WEIRD WEDNESDAY - The True (?!) Story Of "THE TALKING DOG"!

I am

The

APOCOLYTE

and it is time for another 

Today's story comes from Charlton's UNUSUAL TALES #17, 1959.

When I first read this short comic story I was taken aback a bit by it's oddness, then by the strange content and imagery in the final panels, and then, finally, by it's bizarre claim that the story is true!

Well, of course I had to look into that claim deeper. 

What I found?

I will share that after the story...

the weird story of

"THE TALKING DOG!"

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I forgot to mention,

 the comic scans were cleaned up and

 augmented for your pleasure, courtesy of

-Digitally Restored Comics-

-click to enlarge-

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Okay.

Soooo, this can't be real, right?

Well, don't ask me.

Instead, why don't you ask Kurwenal?

Kurwenal, the "Talking Dog"

First of all, yes, it's true, apparently there were some real dogs that were allegedly trained to communicate. They didn't communicate vocally, so the comics word balloons are slightly misleading. They communicated (allegedly) by spelling out words through barking or tapping their feet in an alpha-numeric code. For example, the word cab, C-A-B, would be (as "spoken" by Kurwenal) bark bark bark - bark- bark bark! Get it? Sure you do!

You can read for yourself some of the weird claims about these weird dogs by clicking on these weird links! 

http://www.mindpowernews.com/NaziDogs.htm

http://thequirkyglobe.blogspot.com/2011/05/nazis-were-going-to-use-talking-dogs.html

http://www.examiner.com/article/nazis-taught-dogs-to-speak-says-new-book-slideshow

I did some more research and discovered there was so much more that this incredible and weird doggie said during it's life, and below I have recreated some of these astonishing and weird utterances!

(comic panels reproduced here in glorious APOCO-Vision!)

WOW!

Simply amazing, isn't it?

The things that pass through a dog's mind!

That's just plain WEIRD!

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Now, you think about it for a minute...

If you can think of something for Kurwenal to say, 

let me know in a comment below!

...and in the meantime,

click on the link here

to see a cool Walt Kelly POGO post over at 

BLACK 'N' WHITE AND RED ALL OVER!

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THE MISFITS Origin Story - Wally Wood and Ralph Reese

I am

THE APOCOLYTE

 and I am pleased to bring you more of the finest classic comic stories and art found on the web!

HEROES, INC. #1 was published in 1969 by legendary comics creator Wallace "Wally" Wood. Among the stories it contained was the first of two stories featuring an odd group of characters Wood called THE MISFITS. Without revealing too much of the details, the group of unlikely heroes consisted of a shapely female, an elfin alien, and a brutish hulk, ...er, or was that a hulkish brute?

Well, you'll see for yourself. Although the story and characters are pure Wood at it's best, Wood was assisted on the artwork by Ralph Reese, and to what degree, that is best understood by Mr. Reese himself, as the artwork retains more of the classic Wood style than the detailed finishes of Reese's later solo work. In any case, it is a wonderful and delightful example of Wood sci-fi work from this era.

"THE MISFITS"

- Origin Story-

- Digitally Restored Comic Art -

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The story of Wally Wood's THE MISFITS continues in HEROES, INC. #2,

and that adventure is posted at my other comics blog

BLACK 'N' WHITE AND RED ALL OVER!

 To see it just click here or on the image below!

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Well, I hope you enjoyed today's post!

I know I did!

See you next time!