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Sparky Watts
Date | Number: 1 | Lang: English (en)
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Thank you narfstar, for the upload. This book is a 38-page epic WWII adventure where Sparky Watts tries to end the war by going to Germany and abducting Adolf Hitler. Sparky Watts had a ongoing continuity, and this extended adventure took place between the short episodes printed in BIG SHOT #38 and 39. Boody Rogers was a true Golden Age original, right up there with Basil Wolverton and Bud Sagendorf.
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Fortunately this comic has Skyman and The Face. I didn't get the Sparky Watts strip - ugly figures doing silly things. Is it supposed to be a funny? I gave up half way through and made for the back up stories. I'm not sure why there is a claim to greatness for the artist. I had a look at other SW stories and came away with the same opinion.
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Boody Rogers. New to me really. https:www.linesonpaper.com/about_boody.html This is one of a number of newspaper strips, that make no logical sense but inhabited a world of their creator own. Basil Wolverton, Joe Palooka, lil Abner. Hugely popular in their time, they don't appeal much today when read in retrospect. Sort of newspaper 'Monty Python' for their time. The tributes here demonstrate the comic strip category that Boody Rogers inhabits. [ Fantagraphics.com: "Bizarre, wacky, weird, wild and sexy - these are just a few of the adjectives that describe the cartooning of Boody Rogers. Before there were underground comics, Boody Rogers dug deep into breaking the rules; before their was low-brow art, Boody created art that hit hard below the brow. Rogers' pen and ink raucousness was wrapped into great stories, beautifully drawn art, and hilarious gags. Fans of Boody Rogers Golden age comic book stories span generations of cartoonists, from Robert Williams to Art Spiegelman to Johnny Ryan. Spiegelman printed Rogerss work in RAW magazine and recently it also appeared in the anthology book Art Out of Time: Unknown Comic Visionaries (Abrams). Here at last is a single book devoted to this cult comics hero, collecting Rogers's best Sparky Watts, Babe and Dudley stories, as well as much more."] Just one more of the ever-expanding glories of CB+
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Amazing how different readers, and comics creators can have very different tastes that sometimes overlap. I've always LOVED Sparky Watts for the zany comedy (from out of the clear blue sky). How did he think of those ideas? And have the nerve to draw them? I don't love the artwork, but it's passable combined with the zany comedy. I absolutely HATE the look of Basil Wolverton's comics. But I do think some of his stories and characters are very inventive and funny. While other characters and stories of his are dreadfully dull and boring, and seem absolutely worthless to me. I absolutely HATE Robert Crumb's art, as well as that of most of the US 1970s "Underground Comics". I also don't think those are clever or funny. But, then, having been raised basically by grandparents who were raised in The 1800s in Europe, and were very conservative, and backwards-looking as it was, I'm more a creature of the late 1800s and early 1900s (which is probably why I got along so well with Carl Barks) and love "old-fashioned humour". I love Sparky's wild dream scenes, best - with scaly funny-looking monsters. Yet, I don't care at all for monster-filled adventure stories with Human characters. I guess it takes all kinds to make The World.
  
Additional Information
 
NameSparky Watts 1 | Published
PublicationPrice: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68
 
Cover1 page
PencilsBoody Rogers
InksBoody Rogers
 
Publisher advertisementNo Title (1 page)
FeatureEastern Color
Letterstypeset
NotesAd for 6 comics magazines.
 
StorySparky Watts (39 pages)
CharactersSparky Watts; Doc Static; Treetop; General Dash; Dotty Dash (introduction); Sue Watts; Yoo Hoo; Slap Happy; Hermann Goering; Adolf Hitler double; Winston Churchill; Lady Teacake (introduction)
Script
PencilsBoody Rogers
InksBoody Rogers
LettersBoody Rogers
First LineSparky, I've finally completed the new batch...
 
ActivityGuess Who (1 page)
GenreNon-fiction; Biography
CharactersElias Howe
 
StoryJibby Jones (1 page)
GenreHumor
Script
PencilsVin Sullivan
InksVin Sullivan
LettersVin Sullivan
First LineBoy-o-boy!
 
StoryThe Skyman (11 pages)
GenreSuperhero
Script
PencilsOgden Whitney (signed)
InksOgden Whitney (signed)
First LineWhen the heavens open up and rain pours down...
NotesThe first page is also numbered "30", maybe a production code.
 
CartoonEchoes of an Era (1 page)
GenreNon-fiction
CharactersMary Kies
PencilsJack Manning (signed)
InksJack Manning (signed)
 
CartoonNo Title (1 page)
FeatureKid Comics
Script
PencilsRay McGill
InksRay McGill
LettersRay McGill
NotesSix cartoons. The page is numbered "6", maybe a production code.
 
StoryThe Face (10 pages)
PencilsMart Bailey
InksMart Bailey
First LineTony Trent, the popular radio news commentator...
NotesThe first page is also numbered "25", maybe a production code.
 
Publisher advertisementNo Title (1 page)
FeatureCaptain Devildog
PencilsOgden Whitney
InksOgden Whitney
 
Publisher advertisementNo Title
FeatureFamous Funnies
Letterstypeset
PencilsBen Thompson (signed)
InksBen Thompson (signed)
NotesFeaturing the cover of Famous Funnies #97 (Eastern Color, 1934 series).
 
Publisher advertisementNo Title
FeatureReg'lar Fellers Heroic Comics
Letterstypeset
 
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