The formula for Feg Murray’s Seein’ Stars was typical of newspaper cartoon features: Large
drawings accompanied by a short caption, usually some trivial or curious
factoid. Here, in two examples from 1938 recycled as comic book filler, Feg
Murray captures Karloff’s Monster in excellent likenesses, with copy addressing
the endlessly repeated tidbit about “Frankenstein” being the creator’s name,
not The Monster’s, and some rather creative math adding up Karloff’s time in
the makeup chair.
It was not uncommon for newspaper strips and features to be
re-used in comic books. In fact, comic books began as collections of newspaper
strips, soon to be augmented with and eventually replaced by original material.
Beginning in 1937, Murray’s Seein’ Stars
was recycled along with other King Features syndicated material in Ace
Comics and Magic Comics, published by the David McKay Publications out of
Philadelphia.
Click the thumbnails to see the whole feature.
No comments:
Post a Comment