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| This cover is certainly a classic in Getting Away with It. |
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| It took me a long while to get the joke. To save others the time and brain cells, there is a saying "She is built like a brick sh*thouse." The Commodores had a hit song in 1977 called "Brick House" that was a cleaned-up reference to the same expression.
And what are the two builders building on the cover? A brick (out)house. Crash is right, pretty clever those guys at "Eh!" (too bad this humour didn't translate to the interior stories, which are quite lame). |
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| PS: this is featured in the book "The Greatest Comic Book Covers of All Time" By Brent Frankenhoff. |
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| Dig the editorial advisory on page 1 -- "Every effort is made to insure that these comic magazines contain only the highest quality in wholesome entertainment".
"Hey! Murray!! Can we actually RUN dis kinda cover gag?" -- "Commission a whole new cover gag? With WHAT money?! EH! It's too much effort. Just run it! Besides, t*ts sell comics, am I right?"
And "get a load" of that BACK cover gag... It may be even *more* "out there"... cellophane diapers, eeeww! |
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| You would have to send me back there. The real killer is on (our) page 35.
Look up the definition on this site.
https://www.definition-of.com
I am sure that that definition well predates the '80's. Can't be a co-incidence. And no, I'm not posting a direct link on this site. You are on your own. |
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| I'm going to say... doubtful. Even I'd never seen it used exactly that way, although I'd heard or seen 4 of the 6 similar-sounding variants given. Most of those are non-words with no other meaning in English -- all but 2, the other one of which has a real-word definition very close to its slang meaning. Slang is terrible to try to pin down because the spelling is completely up to the user's discretion, with no 'correct' or 'incorrect'.
But then there's the fact that the gag text itself mentions the color green (although it'd help if the actual page were in color, it's true). I'm not going to even attempt to read the writer's mind on this one, but I believe you're off the mark with that interpretation. Oh, and the BACK page is the outside back of the comic (not the "Last" page here, since it's not part of the actual comic, but a tacked-on 'credits page'). Or page 36 (it's a 36-page comic). I usually use the following progression: Cover, ifc (inside front cover), Page 1 ... Page 32, ibc (inside back cover), back cover. Some comic publishers actually numbered their pages when printed, but there's no consensus on whether the first page of newsprint is numbered "1" or "3"... some counted the cover and ifc as 2 pages, and some didn't. Here they like to count the all 4 cover pages as "Pages", but then, anything that's a separate image is a "PAGE" here: Double-page splash, index card, uploader's egoboo page (okay we love you), regardless of whether it's part of the actual comic or not. No insult intended, Titansfan. I can see why you like that image! |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | June 1954 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Bimonthly |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | Be Hacky - Go Nutz (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Possible art identification by Ger Apeldoorn. |
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| Comic Story | A Million Dollar Gate! (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Credits per Nick Caputo, July 2019. |
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| Comic Story | Taxi, Lady? (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Ottenheimer credits per Nick Caputo (July 2019), Ger Apeldoorn suggests possibly Hy Fleischman. |
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| Comic Story | Eh-!?! (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Ottenheimer credits per Nick Caputo (July 2019), Ger Apeldoorn suggests possibly Hy Fleischman. |
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| Text Story | Herman's Hazard (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Possible art identification by Ger Apeldoorn. |
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| Comic Story | The Ride of Paul Revere! (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Letters Page | Eh! Mail (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | Histerical News! (2 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Ger Apeldoorn suggests that the same artist or artists who did Eh? and Taxi, Lady did this story. |
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| Comic Story | What's My Crime? (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Credits per Nick Caputo, July 2019. |
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| Comic Story | Don't Be Aloof. .. (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Art identification by Ger Apeldoorn. |
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| Comic Story | New! New! New! Clearview Cellophane Diapers... (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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