Moonday Morning With Genius Jones

Running late today, and i could use the help of Genius Jones. I've spent most of the morning trying to figure out where the few dozen issues of comics i had set aside for this feature have gone. Quite disappeared, they have.

While there were quite a few boy inventors in old comics, most familiarly around these parts, Ulysses Q. Wacky, Genius Jones was a different sort. Rather than inventor, he was a boy problem solver. Jones ran for over 50 episodes starting in Adventure Comics #77, later switching over to More Fun Comics by way of All Funny Comics. While i'm trying to find where those earlier issues are hiding, let's look at a couple of later tales to introduce our young hero -

Jones also owned the covers of these two issues. Stan Kaye is the presumed artist of the tales above, and definitely the delineator of the covers below -

When i can find the material, we'll go back to his beginnings - and the creators of Genius Jones. The boy's got him some pedigree.

page art by Stan Kaye(?) from More Fun Comics #s 115 &120 (1946, 1947)

Super Xmas

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Let's go big with 36 pages of Super Xmas - Siegel & Shuster Style - Sorta...

You see, while all these stories are signed by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, they didn't actually create them. This first tale is written by Don C. Cameron with art by Joe Sikela and George Roussos -

Ira Yarbrough and Stan Kaye provide the artwork on this next one, with Don Cameron believed to be the writer on this one as well -

Our final tale is brought to us by Alvin Schwartz and Win Mortimer -

If none of those names sound familiar to you, think of the frustration that creators must have suffered working under another's name. (And shame! for not recognizing Jack Kirby's inker on some of those early Fantastic Four issues)

page art from Adventure Comics #113 and Action Comics #s 93 & 117 (1946, 1947, 1948)