TODAY’S FEATURED ITEM:

Hogan’s Alley has a wonderful gallery of full-color topper strips courtesy of Bill Blackbeard as a supplement to the latest issue of their always wonderful magazine (#16)…. there are some other great supplements at the link as well, as usual. Topper or header strips, for those who don’t know, are secondary comic strips that used to be published in conjunction with the main strip back when cartoonists were afforded an entire page of a Sunday newspaper to practice their craft on.

Most of these wonderful strips are largely forgotten today, and many are quite wonderful… examples of some of my favorite header strips are featured… Otto Messmer’s Laura (a header of Felix… which they have attributed mistakenly, although understandably, to Felix credit-stealer Pat Sullivan) and Segar’s Sappo (a header of Thimble Theatre) notably. Cliff Sterrett, Billy DeBeck, Rube Goldberg and many other greats are featured as well. There are no examples of Sterrett’s wonderful silent Dot and Dash topper, unfortunately (another of my favorites), but multiple examples of his variously titled marriage-lament topper strips (all headers of Polly and Her Pals).

• Tom Neely covers Creepy 46
• The world of Kamandi: Earth, A.D.!
• Brain Boy Kills
• Quintet
• Toby Cypress and RODD RACER
• 03/03/2009 Steve Canyon
• Dream of the Rarebit Fiend 1905-04-15
• From the last days of the old Scans_daily; The Flying Machine
• Comic : Strange Adventures #2
• Comic : Daredevil #40
• Late Delivery Tuesday Newspaper Strip Day.
• Comics Post – Four Color #86 – Roy Rogers
• A Prologue to An Amazons Attack Review, plus whale abuse
• Nibbles
• A Month of Pulitzer Prize Winning Cartoons – Day 2
• Dance Gavin Dance
• 03/03/2009 Latigo
• “The Sneak Attack” from Atomic War #1 (Ace Comics; 1952)
• Hogan’s Web Extras
• Behind Locked Doors
• Mugwhump the Great: Mugwhump 027
• Oh, Yoko!
• Here’s Doc Savage From Curtis Publishing Issues 1-9
• Diggin’ Ditko: “The Dimensions of Greed”
• BUCKY BUG proofs
• Comic : M.A.R.S. Patrol
• Comic : Web of Mystery – more issues!
• COMICS WITH PROBLEMS No.32 – BOBBY JINDAL PRESENTS ALICE IN BLUNDERLAND
• Jim Flora’s White Block Quadrupeds
• Cakewalk
• HANK PORTER ON E-BAY
• LARRAZ EN “AVENTURERO”
• TOUTAIN EN “AVENTURERO”
• Rick Veitch offers BRAT PACK free issue
• JULIO RIBERA EN “AVENTURERO”
• BIELSA EN “AVENTURERO”
• calamityjon: I’ve recently been reading the whole run
• Go, Look: Tom Gauld’s Guardian Letter Cartoons As A Flickr Set
• *Phlegm by Dan* Issue eight of *Phlegm*
• Question (2)
• Mutt And Jeff Tuxedo Redux, And More
• Illustration: Cute Hunter
• Reg Parlett- The Mummy’s curse..
• Comic : Tales of Voodoo (V7) 1-6
• Vampirella Issues 62 & 63 rar pack
• Vampirella (warren) Issues 64-66 rar pack
• Here’s Vampirella (warren) Issues 67 & 68 rar pack
• Magazine/Comic : Vampirella#69,71,72
• Magazine/Comic : Vampirella#73-75
• Magazine/Comic : Vampirella #79,80,82
• The Storm Masters
• Two oddball pages and today’s mystery photo
• *Kemp Starrett* Roy Powers ~ Eagle Scout
• Mesomur
• Magazine/Comic : Vampirella#86,87,89
• Magazine/Comic : Vampirella#90,96
• Magazine/Comic : Vampirella#97,99
• Magazine/Comic : Vampirella#100,101,103
• Magazine/Comic : Vampirella#106,108
• Magazine/Comic : Vampirella#109-111
• Magazine/Comic : Vampirella#112 + annual
• Gumbo Galahad is Laffin’ at Yo’.
• Magazine/Comic : Vampirella#1 UK
• Comic : the Demon (1972 – Kirby)
• The Weird Dead
• Comic : Tales of Voodoo (V5)#1-4+6,7
• Finale Friday!
• 02/28/2009 Steve Canyon
• 02/28/200 Latigo
• Comics Post – Four Color #82 – The Lone Ranger
• Today’s Poor Almanack
• “The Kid Who Came To Dinner”
• fancy a swim?
• Comic : Baffling Mysteries
• Comic :Hand Of Fate
• Comic : Diary of Horror
• Comic: This Magazine is Haunted
• Yogi Bear in Air-Borne Bear (FC 1067)
• Back to the old drawing board
• COMIC: Flintstones at the World’s Fair
• Hate!
• Comic : Tales of Voodoo V6 #1-3
• 03/01/2009 Steve Canyon
• In A Future Not To Long Ago Saturday Leftover Day
• Sunday Funnies: Prison Plops Part 1
• Comic : Grim Ghost
• Comic : Web of Evil
• Comic : Web of Mystery
• Number 480 Ghost Patrol in Spain
• Comics Post – Four Color #83 – Gene Autry
• Jim Ivey’s Sunday Comics
• Comic : Beware
• Comic : Mysteries Weird and Strange
• Comic : Witches Tales
• Blondie: Dagwood Goes Fishing; Hook, Line and Sinker (Blondie 2)
• Comic : Journey into Fear
• March
• Sunday Funnies
• New month
• Donald Duck’s Best Christmas (Firestone Giveaway 1945)
• Dream of the Rarebit Fiend 1905-04-12
• The Vampire
• 03/02/2009 Latigo
• 03/02/2009 Male Call
• Comic : Marvel Tales #112
• We Have a Winner: Blinded Me with Comics! Plus: Making a Splash, 1980s style!
• Comics Post – Four Color #85 – Andy Panda
• A Month of Pulitzer Prize Winning Cartoons – Day 1
• Number 481 Boody call Craig Yoe’s book, Boody
• 03/02/2009 Steve Canyon
• the Blog Empire, part two
• Obscurity of the Day: War On Crime
• The Torch
• Face-a-day
• Gahan for the Day
• Webcomics update for 2/27/09
• Welcome to Hicksville Comics
• chunky surf
• Go, Look: Electrick Hoax Revisited
• Page one from “Dark and Stormy Night."
• Super Fantastica Comix Color Cover Preview
• To Do
• Anti-Girl Parties On, page 3
• Face-a-day
• Herriman Saturday
• Face-a-day
• Even more Intrepideers
• Face-a-day
• 02/27/2009 Steve Canyon
• 02/27/2009 Latigo
• Dream Song
• Famous First Fridays: Red Sonja’s Metal Bikini
• Comics Post – Four Color #79 – Mickey Mouse
• Reg Parlett- Big Boy and The Goodies and the Baddies
• Number 479 Fanthorpe comics
• the Blog Empire, part one
• Wally Wood Goes PLOP! Funny Fantasy in The King of the Ring
• Here’s Vampirella (WARREN) Issues 18-20
• Vampirella (warren) Issues 23, 26, 34
• No Kids Stuff Friday Comic Book Day.
• More Vampirella (warren) Issues 45, 49
• More Of Everyone’s Favorite Vampiress From Warren
• Now We Have Vampirella (warren) Issues 55 & 57
• Moving Right Along Here’s Vampirella Issues 59 & 59
• Comic: Weird War Tales – fills
• Here’s Vampirella (warren) Issues 60 & 61.
• PEQUEÑO PANTERA NEGRA
• “Post-BSG”
• Comics About Drawing
• Yokohama Melodrama
• She Wanted to Know… The Black Future
• Peter Blegvad’s Leviathan – Coda
• One the finest artists to contribute to the comic…
• The Neighbor
• Ernst & Saunders, Kelly, Lazarus, Schulz, Walker: "Comic Strips They’d Really Like To Do"
• The Diet of Giant Moas
• the Little Rascals
• More Chloe – Cartoon Morphing
• Arabian Knight Tuesday Newspaper Story Day.
• METODIO CALAMAR
• TARUGUETE
• HELIODORO HIPOTENUSO SE SIENTE ENFERMO
• HELIODORO HIPOTENUSO COLOCA UNA CERRADURA
• #115: D120 Smuggler’s Luck From 11 Mar 1963 to 4 May 1963
• You do not scare us
• This week’s comic
• CUENTOS ORIENTALES
• Comic: Rawhide Kid #30 – 32
• CARPANTA EN: GUSTOS RAROS
• Magazine : Reptilicus #2
• What in the world is Dylan up to?
• Jim Munroe’s THEREFORE REPENT as a free download
• Magazine : The Rook #9-14
• Comic : Young Allies #1&2
• Comic : Men in Action
• Comic : All Winners#1
• Comic : Marines in Battle #2
• Comic : Journey into unknown worlds #59
• Face-a-day
• Who’s There?
• More VIP DEAD GAME SPORTSMEN
• Hey, Listen!: Comics Sound FX
• OK Folks Nearing The End Of The Creepy Mag
• Here Is The Last Of The Creepys
• I Found Some More Issue’s Of Unknown Worlds Of Science
• Unknown Worlds Of Science Fiction Issues 3 & 4
• Last Two For Unknown Worlds Of Science Fiction Issues
• Comic : Journey into Mystery #2
• Ghoul’s Bride
• Whaling fun and today’s mystery photo
• Mome story preview
• Comic: Weird War Tales – more missing issues
• Comic : Witches Tales V6 #1,4,5,6
• 02/26/2009 Latigo
• 02/26/2009 Steve Canyon
• Comics Post – Four Color #78 – Porky Pig
• It Came from EC: Vintage Bradbury adaptation.
• Infinite Kung Fu, part 13
• Obscurity of the Day: Lancelot
• CREEPIEST FAMILY CIRCUS EVER
• Comic : Action Comics #50,51
• Comic : All True Crime #44
• Comic : Witches’ Tales V7 #1
• Potential Rejections
• Comic : Weird Horrors
• Comic : Strange Adventures #1
• From Rick Geary
• Meanwhile…. on Wednesday!

TODAY’S FEATURED ITEM: More amazing classic newspaper pages posted today at the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive, courtesy of their MARC DECKTER CHALLENGE… Messmer, DeBeck, Sterrett, Gross and more! Click the image above to go there!

• The Boy Who Saved the World
  from Nedor-A-Day
• I Talked With the Dead!
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Daily Mirror strips 15 February 1952
  from Bear Alley
• Watermelon Boy, part 1
  from Top Shelf 2.0 Webcomics
• Number 380 Couples therapy
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• Monster God Of Rogor
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• Back Off!
  from Introspective Comics
• God’s Word
  from Amazing Facts…and Beyond!
• Marc Deckter Challenge Day Five
  from ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive
• Little Nemo 1913-06-22
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Bicyclopolis Journal
  from Bicyclopolis
• Apalud, Apaldid A-Alas
  from Monster Without A Cause
• REJECTED NICKELODEON GAGS
  from SLEEPING BAIT
• The RNC… Good Riddance
  from POST-CARBON COMICS
• Midnite The Rebel Skunk!: Blackthorne 1985 – Milton Knight
  from Comicrazys
• O. U. Chump by Gosh
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Opus
  from Salon
• Bolling on Palin
  from News and/or Head Lice
• Desert Critters Tuesday newspaper strip day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• 10000 years BC
  from Mattias Inks
• Go, Look: Gahan Wilson Gallery
  from The Comics Reporter
• 1870 Baseball Cartoon
  from The Virtual Dime Museum
• hector plasm, ghost murderer
  from pictures for sad children
• Sam’s Strip: Due for Complete Reprinting!
  from Beautiful Balloons with Maggie Thompson
• The Strange Tree
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Unspent Love #3
  from Top Shelf 2.0 Webcomics
• Beauty And The Brain
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• Kirby and Ditko in Tales of Suspense #14, continued
  from Hairy Green Eyeball
• Kirby and Ditko in Tales Of Suspense #14
  from Hairy Green Eyeball
• Obscurity of the Day: Robin Malone
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Mugwhump the Great: Mugwhump 002
  from Comics by Roger Langridge
• Bruno and the Amesiac Camel
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Chicago jam comics
  from Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog
• My Favorite Day of the Week…
  from Drawn and Quarterly
• More Dirt
  from cul de sac
• Index: In Progress
  from Yesterday’s Papers Archive
• Little Nemo 1913-06-15
  from Comic Strip Library News
• The Phantom Fires part 3 (WDCS 202)
  from Rodney Bowcock’s Comics & Stories
• KYLE BAKER’S X-MEN… “It’s Genetic”
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Non-Raymond Rip Kirby
  from Beautiful Balloons with Maggie Thompson
• No smart-assed title today!
  from datajunkie

So much great stuff… way too much to look at. I take a couple weeks off from this stuff, and the length of this thing just gets ugly. I don’t know what to feature today… Wolverton obscurities? Fox & Crow comics? More Herriman? Walt Kelly? Arch Dale? I’d feature the Chris Ware link the Comics Reporter pointed me to, but the resolution is terrible.

How about a Flip the Frog comic? Flip the Frog? He had comics? I guess he did… presented courtesy of Comicrazys, click the image below to see it.

But then there’s the ASIFA – Hollywood Animation Archive, doing amazing work as usual. Not only do they deliver the goods, but they do it with big, gorgeous scans. Some choice old newspaper funnies featuring Cliff Sterrett, Milt Gross, Clare Briggs and more are there today. Click the image below to go drool over them.

Those are sure great, but I gotta point to this as well… an inked version of the Wally Wood Spawn of Venus story I ran the pencils for previously, thinking they had not been inked… Courtesy of the Golden Age Comic Book Stories blog. Click on the image below to view it.

• I’LL WATCH YOU WORK
  from The Woodring Monitor
• National Cartoonist Society Profile: Walt Kelly
  from Dave Karlen Original Art Blog
• A heppy lend
  from The Ephemerist
• Slumberland Titles!
  from Meeting McCay
• ElfQuest goes online
  from Read Comics
• Kirby Kolor, A Kirby Myth
  from Simon and Kirby – Jack Kirby Museum & Research
• The Wide Angle Scream, More Pinups
  from Simon and Kirby – Jack Kirby Museum & Research
• Captain 3D
  from Simon and Kirby – Jack Kirby Museum & Research
• Some Obscure Simon and Kirby
  from Simon and Kirby – Jack Kirby Museum & Research
• More Obscure Simon and Kirby
  from Simon and Kirby – Jack Kirby Museum & Research
• A Date Without Romance
  from Simon and Kirby – Jack Kirby Museum & Research
• It’s a Crime, Chapter 1, Promoting Crime
  from Simon and Kirby – Jack Kirby Museum & Research
• It’s A Crime, Chapter 2, A Revitalized Title
  from Simon and Kirby – Jack Kirby Museum & Research
• It’s A Crime, Chapter 3, Competing Against Themselves
  from Simon and Kirby – Jack Kirby Museum & Research
• Simon and Kirby Take On Kiddy Comics
  from Simon and Kirby – Jack Kirby Museum & Research
• Alan Moore, Peter Bagge and Kool-Aid Man
  from Again With the Comics
• Sketchbook #63
  from FLOG! Entries
• Dash Shaw deconstructs BBB
  from FLOG! Entries
• Chocolate Cheeks for 7/18/08
  from FLOG! Entries
• Sketchbook #64
  from FLOG! Entries
• Sketchbook #65
  from FLOG! Entries
• Debuting at Comic-Con: SUBLIFE
  from FLOG! Entries
• Sketchbook #66
  from FLOG! Entries
• Lickety-Whop: Capt Easy Vs. Everybody
  from CR Briefings
• Friday Distraction: British Cartoon Archive
  from CR Briefings
• Sketchbook #68
  from FLOG! Entries
• Milt Gross Character Designs
  from all kinds of stuff
• Milt Gross, Funny Animals and Meanest Man plus Meat
  from all kinds of stuff
• Mort Drucker’s Girls
  from all kinds of stuff
• Leon On Vacation
  from THE BALLOONIST
• Revelation Offers Hope
  from THE BALLOONIST
• Look Out for Motorcycle Mike
  from THE BALLOONIST
• Go, Look: Superman/McCay Visuals
  from CR Briefings
• Chocolate Cheeks for 7/29/08
  from FLOG! Entries
• Sketchbook #70
  from FLOG! Entries
• Sketchbook #69
  from FLOG! Entries
• CR Sunday Preview: “Last Gig in Shnagrlig,” by Gilbert Shelton and Pic
  from CR Briefings
• Satirical WWI maps
  from Boing Boing
• Chocolate Cheeks for 8/1/08
  from FLOG! Entries
• Go, Look: Chris Ware’s Powerless
  from CR Briefings
• *Adventure Comics #151 ~ April/1950*
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• Frank Frazetta For a little over a year, late 1949
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• “Sock-a-Bye Kitty”…in comics
  from Classic Cartoons
• The Good Old Days – 05/21/1960
  from I Love Comix
• A visit with Basil Wolverton
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Little Nemo 1912-03-10
  from Comic Strip Library News
• New Strip! Bill and Budd, the Bird Boys!
  from The Barnacle Blog
• The Finger
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• “Wait right here, Foxie! I’ll be right back!”
  from Classic Cartoons
• Out Our Way – 11/06/1940
  from I Love Comix
• Pauline McPerils – 01/01/1967
  from I Love Comix
• Herriman Saturday
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Not Too Much Fun in the Sun
  from cul de sac
• Claire Voyant #2 cover
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Rules for Tourists
  from cul de sac
• Claire Voyant #2
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Little Nemo 1912-03-17
  from Comic Strip Library News
• ONE LOVELY DRAWING, part 20
  from ILLUSTRATION ART
• New Strip! Bud ‘N’ Bub!
  from The Barnacle Blog
• Fritz in Legs
  from Nedor-A-Day
• “The Man-Eater”
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Restaurant Closings
  from cul de sac
• *Number 345* * The doomed frat boys*
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• Pauline McPerils – 08/07/1966
  from I Love Comix
• Room and Board – 12/22/1943
  from I Love Comix
• “Colds is only Imagination!”
  from Classic Cartoons
• Really Scary Funny Animal Comics
  from Cartoon SNAP
• Frank Robbins’ JOHNNY HAZARD
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Little Nemo 1912-03-31
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Mortimer Magic in Big Mistake
  from Nedor-A-Day
• The Ghoul!
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Welcome back! Monday cartoon day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• *Number 346* * “…through the sewer like a cannonball!”*
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• Obscurity of the Day: Vic Jordan
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Sheldon Mayer Funny Animal Comic Book Scans Links
  from Cartoon SNAP
• Pauline McPerils – 08/21/1966
  from I Love Comix
• The Gumps – 10/30/1935
  from I Love Comix
• “Will one of you smart looking gentlemen assist me on the platform?"
  from Classic Cartoons
• Scribbly! (No. 1-A)
  from ThadBlog
• Little Nemo 1912-04-07
  from Comic Strip Library News
• The Monster in the Maze
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Adventures into Darkness #10 cover
  from Nedor-A-Day
• The Killers!
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Pauline McPerils – 09/04/1966
  from I Love Comix
• Winniw Winkle – 12/13/1939
  from I Love Comix
• A Bob Wickersham Moment
  from Classic Cartoons
• Wally Wood 1927 ~ 1981 Flash Gordon
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• Flessel With The Pessel Tuedsay newspaper strip
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• New and Old
  from Mark Kausler’s CatBlog
• VIP – Virgil Partch
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Little Nemo 1912-04-14
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Too Old to Live
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• The Black Terror in a Trip to Chile
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Number 347 * The Devil Dancers*
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• “Fadder Time” would love this!
  from Classic Cartoons
• I can’t figure out where this *Meteor Murphy* strip…
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• Pauline McPerils – 10/23/1966
  from I Love Comix
• Flash Gordon – 12/25/1955
  from I Love Comix
• Basil Wolverton 1909 ~ 1978
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• A Pest in the House
  from ThadBlog
• Golden Age Wonder Woman Crack
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• The paper with the prints. Wednesday Ad Day Looking
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Freckles – 01/13/1945
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• Little Lulu #63 (1953)
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Mickey Mouse, Boxing Champion Part 2
  from Rodney Bowcock’s Comics & Stories
• Scribbly! (No. 1-B)
  from ThadBlog
• Little Nemo 1912-04-21
  from Comic Strip Library News
• For the evening of July 23rd – New Issue of Problems – Red Threat!
  from Ethan Persoff, http://www.ep.tc/
• Golden Age Wonder Woman Crack
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Down in the Cellar
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Pinto in BULL!
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Flippity Pie?
  from Classic Cartoons
• Obscurity of the Day: Doesn’t It Seem Strange
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Freckles – 01/15/1945
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• Boots and her Biddies – 04/1936
  from I Love Comix
• Jeanie manipulation. Thursday story day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Not Just Another Pretty Face: Zero Hero – Starbright
  from Comicrazys
• “doodle-bug” Heads
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Toles & David 1896
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Quiet Evening in 1901
  from Punch in Canada
• Supermouse vs. Cooper Mouse
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Satan Is Waitin’
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Danders’ Search for Love
  from cul de sac
• Coo-Coo Comics #16 cover
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Little Nemo 1912-04-28
  from Comic Strip Library News
• The Pit of Horror!
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• *Number 348* * Pussycat the Bunnycat!*
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• “Whack’s Museum” from Arrgh! #1 (Marvel Comics)
  from The Comic Book Catacombs
• Obscurity of the Day: Of All Things
  from Stripper’s Guide
• *Artwork by* *Bernie Krigstein*
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• *Artwork by* *Reed Crandall*
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• *Artwork by* *Al Williamson & George Evans*
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• *Intended for the unpublished* *EC 3-D #3 ~ 1954*
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• Freckles – 01/16/1945
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• Right on Target. Friday comic book day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Wings of Death!
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Captain Future: The Case of the Black Mailing Shrink
  from Nedor-A-Day
• The batteries that keep on going…
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Meet the Moocher
  from Classic Cartoons
• Freckles – 01/17/1945
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• Herriman Saturday
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Mickey Mouse, Boxing champion part 3
  from Rodney Bowcock’s Comics & Stories
• Life Like That – 10/06/1968
  from I Love Comix
• Boots and her Buddies – 05/1936
  from I Love Comix
• Boots and her Buddies – 05/05/1968
  from I Love Comix
• Home Sweet Home – #67 – 1937
  from I Love Comix
• CAMEL
  from Viñetas
• THE PEPSI-COLA COPS
  from Viñetas
• Maple Leaf Comics
  from Punch in Canada
• Comics: JoJo Shares His Treasures
  from ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive
• Little Nemo 1912-07-21
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Paint a Picture in Crimson
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Berty Bird and the Killer Snake
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Down Hi & Lois Lane Again Wednesday Advertising Strip
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Number 355 The Ghost Patrol reinforces their ectoplasm!
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• “Sooky’s Other Self” (cont.)
  from The Comic Book Catacombs
• “Sooky’s Other Self” from Startling Comics #47 (Nedor)
  from The Comic Book Catacombs
• Obscurity of the Day: Uncle Jim and Tad and Tim
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Uncomfortable Moments
  from Introspective Comics
• Forbidden Worlds #138
  from Uncle Ernie’s Creature Ink
• The Graveyard Wanderer
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• The Unbeliever
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Little Nemo 1912-05-12
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Number 349 * Sparky Watts and the Walking Mummy*
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• “Way Down Yonder in Corn”
  from Classic Cartoons
• Freckles – 01/18/1945
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• Li’l Abner – 11/22/1967
  from I Love Comix
• Boots and her Buddies – 09/1936
  from I Love Comix
• Jim Ivey’s Sunday Comics
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Dinky: The Amateur Dentist – Jim Tyer
  from Comicrazys
• Little Nemo 1912-05-19
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Bang! Bang! Continued
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Bang! Bang!
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• If you try and fail, try and fail again. Sunday leftovers
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• New Strip! The “Hurry Up” New Yorker!
  from The Barnacle Blog
• Scribbly! (No. 1 C & D)
  from ThadBlog
• Lois Lane Annual #1
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Pasha the Persian: Illustrated 1936 – Milt Gross
  from Comicrazys
• Adam the Chimp
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Step into My Empty Shroud
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Woman in Red: Murder in a Riverdale Mansion
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Number 350 John Stanley’s Woody
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• Obscurity of the Day: Annie Oakley
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Li’l Abner – 08/24/1947
  from I Love Comix
• There Oughta be a Law – 9/26 1950’s
  from I Love Comix
• Ketcham if you can! Monday cartoon day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Of Birthdays And Kings
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• Freckles – 01/19/1945
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• All-Winners Comics #1
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Doodles Duck
  from ThadBlog
• Mutt and Jeff
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Little Nemo 1912-05-26
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Snowzer in Bone-Head
  from Nedor-A-Day
• These, My Hands of Doom
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Freckles – 01/20/1945
  from I Love Comix – Freckles and Friends
• Haunted Love!
  from datajunkie
• Anyone for Dennis? Tuesday strip day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Hewlett & Martin’s The 16s
  from Bear Alley
• The Case of the Well Bred Worms (Little Lulu 58)
  from Rodney Bowcock’s Comics & Stories
• Superman’s Girlfriend Lois Lane #13
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• A lurid TRUE CRIME cover from Jack Cole
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Mighty Bear, Vol. 1, No. 1
  from Geeklog Site
• Lair of the Black Widow
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Fighting Yank and the Enemy’s Airplane Factory
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Fighting Yank #12 cover
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Pencil Test is Finished!
  from Mark Kausler’s CatBlog
• Little Nemo 1912-06-02
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Spirit and ________(fill in the predictable blank)
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• *Number 351* * She Kamen through the bedroom window…*
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• Obscurity of the Day: The Kerry Patch Triplets
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Beano Birthday Bash
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Ghost Who Walks… Man Who Never Dies (Re-Post)
  from datajunkie
• Late arrival. Wednesday ad Day As I said, Hank Ketcham…
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• “Jimmy Olsen’s Sweethearts!”
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• J. Millar Watt (1895-1975)
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Some nice work from Leslie Turner
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Little Nemo 1912-06-09
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Comic Books: Jim Tyer’s Funny Animal Comics
  from ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive
• New Strips! The Newlyweds’ Baby and Their Only Child!
  from The Barnacle Blog
• Jim Ivey’s Sunday Comics
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Skinny McGinty – Because Golden Age wasn’t just weird…
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Channel Chuckles – 07/30/1961
  from I Love Comix
• Girl Friends – 09/09/1931
  from I Love Comix
• *Larry Ivie’s Monsters and Heroes* #1-#7 ~ 1967-1970…
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• Life Drawing Sunday 33: C. D. Gibson 1897
  from Filboid Studge
• Blondie – 02/01/1946
  from I Love Comix
• Boots and her Buddies – 07/16/1940
  from I Love Comix
• Boots and her Buddies – 07/17/1940
  from I Love Comix
• Blondie – 12/06/1962
  from I Love Comix
• Sergio Aragones vs. Anthony Edward Stark
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Dippy
  from The Comic Book Catacombs
• Little Nemo 1912-07-07
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Rand Holmes (1942-2002)
  from Punch in Canada
• The Malignant Mummy
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Bill West and Little Fox in The Valley of Vanishing Men!
  from Nedor-A-Day
• A Safari of Death!
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Number 354 The Comic Book Goodguy
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• “The Pigeons of Flame” (cont.)
  from The Comic Book Catacombs
• Rulah, Jungle Goddess and “The Pigeons of Flame”
  from The Comic Book Catacombs
• Boots and her Buddies – 07/18/1940
  from I Love Comix
• Avon’s The Unknown Man (1951)
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Scribbly! (No. 2-A)
  from ThadBlog
• When Golden Age was actually kind of progressive
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• PEPSI AND PETE (1941-1942)
  from Viñetas
• Prince Vollant by Poissant
  from Punch in Canada
• Ketcham lighting In Bottle Monday Cartoon day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Robotman Comics…Good Ol’ Fashioned Comic Fun!
  from Cartoon SNAP
• Little Nemo 1912-07-14
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Let’s Go MAD
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Vengeance of the Tiger Queen
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Fine Arf
  from cul de sac
• Teenage Love Affair
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• “The Corpses That Wouldn’t Stay Dead!” (Part IV)
  from The Comic Book Catacombs
• “The Corpses That Wouldn’t Stay Dead!” (Part III)
  from The Comic Book Catacombs
• “The Corpses That Wouldn’t Stay Dead!” (Part II)
  from The Comic Book Catacombs
• Seaching Hi and Lois Tuesday gagstrip day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Normally I don’t do requests…
  from datajunkie
• Many a Brave… Thursday newpaper story day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Arch Dale (1882-1962)
  from Punch in Canada
• Little Nemo 1912-06-16
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Lardy the Pig in Chicken
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Ragsy in My Pal
  from Nedor-A-Day
• The Devil from the Deep
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Clan Of The Cave Girl
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• Number 352 C’mon, get Happy! Dan Barry was a hotshot
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• Obscurity of the Day: Double Eagle & Company
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Walter Ball (1911-?)
  from Punch in Canada
• The Fright-tinged Airboy/Valkyrie Romance – Part 3
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• *Richard Corben* *Some work from the 1970’s*
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• More J. Millar Watt
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Hear Ye Hear Ye! Friday comic book day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• The Michael Maltese Falcon
  from Classic Cartoons
• Homeless Homer in a Safe Place to Live
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Jetta in “Jet Jaunt”
  from Nedor-A-Day
• The Eerie World of Don Orehek
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• A Kingdom of the Dead
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Stimp Me Saturday leftover day. Wow.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Pop-Gun Pete (cont.)
  from The Comic Book Catacombs
• Pop-Gun Pete, Rose of the West (Fox Comics)
  from The Comic Book Catacombs
• Blood And Roses
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• Long before the *San Diego Trade Show*
  from Golden Age Comic Book Stories
• Comic Con: Mad Magazine
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Herriman Saturday
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Little Nemo 1912-06-30
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Little Nemo 1912-06-23
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Strange Warner Brothers Comic Book Crossovers – Elmer Fudd Meets Henry Bear and Family
  from Cartoon SNAP
• Montmorency
  from Punch in Canada
• Sergio Aragones- The Sword and the Son (Plus-Wakandickery!)
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• The Weird Worlds of Pete Wyma
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• The Shrunken Skull
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• The Black Terror vs. Dr. Ghoul
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Black Terror #10 cover
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Number 353 Typhoon Tyler
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• Sideways Jeanie Sunday leftover day.
  from Those Fabuleous Fifties
• Except
  from Introspective Comics
• “The plot is out there”
  from In This Corner
• The Talking Skull + The Purple Claw Origin
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Flip The Frog Annual: Wild West 1931
  from Comicrazys
• Haunted House on a Hill
  from Monster Without A Cause
• Protective
  from Introspective Comics
• Fast Forward
  from Introspective Comics
• “Your mileage may vary”
  from In This Corner
• The Still-Kinky Airboy/Valkyrie Romance – Part 5.2
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Not as Controversial as the New Yorker Cover…
  from Big Time Attic

Here’s a gorgeous example I scanned of Polly and Her Pals with a Sweethearts and Wives header strip from 1930 by Cliff Sterrett. Sterrett really hit his stride in the late 20’s.

Click the image to view the full strip.

Click here to read more examples of Polly and Her Pals at Barnacle Press.

See more examples of Polly and Her Pals from 1936 at the ASIFA Animation Archive.

See another beautiful example of Polly and Her Pals at Michael Sporn Animation, Inc.’s Splog.

One more example of Polly and Her Pals from Shorpy.

One more example of Polly and Her Pals from John K via Bugpowder, where it no longer seems to reside.

See some more Polly and Her Pals (and Dot and Dash, a header strip for Polly by Sterrett) at Coconino World.

Here are some examples of Polly and Her Pals translated to French, from a French collection of 1929-1930 Polly strips which appears to be in print.

Click here to read more about Cliff Sterrett at lambiek.net.

Click here to read more about Polly and Her Pals at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.

Click here to read more about Cliff Sterrett at stevestiles.com.

Here’s an example I scanned of Polly and Her Pals from 1914 by Cliff Sterrett.

Click the image to view the full strip.

Click here to read more examples of Polly and Her Pals at Barnacle Press.

See more examples of Polly and Her Pals from 1936 at the ASIFA Animation Archive.

See another beautiful example of Polly and Her Pals at Michael Sporn Animation, Inc.’s Splog.

One more example of Polly and Her Pals from Shorpy.

One more example of Polly and Her Pals from John K via Bugpowder, where it no longer seems to reside.

See some more Polly and Her Pals (and Dot and Dash, a header strip for Polly by Sterrett) at Coconino World.

Here are some examples of Polly and Her Pals translated to French, from a French collection of 1929-1930 Polly strips which appears to be in print.

Click here to read more about Cliff Sterrett at lambiek.net.

Click here to read more about Polly and Her Pals at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.

Click here to read more about Cliff Sterrett at stevestiles.com.

Boy have our friends at the fantastic online comic strip library Barnacle Press been on a roll lately! They’ve posted a collection of more of Swinnerton’s Dear Little Katy, which I published examples of recently. They just posted a bunch of examples of the bizarre and mischievous Uncle Mun (which I’ve also published examples of). Last week they posted examples of one of the earliest daily comic strips, The Hallroom Boys. Best of all, they put up an enormous library of one of the funniest and most visually inventive comic strips of all time, Cliff Sterrett’s Polly and Her Pals. Don’t miss this one. It is a travesty that the few reprint books there have been of this strip are all out of print.

Here’s an example I scanned of Polly and Her Pals by Cliff Sterrett, from 1921. I’ll have a couple more of these this week.

Click the image to view the full strip.

Click here to read more examples of Polly and Her Pals at Barnacle Press.

See more examples of Polly and Her Pals from 1936 at the ASIFA Animation Archive.

See another beautiful example of Polly and Her Pals at Michael Sporn Animation, Inc.’s Splog.

One more example of Polly and Her Pals from Shorpy.

One more example of Polly and Her Pals from John K via Bugpowder, where it no longer seems to reside.

See some more Polly and Her Pals (and Dot and Dash, a header strip for Polly by Sterrett) at Coconino World.

Here are some examples of Polly and Her Pals translated to French, from a French collection of 1929-1930 Polly strips which appears to be in print.

Click here to read more about Cliff Sterrett at lambiek.net.

Click here to read more about Polly and Her Pals at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.

Click here to read more about Cliff Sterrett at stevestiles.com.