It’s Doll Man Monday!
Usually I show you Doll Man covers, but today I thought it would be fun to open one of Doll Man’s comics (Feature Comics # 118) and show you a splash page. Ready to play our Sigmund Freud game? First note the bald man with the gun to the side. He parts the curtain with his long fingers. What Freudian stuff does all that represent Arf Lover? I don’t know either. But, this fiendishly smiling dude discovers a bizarre scene. Little Doll Man at a circus freak side show. Little Doll Man and the big Strong Man are half naked. The both hold long rods with two balls. The Big Strong Man is perched on top of the “World’s Mightiest Mite”. Where are we going now with this, Arf Lover? Yeah, I don’t have a clue, either. But, darn it all, I wouldn’t be trying to find all this Freudian stuff if the Doll Man Logo, well hung from chains, didn’t perfectly frame the spread-legged Strong Man’s leather belt and well-defined package! The Man and Woman in the foreground look on in frozen shock as do we dear Arf Lover. Have a happy Doll Man Monday!
— C. Yoe (in the funny papers)
Where was Frederick Wertham when this stuff was being published? Those headlights comics seem harmless next to all these Freudian symbols. Yikes!
The groin is so nicely framed… it’s picture-perfect! I’m gonna use it as my wall paper! Gimme mo’ Yo!
wertham’s first name ended with a “c”. drop the “k” for Kook!