This is a bit of a weird one. Joe E. Brown was a star in the 1940s and you might remember him as the millionaire who didn’t care if Jack Lemon dressed as a woman …was..a man..in “Some Like It Hot” and as the graveyard keeper in the Price-Karloff-Lorre film “Comedy Of Terrors”.
This 1957 Film Fun strip was probably drawn by George Wakefield as I have a non-coloured header version dated “1940s”. A group member uploaded this strip to one of my groups -even though the strip was already there!
Nice bit of colour,though.
Tom Brown is probably forgotten today but he was one of the first,if not the first comic superstars and for decades after his untimely death his was the style comic artists imitated -youcan even see it in Dudley D. Watkins style.
That said,the Comics Britannia series on BBC3 completely ignored him. Here are his famous tramps who continued on to the late 1950s playing at being Spring-Heeled Jack…and maybe the infamous “Bat” flying man of the 1870s?
Enjoy. It’s October!
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