Bride of gag cartoons

Chicks 'n' Chuckles c.1957

Adam Annual, 1960

Adam, September 1956

Adam, November 1959

Peter Wyma
Adam, December 1959

Adam, September 1963

Bachelor, March 1963

Perry Barlow
True, January 1953

Cad, May 1959

Glenn Bernhardt
Caper, May 1960

The Dude, January 1957

The Dude, May 1959

Hal Sherman
High, November 1958

Ace and Bachelor

More gag cartoons from the forgotten genre of men's magazines. Sure, they're still around, but they're something completely different now. They were closer to Playboy (as it was then) for a lower-middle-class audience, but not hardcore porn. Many more text articles that had nothing to do with sex. Here are more cartoons from them. I imagine them something the archetypal henpecked husband usually voiced by Bill Thompson would read.

This one's from Ace volume 7, number 3, November 1963. The next three are from Ace volume 7, number 6, May 1964.

Bob Schochet obviously inspired by Feiffer's Sick Sick Sick While the more high-brow magazines only hinted at sex, the also-ran skin magazines weren't as subtle. Until I mention otherwise, these are from Ace volume 3, number 1, June 1959 By comic artist Jay Scott Pike. The bottom one is by Brad Anderson of Marmaduke fame. An attempt to do a cartoon of the “id” genre by Charles Dennis, from Adam volume 3, number 5, May 1959. From Bachelor volume 2, number 4, June 1961. More girlie cartoons next Thursday.