The Original Biff

Sunday Clippy Day.

Biff Baker was a typical forties Sunday only adventure strip about a football player who falls from on adventure into the other. Signed "by Henry Lee" but was actually written by NEA comics editor Ernest ‘East’ Lynn and drawn by Hank Schlensker. Schlensker had been Roy Crane's assistant on Buzz Sawyer and went on to draw it again from 1947. Hwere are the first and last weeks. It seems the storyline was ended unceremoniously in the last week of january 1946 after which it was replaced by the stylistically similar but much more action oriented detective strip Vic Flint. 

Ladies Day.

Sunday Dizzy Day. 

It's Me Dilly! waas a delightful comic strip from the late fifties and early sixties on a familiar subject. The slightly rique adventures of a pretty single woman  in the big city. Dilly may not have been as dumb as her predessors Dumb Dora, My Friend Irma and Jeanie or her successor Soozi, but she wasn't always very bright either. She was thought up by Mel Casson when they were the chairmen of the Cartoonists Society in the late fifties. Cassosn was the writer and Andriola was supposed to be the artist - which meant that he let his Kerry Drake assistant Sururi Gumen do the art on Dilly as well. In fact, he may have done all of it here, while Kerry Drake might have had some actual work done by Andriola (or another assistant). The art is the star here, but the gags are not as bad as they could have been.