Everybody Loves Jimminy

Everybody...

...and not just for answering the age old question: "Who would win in a fight between a goat and a lion?" -

Now we know.

But - Damn. I was wrong, again.
There are five Jimminy and the Magic Book tales in the final issue of More Fun Comics, not four. That means either my story count (and that of the Grand Comics Database) is off by one, or an earlier issue only had one story. But i thought i saw two in each? Was one of the five in the final a reprint? (Nope)
I'll have to go looking for the answer.

At any rate, all three of today's stories come from that final issue - #127.
We go off into three different directions with these tales - Prehistory, Outer Space and the Spirit World. (The other two stories were tall tales & treasure hunting with Captain Burly and an adventure with The Lonesome Wizard, if you was one of  them curious types.) As always, Jimminy was written by Jack Mendelsohn with art from Howie Post.

I found the answer to the question posed above: There was only one Jimminy tale in issue #123. So the total story count still stands at 16 Jimminy And The Magic Book adventures.

Here's the cover to #125, from which the Superman/Jimminy pic topping this post was pulled:

The cover on the issue for these stories is an ugly mess. I'll try to clean it up for a later post. (...but it'll take a lot of time with the currently available machine and tools.)

stories by Jack Mendelsohn and art by Howie Post for More Fun Comics #127 (1947)

Saturday Solutionizing

Running a bit late, so here's the answers right quick:

Seriously? "The Apes"? He may have dwelt among "The Apes," but he was raised by Kala. (Bonus points to TC for noting the specific tribe as well)

While Sheena was most notably labelled "Queen Of The Jungle", was she the only one?
The Phantom's "Bad" ring left only a Skull mark - no crossbones. (There was also a "Good" ring to mark those under his protection with 4 'P' swords making a cross)

Kudos to TC for his soutions. While not quite complete, those he answered were all correct, sometimes more correct than the quiz's "official answers"

quiz from The Great Comics Game by John Stanley & Mal Whyte (1966)

More Friday Night Fun With Jimminy

Let's have some More Fun tonight with a return to Jack Mendelsohn and Howie Post's quirky little series, Jimminy and the Magic Book.
Oh - one minor correction from yesterday: I remembered incorrectly when i stated that they included three Jimminy stories per issue for the last couple issues of More Fun. They actually ran four in the final issue, not three in each of the last two. A small thing, but i noticed i had been wrong when reading through last night.

First up, Jimminy meets King Arthur in "Sir Jimminy!" -

Next, Jimminy and "the headless horseman" give us a demonstration on how humour changes and evolves over the decades...

Remember - that ending was kid's humour, not adult dark humour or anything of that nature, though not entirely atypical for the time. However, we saw it more often with cartoon cats.

Here are the covers from today's tales. Despite any impression my phrasing may have conveyed yesterday, that first cover was not his only cover. Jimminy owned the cover of every issue in which he appeared.

stories by Jack Mendelsohn and Howie Post for More Fun Comics #s 122 & 124 (1947)

FF&G - Return To The Great Game

Ah... missing those days when i was working and the home studio had several networked machines on the render farm. There was never a time without primary system - not like today. It's likely to be a couple weeks yet before access to data is restored and machines are back to fully functional. However, while most of the puzzle/quiz/game archives are out of reach, i did find an old friend of Friday Fun & Games to help us out today.

Let's return to The Great Comics Game for another batch of quiz pages. This set includes some characters and comics that were in the To-Blog pile - from Jungle Comics to Smitty, The ... Office Boy - so we'll be seeing some again after access is restored.

puzzle fun from The Great Comics Game by John Stanley & Mal Whyte (1966)