Not Quite SMF

Continuing with yesterday's theme - more Sunday Morning Funnies, kinda sort of. It's not Sunday morning any more*, and they're not quite...

Well, see for yourselves -

Wait a minute! This is supposed to be Sunday Morning Funnies. Shouldn't we have some colour?

Hmm...

I think we can do better than that... 

That's better. 
One more time!
 

Are we all feeling funnified now?

page art by Don Orehek, Bill Elder, and ???

for Zany #s 1 & 3, Nuts #4, and Panic #8 (1954, 1955, 1958, 1959)

*(This post was originally scheduled for 12:03pm. I got tired of waiting)

SMF It Ain't

I'm in the mood for some Sunday Morning Funnies, but it's only Saturday afternoon. What to do...?

Well, if it's not quite Sunday, we'll do some funnies that are "not quite" to fit right in, starting with a bit of Howie Post's doppelcomix of Al Capp's classic...

...and some 'Chester Gould' from Bill Elder...

...and to complete our typical trio, here's Joe Maneely's riff on Hank Ketchum's strip...

Like Stan said - "We have to end this somewhere..."

page art from Riot #s 3 & 6 and Panic #5 (1954)

Saturday Solutionizing

Okay - i know some folks hate to wait, so here're the answer sheets for the puzzle pages that needed answers from yesterday:

I desperately need caffeine; got pot on to boil for cuppa. Back later today with a 'real' post.

Sorry, John & Marsha - They Got The Names Wrong (+FF&G)

One of the (many) great things about Stan Freberg is that i can run across a comic from 65 years ago and still hear Stan's recordings in my head when i read it...

Some odd fun for us old folks, and perhaps younger listeners of good ol' Doctor D. If you were wondering, the comic came out just 3 years after the release of John And Marsha.

But, it sure doesn't make a lot of post, does it?

Hey! We just saw Frank Borth again this past week. How about we let him show us how to draw Benjamin Franklin?
 

Yes, i've been digging into the old blog piles. Maybe we'll finally get back to one of those dangling threads around here and follow up on one of the first gender swaps which are so fashionable these days.

Meanwhile, you know what else i've been missing?

Friday Fun & Games.
Think we can get that ball rolling again?
Let's find out...
 

It's possible that the puzzle page above was drawn by the same guy who did the one below from later in the same issue: our old fave, Ellis Chambers - 

Okay, that'll do for a restart. Maybe it'll even continue. Either way, we'll have what answers there be on the morrow...

page art by Ed Haas from Get Lost #1 and Frank Borth from Treasure Chest Of Fun And Fact v.21#18 (1954, 1966)

plus puzzles (not telling yet)

Slick Dick or Spacey Tracy

Some days, like some parodies, are odder than others. Today's a bit of both.

What do you get when "Dick Tracy" and "Superman" cruise around enjoying "Fearless Fosdick"?

Let's find out...

Eh?

page art by Fred Ottenheimer from Eh! #6 (1954)