Nuts #5, 2 of 2

The second part of the final issue of Premier Magazines' Nuts! from November 1954. The other half was posted last week.

According to Grand Comics Database, this parody of the Miss Rheingold campaign was drawn by Hy Fleishman.

As was this, and the article after it.

I think many of the publishers, in their attempts to cash in on the fly-by-night parody craze, would use fillers they had on hand in order to get material to fill their humor quota.

Nuts #4, 2 of 2

The rest from this issue of Nuts! #4 in September 1954

This comic seems to be a parody of the whole teenage girl genre, which includes Teena, Etta Kett, and Penny. Jack O'Brien Hy Fleishman Parody of the Volto of Mars Grape Nuts ads.

Nuts! #4, 1 of 2

Continuing my showcasing humor comics inspired by Mad, from cartoonists who didn't know how to do humor, this is the fourth issue of Nuts! by Premiere Magazines in September 1954. There were four issues which makes this one of the longest-running of the Mad competitors. It was no relation to the Nuts edited by Harvey Kurtzman in the 80s.

I don't have much to say about it, so I'll let it speak for itself.

This is by Hy Fleishman. By John Belcastro a/k/a Johnny Bell. The rest of this issue will be posted next Thursday.

MYSTERIOUS ADVENTURES 2 of 2

CONCLUDED FROM MONDAY
Notice how Mother Ghoul didn't always look the same in each strip.
From MYSTERIOUS ADVENTURES #23, December 1954





from MYSTERIOUS ADVENTURES #25, August 1955.

I printed the one from #24 here.

Richard Doxsee was another comic artist for lesser-known publishers, and many of the black-and-white humor magazines.
Sometimes they didn't even bother keeping the name consistent.

MYSTERIOUS ADVENTURES

I decided I'm gonna do it. Provide more “liner notes” Why haven't I been doing it all along? I guess I didn't want to seem condescending or something like that. But instead of just playing show, I think I'll do more tell. Looking at other archived collections, there are often notes in the back with some kind of historical context, so maybe I should do it too.

I'm always reading somewhere about how most of the population doesn't know where Iraq is or doesn't know what's in the Bible. I don't know anyone like that, and I'm pretty sure you're not one of these people, but I kind of take it for granted that everyone knows what I know and that's not always the case. I'm not trying to act superior, but not everyone knows who the creators I'm posting are or what a particular reference is.

Besides, this is all free and you can ignore any text you want.
Sometimes comics publishers had humor features in their other books. Mother Ghoul was an imitator of EC's Grim Fairy Tales, horror stories with a humorous version of well-known fables.

Cover artist Hy Fleishman was one of the few people to sign their work in the 50s. Most of what he did was for horror for second and third-rung comic companies like this.

I have no idea what 'Insane' was. Maybe a title they ended up not producing? Or maybe it's a command telling you the condition you should be in while reading.

This is from MYSTERIOUS ADVENTURES #22, October 1954, art unknown.






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