Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Loona the Jungle Girl!
Atlas spoofs themselves and their own Lorna jungle comics with 3 pages of Stan Lee silliness highlighted by beautiful Bill Everett art, sight gags, guffaws, and of course the occasional, unfortunate racial stereotype of the era. I wish this was a few pages longer, I really luva the way Bill draws women and animals. From the June 1956 issue of Riot #6.
Boy that is nice work from Everett. Stan's script is breeze-y and has got some good gags (especially playing with the caption vs text) but Everett is the star here.
ReplyDeletePage 2, last panel is funny just as an image alone, and the elephant on page 3 is beautiful. What a wonderful job.
Loona is, of course, a gorgeous Everett pin-up. Nice on Mr. Karswell!
Some nice good girl art in this comic, that might be the reason the jungle girl comics were so popular back then, for readers and artists alike.
ReplyDelete>Page 2, last panel is funny just as an image alone
ReplyDeleteIt's like the brilliance of old animated cartoons that remember you can actually be a cartoon and have situations that clearly kill characters dead, but then they come right back with no need for reason, nor even a thought to question it.
"Seven comes eleven" got me singin' Candyman by the Grateful Dead now
>might be the reason the jungle girl comics were so popular back then
ReplyDeleteI'd go so far as to say that's EXACTLY the reason they were so popular
I think I dig jungle girl parodies better than the jungle girl originals they satire. The middle panel of the middle page is wonderful; the end cracked me up. I haven't read so many of the Marvel humor mags (just Not Brand Ecch, Crazy), and a couple stories from Spoof), and I'm not sure I ever realized there even was an Atlas version from way back at the beginning. From what I've seen, I think it holds its own against the other books that were, ah, ...inspired... by MAD.
ReplyDeleteThanks for tuning me in, man.
Check the Crazy tag over at THOIA Mr C, I've posted a few Atlas Crazy tales... in fact, I think it just might be time for another. Stay tombed...
ReplyDeleteFunny how many forgotten female characters there are.
ReplyDeleteHollywood would probably make a female hero and call it Tarzan before they resurrected Sheena.