Tuesday, September 16, 2014

You could have one more page of Batman adventures, or you could have this

So, this is what passed for "humor" in the Golden Age:


"Kafloppos" from Batman #33 (February-March 1946), pencils and inks by Jack Callahan

Oh, the hilarity.

Please write to DC Comics and demand they bring back a murderous, vengeful Curly Kafloppo in the New 52! You know you want it!

2 comments:

Daniel Frank said...

1) The joke is that the guy doesn't like oddities or mismatches but is fine dating a lady who towers over him.

2) Kafloppos also appears in lieu of an extra page of Superman in Superman #43. The joke in that one is the guy is usually cool as a cucumber but somehow gets flop sweat when carving turkey.

3) At least with the text stories no one ever read, you know it's there because of postal regulations. I don't know why comix always insisted on having 2-3 pages of usually unfunny filler pages.

Blam said...

Not pictured at freak show: Tubby, who ironically slimmed down in his teens and is under Little Lulu's tuchis.