I LOVE THIS SITE. THANK YOU, DON.
I SPENT ALL DAY YESTERDAY REDISCOVERING COMIC STRIP AND COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS I HADN'T THOUGHT ABOUT FOR YEARS.
WHEN I WAS A BOY, MY AUNT WORKED AT KING FEATURES SYNDICATE IN THE HEARST BUILDING IN NEW YORK CITY. EVERY WEEK, SHE BROUGHT HOME THE SUNDAY FUNNIES ABOUT THREE OR FOUR WEEKS BEFORE THEY WERE DUE TO GO PUBLIC. I ALWAYS KNEW IN ADVANCE WHAT PART OF THE STORY THE CHARACTERS IN THE SERIAL STRIPS WOULD BE UP TO -WEEKS BEFORE THE OTHER KIDS. FOR AWHILE I KEPT MY SECRET AND MYSTIFIED EVERYONE WITH MY "PSYCHIC" POWERS. EVENTUALLY, THOUGH, I TOLD THEM THE TRUTH AND SHARED THE ADVANCE COMICS AS SOON AS I WAS FINISHED WITH THEM. I WAS VERY POPULAR.
HERE'S WHY I'M POSTING. I'VE LOOKED AND LOOKED ON THE INTERNET (STARTING WITH YOUR SITE) AND CAN'T FIND ANY MENTION OF A STRIP CALLED SIMPLY, "ELMER." IT WAS ABOUT A KID IN HIS TEENS (AT LEAST HE APPEARED SO) WHO ALWAYS SEEMED TO HAVE A LITTLE BROTHER WITH HIM. AT ONE POINT IN EVERY STRIP, HE WOULD HOLD A HANDKERCHIEF TO THE LITTLE KID'S NOSE, AND SAY, "NOW BLOW."
I'M NOT SURE IF IT WAS A KING SYNDICATE STRIP OR NOT.
I ALSO DON'T SEE A COMIC BOOK THAT I BELIEVE WAS CALLED "BOY." I THINK IT FEATURED THE KID NAMED "CRIMEBUSTER" WHO ALWAYS HAD A MONKEY ON HIS SHOULDER. I FOUND THE CHARACTER ON YOUR SITE, BUT NOT THE COMIC-BOOK COVER.
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Posted by: *don*
Posted on: 2008-06-23 at 07:00:40 AM
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There was a comic strip named Elmer that ran 1926-56, and it was indeed King Features. Also (not necessarily King) there was Elmer Dimbulb (1934), Elmer in Europe (1959-60), Elmer Jones (1940), Elmer Squee (1940-48), [i]Elmer Stoon]/i] (1974-82) and Elmer's Fixit Shop (1947-49).
As for Boy Comics, there's a gallery of its covers at The Grand Comics Database. [url[link:=www.comics.org]]Click here.[/url]
Quack, Don
As for Boy Comics, there's a gallery of its covers at The Grand Comics Database. [url[link:=www.comics.org]]Click here.[/url]
Quack, Don
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Posted by: Rob Allen
Posted on: 2008-06-23 at 10:27:58 AM
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I read somewhere that the "Now blow" routine was in the strip "Just Kids", later titled "Mush Stebbins and his Sister". The same strip also had an older character who liked to say "Dern such weather!"
I just checked here in the Toonopedia, and "Just Kids" was indeed a King Features strip.
Boy Comics, starring Crimebuster and his nemesis Ironjaw, was published by Lev Gleason, who's best known today for his trend-setting comic "Crime Does Not Pay". Don's link to the GCD doesn't seem to work; let me try a different way:
www.comics.org/covers.lasso?SeriesID=295
I just checked here in the Toonopedia, and "Just Kids" was indeed a King Features strip.
Boy Comics, starring Crimebuster and his nemesis Ironjaw, was published by Lev Gleason, who's best known today for his trend-setting comic "Crime Does Not Pay". Don's link to the GCD doesn't seem to work; let me try a different way:
www.comics.org/covers.lasso?SeriesID=295
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Posted by: Rob Allen
Posted on: 2008-06-23 at 10:31:56 AM
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Also, I wonder if the strip "Elmer Stoon" that Don mentions was inspired in some way by the song, "Elmer's Tune". The song is from 1939, while the strip started in 1974, so maybe not.
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Posted by: *don*
Posted on: 2008-06-24 at 08:36:00 AM
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@%$!!
Sometimes the UBB codes don't work the way I expect them to.
I don't know a thing about any of those Elmers I cited. I just found them listed together in a book compiling info from syndicate ads in Editor & Publisher. Now that I think of it, there might have been another Elmer by Doc Wimmer who appeared in comic books anthologizing King Features strips, but wasn't in newspapers. If so, I probably at least have a picture of him stashed away, even if I haven't yet decided he's worth being the one I write up on a given day.
I also see I forgot to mention the first Elmer was created by a cartoonist named A.C. Fera, about whom I know amazingly little.
Qjack, Don
Sometimes the UBB codes don't work the way I expect them to.
I don't know a thing about any of those Elmers I cited. I just found them listed together in a book compiling info from syndicate ads in Editor & Publisher. Now that I think of it, there might have been another Elmer by Doc Wimmer who appeared in comic books anthologizing King Features strips, but wasn't in newspapers. If so, I probably at least have a picture of him stashed away, even if I haven't yet decided he's worth being the one I write up on a given day.
I also see I forgot to mention the first Elmer was created by a cartoonist named A.C. Fera, about whom I know amazingly little.
Qjack, Don



