Still More Sunday Afternoon Culture Corner with Basil Wolverton

From Whiz Comics #93

More Sunday Afternoon Culture Corner with Basil Wolverton

From Whiz Comics 141.

Frankenstein meets Siegel and Shuster

Like Siegal and Shuster, Dick Briefer had been been in the comic book industry since the mid-Thirties and all three were major players throughout the Golden Age.

Sunday Afternoon Culture Corner with Basil Wolverton

From Whiz Comics, 1946

Driving Mippyville

Within this vale




















Of toil and sin,

















Your head grows bald,

















But not your chin.

Use Burma Shave

Frankenstein meets Frankenstein

Dick Briefer always had fun playing with the line between the merely dark and the truly grotesque. In the Mippyville stories, he normally pulled back before things got quite as potentially gruesome as this 1946 tale.

Briefer also enjoyed parodying popular culture figures from Bing Crosby to Inner Sanctum host Raymond. Boris Karloff fit right in.

The early art of Walt Kelly -- "the Adventures of Peter Wheat" part two

As mentioned earlier, before creating Pogo and coining the immortal words "We have met the enemy, and he is us" Walt Kelly was a gifted comic book writer and artist working mainly for Dell. One of the more unexpectedly charming works of that period was a series of promotional comics for a now forgotten bakery.





















You can find pretty much the whole run at the Digital Comics Museum.