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| I'd like to know what the effect of this cover was on publicity and sales.
Joe Kubert gets an editing credit on the cover and a script credit on 'Saggy and Figgs' - a 'Bringing up Father parody' but no Kubert art appears
An oddity. |
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| The Russian on the front cover - Protiv Dobooshenya - is a quote from Lenin and translates as 'Question Everything' or perhaps in a revolutionary context - 'Resist Everything' or more prosaically, 'Rise Up!' Lenin used it in challenge to the bourgeoisie but the quote also implies the concept of continuous struggle – the revolution never has an end-point as such but daily struggle against oppression brings us closer and closer to a virtuous world.
It comes from his writings of 1903-04 when Lenin was writing in support of the first revolutionary uprising. How odd to find this on the cover of a Three Stooges comic from 1954 during the McCarthyite era! Were Kubert and Maurer closet supporters of those blacklisted under McCarthy – perhaps sending a message of solidarity? |
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| I wonder if the name "Benedict Bogus" was inspired by Hollywood producer Benedict Bogeaus? In the comic he's not a movie producer and he doesn't resemble the real Bogeaus at all, so it could just be that the writer saw the name "Benedict Bogeaus" somewhere & took it as an inspiration (or it could be pure coincidence). I can't find any connection between Bogeaus and Norm Maurer or Moe Howard. |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | August 1954 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Bimonthly |
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| Featuring | The Three Stooges |
| Credits | Pencils: Norman Maurer (signed);? (photo) | Inks: Norman Maurer (signed);? (photo) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: The Three Stooges [Moe Howard; Shemp Howard; Larry Fine] |
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| Comic Story | Fluke Spook (9 pages) |
| Featuring | The Three Stooges |
| Credits | Script: Norman Maurer (signed) | Pencils: Norman Maurer (signed) | Inks: Norman Maurer (signed) | Job #: 354 |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: The Three Stooges [Moe Howard; Shemp Howard; Larry Fine] |
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| Comic Story | Bringin' Up Mamma (6 pages) |
| Featuring | Saggy and Figgs |
| Credits | Script: Norman Maurer (credited); Joe Kubert (credited) | Pencils: Norman Maurer [as George McMaurer] (signed) | Inks: Norman Maurer [as George McMaurer] (signed) | Job #: 454 |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Satire-parody | Characters: Saggie; Figgs |
| Notes | Parody of George McManus' "Bringing Up Father". |
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| Comic Story | Bogus Takes a Bride (9 pages) |
| Featuring | The Three Stooges |
| Credits | Script: Norman Maurer (signed) | Pencils: Norman Maurer (signed) | Inks: Norman Maurer (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: The Three Stooges [Moe Howard; Shemp Howard; Larry Fine]; Benedict Bogus |
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| Synopsis | The Stooges go to work at a barbershop. |
| Featuring | The Three Stooges |
| Credits | Script: Norman Maurer (signed) | Pencils: Norman Maurer (signed) | Inks: Norman Maurer (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: The Three Stooges [Moe Howard; Shemp Howard; Larry Fine] |
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| Featuring | The Three Stooges |
| Credits | Script: Norman Maurer (signed) | Pencils: Norman Maurer (signed) | Inks: Norman Maurer (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: The Three Stooges [Moe Howard; Shemp Howard; Larry Fine] |
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