Cartoon themes: courting

Good Humor, October 1964

Laff, July 1952

Syd Hoff
Playboy, March 1970

Bob Tupper
Sir Knight, circa 1958

Spree, circa 1959

Reamer Keller
Hello Buddies, Winter 1950

Jem, July 1963

Man, April 1966

Man to Man, December 1949

Real Adventure, January 1961

Sheer, c.1959

The Dude, January 1957

Paul Peter Porges
The Dude, July 1957

The last of the gag cartoon originals (for now)

I've run out of originals for the gag cartoons. Some of the captions may be a little light. Sorry about that. I have plenty that were printed though which I'll post in the coming weeks. Here's the last of what I have.

Bill Wenzel

Looks like it was done during the Korean War when all the men in the cartoons were made into soldiers and the artists would put where they were posted by their signature. Sometimes if they already used their full names, they would also put their ranks.

Bill Ward

Al Ellis's cartoon says “Miss Wilson, we are in a cold war with our competitors. As a result, the management of Love-Lee Bras has decided to issue a test ban on the use of their products by our employees. Now, to detect violations of the ban, we must insist on the principle of inspection.” Which was considered either too long or too... um... forward. The caption was changed to “Thanks to the womens-lib front, our sales are sagging”, which doesn't make much sense considering the bar on the graph chart is going upwards.

Charles Dennis

The upper left has the address for Visual Varities Inc. There's probably a shopping mall there now, so don't bother going there, which I know almost all of you will do.

The caption says“Now that you're officially retired, Sanders, I know there are things you always wanted to do.”

Cracked #53, 3 of 3

The last part of the 53 issue of Cracked from August 1966. The previous parts are here and here.

Jack O'Brien, Len Herman, Art Pottier, Joe Kiernan, and Don Orehek

Al Jaffee, in a reprint from 1959.

John Severin pretending to be Bill Ward

Bill Ward himself

Charles Rodrigues

Cracked #44, 2 of 3

The second part of Cracked #44 from July 1965. Here was the first part.

Piece by Jack Davis reprinted from the 11th issue.

Bill Ward

John Severin

John Severin, Art Pottier, Lenny Herman, Joe Kiernan, Peter Wyma