Number 799
"If I could talk to the animals..."
Here's a curious and yet poignant story from Forbidden Worlds #58, 1957. A bunch of talking animals strike out on the own, for better or worse, after losing their "master," Dr. Dolittle...errrrr, I mean Dr. Marlin.
This doesn't strike me as a typical ACG story, and maybe it was written by someone other than editor Richard E. Hughes, who is reputed to have written all the content for ACG's post-Comics Code titles.
It's well drawn, too, but the Grand Comics Database doesn't give credit.
Any story with gorillas named Steve and Lola is aces with me.
3 comments:
Quite poignant. What would you do as an animal?
One night a while back, I had a dream in which I had become a cat, and faced the same sort of situation these animals faced. I ended up doing what the dog did.
Then, a few weeks back, I sent an account of the dream to Jesse Reklaw who does "Slow Wave," a strip based on dreams people send him. He did my dream in 4-panels, presented in the July 24, 2010 installment of his online strip.
If you'd like to read my "I Was A Cat" dream rendered as a 4-panel strip, the url is here:
http://www.slowwave.com/index.php?date=10-07-24
(I'd make it a clickable link, but I guess the blogging software is not permitting it because of spammers.)
Very cool, Mark. I'm a fan of Reklaw's Slow Wave. Thanks for sending this.
Here is a clickable link to your Slow Wave.
I have some trouble buying the idea that a city police officer would shoot an eagle to save a pigeon. I sense the story needed to be foreshortened a little at that point, and it's a little too bad. The rest of this is solid gold, and another, richer fate for the bird would have made this four-part story nearly perfect.
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