These pages aren’t signed, but they’re certainly the work of genius cartoonist Harvey Kurtzman!
I came across these pages while flipping through dozens of comic scans…looking for some cool comic oddity to share on the blog. But THIS! *swoon*
Based on the ever-evolving cartooning styles during Harvey Kurtzman’s pre-MAD “Hey Look” comics, I’d peg these as being drawn around 1947.  | From “Little Aspirin” #1 July 1949 The Little Aspirin comic was published in 1949, but I’m betting these filler pages were sitting around for a couple years before they were published. |
this is consistently the best blog
ReplyDeleteThanks, Martin...you are consistently the best commenter ;)
ReplyDeletegreat find sherm!
ReplyDeleteSweet Jeebus!!! That's wonderful!!! As Kurtzman fans we all loong to find something that we haven't already seen a dozen times or more. Even on my own blog, I just posted some Hey Look! in color. Yeah, it's in color, but it's still the same Hey Look! that we all own.
ReplyDeleteGreat find!!! Thanks so much for sharing!
Hot diggety damn! I have looked through many books, but never came across these! I don't know about their age. I think they could be from the period Kurtzman tried to escape Hey Look... or at least try to sell something else when Hey Look was axed...
ReplyDeleteThanks again, Sherm. I copied the scans and got a compliment from Denis Kitchen - which I am passing on to you!
ReplyDeleteFantastic find!
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