Friday, June 2, 2023

MAMM0TH COMICS (1938)


This is a 76-page one-shot, comprising of samples of eighteen of the more popular daily comic strips of 1937 that were published by NEA Service, Chicago Tribune-N. Y. News Syndicate, Publishers Syndicate, and Bell Syndicate, Inc.  Alas, we get only a snapshot of various story arcs, but it should give you a taste of the state of newspaper comics in 1937.

Included are:
  • Tailspin Tommy by Hal Forrest (4 pages)
  • Dan Dunn, Secret Operative 48 by Norman Marsh (4 pages)
  • Freckles and His Friends by Merrill Blosser (4 pages)
  • Nebbs by Sol Hess (4 pages)
  • Terry and the Pirates by Milton Caniff (4 pages)
  • Apple Mary and Dennie by Martha Orr (4 pages)
  • Alley Oop by V. T. Hamlin (4 pages)
  • Smitty by Walter Berndt (4 pages)
  • Moon Mullins by Frank Willard (4 pages)
  • Gasoline Alley by Frank King (4 pages)
  • The Gumps by Gus Edson (4 pages)
  • Don Winslow of the Navy by Lieut. Comdr. Frank V. Martinek, U.S.N.R. (4 pages)
  • Boots and Her Buddies by Edgar Martin (4 pages)
  • Wash Tubbs by Roy Crane (3 pages)
  • Winnie Winkle by Masrtin Branner (4 pages)
  • Smilin' Jack (when he didn't have that mustache) by Zack Mosley (4 pages)
  • Myra North, Special Nurse by Ray Thompson and Charles Coll (4 pages)
  • Smokey Stover by Bill Holman (4 pages)
You may be familiar with some of these strips, which were published for decades.  How many do you remember?  Any favorites?
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2 comments:

  1. GeorgeJune 3, 2023 at 5:54 AM

    I started reading comic books as a kid in the mid-1950s. I read TERRY AND THE PIRATES in the newspaper (I think it was a Sunday only comic). Mostly I read DC comics: The Flash was my favorite. But I also bought GREEN LANTERN, ADAM STRANGE, BAT-MAN, SUPERMAN, and JUSTICE LEAGUE. The only MARVEL comics I read were IRON MAN and DOCTOR STRANGE.

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  2. Todd MasonJune 3, 2023 at 3:03 PM

    This does bring me back to hearing Lenny Bruce's records on the Fantasy label for the first time, in 1979, with the routine about kids huffing model-airplane glue to get high: A child comes into a drugstore or soda shop and buys, among other things, a TAILSPIN TOMMY comic book and dozens of cases of airplane glue...here 'tis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvOMae_zBvk

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