Number 2346: “Wherefore art thou, Cookie?”

Dan Gordon, who drew Cookie in a comic book of the same name, was an animator whose work in the field went back to the Van Beuren studios in the 1930s, then Paul Terry’s Terrytoons, to the Fleischer Brothers, where he worked on Popeye and also the classic Superman cartoons. After his time in comic books was over, he eventually went back to animation, working for Hanna-Barbera. Whew! The guy got around.

Gordon (who also signed his work “dang”) was a superb draftsman, a born cartoonist, and kept his stories moving along. In this tale, our hero, Cookie, is watching from the sidelines in a jealous fit over his girlfriend, Angelpuss, playing opposite his rival, Zoot, in a high school production of “Romeo and Juliet.” The story, funny as it is, gives me some memories that cause a cringe or two, especially jealousy of a rival for a girl I liked.

Cookie was another of the Archie imitators who cropped up in the late forties. The comic book was published by ACG, a company which also published Adventures Into the Unknown, Forbidden Worlds, Herbie, and others. Unlike most of Archie’s comic book rivals, Cookie had a good long run for a teenage comic.

From Cookie #11 (1948):

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