Presenting Lena the Hyena, winner of the “Ugliest Girl in the World” contest held in Al Capp’s Li’l Abner comic strip.

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The judges were Salvador Dali, Frank Sinatra, and Capp. Lena came to life under the pen of artist Basil “Bean Beak” Wolverton!

FACT! After years of bitter rejection from comic strip syndicates, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster’s Superman artwork was cut up and rearranged for the new medium of comic books….the rest is history!

Did anyone notice how hard we work here at Arf Headquarters to bring you rare, unusual and often mediocre records that you’ve probably never heard before? Well, I think I speak for everyone here when I say we’ve topped ourselves this Tuesday! It’s not a song about a comic strip character or a comic book title. It’s about one specific issue! Now we’re talking obscurities. But if you were alive during that halcyon Age known as Silver, you may have read “The Red-Headed Beatle of 1000 BC” in Jimmy Olsen #79.

This story has everything! Superman! Jimmy Olsen time traveling! Stupid wigs! The name “Ringo” on the cover! (In reference to Ringo Starr, not to The Ringo Kid). Not a dream. Not a hoax. Not an imaginary story. Jimmy travels back to the ancient past to bring Beatlesque music to the world a thousand years before its time.

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Well, leave it to The Makers to commemorate this event with a song entitled, “Red-Headed Beatle of 1000 BC.” Just click on the bar below…

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Next Tuesday, a wedding song.

Doll Man detractors call him a big drip! Doll Man admirers say he’s a Christ-figure! The debate rages on…what do YOU think?!

Famed psychotherapist Dr. Will Miller’s analysis of Homer Simpson’s attraction to donuts: “When Homer says ‘mmm’ to a donut, he’s really saying ‘mmmm’ to sex!”

Dick Tracy creator Chester Gould was buried with a Dick Tracy crime-stopper’s badge and a hand-painted Dick Tracy tie!

Fathered by a cartoonist who went by his initals, LAF, Eggbert was the weirdest toon ever conceived…A TALKING FETUS! LAF, I’ve learned, was Lester A. Freidman-anybody know how to find him? I’d love to track him down if he’s still around!

Did you know that at Yoe! Studio we did a couple of years worth of Bazooka Joe comics (and fortunes!)? Well, we did. I love dem Bazooka Joe comics! And Kirk is right, I have a section on the brilliant Wesley Morse, Joe’s original artist, in my new book Clean Cartoonists’ Dirty Drawings. Morse is one of my fave cartoonists, I also drew a strip that’s a tribute to him and about Tijuana Bibles in the new Hotwire anthology. (See you at the Hotwire signing at Rocketship tonight?) Morse did lots of hard-core Tijuana Bibles, but also did some just nice sexy girlie cartooning and nudes that you’ll see in Clean Cartoonists’ Dirty Drawings. I thought I’d check out to see what You Tube had on Joe and found this nifty commercial. The comics in the background aren’t the ones we did but, I think, they’re by the terrific team that proceeded us of Jay Lynch and Howard Cruse.

Click here to order Clean Cartoonists’ Dirty Drawings.

The world’s widest read comic strip isn’t Peanuts or Dilbert-It’s Bubble Gum’s Bazooka Joe! Ironically, Joe’s strip is also the world’s tiniest!

Blondie’s maiden name was Boopadoop!