tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post4608616498205474773..comments2024-01-28T22:17:29.551-08:00Comments on Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine: Pappy's Sunday Supplement #10: Bob HopePappyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-13920608983803988152017-06-15T21:48:18.643-07:002017-06-15T21:48:18.643-07:00Daniel, that offensive stereotyping was performed ...Daniel, that offensive stereotyping was performed by Willie Best, whose performances make me cringe. I don't know if <i>Ghost Breakers</i> is still shown. I saw the movie on some afternoon TV movie theater about 1960 or '61. All of these years I mistakenly remembered that the black actor was Mantan Moreland, who was in many comedy parts of the era, but when I looked it up I saw it was Willie Best. I remembered Best in the old television <i>Stu Erwin Show</i> which ran from 1950-55, which I saw in reruns later in the fifties, and which I believe would not be shown today.} <br /><br />I am not surprised that a young person doesn't remember Hope. He is just one of many comedians of the 20th century who has been forgotten by modern audiences, who like a different type of humor: overtly sexual and profane.<br />Pappyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-72856271799623008642017-06-14T00:31:11.842-07:002017-06-14T00:31:11.842-07:00Pappy, yester-day, a woman in her early twenties (...<a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607" rel="nofollow">Pappy</a>, yester-day, a woman in her early twenties (or perhaps late teens) asked me to clarify who Bob Hope were. (I had earlier introduced her to my friend who had been a gag writer.) <br /><br />I had already been inclined to agree with your assertion, but here surely was an illustration. <br /><br />In the mean time, I had been thinking that Hope's memory would have been more enduring had his earlier movies been in color, and had <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032520/" rel="nofollow"><i>The Ghost Breakers</i> (1940)</a> not employed offensive ethnic stereotyping. Daniel [oeconomist.com]https://www.blogger.com/profile/06763094285750736837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-16431068153847985652017-05-23T17:57:13.941-07:002017-05-23T17:57:13.941-07:00Donald,
I wonder if the issue you recall is #91?Donald,<br />I wonder if the issue you recall is #91?Darcihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01598465647270663106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-70296970558821489472017-05-15T20:28:45.947-07:002017-05-15T20:28:45.947-07:00Daniel, Hope is one of those people who were part ...Daniel, Hope is one of those people who were part of our everyday cultural experience for decades, and now with a new generation memory of Hope is probably, to trash his famous movie series, on The Road to Obscurity.<br /><br />I liked Hope's movies from the forties and fifties, but don't remember anything that I appreciated much after those. I thought the comic books were generally pretty good, and I do have some of the monster issues which came toward the end of DC's licensing with Hope. Pappyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-21931819018227375632017-05-15T20:22:20.291-07:002017-05-15T20:22:20.291-07:00Russ, Donald...I have not seen (to my recollection...Russ, Donald...I have not seen (to my recollection) any of the Bob Hope issues by Drucker. Naturally I'm curious.<br /><br />Russ, Henry Boltinoff made a living selling gag cartons for many years, so someone considered him funny. On that note, since I love the old magazine gag cartoons, I admired Henry's art style, if not his less-than-gutbusting humor. Pappyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-87532157240901397572017-05-15T07:22:58.152-07:002017-05-15T07:22:58.152-07:00Hope's famous ski-sloped nose hadn't alway...Hope's famous ski-sloped nose hadn't always been that way; it was broken when he was a boxer. His having once pursued that career argues against his being a coward of the sort thst he played, though of course people may react differently to threats of different sorts. <br /><br />This story plainly riffs off <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031143/" rel="nofollow"><i>The Cat and the Canary</i> (1939)</a>, which starred Hope and Paulette Goddard. In that movie, Hope actually plays a character who is fearful, but does not run from danger, though he refers to himself jocularly as a coward. <br /><br />I've a friend who used to be a gag writer for Hope. My friend was originally working as a courier, delivering gags. He couldn't resist the opportunity to slip some if his own into the set. Apparently Hope liked some, and they figured-out whence they'd been coming. <br /><br /><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ybq1WQ5uCZ0/WQb6d28cnnI/AAAAAAABEic/XEgF3ZPkP3EEdz0ethx0KYUevTW3lxvvACLcB/s1600/BH09-13.jpg" rel="nofollow">The ad for the picture-ring promotion</a> brought back memories, as such premia were still offered well into my childhood. <br /><br />But what I remember of the <i>Bob Hope</i> and <i>Jerry Lewis</i> comics of my childhood was that the Frankenstein Monster, perhaps along with Dracula, seemed to appear on the cover of every issue. My brother read and seemed to enjoy them, but I wasn't motivated to do more than flip through them casually. <br /><br />If <a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZXqhm3l2viE/WQb6JDtudGI/AAAAAAABEh4/5UbLymfzs2MSZmmZ03D_IffdCAZ_6v9UACLcB/s1600/BH09-25.jpg" rel="nofollow">Bob was on his last after-noon delivery</a>, then why <a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZXqhm3l2viE/WQb6JDtudGI/AAAAAAABEh4/5UbLymfzs2MSZmmZ03D_IffdCAZ_6v9UACLcB/s1600/BH09-25.jpg" rel="nofollow">did he run around with the papers</a>?Daniel [oeconomist.com]https://www.blogger.com/profile/06763094285750736837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-82091245911678587612017-05-14T23:25:23.525-07:002017-05-14T23:25:23.525-07:00Old enough to remember a Bob Hope comic drawn by M...Old enough to remember a Bob Hope comic drawn by Mort Drucker, MAD's top movie/TV satire artist. Recall it involved a talking dog, a banana republic, and a gratuitous LBJ popping up in a barbecue scene.DBensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01144515471557731622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-56802758347014068592017-05-14T13:22:57.665-07:002017-05-14T13:22:57.665-07:00I really enjoyed the issues of Bob Hope by Mort Dr...I really enjoyed the issues of Bob Hope by Mort Drucker that I saw, many written by Arnold Drake. Drucker drew some knockout women.<br /><br />And Henry Boltinoff seemed to have strips in every DC book for years, not one of them funny. I assume Murray got him the gig. Comics used to have plenty of room for short fillers, some quite strange.Russhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04809592629762693427noreply@blogger.com