Teen-age Animal Funnies

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Billy D Bunny has already written a great tribute to anthro cartoonist and animator Dan Gordon. I remembered seeing some comics he did that were a "funny animal" version of the popular Archie comics in the 1940's. Guess what? I found some of the covers -with names like Tommy Cat, Heppity Hare,and Kitty Katt,how could these teens go wrong?



A clearer image of this cover




I forgot to mention their dog friend is a "square". He might have been the anthro version of Archie's Jughead!

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  1. Billy D BunnyAugust 15, 2020 at 5:28 PM

    Awesome! I never heard of these, but this is pure Dan Gordon for sure!

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  2. Billy D BunnyAugust 15, 2020 at 5:40 PM

    Also, this ran for two years, 1947 - 49. Rock n Roll was just around the corner, but this sure looks like a lot of the Rock variety of comics. Crooners were about to give way to the New Guard!

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    1. Foxy FlapperAugust 15, 2020 at 7:37 PM

      Yes!I'm glad you found out what years they were released-I was pretty sure around the 1940's era

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    2. Billy D BunnyAugust 15, 2020 at 8:45 PM

      All you have to do is enter the comic and the year in search, the data base on comics now is unreal. I have learned more in the past couple of years off the net than a lifetime of reading books has taught me. This particular comic came up on a dozen sites instantly. It only ran for two years, I guess the intended audience was not into funny animal comics. Growing up the ones I saw I would never read, Heckle and Jeckle aside, but this stuff between 1940 and 1958 or so was pure gold. Comics had a bad name when I was a kid and I was fifteen before I discovered that comics were 'OK'! Now that I have some perspective I am astonished at how good some of the artists were, Frank Frazetta was one of them. Odd thinking about him doing funny animals but he did and those are outstanding.

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    3. Billy D BunnyAugust 15, 2020 at 8:48 PM

      Oh, and you will notice the one with the dog in the tub was sold in Australia, price 9 p. America marches on!

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    4. Foxy FlapperAugust 17, 2020 at 2:19 PM

      I'm surprised at the amount of info on the web too-you can look anything up now!

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    5. Billy D BunnyAugust 17, 2020 at 5:13 PM

      And growing by the second. Soon everything written down not in private hands will be on the net. This is the beginning of a new order of civilization.

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  3. AndibiAugust 16, 2020 at 7:33 PM

    Very cool -- I've never heard of this title. The idea has a lot of potential -- It might be time to revisit it!

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