Paper Doll Month, Extra!!: Lady, That's My Paper Doll

Not many people remember that I was actually in a Disney movie with Hayley Mills...


Panels from That Darn Bull! one-shot (February 1966), pencils and inks by Dan Spiegle
That's okay, because my good pal Sleestak, master of all he surveys over at his blog Lady, That's My Skull, knows all about my long movie career with his favorite actress, including my brief cameo appearance in Disney's European romance-adventure The Moon-Spinners.


Panels from the Moon-Spinners one-shot (October 1964), pencils and inks by Dan Spiegle
Anyway, not only is Sleestak the world's foremost collector of Dell Comics starring Ms. Mills and yours truly, but he's also been a fan of my recent Paper Doll Month! And when we had a discussion via the internet-matron about paper dolls and Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy, and a particular comic strip so surreal that even Salvador Dalí was heard to exclaim "No puedo creerlo! Este joven llamado Sluggo, que está flotando en el aire! Es un desafío a la imaginación!" (Translation: "Ay carumba!"):


Nancy comic strip (April 27, 1953), by Ernie Bushmiller
Sleestak brilliantly then came up with

The Greatest Paper Dolls Ever Made

...and I've put that in really bold text with a hyperlink because I'm not gonna show it to you, you gotta click over to see it.

Then, when you're done being amazing at The Greatest Paper Dolls Ever Made, cap off Paper Doll Month by checking out his paper doll mash-up of me with Lady Cassandra from TV's Doctor Who. I was flattened by this homage!

What are you waiting for? make with the clickety-clicks to see

The Greatest Paper Dolls Ever Made!

Tell Sleestak Bully sent ya!

Paper Doll Month, Day 30: They're the cross-dressing Stone Age family

Yes, what once started out as a cute and charming toy for little girls to cut out and play with, has eventually produced this: Gender-Swapped Flintstones Paper Dolls.


"Fred and Barney Paper Dolls" from The Flintstones and the Jetsons #4 (DC, November 1997), pencils by Glen Hanson (?)
Yep, it's from an issue where Fred and Barney wish that they could have the "easy life" Wilma and Betty do, staying home in the house day after day while they have to slave away in the rock quarry, so Harvey Korman The Great Gazoo makes it so!


Cover of The Flintstones and the Jetsons #4 (DC, November 1997); pencils, inks, and colors by Glen Hanson
But hey, what happened to Wilma and Betty, you ask?


DON'T ASK

In concluding this Paper Doll Month: I'm sorry that I wasn't able to bring you anything from Bunty, but I'm pleased that I was able to keep my promise of no Katy Keene.

A special Movin' On Up to the East Side Bull-Prize to my good pal "Marvelous" Mike Sterling for getting this altogether wacky comic into my sweaty little hooves!

Paper Doll Month, Day 29: Car-tozia Talk

Just to prove that paper doll pages are not only features from by-gone fashion and romance magazines or modern-day spoofs, here's a couple paper dolls from Cartozia Tales, the shared-world indie-comics anthology series edited by my good pal Isaac Cates!

Issue #5 of the series has just been published, featuring new work from Eleanor Davis, Shawn Cheng, Corinne Mucha, and Luke Pearson, plus a beautiful fold-out full-color adventure map by Jason Thompson! The series has been a fave of mine (you can read my gushing review of it here, not merely because of, but certainly contributing to my love of it...paper dolls!

Postcards: "Cartozia Tales Paper Figures: Reshii and Sylvia," published to accompany Cartozia Tales #2 (September 2013); art by Lucy Bellwood
(Click picture to Cartosisize)


"Cartozia Tales Paper Figures: Reshii and Sylvia" from Cartozia Tales #2 (September 2013); art by Lucy Bellwood
Rather than providing a larger format of the paper doll clothes just above here on my site, clicking on the clothes image will take you to the Cartozia Tales website where you can download a printable PDF of the outfits! And while you're there, take a look around Cartozia.com for news, sample stories, creator bios and much more! You can order the comics right here, as well as follow Cartozia on Twitter!

Paper Doll Month, Day 28: Patsy Walker, Then and Now

"Patsy's Fashion Page" from Patsy Walker #119 (February 1965), script by Stan Lee, pencils by Sol Brodsky, inks by Vince Colletta, letters by Sam Rosen


"Patsy Walker's Battlesuits" from Marvel Romance Redux: I Should Have Been a Blonde one-shot (July 2006), new script by Jeff Parker, new colors by Tom Smith, new letters by Dave Lanphear

Paper Doll Month, Day 27: Wake up Maggie I think I got paper clothes to stick to you

"She's a (Paper) Doll!" from Simpsons One-Shot Wonders: Maggie one-shot (October 2012); script, pencils, and inks by Sergio Aragonés, colors by Nathan Hamill
(Click picture to Homer-size)

Paper Doll Month, Day 26: In which I prove that Rob Liefeld anatomy is workable, as long as you make that his mutant power

Paper doll pages from Strong Guy Reborn one-shot (September 1997), script by Todd Dezago, pencils by Scott Cohn, inks by Harry Candelario, colors by Matt Webb, letters by Richard Starkings

Paper Doll Month, Day 25: Remember Alf? He's back...in paper doll form!

"ALF's Dress-Up Dali" from ALF #33 (Marvel, September 1990), script by Michael Gallagher, pencils by Dave Manak, inks by Marie Severin, colors by George Roussos (?), letters by Rick Parker (?)
And nope...Marvel never published any reader submissions for ALF's fashions in the comic book, which was cancelled with issue #50. I do have to say this about Marvel: they gave ol' ALF a better saga wrap-up and story finish than NBC ever did.

Paper Doll Month, Day 24: Dress my shorts

Paper doll back cover from Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror #1 (October 1995), artist unknown

Paper Doll Month, Day 23: Mr. Cain's fashions provided by The House of Mystery, Hollywood

"Make Your Own Monster!" from House of Mystery (1951 series) #227 (October-November 1974), script by Paul Levitz, pencils by Dennis Janke

Paper Doll Month, Day 22: At last, your chance to give Batman an orange costume

The World's Greatest Superheroes: The Superman Sunday Special (September 25, 1983); script by Bob Rozakis, pencils by José Delbo, inks by Sal Trapani, letters by Gaspar Saladino
(Click picture to Bruce's chest-size)

And a special Cut-Out-with-Safety-Scissors and Colored-by-Hand Bull-Prize to Mighty Mike Zeidler for showing this one to me! Thanks, Mike!

Paper Doll Month: You can also dress him up in Millie the Model's outfits

"Dresspool!" from Baby's First Deadpool Book one-shot (December 1998), pencils by Joe Cooper, inks by Scott Elmer, colors by Johnny Greene

Paper Doll Month, Day 20: Based on the novella Sam & Max Get Chopped Up By Blunt Scissors

"Sam & Max's Disguise*O*Rama" from Sam & Max Freelance Police one-shot (Marvel (!), 1992); script, pencils, and inks by Steve Purcell; letters by L. Lois Buhalis
(Click picture to Auntie Alice-size)

Paper Doll Month, Day 19: Oh shoot! Isn't she cute!

"Dot's Dress Up" from Animaniacs #12 (DC, April 1996), artist unknown

Paper Doll Month, Day 18: Geez, Paper Barbie has the same measurements as Doll Barbie

"Polynesian Fashions" in Barbie Fashion #12 (Marvel, December 1991), script and inks by Trina Robbins, pencils by Amanda Conner, colors by Ed Lazellari, letters by Jade Moede; George Roberts

Paper Doll Month, Day 17: Then I saw her face, now Irma believer

"Irma's Fashions" from My Friend Irma #35 (Marvel/Atlas, September 1953), pencils and inks by Dan DeCarlo
My Friend Irma was a popular radio, movie, TV (and, yes, comic book) series focusing on the antics of smart girl Jane and her best friend and roommate, the silly-headed Irma (like Gracie Allen, though, Irma was always full of some sort of universal sense).



Mostly forgotten today, My Friend Irma is perhaps best remembered as the movie that introduced the duo of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis to a worldwide audience:



...and while Irma's comic book was at Marvel, Dean and Jerry's was over at DC, on what I like to call Earth-28, the world they shared with the adventures of Bob Hope. Therefore, we can deduce that the My Friend Irma movie took place on the same world that hosted the Superman/Spider-Man crossovers or the X-Men and the Teen Titans team-up...Crossover-Earth, the only Earth that lies directly between the DC and Marvel multiverses. Until Grant Morrison blew it up. BOOM!

So, now you know how My Friend Irma died...in a cataclysmic crossover comic book event.

Paper Doll Month, Day 16: Dress Misty for Me

Paper doll pages from [Meet] Misty #6 (Marvel/Star Comics, October 1986); script, pencils, and inks by Trina Robbins, letters by L. Lois Buhalis

Paper Doll Month, Day 15: Les belles de domaine de ressorts

"Patty & Selma's Fascinatin' Fashions!" from Simpsons Comics #2 (January 1994), artist unknown
(Click picture to DMV-line-size)

Ten of a Kind: Got myself a crying, talking, sleeping, walking, paper doll

(Click wide images to super-size. More Ten of a Kind here.)

Paper Doll Month, Day 14: Take my hand

Katchoo and Francine paper dolls and fashions from Strangers in Paradise #28-30 (November 1999-February 2000), pencils and inks by Terry Moore

Paper Doll Month, Day 13: Marvel really needs to resurrect this feature for Wolverine and Iron Man

"Kathy's Cut-Ups!" and "Look at Liz!" from Kathy #6 (Marvel, August 1960), script by Stan Lee, pencils and inks by Stan Goldberg