I'M BACK WITH MORE HARVEY KURTZMAN

Hey, where have you been?

I've been looking for you, so I could show you some more great Harvey Kurtzman comics!

First we will take a look at some very early Kurtzman, three Flatfoot Burns stories from POLICE COMICS #24, 25, and 26 from 1943-44.

After that we have one of his early EC stories, from 1950, prior to him getting his own titles to edit (Two-Fisted Tales, etc.).

As far as the first two stories go, there was a little thing going on called WWII, and so to keep things in context we need to remember that. The first story deals with air raid sirens and turning out your lights to prevent enemy bombers from seeing your lights and making you a target.
In the second story, Victory Gardens are the main subject, and it seems a bit odd to us today when we realize the whole country was doing everything  it could to contribute to the war effort.
 Would we find such unity in today's America?

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(Originally published in POLICE COMICS #24, 1943)

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(Originally published in POLICE COMICS #25, 1943)

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(Originally published in POLICE COMICS #26, 1944)

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Now we'll take a look at one of Harvey Kurtzman's early EC Comics stories. This one is from CRIME SUSPENSTORIES #1, 1950. A tension-filled murder-mystery, Kurtzman style.

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COSMO CAT - Treasure Island

Here's another cool COSMO CAT story drawn by Ellis Chambers (you see, it's E-Z for you to see the E.C. in the lower left splash, see? Ci!).

Yeeesh!

From COSMO CAT #3, 1946.
Continuing from previous post.

For much more information, please see earlier post, and Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine!

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(And for yet another fantastic COSMO CAT story from the same issue, click here for

THE BLOG AT THE END OF TIME!)

THE ORIGIN OF COSMO CAT

COSMO CAT was a Funny Animal comic first published by Fox Comics in 1946.

It was created by legendary comic book artist/publisher L. B. Cole.

The name appearing on the strips was Pat Adams, although over at Pappy's Golden Age Comic Blogzine it was revealed that Pat Adams was a fictitious name. You can go to Pappy's Blogzine and read some more Cosmo Cat here, and also here, where it is revealed that Cosmo Cats main artist was Ellis Holly Chambers, and on many stories' splash pages one can spot the initials EC.

Cosmo Cat appears perfectly suited for very young comic readers, as the writing is roughly on a first or second grade level. In fact, I don't think I've ever seen stories so simple. The art by Chambers and others features characters with bold tapered outlines, and the comics were colored in the simplest red, blue, yellow, and green of the 40's. All in all, these are sweet and appealing little treasures!

In 1945, the world as we know it changed forever with the invention of the atomic bomb.

In the real world, it caused the death and suffering of hundreds of thousands of people.

In the comic book world, however, atomic radiation gave you SUPER POWERS!

Is it any wonder then why so many people prefer comic books over reality?

Weighing in at two pages, from COSMO CAT #3, 1946,

here is the incredible ORIGIN OF COSMO CAT!

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I have posted another great COSMO CAT story from this same issue over at

THE BLOG AT THE END OF TIME! Click here now to see it!