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| What a strange, awkward name for a comic. Many of the stories are also strange and awkward. They read like layouts for motion picture cartoons. I wonder why one is signed "New York." |
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| There are several stories in this book drawn by virtual amateurs (very poor quality artwork). The artist that signed "New York" was Ellis "Holly" Chambers, who used a whole bunch of different aliases, worked for many different small, indie comic book publishers, and was known to be unreliable in delivering the agreed upon finished work on time, due to his hard drug addiction. He worked a lot for Fox, Robert Farrell's group of publishing companies, Charlton, Orbit-Wanted, and a little bit for tiny publishers like Jubilee, and Victory during the 1940s. Amazingly, he continued to work a bit in comic books even until the middle of The 1950s, working for Dell/Western. This "Puggy Panda" story was the only time he signed himself as "New York". |
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| Thanks David, for uploading this rare Golden Age comic book. I've been looking for it for many years. It has a very obscure, little-known Holly Chambers story, as well as a puzzle page drawn by him. |
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| I have to disagree about the art here -- it isn't great, but check out some Charltons from 1946-50, or the Fox romance comics. Now those have some definite "adolescents doodling in their school notebooks" quality art. This comic's artists aren't that bad.
The "Wicky Wacky" story, despite confusing "murder" and "kidnaping" in the very first panel, actually has a few mildly amusing bits of dialogue, courtesy of the two self-admitted losers who are the protagonists. |
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| Robb,
What did Chambers ever do for Dell/Western?!? |
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| Offhand I can remember Holly Chambers drew several filler short Woody Woodpecker stories in 1954 and 1955, after disappearing from comics work in 1952-53. He drew nothing for Disney, WB, or MGM that I can remember. Also, I remember that he did many filler stories for Ned Pines' Standard funny animal comics titles in 1950 and'51, after Fox closed down most new production. Goofy Gander, Buster Bunny, really the whole gamut of Pines' Funny Animal titles. |
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| Hmmm. I've looked through Woody Woodpecker for those years & don't see anything that resembles Chambers' work. If you have any specific issues to look at or concrete leads, it would be greatly appreciated... |
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