Fun covers and Pages

Just some humor stuff I came across to put a smile on someone's face.

The above Inferior Five cover was the first time I ran across the team.  It was a reprint issue.





DC had Krypto the Super Dog, Streaky the Super Cat, Comet the Super Horse, Beppo the Super Monkey - all Superman related characters. And Super Turtle, which was a half page funny strip not related to Superman.

I wonder if this series was an inspiration for all the Hotel Transylvania movies?

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Super-Hip
Publication information
Publisher DC Comics
First appearance Adventures of Bob Hope #95 (October-November 1965)
Created by Arnold Drake (writer) Bob Oksner (artist)

In-story information
Alter ego Tadwallader Jutefruce
Abilities Flight, shape-changing, super-strength, super-loud guitar that can be used as a mind control weapon
Super-Hip is a fictional character that appeared in comic books published by DC Comics. He first appeared in The Adventures of Bob Hope #95 (October-November 1965), in a story written by Arnold Drake and drawn by Bob Oksner.[1]

Publication history

Super-Hip appeared regularly in The Adventures of Bob Hope from issue #95 until issue #107, where he only appears in the last two panels. He does not appear in what would be the last two issues, #108 and #109, of the series.[2]
Super-Hip's sole non-Bob Hope appearance in the Silver Age was in Doom Patrol vol. 1, #104 (June 1966), as one of several super-hero guests (although the only "humor title" guest) at the wedding of Elasti-Girl and Mento. The story was scripted by Arnold Drake.
In the modern era, Super-Hip makes a brief appearance in Batman: The Brave and the Bold #15 (March 2010), fighting the Mad Mod alongside Batman and Brother Power, The Geek.
He appeared in Doom Patrol #20 (March 2011). According to the events of the issue (wherein he grants succor to a recently deported Doom Patrol), he is an old friend of Cliff Steele, a.k.a. Robotman.

Fictional character biography
Tadwallader Jutefruce (a spooneristic pun on "fruit juice") is the crew cut and bow tie-clad 'nephew' of Bob Hope and a student at Benedict Arnold High School,[dead link][3] an educational facility whose "Faculty of Fear" is made up entirely of Universal Horror-style monsters, including principal Dr. Van Pyre, German-accented science teacher Prof. Heinrich von Wolfmann, and coach Franklin Stein.
Whenever Tad loses his temper (usually at the instigation of a stupid prank by fellow students billionaire biker bully Badger Goldliver and his simple-minded stooge Doltish), the uptight mild-mannered boy genius turns green, starts to spin like a tornado and transforms into Super-Hip.
The long-haired Super-Hip's outfit resembles a 1960s Carnaby Street Mod a la Austin Powers, complete with ruffled shirt, velvet jacket, and Chelsea boots with winged ankles that, similar to the Sub-Mariner, allow him to fly. He also magically acquires an electric guitar which causes whoever hears it to dance uncontrollably whenever he plays rock and roll, and he can change his form into virtually anything, limited only by his often surreal imagination.
Tad has no memory of his time as the obnoxious and egotistical "Sultan of Swingers", and the only ones who know of his secret identity are his Uncle Bob and his highly educated talking dog, Harvard-Harvard.
Super-Hip's battle-cry is "Down with/Blech to Lawrence Welk!", as hearing the television bandleader's schmaltzy music acts like kryptonite on him.

The Adventures of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis is the title of a celebrity comic book published by DC Comics and featuring the popular team of comedians Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. The series ran for forty issues from 1952 through 1957,[1] at which time the title was renamed The Adventures of Jerry Lewis due to the real life breakup of the team.[2]

The series continued as a Jerry Lewis solo title for issues #41-124.[3] The new series featured Lewis in a variety of humorous situations. Infrequent guest stars included Batman,[4] Bob Hope, Lex Luthor, Superman,[5] the Flash.[6] and Wonder Woman,[7] Notable artists who worked on the series include Bob Oksner and Neal Adams.[8]
In 1964, Jerry's genius nephew Renfrew joined the book, and a year later, the cast included a fairy-tale witch housekeeper named Witch Kraft.[9]
In 2007, Bob Oksner stated that he had had a greater role in writing the comic than previously acknowledged, stating that the comic's editor, Larry Nadle, had persuaded Oksner to allow his writing credit (and thus payment) to be transferred to "another cartoonist" who Nadle described as being in debt to DC; in reality, Nadle was keeping the money. When this was discovered, after Nadle's death in 1963, Oksner was nearly fired.[10]

That was an X-Man parody in the above Inferior Cover, Beast, Angel and Iceman.

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And in honor of Swamp Thing, Man-Thing and the Heap [the first swamp monster in comics]. That's Bruce Timm's art on the monster

And the first appearance of the first Bat-Girl, who appeared until 1965 or so. Then Barbara Gordon took it over as Batgirl.

BTW, that's Vice President Spiro Agnew's head between Jerry and Superman. He was Nixon's VP who had to resign when corruption charges were brought against him.

Tarzan was a hot TV show at this time. Ron Ely as Tarzan.
Tarzan is a series that aired on NBC from 1966 to 1968. The series portrayed Tarzan (played by Ron Ely) as a well-educated character who had grown tired of civilization, and returned to the jungle where he had been raised.[1] It was filmed in Brazil. The production later relocated to Mexico. This series was set in one of the newly independent African countries of the time.

This series retained many of the trappings of the film series, included the "Tarzan yell" and Cheeta, but excluded Jane as part of the "new look" for the fabled apeman that executive producer Sy Weintraub had introduced in previous motion pictures starring Gordon Scott, Jock Mahoney, and Mike Henry. CBS aired repeat episodes of the program during the summer of 1969.

Hair Styles of the Ages

Before Rugrats was a top TV show on Nickelodeon there was Sugar and Spike.

Publication history

The series was launched in 1956 along with another Sheldon Mayer creation The Three Mouseketeers.[1] The Sugar & Spike series had 98 issues published in the United States through 1971,[2][3] when due to Mayer's failing eyesight that limited his drawing ability, the series was canceled.[4] Later, after cataract surgery restored his eyesight, Mayer returned to writing and drawing Sugar and Spike stories, continuing to do so until his death in 1991; these stories appeared in overseas markets[4] and only a few have been reprinted in the United States. The American reprints appeared in the digest sized comics series The Best of DC #29, 41, 47, 58, 65, and 68.[5] In 1992, Sugar and Spike #99 was published as part of the DC Silver Age Classics series;[6][7] this featured two previously unpublished stories by Mayer. DC Comics writer and executive Paul Levitz has described Sugar and Spike as being "Mayer's most charming and enduring creation".[8] Novelist and Sandman creator Neil Gaiman has stated "Sheldon Mayer's Sugar and Spike series...is the most charming thing I've ever seen in comics."[9]

DC attempted to license Sugar and Spike as a syndicated newspaper strip but was unsuccessful.[10] Sales on the "Sugar and Spike" issues of The Best of DC were strong enough that DC announced plans for a new ongoing series featuring the characters. The project was never launched for unknown reasons.[11]

Mayer had an agreement with DC that no one else could write Sugar and Spike.[12] However, they have occasionally made cameo appearances in modern comic books. They are rescued by the underwater heroine Dolphin in Showcase #100.[13] They appear as theme park characters in Justice League Spectacular;[14] as being baby-sat by Cassie Sandsmark in Wonder Woman #113;[15] and as teenagers on the crowded cover of Legionnaires #43.[16] They have a cameo on a video screen in Planet Krypton in Kingdom Come #1.[17] The two made speaking cameo appearances in the first two pages of The All-New Batman: The Brave and the Bold #4, but they were not named.[18] In an issue of the digital-first series Adventures of Superman, the children are babysat by Superman in his secret identity as reporter Clark Kent.[19]
Featured characters

The comic featured the misadventures of two toddlers named Sugar Plumm and Cecil "Spike" Wilson, who possessed the ability to communicate via "baby talk" with each other and to other infants, but not to adults.[12][20] It shared ideas concerning baby-talk with P. L. Travers' Mary Poppins novel; one notable feature was that all babies spoke the same baby-talk "language", allowing Sugar and Spike to speak with not only human infants, but baby animals as well. Another popular recurring feature was paper dolls of the two leads, with outfits based on designs submitted by readers. Mayer used his own children, Merrily and Lanney, as inspiration for the strip.[21]

In addition to the toddlers, their parents and adults, who were only seen from the waist down (Bill and Barbara Plumm; Harvey and Peg Wilson), recurring characters included:

Little Arthur, a "big boy" too old for baby-talk. A spoiled brat and a ruffian, Arthur torments Sugar and Spike, but is invariably outwitted by them in the end. He is introduced in issue #17 (August 1958).[22]
Sugar's Uncle Charley, a bachelor and police officer who is a stereotypical "fun uncle", often playing with the kids and giving them gifts when he comes to visit.
Bernie the Brain, a child genius who, despite being the same age as Sugar and Spike, is an accomplished scientist and inventor who speaks and understands "grown-up talk". When he first encounters Sugar and Spike,[23] he requires a translating device of his own invention to teach him their baby-talk having already progressed past that stage, intellectually. He enjoys the chance to be a normal kid with Sugar and Spike, while the pair loves playing with Bernie's various inventions. The two often seek out Bernie when they encounter something they do not understand, particularly something involving grown-up behavior. Bernie made a cameo in Crisis on Infinite Earths #9 watching Clark Kent on the WGBS television news report on the Crisis and he appears to be very concerned about what is going on.[24]


Never knew that he continued the series overseas after issue 98. I've read a few of these books and they have a lot of charm to them.

Don't know much about this character.