Very few cartoonists from any era had better brushwork than Dan Gordon. This first story is from Giggle Comics No. 71, May-June 1950. Gordon animated everything from Popeye for the Fleischer Studios to Huckleberry Hound for Hanna-Barbera. Most of his comic book work was for ACG (American Comics Group), where his funny animals (and funny humans) bounce around in a three-dimensional, rubbery world.
Next comes a Duke and the Dope story from ever-reliable Ken Hultgren - although it looks like someone else had a hand in this one. That giant gorilla is drawn a bit more loose and dynamic than is typical for the artist. Ken Hultgren was one of the Disney artists that animated the monster in the great sci-fi film, Forbidden Planet! Isn't that cool?
Finally, one of my favorite unsung cartoonists: Ray Thompson - who drew the stories of the Fleer Dubble Bubble Kids for the namesake bubble gum.
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WOW! What a great kid comic! It's got characters shooting from cannons, torture devices, guns, dynamite, everything! Those were the days.
KW: And don't forget an elephant doing an impression of Jimmy Durante!
Nice to see this side of Hultgren. Thanks for sharing :)
Daniel: This is some of my favorite Hultgren (however much of a part he played - pencils, inks, or both). That gorilla is great!
A couple of great stories, Mykal, neither of which I'd seen.
I notice neither story was signed, so maybe you're right about another hand in the Hultgren pages.
Great gorilla, though!
Pappy: I love to see Gordon in non-Superkatt stories now and then. I bet there aren't too many of us who remember Frank Buck!
That gorilla is awesome!
Wow -- Dan Gordon comics make any day better…thanks for posting! …and thanks for the kind words about SpongeBob, too !
Sherm: Oh, tarter sauce, what a great cartoon!
Actually, I think this is what real Hultgren looks like, and what we're used to is the inks of his regular inker, Al Hubbard. Hubbard make the work much slicker.
SangorShop: If this is the real Hultgren, I like! Thanks for the info. You've given me food for thought.
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