Comic Strip Story-Ads from The 1950's

Another fun comics and cartooning blog to check out:

Ger Apeldoorn's Fabuleous Fifties

I really dig Ger's articles on comic strip advertisements.Back in the 1950's many famous comic strip artistsworked for big advertising agencies to create ads for all kinds of products.(See Sam Spade Wildroot Hair Tonic Ads by Lou Fine).

Ger has generously posted some really nice ads for Eveready Batteries:

Click on the images to see the whole strip on Ger's blog

These were drawn by Creig Flessel, and there are a couple nice posts that focus on his cartooning career.

More wonderful comic strip ad art here:

Click The Hot Dog Ad by Hagar's Dik Browne for more Comic Strip Ads

There are also some really nice articles about cartoonist Bud Blake, along with heaps of great artwork that's probably gone unseen for decades. Check out these gems:

Click on the images to see the whole strip on Ger's blog

You'll really want to look through all the posts -- you never know what you'll find. Like this cartoon advertisement for Vaseline by Hagar's Dik Browne...

I'm so glad that Ger has saved this stuff and put it all on his blog so we can all enjoy it!

UPDATE: More Eveready comic ads are posted here:
http://allthingsger.blogspot.com/2008/07/wednesday-ad-day-looking-for-david.html

UPDATE #2 Five more terrific scans of these Creig Flessel Eveready comic ads at:
http://allthingsger.blogspot.com/2008/07/batteries-that-keep-on-going.html

Old Romance Comics Scans at "The Golden Age Romance Comics Archive"

Here's another unexpected discovery that made me squeal with delight: A nice stack of Golden Age Romance comic book scans that you can read online or download for your collection!

Apparently created as a project for a college humanities course, Jenny Miller's Golden Age Romance Comics Archive is...

"a resource for scholars and fans interested in golden eraromance comics, containing full scans of issues."

There are a couple short essays about the romance comics genre, but the soft and chewy insides are the 14 complete issues of old romance comics scans from publishers such as Fox, Harvey, Atlas, Michel, Charlton, Marvel, St. John and Mystery Publishing Company. Juicy Pre-Code tales of heartache and betrayal with titles like Lovelorn, All-True Romance and First Love. Even the later comics have intriguing names like Lonely Heart, and my favorite title: My Personal Problem (!)

5 Reasons Why I'm Fascinated by Romance Comics:

1. They're so weirdly different than any of the comics I grew up with in the 70's
2. The unwavering commitment to totally formulaic plots
3. The Betrayals, the Crying, the EMOTIONS and over-the-top melodrama
4. Like crime comics, they're filled with excellent drawings of regular people in normal clothing and mid-century urban American backgrounds
5. More flashbacks per comic than any other genre

read and enjoy at:http://www.jennymiller.com/romancecomics/

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Funny Crime Comics & Lots More Fun Stuff at the Comic Book Catacombs

I just ran across another swell comics blog called the Comic Book Catacombs. Huge variety of fun comics and pop culture miscellany. Chuck seems to dig funny animal comics, horror and crime, superhero classics of the seventies, etc. Lots of fun stuff to discover and/or remember!