Getting Coo Coo With The Strength Of 14,376 Men And A Boy

You probably already knew it was Saturday morning - though maybe not. It seems a lot of folks are getting rather detached from calendar time while isolating from trump flu. That's pretty much my normal, being a cave dwelling hermit and all. 

But, i did notice as i sat down to sort out today's post and decided i'm in a Saturday morning cartoon-y sort of mood, so let's go with it.

You might be a tad perplexed by the title on this post, so let's clear that up right away. "Getting Coo Coo..." might better be stated "Going Coo Coo..." as we're diving into the first few issues of Coo Coo Comics - "America's Funniest Magazine"...

As you may have noted above, the star of the book was Supermouse, whom we somehow have managed to overlook until now. How super is the mouse? He has "the strength of 14,376 men and a boy" of course - hence our title.

Kin Platt was the artist who launched Supermouse. Let's take a look and see how he started, eh?

Oops.
Maybe we better visit with someone else while our mousey hero languishes behind bars. Meet Mortimer Magic, who comes to us via Victor Pazmiño -

Well...  That was brutal.

Perhaps we should check back with Supermouse instead. Milt Stein has taken over the art chores on the second tale...

Well, the little perv did peep into over 16,000 homes on the previous page, so maybe he should be locked up.

Let's see who else was hanging out in Coo Coo. R.G. (Rube Grossman?) brought us S'no Use And The Seven Dopes...
 

All fairy tales have morals, right?
I'll let you sort that one out yourselves. Meanwhile, Art Gates gets educational with Bashful Brown of Nuthouse U -
 

...and Matt Curzon brings us another educated hero with Bookworm Billy -
 

...and another dead faint at the end. 
Hmm...

And now, i have a confession to make.
I lied. Mortimer Magic didn't just get thrown to the dragon as implied above.

Here's how his tale continued...
 

That's better, right?
Unless you came back next issue and found they left him buried in a hole and forgot him.

Okay -
He did finally return to get out of that hole... 

seven months later! 

Maybe that quick dragon ending wouldn't have been so bad, huh?

page art by Kin Platt, Victor Pazmiño, Milt Stein, R.G., Art Gates and Matt Curzon from Coo Coo Comics #s 1, 2 & 5 (1942, 1943)

Pat Parker - Fly Girl

So, i was wrong.
It does happen.

When last we looked at Pat Parker, War Nurse, i claimed that she didn't qualify as a Fly Girl.

That's pretty solid Fly Girl proof, i just forgot it completely last time. I'll blame the rotting brain; it's an easy target.

Also last time, we saw Pat switch from a Nurse's Uniform to a more adventurer styled look wearing Jodhpurs seen above. And i asked...

How long do you think it took her to evolve to the full-on superhero look like this...?

Pat's third adventure answered all...

...and they even offered a fair rationale for why she donned the hero garb, too. I was kind of surprised they had bothered, but pleased.

page art by ??? from Speed Comics #15 (1941)

A Quick Quirk Answer

In answer to yesterday's question, the couple's name is -

Ayup. Mr. and Mrs J. Evil Scientist.
Kind of makes me want to know the origin of that name, y'know?

They existed somewhere between the Addams Family and Boris & Natasha. They spent time hanging out with Top Cat, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, and others while launching their own title. That lasted only four issues, the cover designs of which we ran last time.

Here's their first tale in their own book -

While they obviously lived in their own little world, they were not isolated. Beyond visits in other titles, familiar faces might show up in their book, too -
 

And now i've got Touché Turtle sounds stuck in my head.
Oops.

page art by Pete Alvarado and ??? from Mr. And Mrs. J. Evil Scientist #s 1 & 3 (1963)

A Quick Question In The Rain

It's right wet out there. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case when i left the cave this morning to re-supply.

I'm going to go dry off and warm up. While i'm off doing that, here's a passing ponderable -

Sometimes i'm amused by the silliest things...

art from ... the past (see answer post)