"Pre-war quality at pre-war prices"

This was 1947 and people were already getting, if not nostalgic, then at least a little wistful for the good old days.

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.