Hepcat

Hmmmm. Strange indeed!

More Fun Comics! From the days when comics were, well, fun!

Very cool ads from Action #21!!!

Gandy Goose appeared in 54 theatrical cartoons between 1938 and 1955. Sourpuss co-starred in the vast majority and had three solo shorts in 1940-42 himself.

because it’s you doing the farting!

I never ignored a fart in church.  

More Casper collectibles. First of all my Fleer Casper the Friendly Ghost card set from 1960:



 
And a vending machine card from the 1960's::

This topic was raised in Robot Man's "Junk Obsession" thread but I thought I'd address it here rather than hijacking his thread. I have many Casper items in my collection. First this Milton Bradley board game:



 
 
This Hasbro Paint by Number set:

 
This Peter Pan picture disc:


 
And this Roalex slide puzzle:


 

Well, it's been over 50 years, and I was just a wee one, but I think it was more like this one:

Actually we choose to ignore it like a fart in church.

Is this one acceptable here or is this thread limited strictly to the pajama brigade?

The last of five Four Colors on a character from a newspaper strip that ran between 1913 and 1944: 

This was a key to Marvel's success in the Silver Age, plus the fact that each issue tended to leave unresolved issues dangling and also hinted at even greater menaces lurking in the last panel. Contrast that to DC's, Archie's and Charlton's super hero comics in 1961-64 where each issue was basically a standalone product and thus didn't do very much to induce readers to buy more comics.
That and the way Stan Lee drew 8-12 year old boys into the Marvel Universe by making them feel part of it all by giving the characters real life settings just outside the Marvel offices in New York, by the mentions he gave to his secretary and other co-workers and the direct references to readers (Real Frantic Ones) on the pages of Marvel comics. 
And here I'm speaking as one who was drawn into comics in 1961-62 by the product of the competition. While Marvel comics just looked junky on the newsstands to me in 1962-63, by 1964 I was very much aware that they were a very good read indeed. But when I switched from DC comics in late 1964, it wasn't into Marvel. It was into model kits and "more sophisticated" magazines, specifically Mad, Drag Cartoons and Creepy in short order.

'Nuff said right there!

And was Stan Lee actually paid any more at Marvel through the 1950's and 1960's than for being Editor-in-Chief? Was he paid as the writer for all those stories as well?

 

This one?
 

It should also be pointed out that Stan was able to weave story lines into multiple books, which had the effect of not only making them more relevant to each other, but also increasing sales for those readers who wanted to follow the full story arc across multiple titles.

This one?
 

Two Smokey issues.

More Casper collectibles. First of all my Fleer Casper the Friendly Ghost card set from 1960:



 
And a vending machine card from the 1960's::

This topic was raised in Robot Man's "Junk Obsession" thread but I thought I'd address it here rather than hijacking his thread. I have many Casper items in my collection. First this Milton Bradley board game:



 
 
This Hasbro Paint by Number set:

 
This Peter Pan picture disc:


 
And this Roalex slide puzzle:


 

To add to my board game collection a few months ago I scored this "new old stock" Hasbro board game in a slightly distressed box off Ebay:






What's particularly cool is that the game was issued in 1965 meaning it pre-dates the Bat-craze ushered in by the debut of the silly TV show in January 1966. Note that Batman is actually still sporting his pre-1964 logo!