Cartoonist Owen Fitzgerald drew a whole run of great Bob Hope comics in the early 1950's. In issue #20 from April/May of 1953, Bob takes an undersea adventure where he finds all kinds of buried treasure!
It all starts when Bob Hope's landlady is hassling him for the rent...
Bob gets a brilliant idea to raise money by looking for rare coins at the bottom of the sea.
So he rents some diving equipment---
-- and goes to the ocean floor looking for treasure.
Much to his surprise, he encounters a beautiful mermaid!
In fact, there's a whole lot of cute dolls down there!
Subtlety is not Bob's strong suit.
Wow! Look at all the 1912 Coolidge Nickels!
What's behind door 27?
I don't want to spoil the surprise, so I'll let you find out for yourself below. Click on any of the thumbnails below for a nice BIG high-resolution comic book scan. If you'd rather download the whole comic book as ONE .PDF file, click HERE. It's a big file (over 17 Megabytes), but it's worth it!
Click on any of the thumbnails for a nice BIG high-resolution comic book scan.
Click on any of the thumbnails for a nice BIG high-resolution comic book scan.
Here's a GREAT article on
Owen Fitzgerald by John K
7 comments:
That Owen Fitzgerald sure could draw.
I meet him at DIC. Kent Butterworth had him doing freelance boards on What A Mess.
Sherm,..this is wonderful! The colors on the cover take me back to a feeling of "Old Florida 50's Design" with pinks, sea greens and blues. I just love the colors and the art is wonderful!!!!
Owen makes it look so easy!
Wow! Just disccovered your blog and can't believe the time, effort and generosity you showcase in sharing all of this fantastic material with us peons.
I'll be back regulalry to get educated and inspired.
Coolidge!
Great stuff Sherm!
I was wondering if you can post some of the notes made about storyboarding while watching Clampett's "Tortoise Wins by a Hare" at the Archive
They were very insightful, good theories.
Beautiful artwork! If only they still did comics like this. Of course I'm not sure if a Lindsey Lohan comic would be so innocent. The art is so fluid and they even use thick and thin inking. Amazing! Thank you very much for letting go back in time to see this and for taking the time to scan it all!
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