With those sort of back-up featuers, Ulysses Q. Wacky, boy inventor, almost seemed quite normal by comparison, no? Koppy (Supersnipe) McFadd is here to help Wacky create his Flying Suit...

Okay. Let's let them rest.

While Koppy and Ulysses recuperate, we'll go check in with Ulysses Jr, from another old favorite - Louis Ferstadt. We've seen the two previous - here's the 3rd and final episode of Penny And Ulysses Jr. - Kalamazooki!

Now my day's off to a proper odd start.

pages from Supersnipe v3#8, v2#12, & v1#7 and All-New Comics #11 (1943-7)

Covering Ferstadt

We've been looking inside the comic work of Louis Ferstadt. It's time to step back and take a look outside. So here's a gallery of 21 golden age Ferstadt covers -

As noted in previous comments by our local Ferstadt Fan, this cover evokes Ferstadt's mural work.

That last image has to be one of the most "Pre-Code" covers i've seen on a superhero comic book. Fairly grim for a 75 year old comic.

all covers by Louis Ferstadt for the respective magazines

Sunday Matinee - Return Of The Clown

After yesterday's matinee with Joe Guy, i made reference to The Clown being Magno's big bad.

I suspect that prompted a fair number of "Huh?"s and the like. So let's return to Louis Ferstadt once again for another matinee comic today - from Four Favorites and his ongoing Magno & Davey series. Originally the strip featured a different villain each episode, but in #8 The Clown appeared and he became their recurring mastermind to face off with each month.

Issue #12 of 4 Favorites also featured a cover by Ferstadt (right) and the Lash Lightning tale, which is probably his most frequently referenced artwork - and arguably some of the oddest. So i guess i should run it here, even though i've avoided it thus far due to the frequency of use elsewhere.

Anyway, that's another day - or at least another post.
For now, here's Magno & Davey vs. The Clown -