PANEL PECULIAR & STUPID COMICS

Here’s another opportunity to plug my own blogs while sending you off to read a better one somewhere else. I’ve nabbed this 70’s panel from Stupid Comics who go into hilarious detail roasting this particular Archie gem above – I love it. I’d like to have stolen it for my own blog Panel Peculiar but that wouldn’t be fair at all so here’s my own choice. Click on the pictures to go and read more!

STRIPPER RIPPERS

Just thought I’d mention my little improvisational strip over on Drunk Duck entitled Stripper Rippers. Once again, like Panel Peculiar it uses old golden age comics long out of copyright and gives them a new spin around the block – just for old times sake. I love these old strips so the piss-take is done with affection and not without much admiration for the mostly unknown artists the bones of whose work I now pick over.

On the left here Brad is suspicious that Janet may be playing him for a sucker with some kind of double cross – while to your right ladies and gentlemen is an early Bayou prototype – maybe!

Visit often and let me know what you think – good and bad – who gives a crap! I’ll keep you updated right here but Stripper Rippers should update on Fridays and Panel Peculiar, well at some point every week!!! I’ll do my best.

PANEL PECULIAR HAS A NEW HOME

Yes I’ve sent my Panel Peculiar feature off into the big wide world to live on its own and forge a new life for itself away from the apron strings – !!! Updating once a week and also ‘whenever I find something’ keep checking back – if you like that sort of thing. Hey, I’d follow it if someone else did it, so I reckon that’s a good enough reason to kick it out the house.

Visit Panel Peculiar soon or the white man gets it!

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and concluding The Fox and the Crow from Real Screen Comics #14 from 1947 published by (ahem) National Periodicals.

And lest you should think the laughter never stops (or begins depending on your view) it all ends up as you might have guessed with the Crow taking the fall.

More merriment soon.

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Sometimes one panel isn’t enough and this is one of those times. I’m no fan of ‘funny animal’ stories but this caught my eye the other day. I find the interplay between the earthy Crow and the hi-fallutin’ Fox just tickles my funny bone.

To be continued … in part two next, same mpd57 time, same mpd57 channel.

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I came across this the other day and was reminded of Project Wonderful. Just another one of those “the more things change the more they stay the same” moments! And another piece of advertising caught my eye.

You tell me! What the hell is a ‘crack engineer’? Is it something that turns a healthy bike riding young boy into a dirty old-before-his-time wagon hopping hobo with no future and too much past? If things don’t improve soon you see me climbin’ ‘board the ol’ crack train before too long myself! This was taken from Real Screen Comics #14 (1948) same year as the Congo Bill serial was released.

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You know, some day, when you’re really struggling with some aspect of anatomy and you feel like you want to give up because you’ll never make it big or create anything as lasting as say The Green Lantern, well, consider this panel. Then you can continue confidently knowing that at least you’ll never draw a hand this badly. I don’t think foreshortening had been ‘invented’ back then.

Last week Tommy Tomorrow’s gay circus adventure came from Action Comics #200 from 1955. Here’s a scene from that adventure which just shows the depravity to which Tommy and his chums descend. Reduced to mere ‘pony-boys’ – it’s a new twist to me! I’m not saying but I don’t think they put up much of a fight either.

I don’t like the way he says “both ways!” Sounds kinda creepy to me. In the very next panel Tommy exclaims “This is ridiculous! Now he thinks I’m some sort of space hamster!” but we’ll draw a veil over that particular scene! Reminds me of that club I used to frequent … aw well, never mind.  A story for another time.

By the way, ‘happy’ was the word I deleted last week from the word balloon. For you completists!

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Here’s Tommy Tomorrow about to embark on his latest hair-raising adventure. What’s that you say Tommy? “What danger can there be …” I dunno ? The likelihood of bondage, buggery and bestiality perhaps? Don’t know about you folks but I’d be concerned about at least two of those outcomes! And he’s dressed for it! Rarely does one panel summon up so many possibilities!?! Next week I’ll let you know the issue so you can look this one up yourself – pervert!

(Historians might notice notice a slight amend to aid the delivery of the joke there, but if you don’t tell anyone I won’t.)

Last week you correctly spotted the great John Severin’s work. What a career!

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This week all I want to know is the name of the artist who drew this magnificent cover – I’ve got nothing but love for this artist and his career must span at least 5 decades, maybe 6! That’s something for all you artists out there to catch up with! This subject is not what he is famous for but when you can draw like that who gives a damn about subject?

You’ll have noticed the title of a truly amazing adventure on the cover there, bottom right. A classic tale that was followed with “The Man Who Had Asthma”, “The Man Who Wore His Tie Too Tightly” and later “The Man Who Couldn’t Think of a Better Title”.

Last week our hero and the dumb broad he married by accident saved the word from Sserpo! which all happened in Amazing Adventures #6 from 1961 (although I can’t be sure if that was the first time)!

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This is Stan and Jack’s work without a doubt and a similar scene plays out in my house almost every evening, but can you guess which monster they have just saved the world from? Was it Torr, Manoo, Sserpo, Monsteroso, Tragg or maybe even Korilla? I’ll give you a clue – it wasn’t Gorgilla, cuz that would be stupid, or even Magoo (the short sighted terror) because I just made that up! Gomdulla was positively scraping the bottom of the barrel but my favourite has to be Bruttu!! Just don’t ask me why.

Last week’s victims of The Tarantula’s arch enemy got turned into … well, tarantulas obviously!! The comic was Weird Suspense from Atlas and the year was 1972. Easy to collect as there weren’t many issues! Gang-banging not being a suitable subject for most sensitive and easily impressionable comicbook readers.