Showing posts with label CHARLTON COMICS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CHARLTON COMICS. Show all posts

Monday, August 28, 2017

Sick #126, 4 of 4

The final installment of this issue from April 1979. The previous parts are here, here, and here.

Except for the covers, this issue was only TV and movie spoofs, all drawn by the editor Jack Sparling. This was when their publisher Charlton Comics was on its last legs, their pay rate was at its lowest (and it showed), and most of their books were reprints. Rumor has it some contributors were just paid with contributor copies.

Here's their version of Rhoda
And here's their parody of One Day at a Time, which makes no references to the show and could just be a story with any characters.
At this point, they didn't even bother to do a pun on the show title for their parody of Alice.
As a kid, there were always peanut jokes about Jimmy Carter, like pictures of him being drawn as a peanut or serving peanuts in the White House. This was all most people my age knew about him, with political policy beyond our understanding and/or shielded from us. It's only recently that I've known what the peanut association was about.

Monday, August 14, 2017

Sick #126, 2 of 4

I posted the first part of this last week on my blog here.

This was most likely a parody of the late 70s Wonder Woman show, though I'd like to think it's this one.

Poor Arnold Drake. Creator of Doom Patrol reduced to writing things like this. The art is by editor Jack Sparling, also under-achieving.
Possibly the only time a kiddie humor magazine used footnotes.
Parody of Close Encounters of the Third Kind by David Manak.

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

From Here To Insanity #8, 2 of 2

The other part of Charlton's humor comic, dated February 1955, was posted last week. Most of the comic was drawn by Fred Ottenheimer.
This parody of Executive Suite is the only strip not drawn by Ottenheimer. It was by Dick Ayers.
Parody of Dragnet
The back cover. This comic didn't have ads.

Wednesday, March 16, 2016

From Here To Insanity #8, 1 of 2

I believe I posted later issues of this before. It was Charlton Comics' contribution to the humor comics genre, which lasted longer than the others. While most lasted around three issues, this lasted twelve, and continued as a magazine. This, the eighth from February 1955, is actually the first with this title, which was formerly Eh!

Most of the issue,including everything here today, was drawn by Fred Ottenheimer.