Stupid Comics

Ogden Whitney created the lollipop-sucking superhero Fat Fury, so we already know his sense of humor was slightly bent. He was perfect to do the artwork for the strange Silver Age anthology of Forbidden Worlds. Issue 60 has the time-bending tale of The Old And The New starting off in May 1953 as Dick and Millie Voyce get lost in a snowstorm on their way home through New England. They find a house where a roaring soiree is going on and everyone is celebrating New Year's 1957, but they make it out of there just before a plane crashes into it. The Voyces try to prove the accident to a neighbor but all they find at the crash site is an old abandoned house, so they decide to just keep the paranormal encounter to themselves. Cut ahead New Year's Eve 1956 and they get invited to a party at a familiar looking place just as another blizzard hits them. Realizing that they are living a rerun of their prior experience, Dick and Millie trick the party goers to head out into the freezing sno...

Frank Frazetta's first work published by a major company was in the one-shot Tally-Ho Comics from Baily Publishing Co. in 1944. Along with artist John Giunta who also worked on The Deacon, their combined efforts went into one of the most off the wall characters of the Golden Age, the Snowman. He started out as an idol worshipped by Eskimos in the Arctic, although for some reason the Inuit gave their creation the typical hand-me-down clothes that your average suburban snowman would wear. One day, a crew from the inviting Desolation Island made up of the worst outcasts of humanity marooned the evilest one of them all on the shores near Snowman's village. The villain is referred to as Fang, and although described as being a human, he had green skin and a hugely exposed skull for a head, plus he had the added bonus of being able to summon up any kind of creature he wanted. Fang conjured up a sea serpent to drown his former shipmates, and then an army of primates to attack the Eskim...

Aviation Press only had a single comic series that lasted for a year starting in 1944 titled Contact Comics. With WWII still going on, fighter pilots were sensationalized in over-the-top tales of derring-do, and Contact regularly had characters with bold codenames like Golden Eagle and Black Venus, but the one that takes the cake is the flamboyant Flamingo drawn by John Giunta. At a time when comic heroes were naming themselves after ferocious birds of prey, Colonel Moore Williams was slapped with the brand of Flamingo. Officially, Col. Williams was an agent of the American military that was given the identity of Flamingo in order to carry out missions that can be free of any red tape to avoid any pesky international knots. Flamingo had a fully decked out superhero getup, however no part of his uniform had the traditional pink of the bird he's named after and instead was gold with a red cape, gloves, domino mask, and crimson briefs possibly to distract villains with his well-toned ...