Mo' Flannel Panels

We started to peek at Dan'l Flannel yesterday; let's take a further gander into the hillbilly life in Homespun Center.

I'll give high marks for subject matter. I spent a fair bit of time living in the Deep South, especially middle Georgia, and Catfishing 'n' Hog Calling were indeed a part of life. (I still get big catfish & hush puppies cravings) But i never once saw anybody wearing a coonskin cap - though it was mostly the '60s, so the fad had generally passed.

Now let's join in the stories, shall we...?

It seems ol' Dan'l had a habit of using the splash panel as a reveal for later in the story. I edited yesterday's to hide the dinosaurs, but we'll leave this one as is...

On a completely unrelated note -

Happy Birthday to George (accent on the first E) Perez! 
Thanks for all the art and accompanying entertainment.

page art by Bart Tumey (as Edward Ryan) from 4Most Comics v2#1 & v3#1 (1942, 1943)

Hillybilly Stylin' With Flannel

Well, damn. I seem to have missed a day, and was on the verge of doing so again. As mentioned, i've been in deep work states recently, which tend to shut off the outside world while the mind is locked into the work. Add to that a new external drive grabbed while out on the monthly supply run. I used that to free up a smaller 3TB drive and am currently trying to gather all my comic files onto that one device.

I started scanning comics about 3 decades ago. There is a fairly insane amount of pages scattered over a couple dozen drives and scores, or maybe hundreds, of CDs and DVDs. Trying to find pages when i want them can be a bit of an excursion - looking to rectify that situation.

But, damn. I passed a half million pages a while back on the transfers. I may have made a grievous error...

So, Anyway...  while that's all going on, let's do a real quick single-story look at another Not Abner in our ongoing Hillbilly Hijinx series. Since we're only getting one quick tale this time, let us dive into the Odd end of Dan'l Flannel from Edward Ryan.

I'm going to edit the first page to preserve the story. I'll put the full version at the bottom so you don't lose anything. Here's Morbid Marsh...

Here's the original first page with the big give-away reveal in the splash - 
 

page art by Edward Ryan from 4Most Comics v2#2 (1943)

Yes, We Have No Abners

Yesterday we took a gander at Gumbo Galahad, the star of Hillbilly Comics, from Art Gates. Today, we're doing the same damn thing again. (This might not come as a surprise, since i think i said we would.)

As noted above, despite any similarities to the contrary, we have no Abners here -

There were only two more issues after what we saw last time, but  Abner  Gumbo had three more tales in the two books. Let's be complete and view them all..
 

There was, of course, no next issue. I guess Gumbo ran off with thet strange gal...

page art by Art Gates from Hillbilly Comics #s 3 & 4 (1956)