Barnyard Comics #18, 2 of 3

Continued from last week

Frank Frazetta

Lynn Karp

Ken Champin

The final part next week

Coo-Coo Comics #41, 1 of 3

Now back to more funny animal cartoons. Another issue of Coo Coo Comics from Nedor/Standard/Pines/Better in September 1948. Publishers often used multiple names in their masthead in order to qualify for second-class mailing status (media mail of the time), This one says “Animated Cartoons, Inc.”

The GCD credits this to Vincent Fago (neé Fagaly), editor of the funny animal books for this publishing group.

This was usually the lead feature in Coo Coo Comics, it even had a solo book for a time, drawn by animator Milton Stein.

Frank Frazetta is usually credited as a sci-fi/fantasy artist, and that's almost exclusively what he did the last half of his life, but before that he was a commercial illustrator, once considered as a MAD regular, but when he started drawing the Conan paperbacks it became almost his exclusive domain. Before being an illustrator he was mostly a comics artist and here's an example of that work.

Barnyard Comics #19, 2 of 3

This is the second part of Standard Comics' Barnyard Comics #19 from August 1948. The first part was here.

Here's another piece by Frank Frazetta.

Jack Bradbury

Don R. Christensen

Barnyard Comics #19, 1 of 3

Barnyard Comics was one of Standard Comics' funny animal titles, the others being Goofy Comics and Coo Coo Comics, examples of which I've posted before.

The lead story is by Frank Frazetta. As I've said before, had he never done the sword and sorcery he's most known for, he'd still have his legacy among comic fans. He was almost one of MAD's Usual Gang of Idiots, had they not each had their own policies about ownership of original art.

Hubie Karp and Ken Champin