FUNNYMAN And Danny Kaye

After being taken off of SUPERMAN at DC Comics, Siegel and Shuster tried another comic book character called "Funnyman". Funnyman is recognizable as a caricature of Danny Kaye. There is also a girl named "Lola" in this story. This sounds like another reference to Lola Lane, who was one of the Lane Sisters, and after whom they had previously named "Lois Lane".

The blonde in this story seems to be a more or less typical comic book villainess, but the blondes in FUNNYMAN comics could also be related to Virginia Mayo, with whom Danny Kaye frequently worked.

This particular story was published in 1948, and the art is by John Sikela, who had worked with Siegel and Shuster at DC Comics..





Reblogged from http://fourcolorshadows.blogspot.com/2013/07/funnyman-jerry-siegeljohn-sikela-1948.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Aldous Huxter" is a reference to writer Aldous Huxley: a huckster is someone who is trying to sell something. And Superman had a radio program that was periodicly interrupted by commercials for corn flakes. They had those on the television program later on, too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Danny Kaye:
http://dannykaye.com/

Danny Kaye Show ( radio ):
http://www.digitaldeliftp.com/DigitalDeliToo/dd2jb-Danny-Kaye-Show.html

FUNNYMAN:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funnyman_(comics)


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Glass Slides

Sabrina demonstrates the concept of "projection"

Glass slides were often shown in theaters to advertise coming attractions. Here are a few, starting with the silent era and continuing on after the coming of sound, that illustrate what you might have seen on the screen in the old days.

Victor McLagen had a girl in every port in this one. When he wasn't a sailor, they were someplace else.

Baby Peggy was popular in the silent era.

 

 

 

So was Mabel Normand

 

 

 

Fay Lanphier was both Miss America and "The American Venus".

 

Thelma Todd as Venus, which is about the same thing as being "Hot Toddy".

 

 

Elinor Glyn was the author who coined the term "It" for sex appeal. Clara Bow was christened "The It Girl".

Another with Clara Bow

A very old silent movie.

Buster Keaton is in trouble again... and he's in love.

A visually imaginative Buster Keaton movie.

Douglas Fairbanks and Lupe Velez

Douglas Fairbanks in a classic of the silent screen.

Douglas Fairbanks in one of his talkies.

The picture that made Harlow a star.

 

Airships were seen as a viable means of air travel prior to the Hindenberg disaster.

 

 

 

Thelma Todd as Alison Loyd, which is also about the same thing as "Hot Toddy".

 

 

 

Dorothy Lee was like another Ruby Keeler. She was in many Wheeler and Woolsey movies.

 

 

 

Barbara Stanwyck in a story set in old China.

 

 

 

 

Lupe Velez and Leon Errol

 

 

Carole Landis and Pat O'Brien in an intrigueing story

 

 

 

Carole Landis, "The Ping Girl", as "The Cadet Girl"

 

 

The use of slides to advertise films went on longer than you might think. Here are a couple from the 1950's.

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