Professor Harbinger

Many Gold Key series in the mid 60s had a 4 or 6 page second feature. Space Family Robinson had Captain Venture, Man from UNCLE had Jet Dream, Magnus had The Aliens, and so forth. Dr Solar shared space with Professr Harbinger, a guy who creeped me out but I think I learned a thing or 2 about science along the way. Here is the specimen from issue #9, drawn by Mel Crawford.

BONUS: Here's the back page pinup from that issue-------

Edward Scissorhand's 2nd cousin

from Modern Mechanix, July 1937

Four Color # 106 TILLIE THE TOILER

Tillie the Toiler was a newspaper comic strip created by cartoonist Russ Westover. King Features Syndicate carried this strip from 1921 to 1959. Here is the cover and a few example panels from Four Color #106. I guess this was supposed to be a soap opera, not a comedy... for the life of me can't see how this lasted for darn near 40 years.

I was only interested in this because my father named 2 cats Tilly for some reason. Maybe HE liked the comic strip.

DELL FOUR COLOR #104 Fairy Tale Parade

This issue from 1946 is a delight. Painted front & back covers by Arthur E. Jameson, as well as mst of the interior work. Here are some samples: (as usual, click twice for full size & download)

 Back cover is suitable for framing!

A few sample pages:

This , from a 10 page story,is credited to Walt Kelly. 

The inside front cover is by Dan Noonan 

A call from the bean counter

"Hello,  Design & Engineering, Weederwhack speaking. Yes....what? What do you mean we have to use Falcon parts...oh crap!"

The 60s Jet Set

Vegas used to be SO glamorous , not like today.

Flash Gordon paper models

It's a rainy day here, so let's do some activities...

click once or twice for full size, print to heavy paper and have fun!

These are from Dell's Four COlor # 204, December 1948. Art by Paul Norris. Here is the back cover.

In a Price Valiant type style, there were only a few panels with word balloons.

Here are some more FLASH GORDON paper models!!

Sinko De Mayo

2 ads from 1951

Femme Fatales of Ernest Chiriaka

Ernest Chiriaka was born Anastassios Kyriakakos  to Greek immigrant parents in New York City in 1913.  
Starting in 1952 with Esquire, he produced some fine pinup and paperback book covers.

1961