Number 1080


A Pappy New Year!


Head feeling a little fuzzy this morning? A couple of aspirins and Pappy's Golden Age will fix you right up!

We're starting out 2012 with a couple of funny stories from The Kilroys #5, including a story of Natch welcoming the New Year of 1948.

I have something in common with Natch Kilroy...I also greeted 1948. I was only six months old at the time and don't remember it, but I was there nonetheless, and have managed to make it to January 1 each year since.

These stories were written by Hubie Karp and drawn by Bob Wickersham, who sometimes signed his work Bob Wick. The Kilroys was aimed at that big teenage comics market led by Archie. Redhead Natch even reminds me a bit of Archie. Like Archie he drove a jalopy and had girl problems.

Here's an announcement that the comic was going to a monthly schedule, which means it was a seller. The Kilroys had a good eight year run from 1947 to 1955.

Rest up today! Tomorrow you'll be back at the regular old grind.

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Number 628


Bubbles in the brain


Here's some more high-larity from the gang at the Sangor shop, where issues of Giggle, Ha Ha and Coo Coo Comics were produced.

Animator Hubie Karp wrote this funny story which comes from Coo Coo Comics #39. "Bubbles in the brain"; I love it. I wish I could do what Colonel Punchy Penguin does. Sometimes you've just gotta unscrew your lid and let out those bubbles.

My appreciation to Dave Miller, who scanned this story for us. Thank you, Dave.

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