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This week in your Magazine collection.
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Just picked this nice lot of magazines and others not shown. Lots is cartoon art. I've recognized a few names, but need to take a more focused look some day. Most are dated 1932 range. Very colorful and adult humor. Some vol 1 no 1. Not the easiest to research.

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Just picked this nice lot of magazines and others not shown. Lots is cartoon art. I've recognized a few names, but need to take a more focused look some day. Most are dated 1932 range. Very colorful and adult humor. Some vol 1 no 1. Not the easiest to research.

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That is so cool! Do you have a picture of that 2nd KooKoo magazine (the one underneath)? I actually have that green one and would love to see what the red one looks like. I'd like to see the Hullaballoo's (EDIT: OOPS I MEAN HOOEY) too (I have one somewhere, and it has very unusual cover art). That looks like a cool Marx Brothers comic there... Wow!

 

Where did you find that, anyway? What a treasure trove! (You selling any of this stuff?)

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Ive been lucky to know the brother of a deceased hoarder who has been selling me comics (175 long boxes to date) and just recently he pulled this box of mags and I bought them Friday. I think I am addicted to color.

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As you request.

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Hey! I just realized, your April copy of Hullaballoo has something cool inside of it...

 

Open it up, I think to the middle. Then look for something that became familiar starting in the mid-1950s. I'll give you a hint: It's the face of a very deranged-looking individual. Go ahead and look inside that magazine, and come back and tell us what you find!

 

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So this magazine was out 20 years prior to the founding of Mad Magazine.

The missing-tooth, big-ears, floppy-haired, uneven-eyed, kooky-looking kid was a "meme" (or whatever those old-timers called it) dating back to the 1800s. He shows up in old advertisements for elixirs and all sorts of weird stuff. Mad Magazine toyed around with it a few times in the edges of their cover art (I think starting with comic #21 or something), and also in the little details of their first few magazines. Then for issue #30, they did a big version of the face, and it was one of their best-selling issues. So they kept using it.

 

Your Hullaballoo magazine is one of the earliest appearances in a magazine that I've heard about. You lucky dog.

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So this magazine was out 20 years prior to the founding of Mad Magazine.

The missing-tooth, big-ears, floppy-haired, uneven-eyed, kooky-looking kid was a "meme" (or whatever those old-timers called it) dating back to the 1800s. He shows up in old advertisements for elixirs and all sorts of weird stuff. Mad Magazine toyed around with it a few times in the edges of their cover art (I think starting with comic #21 or something), and also in the little details of their first few magazines. Then for issue #30, they did a big version of the face, and it was one of their best-selling issues. So they kept using it.

 

Your Hullaballoo magazine is one of the earliest appearances in a magazine that I've heard about. You lucky dog.

Well I certainly appreciate the heads up. Sure I want to give these all a good lookin over. I did see Mickey and Mini in a little parody cartoon. Got to be more hidden treasures. Thanks D'hick
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