Saturday Leftover Day.
This weekend Stan Lee launched a new fragrance at the Philidelphia Wizard World Convention. I wonder how many people there knew that the Philidelphia Enquirer was one of a few papers running his newspaper strip Wlly Lumpkin in 1959/1961. In honor of the smelly occasion, here are some more of the lesser seen dailies and Sundays of that charming strip. If only I could find someone with a complete run, than I am sure I could convince someone to do a complete collection. maybe even include a bottle of freshener with it?
First , I noted with interest that Stan Lee , true to his " Stan Bragg " reputation somehow took first billing on this strip ~ When , I have noted how , in newspaper strips when there is a collaboration the artist seems to , essentially always , get top billing , not the writer (maybe barring - some , anyway - " serious "/continuity strips ) . - Or , to the extent that this is true is that more a 21st-Century thing ?????????
ReplyDeleteRecently I bought the Dark Horse JET SCOTT volumes and noted that Jerry Robinson was top-billed on the book - But , the original strips did top-bill the wrter (Sheldon Stark ? They're not here with me .) !
...Second - since this strip ran 1959-1961 , you wouldn't have the January 26 , 1960 strip - would you ????????? :-) ??? ( I haven't checked every strip you posted , perhaps you already did . ) I
ReplyDelete'll let you guess WHY I might be interested in that date ( F9r any other strip you might have , too...)
...Oh , BTW , you are aware of the colorized reprints of this that appeared in Marvel's MARVEL AGE " in-house fanzine/self-promotional comic-oid " of the Eighties and Nineties , right ???????
ReplyDeleteRight now , they seem to look better here :-) !!!!!!!!!!!
The reprints in Marvel Age seem to be part of the reason this strip is badly thought if. Badly colored and not the best gags. In fact, the Sunday gags are the best. The strip ran for 16 months, not the year mostly reported. The first few months (most of which I have shown here - so I must have done the one you ask for - except if it is a Sunday because those didn't start until later in the run). As for the credits, those were a continuation of the Stan and Dan credits they had on their My Friend Irma books. Writer first wasn't too uncommon, especially if the writer was a selling point (such as Sheldn Stark at that time). And in this case Lee was the one who sold the thing, when DeCarlo had not been able to sell a strip on his own, so he sort of deserved it. Watch out for hindsight, insignificant facts may seem bigger than they were.
ReplyDelete...January 26 , 1960 is my birthday ! :-)
ReplyDeleteFrom researching it once pre-Internet...I do recall it was a Wednesday so...........( Are you familiar with that - You read lots of English-language pop-culture , after all !!! - Monday's child is full of grace/Tuesday's - fair of face " , etc. , traditional rhyme ????? (IE , I am not a Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man-level " remember every date " person .
BELIEVE me !!!!!!! :-)
Too bad it wasn't a Sunday, because I have more Sundays here than dailies. If uou look for the tag 'me', you'll find all the Sundays I could find for my own birthday the 15th of March 1959. And I have just scanned in a whole paper's worth on new ones (most of which will replace black and white placeholders).
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