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Tuesday, October 25, 2025

COMIC BOOK COMPULSIVE — Joe College #2

Here’s Joe College #2, second verse, same as the first, which isn’t so bad given that means stories by Bob Powell, Dick Briefer and Frank Frazetta. I suppose you can look at this as inconsequential fluff but I prefer to put in the context of the times, the interesting post WWII period when people were fairly uncertain about how exactly to live, think and feel in the new normal of a world without a world war. College seems to have been on their minds, if movies like An Apartment For Peggy and Mr. Belvedere Goes To College are any indication. Having watched those movies I can tell you that the odd fashions on display in these comics weren’t the fantastic invention of a cartoonist but how people (well, some people anyway) actually looked and dressed.

 


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