Last month over at THOIA we saw some silly slapstick adventures involving a rather incompetant Sherlock Holmes type character (HERE!), --and now it's time to do it again HERE at AEET with an even more idiotic dick! Enter Rick O'Shea, the most brain dead detective to ever never solve a mystery, as he attempts to apprehend the outrageous Dick Tracy-esque criminal mastermind, --Firetop! Featuring freakishly madcap Munson Paddock art that perfectly matches the bat shit bonkers writing, the only thing here truly keeping all of this insanity grounded is Firetop's lovely moll doll partner, Crepe Suzette, (who seems to have slinked her way on over into our story from a slightly more serious syndicated Sunday strip!) Very funny stuff, and despite the final panel blurb promising more Rick 'n Firetop fun, it doesn't appear that either one ever made another comic book appearance other than this, sadly enough... from the Comic Magazine Distributors 1946 one-shot issue of Slapstick Comics #1.
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For some reason this reminds me of the much later Cool McCool!
The art is super dense and super wild and the panels are really interesting to pour over. There's a lack of backgrounds which is good because the figures are so wild it would just obscure them.
I don't know about the ending, though, that's really unsatisfying but I guess that's comedy!
I will admit it, this one made me laugh out loud.
Rick O'Shea is a defective detective, even The Three Stooges made better detectives than this simpleton sleuth.
From a quick glance online, it looks like Munson Paddock added wild characters/crazy monsters to his stories from time to time, similar to what Lou Cameron did. I can only wonder if Paddock did any horror comic work and what his wild horrors would look like.
Thanks for the humor from this clueless detective, Karswell.
Wow, I love Runson Paddock. I always thought Mars Mason was so visually inventive, and now this! The figure cartooning is just exceptional. I rarely think anything rises to the level of Dick Breifer, but this stuff does. I'm not wild about the way in which he used technical pens and rulers for the setting elements here, but as Mr. Barnes says, that helps minimize whatever competition these extraneous details might have given the kooks in the foreground. So while it's visually jarring to me, I can't really knock it.
"Wow, I love Runson Paddock."
I love him so much I typoed his name. Sorry Munson!
>I don't know about the ending, though, that's really unsatisfying
Well it appears this was intended to be an ongoing story, maybe someday someone will finish it.
>wonder if Paddock did any horror comic work and what his wild horrors would look like.
It appears he did most of his work for Fox and early era DC. I'll research it a bit more and see what I can come up with.
>I love Runson Paddock. I always thought Mars Mason was so visually inventive
You have one on me Mr C, all my years reading and collecting comics and I don't think I've ever even heard of Runson or Munson --or anyone named Paddock for that matter!
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