Sniping Maneely

As some may recall, i was recently surprised that we had yet to feature Joe Maneely on this blog. We'll fix that a little bit today, but being the blog we be, let's go in a different direction and feature something even his fans may likely not know he did.

As a bonus, this gives an excuse to revisit one of our faves here at The Voice Of ODD! 
Joe is one of the very few who drew a complete Supersnipe tale (aside from George Marcoux, of course). If you're not already familiar with "The Boy With The Most Comics In America" then feel free to peruse some previous Supersnipe posts before reading onward.

As you may know, Supersnipe stories tended to be triple the page count of the typical 8-pagers of the time, so we've got a full 25 pages of Joe, Koppy and Trouble. 
I'll get out of the way so we can all enjoy the tale -

Hmm...
Wound up not going with any of the topics i was contemplating last night. But, we did pick up one of those dangling threads, eh?
We'll come back to both Joe Maneely and Supersnipe in later days.

page art by Joe Maneely from Supersnipe v.4#8 (1948)

Another Daze Lost

Damn. 
I seem to have missed a day.

I don't mean i missed posting, i mean pretty much the entire day. Apparently, it's not Tuesday any more, and it's nearly not Wednesday.

I'm blaming this guy...

(The government aren't the only ones putting up propaganda posters in my world.)

I'm digging through old piles of blog topics a fair bit lately. It's amazing how often i have no clue whether something was posted or not. I've prepped pages only to find i'd already done them before, and i've found things that i'd sworn were previously posted but there's no sign of them on the blog.

So, i'm inviting readers to participate in the sorting. If you recall a topic that was lost or left dangling, and you don't prefer to leave it that way, let me know. I've currently got 20-30 Terrabytes of old drives connected for data searching, so the time is right.

Now to catch some sleep before deciding on some comics for a morning post, or that second issue of Look magazine (featuring both Nudity and Death captured on film for a fine wholesome start to their long history) or some of those Un-Comics or ...

Yeah.
Sleep.

Jack by -3- (2020)

Gimme Some Lip!

When i was a youngling, one of the big fantasies was joining the French Foreign Legion.

I could never figure out the appeal.

Then Ed Lipowski explained it to me...

Ed wasn't around in comic books for very long, just a few years in the early '40s working with Holyoke. And he didn't do a lot of them. I don't believe i've confirmed more than a dozen stories, if that many. Several of them were reprinted at least once or twice to help confuse things.

But, i do like what he did. Besides French Foreign Fun, he took us to Atlantis with Lance Rand, signing the work Edouardo -

And we put out to sea with Captain Storms under the EL signature -

Holyoke ceased publishing in 1945, and Ed Lipowski seemingly disappeared from the comic world with them. 

To my knowledge, he only surfaced once more in 1949, for a single page PSA in Jingle Jangle Comics -

We didn't get to see many comics from Lipowski, but i rather liked his work.

page art by Ed Lipowski from Captain Aero Comics #2, Cat-Man Comics #1, Captain Fearless Comics #1, and Jingle Jangle Comics #39 (1942, 1944, 1949)

Brief Oddities

We've got an extra post with a smattering of oddities, as mentioned above, and no real theme beyond having accumulated in the blog files. And, y'know... being Odd.

Here's a beautiful and mysterious first page from Omandu -

You may perhaps wonder where the figure absent from the white space in the middle has gone?

He escaped to the cover -

I admire an artist who is wholly committed to the work over the modern obsession for Branding. In fact, the only way to know that this is the cover for The Little Book Of Inner Space #1 is from the indicia box, hand written at the bottom of the first page -

Sadly, this seems almost completely forgotten today. The Grand Comics Database has almost no info, only the front cover.
Every time i put together a list of titles to update in their database, i lose it.
Somebody remind me after a bit and see if i've entered the particulars on this comic.

Elsewhere in Time and California...

What's this crowd waiting for...?

...the chance to party with Mary Fleener! 
Why me not there?

For a purely odd sidestep in time and space, yet somehow reminiscent of now, here's a one-pager from Look Magazine's second issue, just over 80 years ago...

And buried way down here is the single page comic that started this post going. A simple piece in every way, that works so nicely from the team of Ross Andru and Mike Esposito...

Omandu say bye-bye -

pages from The Little Book Of Inner Space #1, Life Of The Party, Look v.1#2, and Get Lost #3 (1937, 1954, 1972, 1996)

2020 Calendars - Week 06

By popular request (Gordie's a popular kind of guy) we lead off this week with another from Edward Runci, the image that served for the template when putting together this year's calendars...

For this week's Cover Calendar, we've got another Enoch Bolles cover from the Film Fun -

It seems like we're leaning heavy on Enoch so far this year. I'll  try to remember to go a different way next week. But, as long as we're here, we've got the original painting for this cover, too -

This week's Blue Monday Calendar brings us a lovely winter image from Ren Wicks -

Of course, you'll have to step on through to our back room for the full version of this post with the adult content to see it. Here is a direct link to the un-cut post.

As always, the calendars are sized to print 8"x10" at 150dpi, with 1" square spaces for notations.

art by labeled artists, of course (20thC)