Jimmy Wears Pink Too!

I mentioned yesterday that we'd be revisiting with folks who've appeared here previously. 'Folks' is used here to refer to creators, characters, and publications. Sounds much better than 'topics' to my inner ear.

To kick things off, let's welcome back Grass Green, making 3 Stooges with Mark Burbey and Eddie Eddings. I guess that works either way you read it. This one comes from RBCC #152...

Hmm...
Y'know, i don't think we've looked at Eddie Eddings yet...

We'll have to peek soon, eh?

Up next, we've got a one-shot Fly Girl, from Trina Robbins, no less. (How has Trina not appeared here yet? She's done some damned Odd things over the years.) 

At least, i think she's a one shot. There might have been some strips featuring her in The East Village Other, but i've only got maybe a half dozen issues and it's not exactly cataloged. This one pager comes from Gothic Blimp Works, which was published by the EVO back in 1968...

Trina's Sky Doll is not to be confused with Barbuci & Canepa's somewhat more famous Sky Doll, who has at least 3 books out there.


Now let's visit once again with a favorite of this blog (and of The 1940's Funny Animalphabet), that mysterious maker of madness - Ellis Chambers. This short tale is from a 1950 issue of Dizzy Duck (#32, for the curious who don't want to go all the way down to the credits notice), and so it belongs here and not there.

To wrap up our batch of bits & pieces, here's a lovely Ralph Bakshi based wrap-around cover from #149 of the Rocket's Blast Comic Collector from Wendy Pini -

Yeah - we need to run another batch of RBCC covers soon.

page art by Grass Green & Eddie Eddings, Trina Robbins, Ellis Holly Chambers, and Wendy Pini for RBCC #s 148, 149 & 152, Gothic Blimp Works #2, and Dizzy Duck #32 (1950, 1968, 1979, 1982)

Aw - - It Was The Biggest One I Ever Had!

Tis the end of the weekend, and the end of the first tale of The Enchanted Flivver, from Capt. Frank Moss and Frank Borth. This time we've got three chapters to conclude our story...

Definitely a story from another time. 

There were two more tales - The Return Of The Enchanted Flivver and Where's Henrietta? If my peripatetic mind cooperates, we'll touch on that third one this week, and why i chose this story to run currently.

Meanwhile, i've been digging through those old piles and i suspect we'll spend much of this week visiting with old friends from previous posts.

But, i'm rambling and so - i'm off!
(but you knew that)

page art by Frank Borth for Treasure Chest Of Fun & Fact #s 294-296 (1960)

Anybody else got a clue...?

As you might have noticed, i've been digging through old files for the blog, pulling out things that have been sitting around for a bit.

I'm not always the most organized person. I still rely on old habits from when my mind and i were a constant team and little things like notes and labels were not important. So i got confused when i hit this piece of art from the great Joe Sinnott, with no damn clue from where it was pulled - the only label is SinnottSSTB, and it's in a stack of things i was pulling from 1977. Is that the year it's from? Is ThunderBunny that old?

And just, in general, WTF?

I suppose i'll eventually stumble back across the source, but that could be a very long time from now. Anybody else got a clue about the origin of this piece?

art by Joe Sinnott for ... where you not paying attention?

Stand By For The Feature Attraction This Afternoon

If you've been reading along this week, you know that we've been serializing the first tale of The Enchanted Flivver from Captain Frank T. Moss and Frank Borth. (If you haven't been reading along, you might want to go back and read the first four posts in this series.)

If you're all caught up, let's join Bobby & Henrietta at the air show...

As the caption said, to be continued (and concluded) ... tomorrow.

page art by Frank Borth for Treasure Chest Of Fun & Fact #s 292 & 293 (1960)

Bedtime Gory

Continuing from yesterday morning, it's Twilight Of The Heroes - a classic tale from the golden days of yore by Ron Wilber. When reading along, remember that this was back in 1977 - so long ago that my then wife and i were still expecting our first child when it was published in Rocket's Blast Comic Collector. Long before the 'Dark Age' of comics, and way back when we could only dream of characters from different companies ever appearing together.

Some dreams are decidedly more twisted than others...

...and that being the case, we've had to put this tale in our 'back room' - The Other Voice Of ODD! - to keep things tolerably Safe For Work (and the search engines) here on the main blog.

Head on back and enjoy this odd and unique bit of hidden comics history.

page art by Ron Wilber for RBCC #s 143-146  (1977)

Does This Machine Have A License To Fly?

Welcome back for another chapter of The Enchanted Flivver from Capt. Frank T. Moss and Frank Borth. As we saw last time, Bobby has learned to control Henrietta, and now he's ready to show off what she can do...

On to our next chapter! We're doubling up so we'll finish the story on Sunday...

Well, yes - of course it's continued tomorrow.

page art by Frank Borth for Treasure Chest Of Fun & Fact #290 (1960)