Zany #3, 3 of 4

Hard to believe, but Abbie 'n Slats was once as big as any blockbuster movie.



So was Big Ben Bolt





Marlboro had a campaign as being a "man's cigarette."


I'm not sure what this is a parody of.


At one time, American Express was the only company to have traveler's checques.


I'm not sure what this parody by Paul Reinman is of either.


Zany did their share of TV parodies, like this one of Maverick by Don Orehek, who generally wasn't known for doing caricatures.




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King Leonardo 4 of 4

Thanks to Benjamin D. Brucke for alerting me to the problem I've been having for a few days. For some reason, my links didn't say ".jpg" on them, and that's why they were going to the Photobucket main page. I fixed it, though.






Here's an example of the Tooter Turtle cartoon.



On TV, Kellogg's was the sponsor for Hanna-Barbera. The Total Television cartoons had General Mills cereals in their commercials. I guess it was different for the comics.

from the December 1959 issue of ESQUIRE

Early work of David Levine. He agrees with me when he laments there are no tabloid-sized magazines anymore. As he told Comics Journal, “All those magazines were much nicer in their full scale from the point of view of the look of the art...There was a time when I could do something on a travel trip for Holiday magazine and have full scale of reproduction. It was a nice feeling to be able to get that.”

ESQUIRE, August 1959

from August, 1959




ESQUIRE seemed to have a lot of cartoons about riding elephants. I guess that and duels were what people did back then.

FRENZY #6, 4 of 4

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