Pinocchio, The Comic Strip

The year began with Disney still milking Snow White's teats for all they were worth, and comes to an end with Disney starting to tap into Pinocchio's mapley goodness, from print to airwaves. The Pinocchio comic strip premiered on Christmas Eve, as seen above. The strip below is from New Year's Eve.



You can find the full series at:
http://mydelineatedlife.blogspot.com/2009/11/porters-pinocchio_7510.html
http://mydelineatedlife.blogspot.com/2009/11/porters-pinocchio_7069.html
http://mydelineatedlife.blogspot.com/2009/11/porters-pinocchio_14.html
http://mydelineatedlife.blogspot.com/2009/11/porters-pinocchio.html
It's the full movie serialized. Disney didn't seem to be so worried about giving away the store...

It's Time For Saraka

Remember when I said I would put up scans of the entire Inbad the Ailer pamphlet if I got one? Well, I got one. I'll assemble these into a movie (well, a glorified slideshow) at some point.
Merry Xmas.

Superman Sunday comic strip, December 10 (and 17), 1939

Superman began a Sunday comic strip November 5, 1939.Here are two of the strips (click on them for a larger version).




Find more at:
http://www.seans4sale.com/sm_sunday/Superman_Comic_Strips_Main.htm

Charlie McCarthy at the NYWF, September 1939

The other examples from
http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/2008/03/obscurity-of-day-mortimer-and-charlie.html





Dream of Venus was an exhibit designed (?) by Salvador Dali. I have a book on it, but haven't read it yet. It involved live nude girls. Huzzah. You can see some at archive.org:
http://www.archive.org/details/Medicusc1939_2

Charlie McCarthy on his way to the NYWF

Here's a comic strip from July 11, 1939 (which should have been a Tuesday), featuring famous ventriloquist dummy Charlie McCarthy and Candice Bergen's father Edgar Bergen on their way to the New York World's Fair.



You can find others in the storyline at

http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/2008/03/obscurity-of-day-mortimer-and-charlie.html

(and cannibalized, like here, at
http://www.worldsfaircommunity.org/index.php?showtopic=7889
)

I'll throw up one of the later ones at the appropriate time, too.

Comics, March 12, 1939

Here are the comics from March 12, 1939, as they appeared in the Dayton Daily News. It's not quite complete (one page claims 20 pages of comics; we've only got 12 here, and three of those are ads), but it's most of it (if they're counting drawn ads as comics).

We've got Captain Easy by Roy Crane, Flash Gordon by Alex Raymond, Don Winslow of the Navy by Lieut. Comdr. F. V. Martinek, U.S.N.R., Bos'n Hal, Sea Scout by Leut. Comdr. F. V. Martinek, U.S.N.R. (DDN seems to have misspelled the abbreviation for Lieutenant in Sea Scout...), Boots by Martin, Dan Dunn Secret perative by Norman Marsh, Li'l Abner by Al Capp, an ad for Beech-Nut gum, the Three Musketeers by someone whose name I can't read but who might well be J. Carroll Mansfield, Highlights of History by J. Carroll Mansfield, an ad for dinnerware form May & Company (see Mary Livingston), Mickey Finn by Lank Leonard, Toonerville Folks by Fontaine Fox, and an ad for some kind of viewmaster type deal from Cocomalt called "Novel-Viewer".

Boots is incredibly stilted and unfunny, but you get to see her upper thigh...

You can buy this section (not from me) at
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320491023453