Bert the Turtle

Probably everyone's seen the Bert the Turtle civil service cartoon, that epitome of fifties camp. There was also a comic to go along with it. I remember there being civil defense drills as late as 1980.







additional PSA from BLUE BEETLE #34.

Campus Humor

insensitivity department

I'm as saddened by his loss as any other liberal, but regardless of your political persuasion, funny is funny.from NATIONAL LAMPOON, July 1972
from NATIONAL LAMPOON Encyclopedia of Humor

Torchy

I think it would be funny if someone did one of these strips taking place now with the main character having done everything in these strips from the forties, but now she's in her eighties. Sort of like 'Titanic' I guess. Maybe that's just me.










Gill Fox had a prolific career. He even designed the Italian chef on most pizza boxes. One of the things he did was take over strips when the original creators left. Since Bill Ward went on to do the fetish drawings he became best known for, Fox continued his feature once she had her own solo book. Ward still did covers sometimes, though.

Captain Spaz #11

I think the cover was a parody of the Cap'n Crunch box with Captain Spaz. The art was by Steve Leach (if you're reading this,hi!) and I don't have it. Most likely we gave it back to him, but I wouldn't be surprised if we didn't. Either way, it's been almost 25 years. I'll send it back if I find it. Usually if anybody did covers, they would send originals since nobody had a good copier to make a master from and e-mail hadn't been invented yet.

Stinkeydink and Me

I guess this is supposed to be a parody of "Winky Dink and You" a kids' show where the viewer participated. That's all I can figure. This is from FROM HERE TO INSANITY #10, Charlton's foray into the humor comic boom.

Shaft, September 1954

Liberace tried to keep a lid on it, but those college students knew better...



Didn't they use this gag in MODERN TIMES? I guess because it was funny then...