codystarbuck mentioned that too!

Kirby worked in his shop, before Timely; but, not after he hit is big with Captain America.  However, Kirby would have been aware of what Eisner was doing in The Spirit; everyone was.

Assignment #6...

Oh, there's quite a few genres we haven't hit only six entries in. The plan is to hit true crime next, then more superheroes, and then Western. I hadn't considered jungle stories. Any specific recommendations?

ummm... Jungle Comics from Fiction House in 1940?

Body Builders usually make bad commandos....



or bad commando movies....



Bingo & Glum-Kind of a "For want of a nail..." kind of thing. Nightingales can't sing because the glowworm can't glow, because another nightingale stole all his kerosene, so he could stay up late reading ghost stories. The art is nice but the story seems to be trying to tap several rhymes and fairytales and ends up kind of disjointed. Larz Bourne's art isn't anything spectacular; but it is good, average stuff. Bourne would go on to a career in animation, primarily as a writer.

Chauncy Chirp & Johnny Jay-Chauncy is tired of the same food and convinces Johnny to fly with him to the cheese tree. They load up on Vitamin B worms, strap on some balloons (they're birds, but it's a long journey). They hit a storm and are warned about poison ivy around the tree and a cat on the prowl. They get caught by the cat but trick it into the poison ivy and escape.

Not the most memorable story out there; but pleasant enough. Again, nice, average art. Dave Tendlar was another animator, having worked for the Fleischers, Terrytoons and Hanna-Barbera.

Straight Shooting Princess-Now we are at the real draw for this book: George Carlson. The Straight Shooting Princess follows a filigree pond lily to see a 10-cent pond with the latest goldfish. the princess gets ruffied with a swoon-em perfume, by Merry Ike, who steals the lily's filigree fan, to sell it to the filigree king or an old witch. he hops in his sub and is on his way. The lily and the Princess chase after. The Princess scares off the witch, Merry Ike steals the fan from the lily and takes it to the witch. The lily stumbles into Filigree Castle and meets the king and mentions the fan. The king wants it to break the spell on his son. The witch wants to shake down the king to get the fan. The princess shoots the fan out of Merry Ike's hand and a bird gets it; but she shoots it out of his beak and the king catches it, says the magic word and it is transformed into his son, who marries the princess.

Cute little tale, though Carlson did better. He would put visual puns into his stories and often used rhyming lines, though not as much of that here. Carlson is best knwon as the illustrator of the dust jacket for the original release of Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind.

Pronto Pete-quick gag. Not the funniest thing ever.

Pepsi, the Pepsi-Cola cop-ad for Pepsi, the choice of a new generation; but, it wasn't born yet, so they were trailing Coca-Cola (still are). Decent one page comic, especially for a commercial!



Seminole Sam-......um...........product of it's time....kind of a Looney Tunes flavor, with only the supporting character instead of the star. Thank goodness it is only one page of racism.

Aunty Spry-Aunty is baking cakes for a bake sale for veterans (Yay!) She is drawing them in and some crooks want to steal the dough. They kidnap Mrs Dinsmore, the organizer and one of the hoods does a Big Bad Wolf to imitate her. One of the two kids hanging around Aunty spots them and gets coshed. The other eventually wonders about where he is. Aunty goes to turn in the money and spots the men's shoes sticking out from under Mrs Dinsmore's dress and the crook takes it on the lam. Aunty and the kids set up a detour sign and run them into a lake and rescue the funds.

Fun little tale and Aunty Spry makes for a great little character.

Hortense, the Lovable Brat-Little girl visits grandpa and loves machines. he lets her mow the grass and the mower takes her to meet other machines. She gets turned into one, see they work hard, gets woken up with some water.

Decent little fairy tale story, Little Nemo-style plot. Cute art from Jack Ehret

Pie Face Prince of Pretzelburg-more Carlson-Prince wins a cane at a carnival, it breaks, finds a ransom note, all kinds of misadventures. This is pure Carlson fun, with lots of visual puns, fun characters and a light-hearted tale that made this comic a favorite in the era.

Tapper-dancing puppet, weak gag one-pager.

Cute enough, with Carlson being the centerpiece. More fun for younger kids, I would suspect, though Carlson appealed to the older ones and the parents. Good value for a dime.

Sheesh, I could barely make any sense out of the first story!
"We can't sing any more because the glow worm won't glitter!"
"But, I don't understand?"
"He means we can't read our music in the dark, without the glitter of the nightingale!"
Wait, do you need the glow worm, or the nightingale? Hold on, you're a nightingale, right? What the heck is the "glitter of the nightingale?" Is that some ceremonial title bestowed upon the glow worm? Is this supposed to be night time, because I'm not getting that from the coloring? Why do you have to follow the shadow of the Crooked Man's arm, instead of just going in the direction he's pointing? And what was the point of that whole sequence? Just to squeeze in another children's rhyme character? And glow worm's problem is that he's too cold to glow, right? So swallowing batteries might make him artificially glow, but that's not solving his main problem of being cold, is it? And there at the end:
"Hey, it's getting dark, and I'll be late getting home!"
So this wasn't nighttime after all, despite the flashlight and starlit sky (in one panel)?
Incoherent, padded, with only the faintest attempt at anything humorous. What a dud.