(Sigh!) If only Bambi and his mother were jungle denizens, rather than of the forest variety!
...Love the cover anyway!
From TARZAN #127 (Dell Comics, Cover Date: November-December, 1961) - Painted Cover by the great George Wilson.
Named after my former Fanzine and APA column est. 1994,"The Issue At Hand"! This Blog offers "The Universe of Things that Interest Me" – Now just a click away! Comics, DVDs, Animation, Classic TV, and occasionally more. Please enjoy your visit! Blog est. 2008.
(Sigh!) If only Bambi and his mother were jungle denizens, rather than of the forest variety!
...Love the cover anyway!
From TARZAN #127 (Dell Comics, Cover Date: November-December, 1961) - Painted Cover by the great George Wilson.
Well, maybe not exactly Separated at... "Mirth"... unless your idea of fun is being under attack by fireballs - but, for any of you Fireball Fanciers out there, we humbly submit...
DONALD DUCK #101 (Gold Key Comics, Cover Date: (May, 1965)...
...And WONDER WOMAN #99 (DC Comics, Cover Date: July, 1958).
I am not an artist, nor am I a colorist. If I WERE a colorist, I would be a worse colorist than I would be as an artist.
It's not just a matter of specific skills of art and coloring that I have never possessed, it's also my admitted lack of creative imagination in those two areas!
Oh, I have an almost limitless creative imagination in the area of WRITING! This Blog, my many APA and fanzine writings of yore, and my professional comics work bear testament to that. But, even if I had sufficient skills in the areas of art and coloring, my work would at best rank as pedestrian, as I have scant (all together now) creative imagination to apply to said work.
Art is, of course, a matter of subjective taste. Meaning that while I (and, presumably, most of you) really like things like THIS...
...Or THIS...
...I do allow for the possibility, remote as it may be, that there COULD BE some folks who actually like THIS...
A universal shorthand technique in creating a female counterpart to a male character - in animation and in comics - is to give that counterpart a HAIR BOW... usually pink!
But, how would that play out in real life? Well, Cici's here to show you!
...And doesn't she look CUTE? With or without the bow!
Wrong CAPTION, or wrong PHOTO... You decide...
If they're COMICS, I don't recognize any of the characters! But the ART seems to be good, even if a tad small! And wouldn't those POSTMARKS devalue the comic's condition from a FINE/NEAR MINT to a GOOD MINUS?
But the worst thing about them is that they look VERY DIFFICULT TO READ! ...Kinda skimpy on PAGE COUNT, too!
...Maybe they're COMICS DIGESTS? ...But VERY SLIM comics digests!
Unlike this one...
Yeah, that's more like it!From the pages of BLONDIE #32 (Harvey Comics, Cover Date (July, 1951), we find this interesting promotion for Wheaties breakfast cereal...
Harvey Eisenberg also did the interior for "Mickey Mouse and the Stagecoach Bandits", so there are lots of unexpected pleasures to be found among these little gems.
And there were FOUR SETS of these (with eight mini-comics per set) released between 1950 and 1951. A worthy pursuit for any Disney comics completist!
EXTRA ADDED ILLUSTRATION:
In my response to our great friend Sergio's comments, I added the following illustration! ...To see why, go to the Comments Section and and soak-up some '60's cereal pop (...with no "snap" or "crackle") culture!
Happy Mother's Day 2025 - from Joe and all the lights of his life, Esther, Averi, Logan, and Cici!
The English language is (as modern languages tend to be) a living and evolving tongue! We see examples of it every day. Older comics often provide inadvertent examples of this, as seen on the cover of SPOOKY SPOOKTOWN #65 (Harvey Comics, Cover Date: October, 1976)!
In 1976, and up until more recent years of "real-time", this would have been just another unfunny gag cover, that relies on the presence of a needless dialogue balloon to pull off what little of a gag there might be. Such was all too typical of Harvey in its later years!It's HERE and ready to "THRILL" you!
The long-awaited Gold Key Select: Boris Karloff Thriller #1 from Gold Key Entertainment "thrillingly" takes its proud place alongside the previously released Boris Karloff Gold Key Mysteries #1 and #2!