Number 1425: The further adventures of Terry and the Pirates

Harvey Comics’ Terry and the Pirates #4 (1947) continues the breathless adventure saga I showed last month from Terry #3:

You can read part 1 first by clicking the cover:

Prisoners of a warlord! Pat tortured, and about to be married off against his will! Connie and Terry in drag! All just part of the fun from the grandmaster of adventure strips, Milton Caniff.

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Blood on Her Lips

Even the typically revolting print job on today's Superior Publishing story can't hold back the ferocity of a woman out for blood! From the January 1953 issue of Journey into Fear #11.

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#648 - The just concluded Tarzan daily strip reprint

Thanks to Emile, we now have the just concluded Tarzan daily strip - (7735-7810)_Tarzan meets I.B.Pompus_(05-11-64_to_08-06-64)

Download from Emile's original link and shower your thanks on Emile.

Enjoy,

Venkit

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Number 1424: Boody Rogers’ Bigfoot sighting

A pair of tales from Sparky Watts #9 (1949) feature the oddball humor artist/writer Boody Rogers was known for. The scene of Sparky sharing a bed with the man he’s protecting, Buttermilk Sky, probably didn’t seem as odd in 1949 as it does now.*

The second story, a short and mostly pantomime strip features Sparky’s bigfoot pal, Slap Happy. I recently found this online, from a weird and vintage photography site

The unfortunate woman, Fanny Mills, photographed in the 1880s, was a victim of a hideously disfiguring disease, elephantiasis. I’m interested in her very large shoes. Since I’m always looking for comic artists’ inspirations, I wonder if Rogers had seen this picture, or something similar, and patterned Slap Happy after it? Boody’s explanation for Slap Happy’s feet was that he got the cosmic ray treatment from Doc Static, and it made his feet grow big. Or, it could be that Boody Rogers was just taking the slang term for old-time “bigfoot cartoonist” to an extreme.

*Sparky once shared a bed with Hitler in a two-part story! Click on the thumbnails to see.

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