Space Hero Meets Space Force SMASH GORDON "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Mongo!"

1940s Space Opera Meets 1960s Space Opera...

...and may the better version win in this spoof strip by noted comic artist Frank Brunner!

It's saying something when you're too much of an unrestrained "space cowboy" for even James T Kirk, eh?

Originally-presented in #1A (1972) of a prozine (a magazine featuring work by both rookie and veteran creatives) called Heritage whose two-issue run was dedicated to Flash Gordon.
This strip written and illustrated by Frank Brunner (who was already working for Marvel as an inker and colorist) is an affectionate tribute to both Flash Gordon and Star Trek, as well as indicating Brunner would've done a dynamite job on either series!
As to why it's here, there's nudity (barely) on pages 2, 3 and 4, and Google has been cracking down on it on any pages with nudity and without a warning label.

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Wardrobe Malfunction at Super Bowl XXXVIII...20 Years Ago!

The halftime show at the 2004 Super Bowl went from this...

...and this...

...to this...

...and then this!!!

Was it planned?

Was it accidental?

Theories vary, ranging from THIS "...True Story" to THIS "Everything to Know...".

The questions I would ask...

...are...

"Why did she have a nipple ring on under the red bra?"

"If it wasn't meant to be exposed, why was it there?"

and

"Was there a matching one on the other breast (which would indicate the one on the right wasn't meant to be exposed)?"

Anybody have a link to the answers???

The Boop-Boop-a-Doop Girl and the Mammy

In the 1930s, with Betty Boop's popularity soaring, a comic strip based on the actress/singer the animated character was based upon (got that?) was launched...

You can read the almost-complete run of the strip HERE.

However, in presenting the long-lost series, we discovered one of the strips had a racial stereotype we couldn't show today without a warning, so it's shown here...

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(which includes the Helen Kane strips!)

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MARVEL MYSTERY COMICS "Jimmy Jupiter and His Halloween Adventure..."

If it wasn't for the unfortunate racial stereotypes common to the era on the first two pages...
...we could run this never-reprinted tale from Timely's Marvel Mystery Comics #37 (1947) in almost any of our other RetroBlogs!
(Well, maybe not Heroines!...)

Illustrated (and possibly written) by Eddie Robbins, this is actually a rather clever tale which won't be reprinted any time soon.

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Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics
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BIG APPLE COMIX "Over and Under"

Here's a fascinating side-by-side comparison...

...of life at the opposite ends of the social and financial spectrums in 1970s NYC!

The left side of the pages is illustrated by Neal Adams, the right side was penciled by Larry Hama and inked by Ralph Reese, both of whom had apprenticed under Wally Wood!

As for who wrote it, well, that's not entirely clear!

It could be the three artists co-wrote the tale (they all have solo writing credits), or any two of the three, or even any one of them..or someone else entirely, like Archie Goodwin, who also contributed to the 1975 one-shot Big Apple Comix!

I'm afraid we'll never know...

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