Fumbling With Snood

It's the weekend and i'm in the mood for some Funnies. So, let's jump back to Tom Mix and the Straight Shooters, and to the same pic we used while talking about Jane -

On the bottom left, we've got Amos Q. Snood. As one might guess from the name, (and the expression on his face) he provided a heapin' helpin' of comedy relief for the crew.

Like Jane, he received an ongoing strip in Tom Mix Comics (and later Tom Mix Commandos) - four pages every issue with The Fumble Family. And, as with Jane, we're going to go ahead and break it into two sets and run them all. As you might suspect with a family name like Fumble, it leans heavily into slapstick comedy. That sounds like the kind of funnies we could use this weekend.

As with Jane (again), the strip is written by Stan Schendel. Artwork comes from one of the old Golden Age greats - Charles Biro.

And now we're all set for some Sunday Morning Funnies with part two.

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

Fighting Blogger For Dale

Hey!
It looks like we get a post today after all.

So far, the biggest effect of the latest Upgrade to blogger is that the image uploader is even more frelled than before.

It used to be that the uploader would hang on a few images in the batch and just spin its wheels. So, the easy fix was close the window, then open it again and let it reload what was there. Then you could grab the couple/few it missed.

But now, when you close the window and re-open, it doesn't even try to remember what it had been doing - so start all over again and cross those extraneous digits. Maybe it'll get 'em all this time.

Half an hour later, we've got all the pages, but by now my mind has wandered and i've got no clue what i was going to write about them. So, those of you that dread wading through my blabbage to get to the comics, Thank Blogger.

And those of you who might actually wonder what i had to say - Thank Blogger, but in a different way.

Here's the complete run of Lucky Dale - Um...  something something something. I forgets...

While setting the tags, i realized that one of these stories ran here before from when it reprinted in Space Detective. Although Dale only had 5 stories, she appeared over a dozen times with reprints.

page art from The Saint #s 1, 2, & 4-6 (1947, 1948, 1949)