No Laff

Did you know that Watergate was NOT a scandal about water? Younger readers might be confused by that, but it's True! It might actually seem to be a familiar story to you - all about a man who thought that if the President did it, it's not a crime.

Here, let's let Alice show you...

We'll see about that...

Meanwhile - where did this come from? Perhaps a further sampling might offer a little hint?

No?
Okay - here's a more direct clue to the book...

Well, it was more clue if your brain runs in the same deranged circles mine does. This was what happened when Marvel Comics collided with Kitchen Sink in the Underground. It was History -

Well, not quite what i meant, but - okay.

Of course, even when Marvel went underground, superheroes followed...

No worries - we've got another token, so we can keep playing next time...

page art by Bill Sanders, Basil Wolverton, Ted Richards & Justin Green, Leslie Carbarga and Peter Poplaski for Comix Book #s 1-3 (1974, 1975)

Dictating Three Stories At Once -- A Slow Day!

So, ol' Stanley Lieber's getting a street named after him in the Bronx. (His old home, so it makes sense) And, i'm assuming, regardless of the inherent dangers, that you've seen the lovely tribute from the MCU cast members for Stan...

Search for We Didn't Light The Fire and Stan Lee if you've not seen it.

Amazing as it might seem these days, there was a time when not everybody loved Stan Lee. Let's let Arnold Drake (creator of the Doom Patrol and Guardians Of The Galaxy, among many others) tell you about it...
 

(You didn't think that Funky Flashman was the only one out there, did you?)
  
Well, that was an awfully short post, wannit? Why don't we look a little deeper into the issue of Sick that brought us Ego Man?

Here's another from Drake, lampooning another still-popular feature. (No, not All In The Family...)

They went on to parody 3 other shows from the time - Soap, Three's Company and Carter Country. Just if you was the curious type.

page art from Sick #120 (1978)

It All Started With This Purple Footed Ostrich Roller-Skating Down The Old Kent Road...

Whatdyaknow? I actually know what day it is today. So let's have some Sunday Morning Funnies. Since it's been a little while since they were monkeying around here, our stars today are The Monkees! (Yeah, i'm excited)

Most of today's funnies come from The Monkees' 1967 & 1969 UK Annuals, with one little bonus exception at the end...

Sometimes they liked to work with double page spreads for the stories. Those often had border art added to help fit the page format of the annuals. I've trimmed that to fit the page format of the blog. Well - sort of fit. They're big images, so they fits when you clicks...

See it, not saying it.

In one of the early posts on the boys, i ran a couple of panels from a story in which they added a robot to the band. Here's the full story from which those panels came: Volt's Concerto In DC Minor -

For our promised Bonus - more robot fun, this time from Steve Skeates and Jim Aparo -

Don't look so surprised. I did mention that Aparo did multiple Monkees comics last time i ran one. I know of at least one more...

page art from The Monkees Annual #s 1 & 3, and Teen Times #5 (1967, 1969)

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So...  yesterday may have left some folks just a tad discombobulated. The short chapter of Mal-Ig from George Metzger was from the middle of the tale, which certainly didn't help. I have only a few issues of the Gothic Blimp Works, making the tale hard to track. All the more so since it is sometimes indexed as Mal-18 or other variants. (Mal-18 is a separate but related tale)

Luckily, it was collected a couple years later in Witzend, the legendary profan magazine from Wally Wood. (No, that wasn't missing a 'e')

Here's the original tale, plus a new page added for the ending...

There. Now i feel better.
Didn't want to leave you all feeling confused.

page art by George Metzger from Witzend #4 (1971)