World's Funnest

Not a whole lot of fun out there these days as Fake President meets Real Crisis and bursts like a pus filled zit into his dreams of being like Idi Amin. I expect we'll get a renewed push any day now for a military parade to glorify  Der Führer   Il Duce   The Leader  fat little donnie. (And that's still more respect than he has earned or deserves as the Greatest disaster EVER in History to be inflicted on the office. (You have to phrase it that way because he's so pathetic he can't even allow himself to fail a test for disease - instead the sad failure of a man 'tests positively towards negative'. Such a weak, weak little boy))

So, while fake president works hard to earn a Mad Dog moniker, let's look back at a time when comics were all about FUN; when World's Finest Comics sported the World's Funnest Covers -

Try to have some Fun out there, eh?

covers from World's Finest Comics as indicated on the covers (1940s, 1950s)

Did You Think I Meant Calrissian?

When we started talking about Landor this weekend, i made reference to Lando. Most might naturally think it was a reference to Lando Calrissian - after all, Billy Dee Williams makes him almost too cool.

But, no. I was talking about another running around in comics close to the same time and with a greater name parallel. Now that we've seen Landor, Maker Of Monsters, meet Lando, Man Of Magic -

Lando appeared in the first six or seven issues of World's Finest Comics, depending on how you count. The first issue was World's Best Comics, with World's Finest starting at #2. So you work the math.

Here are the splashes for his adventures to give you a feel for the strip...

...and to wrap things up for this short peek, here is Lando's final adventure - despite the promises of the blurb at the end...
 

Perhaps it was the loss of a regular artist after the first three tales, or maybe it was the fact that the more famous wizard, Zatarra, was also appearing in the same title. Lando was seen no more...

page art by Howard Purcell, Chad Grothkopf, Louis Cazeneuve, Mike Suchorsky, and Lee Harris from World's Best Comics #1 and World's Finest Comics #s 2-7 (1941, 1942)