Sunday 4 January 2015

Magoo in the Comics, January 1965

Here are the Mr. Magoo dailies from this month 50 years ago.

I won’t say much about them, other than to note that two of the strips have Magoo thinking quickly after realising he’s mistaken something for something else. I quite like that.

Someone will know whether the artwork is by Pete Alvarado. It’s very nice. In a couple of places, the incidental characters look like they came from a Hanna-Barbera cartoon.

The strips start with January 4, 1965 and end with January 30, 1965. Click on each week to see it in full size.

3 comments:

  1. That IS Pete Alvarado's work.

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  2. Most of the strips in the first 3 weeks of this batch are in the "What's New Mr. Magoo" paperback.

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  3. 1/9/15
    RobGems.ca Wrote:
    Nice collection of Pete Alvarado's Magoo strips. The one I remember as a child was the one which Magoo places the salad bowl on top of the poor lady's noggin, mistaking it for a hat; Try to walk down the street balancing that thing on your head for laughs. Magoo's nearsightedness for a laugh formula was too obvious (something that his creator John Hubley disliked, preferring Magoo to be a stubborn old coot too stubborn to even think of getting a pair of glasses, check out his mean-spiritedness in his first appearance in 1949's "Ragtime Bear", this is something that the comic strip editors unfortunately would want to have bowderlized.) Alvarado's clean H-B inspired drawing is what makes the Magoo strips interesting, not necessarily the gags and one-liners. The fact that Alvarado once worked for Bill & Joe previously before drawing this strip is a plus.

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