You've seen today's post title, and nope, you haven't made a mistake and accidentally landed on The Horrors of it All page. You are most definitely at AEET and about'a read a truly bizarre Boody Rogers BABE story called "The Human Skin Factory." And yes, it's exactly what you think it's about, but in a funny sort of way! In what can only be described as one of the weirdest variations on the popular Li'L Abner / Snuffy Smith hillbilly comic, Boody really pulled out all the stops with some of these Babe tales, --see she's a cute, and oddly athletic Daisy Mae type cuntry gal, only surrounded by a satirical array of goofball freaks 'n geeks (ie merman, centaurs, murderous mountain men etc.) Today we'll see how she fairs against a bonkers Joe Ghoul 'n Scraper scheme. From the April - May 1950 issue of Babe, Darling of the Hills #11, --and be sure to let us know if this one made YOUR goose flesh crawl too!
4 comments:
The art and crazy story could have been a Powerhouse Pepper tale courtesy of Basil Wolverton. Wolverton's humor comics were as zany as his horror was memorable.
"If infection doesn't set in you should be ready to work again in a year or so!"
Shudder.
This was excellent and gross. The creepy, toothy, cheese-colored hand rakes they use for scrapers were enough to raise a crop over here. Definitely the most off-putting special surgical utensils I've seen since Dead Ringers.
Boody is the best!
This is a real high concept plot! I wonder if all the characters she's not scared of are real callbacks to earlier stories.
There's a lot of fun to be had in the art, from the tools to the really great expressions on the doctors as they go from glee to outright frustration that they just can not get this lady to react.
I love the gorilla in the next panel after the reveal. I mean, he's locked in this cage, obviously dangerous, but he is just released and then left out on his own ... oh well, time for the bizarre spider!
I would expect to see the plot of this in an EC comic. Never in a "funny book". That's what really makes it weird.
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