Real blood extracted from the member of the rock band KISS was mixed into the ink used to print the KISS Marvel comic book!

Jean Vander Pyl, the voice of Wilma and Pebbles Flintstone, gave birth on February 22, 2026 … the same day Wilma gave birth on TV to Pebbles!

At a meeting with General Mills bigwigs, copywriter Jack Keil broke into a maniacal fit, flailing his arms and screaming, “I’m cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs! I’m cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!” His crazed performance became the schtick for Sonny, the Cocoa Puffs spokesbird! Weird but cuckoo!

Jay Ward got Bullwinkle’s name from a Berkeley, Cal., used car salesman named Clarence Bullwinkle! Ward’s co-worker recalled, “Jay thought Bullwinkle’s name was hilarious!”

Parisian cartoonist Jean Veber’s (1864-1928) work provoked an official outcry, but he refused to cave in. Verber fearlessly went on to create his most famous piece, King Edward VII’s face on the rear end of Britannia! Weird Butt True!

A Toon Temple exists outside Tokyo where Buddhists offer prayers to toons and cartoonists!

Wacky Wednesday or Thirsty Thursday???

Betty Boop creator Grim Natwick, who passed the entrance exam to the same art academy that rejected Adolf Hitler, often wondered if world history would have been different if Hitler had been accepted instead of him!

Is it June already? Time for another Bat-Tune!

The theme from the Batman TV series was such a big hit that it not only spawned a hit single and a hit album, but a Bat-load of covers by various would-be hit-makers who wanted to jump on the Bat-wagon.

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One of these was Al Hirt.

Alois Maxwell Hirt (aka “Sugar Lips”) was a hugely popular trumpet player who also boasted the unique ability to blow his horn right through an ordinary facial tissue. (But not through Kleenex brand!) Let’s not forget the fact that Al played the theme to The Green Hornet TV series (an adaptation of The Flight of the Bumblebee). So there’s your comics connection right there!

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Al Hirt’s version of the Batman theme kicks Bat-ass! Now I know what that ordinary facial tissue felt like when it met the blast from Al’s trumpet.

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The name of the team who produced the early musical madcaps Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies? Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising. Harman-Ising! Get it?!