Bully Says: Comics Oughta Be Fun!: Today in Comics History, July 4, 1939: I hope you didn't expect me to have a joke for this one, because I love Lou Gehrig

Monday, July 04, 2022

Today in Comics History, July 4, 1939: I hope you didn't expect me to have a joke for this one, because I love Lou Gehrig

'Fans, for the past two weeks, you’ve been reading about a bad break. Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. I have been in ballparks for 17 years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans.'

from "Scoops to Remember" in Real Fact Comics #5 (November 1946), pencils and inks by George Roussos

'When you look around, wouldn’t you consider it a privilege to associate yourself with such fine-looking men as are standing in uniform in this ballpark today? Sure, I’m lucky. Who wouldn’t consider it an honor to have known Jacob Ruppert? Also, the builder of baseball’s greatest empire, Ed Barrow? To have spent six years with that wonderful little fellow, Miller Huggins? Then to have spent the next nine years with that outstanding leader, that smart student of psychology, the best manager in baseball today, Joe McCarthy? Sure, I’m lucky.'

from "Iron Man Lou Gehrig" in Real Heroes #6 (Parents' Magazine Press, September 1942), pencils and inks by Chad Grothkopf

'When the New York Giants, a team you would give your right arm to beat, and vice versa, sends you a gift – that’s something. When everybody down to the groundskeepers and those boys in white coats remember you with trophies – that’s something. When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter – that’s something. When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body – it’s a blessing. When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed – that’s the finest I know.'

'So I close in saying that I might have been given a bad break, but I’ve got an awful lot to live for. Thank you.'

from "Lou Gehrig: Baseball's Iron Horse" in It Really Happened #5 (Pines, October 1946), pencils and inks by Sam Cooper (?)

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