Hepcat

Good idea! I'll ask whether it can be moved to Comics General, lock stock and barrel!

The Fox and the Crow are still after all these years #2 on my list of favourite cartoon characters. The pair were introduced in The Fox and the Grapes cartoon Screen Gems produced in 1941. In all Screen Gems produced a total of 21 The Fox and the Crow theatrical cartoons that Columbia Pictures released between 1941 and 1949. UPA then produced three more for Columbia between 1948 and 1950.DC licenced the Fox and the Crow, Flippity and Flop, and Tito and His Burrito from Columbia Pictures for comics publication in 1945. The Fox and the Crow appeared in the following DC comics over the years:Real Screen Comics 1 (Spring 1945) - 128 (June 1959)Comic Cavalcade 30 (Jan. 1948) - 63 (July 1954)The Fox and the Crow 1 (Jan. 1951) - 108 (March 1968)TV Screen Cartoons 129 (Aug. 1959) - 138 (Feb. 1961)Here's an early house ad for comics in which the Fox and the Crow appeared from 1951 or 1952: The artwork for The Fox and the Crow as well as for the bulk of the other DC funny animal characters was handled by the Jim Davis Studio (no relationship to the Jim Davis of Garfield fame).DC's licence to publish comics based on Columbia's Screen Gem cartoon characters came to an end in 1967. That's why DC was desperately looking for other characters/ideas such as The Brat Finks and Stanley and His Monster into which The Fox and the Crow title could transition. I don't know whether Columbia had decided not to further licence the Screen Gem characters for comics or whether DC was simply unwilling to pay the price Columbia was asking but the days of The Fox and the Crow feature that I liked so much were numbered by early 1966. That was most unfortunate since I much enjoyed the antics of Fauntleroy Fox and Crawford Crow.If you're going to try to pick up really nice copies of comics featuring the Fox and the Crow, good luck! I've been picking them up wherever for nearly forty years and I don't have many. Here are scans of some of the ones from my collection:

I think I'll jump start this old thread back into action with this pic of a Hammer Horror hottie, Yvonne Montaur!

So is everybody over Halloween?

Hey, that's a nice one! And one I lack in decent grade.

Everything and anything I liked! Some posters found it very entertaining! I started it in the Silver Age forum in 2011 and some time in 2016 or so it was moved to the Journals.

Don't know. What I do know is that I'll be relaunching my "Hepcat Will Still Be Hepcat" thread sometime soon in Comics General.

Come to Tony's on Dundas Street in London, Ontario or Louie's Pizza in Ingersoll, Ontario for the panzerotti!

Here for you rabid wild-eyed Alex Toth fans are scans of the first and last pages of a couple of five page Count Dragula stories from Pete Millar's Drag Cartoons:

It seems the program gets confused if a fellow copies and pastes multiple picture links at the same instant. Stupid program!

Bloody hell! I don't understand the inconsistency when it comes to posting pictures on this forum. The IMG tags are unnecessary, but sometimes the program posts the pictures, other times just the links. It is to scream. Please! I can learn to work within any programming. Just give me consistency! That's not too much to ask from a machine.

Renowned underground comix artist Gilbert Shelton got his first big break when Pete Millar's Drag Cartoons began to carry his strips on a regular basis with this issue: Shelton's Wonder Wart-Hog strip began as a monthly feature: While his Bull o'Fuzz strip also began appearing in the pages of Drag Cartoons but on a more haphazard basis: The Wonder Wart-Hog strip must have been popular with readers because it rated a cover mention a mere four months later: And another four months later the Wonder Wart-Hog strip graduated to full cover feature treatment: Millar Publications then launched the short-lived but now fabled Wonder Wart-Hog magazine late in 1966: This was definitely a big break for Shelton as the magazine proved to be a major milestone in the future underground comix legend's young career.

Here's the prequel to both: (Not mine.)

Here by Alexander Toth in Big Daddy Roth 2: Any other Alex Toth fans here?

Six ounce I'd say. I'll try to find the pictures I took of it eight or so years ago.

I don't understand why miscuts/miswraps wouldn't affect grade in a negative way. They certainly decrease the aesthetic appeal and thus the overall desirability of the comic.

Love this thread! May it live long and prosper!

Sorry fellows. I really hate the superhero grey tone covers including the Wonder Woman, Detective Comics, Mystery in Space and Green Lantern ones. Many of the war ones are excellent though!

Cowboy and the rest of the posse are well. And Spaceman is a splendid being if I do say so myself!

So cool! I love those old Harveys. While I was willing to pick up various Harvey titles way back in the 1990's, these did not include the Blondie and Dagwood ones. Now I wish I had a bunch of these.

Great glass! I have one as well but I'll not bother to post my photos since yours are a lot better.

Here's another for those with a need for speed:

So has this thread succeeded in its noble objective? While we ponder the question, here's a pic for all:

Gil Kane was another who'd gaily recycle covers from the past. This one he did in 1959: And then this one in 1962: This one from 1961: And then this one from 1967: And what's wrong with multi-purposing anyway? Incidentally the bottom three comics are from my own collection.