May 2009

Meet Axel and Cam – Robot Comics by Popeye’s Bud Sagendorf

Axel and Cam on the Planet Meco by Bud Sagendorf from Dell Comics Popeye #26 - Page 29

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cartoon robots Axel and Cam on the Planet Meco Robot Comics by Bud Sagendorf from Dell Popeye #26 - Page 30

cartoon robots Axel and Cam on the Planet Meco Robot Comics by Bud Sagendorf from Dell Popeye #26 - Page 31

cartoon robots Axel and Cam on the Planet Meco Robot Comics by Bud Sagendorf from Dell Popeye #26 - Page 32

cartoon robots Axel and Cam on the Planet Meco Robot Comics by Bud Sagendorf from Dell Popeye #26 - Page 33

cartoon robots Axel and Cam on the Planet Meco Robot Comics by Bud Sagendorf from Dell Popeye #26 - Page 34

Backup story from 1953 Dell Comics Popeye #26 by Bud Sagendorf

Beatles Comics - Yellow Submarine from Gold Key 1968

Download the whole comic (28 Mb) in a high-quality PDF format!

Just click on the Yellow Submarine comic book cover

The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine was one of the first movies I ever saw in my life, so you can imagine how it tweaked my brain when I saw it on a 30-foot-high drive-in movie screen as a wee 3-year-ol lad in 1968. I had never seen the comic book version before until I ran across this PDF on the web. I don’t have any info on the creative team, but if any of you can shed more light on this comic, please leave a comment!

PS…if you don’t want to download a 28 megabyte PDF, you can read it online at Scribd: Yellow Submarine Comic

More Plato Platypus Comics – from Hollywood Funny Folks #23

Plato Platypus cartoon platypus wearing bowler hat looks at his face in a mirror

More Plato Platypus Comics – this story is from Hollywood Funny Folks #23, Dec/Jan 1950.

This is just one month after the publication of our last Plato Platypus story from Animal Antics #23 (December 1949).

Plato Platypus looks quite a bit different than he did the last time…

...if you like this comic, you can thank Duck-Walker Marc Deckter and Comic Book Catacombs-Keeper Chuck Wells for leaving nice comments on the previous Plato Platypus post!

More Sketches, Doodles, Scribbles & Post-its

Sketches, Doodles, Scribbles & Post-its by Sherm Cohen

Hobo Ken from Hoboken – Single Page Comic by…?

From Ha Ha comics #44 comes this little comic featuring Hobo Ken! Get it? Hoboken!

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Talk about high-concept ideas…it’s all there! Based on my previous mistake about the Algy comic, this might be the work of Irv Spector (even though it looks a lot like Dan Gordon). Who do you think is the artist?

Super Rabbit Comic Book Scans

Here are some super old-timey funny-animal comics that I think you'll dig:

Super Rabbit Vol.1 Number 3 published by Comedy Publications, Inc.

Click on any of these pages to see a HUGE 300dpi detailed scan!

What does 300dpi look like?
Well, when you click on these pages,
you'll get to see them
with detail like these panels below...

I mean, if I'm gonna bother to scan them,
I might as well do it at a good resolution!

...and you can't really appreciate this beautiful linework unless you see it up close. I'm not sure who the artist is on these stories. Vince Fago is my best guess, but that's based on memory alone because I can't find anything to confirm it. I remember that Vince Fago had a very distinctive lettering style, too...and that lettering shows up in these pages.

I only have this one issue of Super Rabbit, and I haven't been able to find very much info on the Internet. I found this cover (below) which was credited to Vince Fago. If he drew that cover, then he probably drew this story.

More sample panels from Super Rabbit #3

What I have been able to find out is that Super Rabbit was created by Ernie Hart and appeared in the Timely comic book line. Super Rabbit's appearance changed pretty drastically over the course of just a few issues. You can see the morphing of Super Rabbit at this great website that features cover galleries of many Atlas and Timely Comics. This was the publishing house that eventually became Marvel Comics, but in the 1950's they published an enormous range of magazine and comic book styles and genres.