Frank Frazetta - Famous Funnies comic book covers from the 1950’s

All of the incredible artwork from Frank Frazetta's Buck Rogers Famous Funnies comic book covers is on display HERE in high-resolution scans:

https://comicsbookstories.blogspot.com/2010/05/frank-frazetta-february-9-1928-may-10.html

These nine covers are pure pulp-adventure space-opera masterpieces! Much more of Frazetta 1950’s comic book work is collected in this book:

 Telling Stories:
The Classic Comic Art of Frank Frazetta

Doc Syke -- One-Page gag comic by Ving Fuller

Doc Syke -- One-Page gag comic by Ving Fuller
From Tip-Top Comics 158

Click HERE for full-sized comic book scan

More on Ving Fuller here:

http://screwballcomics.blogspot.com/p/ving-fuller.html

"Drowning is Funny!" with Posty and Lolly

Posty the Pelican and his Pal Lolly
from All-Surprise #3


Glub! Glub! ...with friends like that...



Well, they both end up yelling "HELP! HELP!" so I guess it's even. Super-appealing drawings -- Fun stuff!

"I've come to fix your pipes!" A delightful comic by VEP

I really love VEP -- his comics are pure fun!

Here's G. Whiskers from Ha Ha 17, 1945

Click on any page to see the FULL-SIZED comic book scan

You can read the entire 52-page Ha Ha #17

comic at the Digital Comic Museum

https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=30848

and/or at ComicBookPlus.com

http://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=70047

Droopy by Dan Gordon -- a spooky funny animal comic

A howlin' good one-pager from one of the greatest cartoonists ever: Dan Gordon!

From Laffy-Daffy Comics #2 1944

Click on the page above to see the FULL_SIZE page!

"Tin Can Willie" one-page filler comic by Dan Gordon

A fun one-pager from one of my favorite cartoonists of all-time: Dan Gordon!

From Laffy-Daffy Comics #1 1944

Click on the page below to see the FULL_SIZE page!

for more about Dan Gordon, check out the mini-biography I wrote about him for the Comics Journal:

http://cartoonsnap.blogspot.com/2009/01/dan-gordon-biography-life-and-work-of.html

Lazy Lee in "Working Pains"

There's a one-page comic feature running in many issue of The Marvel Family -- called "Lazy Lee." A painfully simple one-note character, he appears in one-page (or half-page) gags (I can't call the stories!) that almost always end in a classic flop-take.

Click image above for the full-sized scan.

Lots of classic public-domain Captain Marvel comics at the Digital Comics Library

Fawcett Comics galore: https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?cid=3

Eddie Elephant – 1946 Hallucinogenic Funny Animal Comix by Ellis Holly Chambers

This story comes from Hi-Ho Comics #1 --- a 1946 comic published by Four Star Publications. It’s filled with 45 pages of insane tripped out comics by H. Chambers. So who is this H. Chambers?

Milton Knight provides some tantalizing information about cartoonist H. Chambers:

“It's Holly Chambers! (Holly was his middle name; I think his first name began with an E.) My late friend, Howie Post, used to share a studio with him and had several vivid tales to tell: he described Chambers as a handsome, charismatic "psychotic" who could walk out with a bar stool and stare down the bartender with a "what are you going to do about it?"

Post also revealed that Chambers was a heroin addict who could shoot up and complete a comic book overnight: "Who needs women when you have this??"
As colorful as his comics, that was Holly Chambers. Howard lost track of him in the 50s, and suspected that he was "rubbed out" by his drug connections.”

Thanks to Milton Knight for that priceless and tantalizing info. It explains a lot – and raises about a million other questions that will probably never be answered.

For LOTS more freaky funny-book vintage comic scans by Ellis Holly Chambers, click on Eddie the Elephant below:

 

Buzzy the Mouse in “Mechanic Menace” Golden Age Funny Animal Comics

From Jack-in-the-Box Comics #14, June 1947

Click on any page for a FULL-SIZED hi-res scan

More info at http://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=26383 or download the whole comic at http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=12105

Weird Loopy FUN Comics: Fritzi Ritz pages by Nancy’s Ernie Bushmiller

Here are some more weirdo gag pages from Ernie Bushmiller’s Fritzi Ritz…circa 1949

If you missed the previous post on Ernie Bushmiller and his Pre- Nancy & Sluggo comic strip star, Fritzi Ritz – click right HERE--
Fritzi Ritz Comic by Bushmiller (part1)

Featuring boyfriend Phil Fumble…the unapologetic super-cad!

I love this silent first panel from the comic page below…

Click on any page for a BIG full-sized
Ernie Bushmiller comic book scan!

More info about Ernie Bushmiller and Fritzi Ritz at:
http://www.toonopedia.com/fritzi.htm
http://lambiek.net/artists/b/bushmiller_e.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_%28comics%29

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BIG online archive of Nancy comic strip scans :
http://ilovecomixnancy.blogspot.com/

How to Get Along With Girls (Vintage Ad)

"It's Easy to Win Her! ...when you know how!"

Comic Book Advertisement for "How to Get Along With Girls"

from the pages of Frankie Fuddle #16 (1946)

"Judy of the Jungle" Comics by Frank Frazetta

Wow -- I don't know how I've never seen these before, but I just found an early comic book story by Frank Frazetta featuring Judy of the Jungle. From Exciting Comics #59 (1947), here's "Judy of the Jungle!"

Click on any page for the full-sized comic book scan

This complete comic book (and zillions of other vintage public-domain comics) can be found at the wonderul Digital Comic Museum website at: http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/

Long Ago, Before Comic Bags and Boards...

Before mylar bags and boards...before "slabbing"...it's "My Personal Comic Album."

From "Moe and Shmoe Comics" #1 Spring 1948, Courtesy of the Digital Comic Museum:
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=24198

Groundhog Day – Funny Animal Comics by Animator Ken Hultgren

Groundhog Day is on Sunday, so to celebrate, here's a beautiful comic book story from veteran animator Ken Hultgren...