Celebrity Jerky

Even wonder how cavemen blogged before the internet?

Let's set the Way Back Machine to 15+ years ago...

(from a scrapbook of tabloid clippings)

A Clown Car, Conversely: Bumpsies

The first thing I bought at The Funhouse.


A softwood laminated copy of the cover of Valrie McMahan's extremely rare
1929 childrens book.

Currently on sale for $595.00 in mediocre condition
at Biblio.com.

The world's funnier than I thought.

Satana, The Devil's Daughter 2

The other thing about Satana is that she has no talent for brief introductions.



These pages are from a two part Marvel Team-Up crossover featuring Spider-Man, Satana, Dr. Strange & Clea...




...the month after seeing that cliffhanger splash page of Satana may have been the longest one of my eleven year old life!

Satana, The Devil's Daughter 1

I've already pulled over a thousand comics for my sidewalk sale this Saturday, but the purge-athon is still running.
I was trying to figure out why I'd kept a crumbling issue of Marvel Premiere # 27 featuring Satana, The Devil's Daughter (whom I love, but the story and art is truly awful), when I ran across the answer in a four page back-up/solicitation for an ongoing series.





Which, though uncredited, I'm pretty sure is by John Romita Sr.

Egg Salad Days

Iron Fist meets the X-Men for the first time (accidentally crashing a party at Jean Grey and Misty Knights apartment, mistaken for a villain by a claw first ask questions later Wolverine), in this comic I bought for .30 cents thirty years ago.


And Storm discovers that she doesn't like egg salad.

Mrs. Molinsky's Top 3

Joan Rivers will always have a special li'l place in my heart, not just because she was the queen of the one-liners when I was growing up, but because she was my father's most hated celebrity; he literally (and without fail) would yell "whore!", "bitch!", or "fuckin' cunt!" every-time an ad for her appearing on a talk show or guest hosting The Tonight Show would pop up.

Which always broke up the monotony of forced family time viewing...

The Clinkers

Dear God in heaven, how to explain Shields and Yarnell?

He was the Marcel Marceau of Union Square, San Francisco, she was a tap dancing actress. They fell in love and formed a mime duo famous for their characters The Clinkers; known for their slow and deliberate robo-animatronic movements.
This, being the coked up '70's, led to appearances on The Muppet Show, The Red Skeleton Show, The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, touring China with Bob Hope, performing for Queen Elizabeth II and TWO American presidents, and finally their own t.v. show in 1972!
My parents watched it religiously, so each week, for 45 minutes, my poor growing four year old brain was irradiated with wordless robotic mime vaudville of the most disturbing order.
I actually remembered their "variety" hour as being a cartoon, until it came up again in my teens and, contesting the absurdity of my friend's contradiction wildly, I was shown evidence that they were indeed actual flesh and blood human beings.

Sadly, even the best of times don't last long for a mime.
Here they are in 1981.

Snippets!: Yarnell would later go on to play the body of Dot Matrix in Mel Brooks movie Spaceballs, dubbed by Joan Rivers.

Beige Blackheart