Secrets Of Spudo

I survived another foraging run down the hill and made it back up through the snow. Finally, we can have a post.

We spoke of Spudo in two previous posts, and in both we mentioned that his first story was not his first story. And then my mind wandered off and left things hanging.

So, let's go back to before Spudo's first adventure in The Barker #1 to National Comics #43, in which we find Spudo is a supporting character in The Barker's tale before he got his own series. This first story is written by Joe Millard and drawn by one of the classic Greats, Jack Cole -

Now if i can just figure out what i meant when i said that Spudo's final story wasn't his final story...

page art by Jack Cole for National Comics #43 (1944)

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)