Saturday, October 23, 2010

Same Story, Different Cover: Papa loves Moomba / Mama loves Moomba

Tales to Astonish #11/Chamber of Chills #18

L: Tales to Astonish #23 (September 1961), art by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers
R: Chamber of Chills #25 (November 1976), reprinting "Moomba" from Tales to Astonish #23, art by Don Perlin
(Click picture to Moombasize)



2 comments:

Dave said...

Nice reference.

Reg said...

I bloody love you for beating me to almost every Moomba joke possible except the best one.

The organisers of Melbourne's Moomba festival were told by the local indiginous leaders that the word "Moomba" meant "Get together and have fun"

What it actually means in the local language is...how can I put this delicately...arse, bum, poo-hole, the exit door.

It is possibly the greatest practical joke of all time that Moomba is still called Moomba.