If you want to see how good Sekowsky could be this is a good example.
I never thought I'd ever be championing Sekowsky - I was first introduced to him via the justice League and I always felt he was ill suited to that book.
By Muffaroo
The funniest thing about this adaptation is the decision to conceal all the famous people in it--so Bing Crosby wears heavy horn-rimmed glasses, and so on. Were they all added afterward? Sekowsky got Shirley Jones just about right, so I'm wondering if his renditions of Robinson and Crosby and Chevalier and so on were all more faithful before someone decided they couldn't afford famous people in the comic book.
Anyway, my timing is perfect. I was just watching the movie and saw that there was a Four Color version and came here to find it. Thanks for the chuckle!
Additional Information
Name
1194 - Pepe | Published
Publication
Price: 0.15 USD | Pages: 36
Notes
Copies exist with ads on the inside front cover and back cover.
Adapted from the 1960 movie "Pepe".
No month is given on the cover or in the indicia. Based on the copyright dates of this issue and others in the series released around the same time, one can determine that this issue was published with other Four Color issues bearing a "May-July 1961" cover date.
On sale date is Library of Congress copyright record publication date.
Cover
Pepe / 1 page
Pencils
?; ? (photograph)
Inks
?; ? (photograph)
Letters
typeset
Genre
Humor
Characters
Pepe
Foreword/Afterword
Pepe (1 page)
Letters
typeset
Genre
Humor
Script
Gaylord Du Bois
Notes
Inside front cover. Script submitted November 8, 1960. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).
This sequence replaced by house ad in some copies (see sequence 2).
Publisher advertisement
No Title (1 page)
Letters
typeset
First Line
Who is your favorite character?
Notes
House ad for "The Wonderful New Dell Comics Contest."
This sequence replaced by introduction sequence in some copies (see sequence 1).
Comic Story
Pepe (31.5 pages)
Genre
Humor
Script
Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils
Mike Sekowsky
Inks
Mike Peppe
Notes
Script submitted on October 17, 1960. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).
There may be both 32 and 31.5 page versions of this sequence.
Comic Story
Don Juan (1 page)
Script
Gaylord Du Bois
Notes
Inside back cover. Script submitted on November 8, 1960. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).
This sequence replaced by photomontage in some copies (see sequence 5).
Illustration
Cantinflas as Pepe (1 page)
Pencils
? (photographs)
Inks
? (photographs)
Letters
typeset
Genre
Non-fiction
Notes
This sequence replaced by comic story in some copies (see sequence 4).
Comic Story
Parade of Stars (1 page)
Script
Gaylord Du Bois
Notes
Back cover. Script submitted on November 8, 1960. Script credit provided by David Porta from "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title / compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985).
This sequence replaced by ad in some copies (see sequence 7).
Advertisement
Twinkles Cereal (1 page)
Letters
typeset
First Line
Boys and girls! Start your day the "storybook way" with Twinkles
Notes
This sequence replaced by comic story in some copies (see sequence 6).
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