Return To The Dream Castle

Let's dive right in to the second half of Jane At Dream Castle from Stan Schendel and August Froehlich. Note that the last stories come from Tom Mix Commandos instead of Tom Mix Comics. The War came to the TM Bar Ranch, and even seeped into dreams...

Alas - letters or no, Jane never got back to sleep in the comic pages.

page art by August Froehlich from Tom Mix Comics #s 7-9 and Tom Mix Commandos #s 10-12 (1941, 1942)

Let's Pretend I Did Social Media

Is this less than the twitter limit?:

Despite every president before him managing it, Trump's lawyer's argued he was Too Weak to handle the 'distraction' of an investigation. The Supreme Court agreed.

 
In no great surprise, the Supreme Court handed down yet another decision that proclaims the USA has always done things wrong - we should be doing things more the way the Soviets and Nazis did it.

The latest ruling declares that the President is above the law while he's in office. He won the country fair and square <sic>, so now it's his.

And what was the legal argument presented by our Fake President's lawyers that reversed over 200 years of precedent? 

Essentially, that despite every President before him operating under those rules, Fake Pres is just too weak to cope and would be distracted from the job that he can't handle even under normal circumstances.

("where's my Mommy?")

Weak. Sad.

What a legacy.

epic failure by Fake Pres (every moment of his life)

Breaking Reality With Jane

While we're out cavorting with Western Gals, let's visit with one of the more delightfully Odd girls in her Jane At Dream Castle adventures.

Now, i grant you that Jane might not look like she fits in the group at first glance, but when she's not at Dream Castle she lives on a Ranch with cowboys and everything. I mean, Seriously. But we'll get to that.

Jane had an even dozen trips to the Dream Castle published, with only 4 pages each. So we'll break it into two sets and run them all. 

Let's get started, eh?

Obviously, Little Nemo was a big influence here on Stan Schendel's scripts and August Froehlich has illustrated a lovely little world. But what truly makes this comic different is our star - Jane. 

You see, Jane grew up to be Batgirl. 
And Wonder Woman. 
And Ginger & Mary Ann. And Betty & Veronica, and Sabrina, too!
And even Miss Grundy.

Meet Jane Webb:

When Jane talks about the TM Bar Ranch in the comics, she's talking about Tom Mix's ranch where she lived as one of the Straight Shooters. From 1936 - 1941 she was one of the stars of the Tom Mix Ralston Straight Shooters radio show. 

A year after she started with Tom, she began a 20 year run as Peggy Gaylord on the original radio version of The Guiding Light, along with many other radio roles. But it's from the 1960s & '70s that most of us comic geeks might know her work. That's when she started doing voice work for animation and played the roles listed above, along with dozens of others.

So, the little girl from the comics grew up to be in cartoons. That's some fine reality twisting there, Jane.
We Salute You!

And we'll be back with the second half of her Dream Castle adventures tomorrow.

And, yes - we'll get to that splash panel that tops the page...

page art by August Froehlich from Tom Mix Comics #s 1-6 (1940, 1941)