Sunday, May 6, 2007

This week's Sunday Funnies would have been better yesterday, since that was the anniversary of Bob Hop's first USO tour. Oh well. Can't pick the days of the week.

Bob Hope, like many famous people, had his own comic book during the later Golden Age of comics and into the early Silver Age. As super-hero comics faded in popularity after the end of World War II, publishers looked to other ways to pull in readers, and bankable stars was one way to do it. Bob Hope's distinctive appearance was no doubt one of the main reasons he was picked, and his breezy humor book often found him making a fool of himself in the pursuit of beautiful women.

As the Silver Age resurgence of super-heroes turned the tables and made celebrity books less popular, from time to time Mr. Hope would be visited by some of the costumed heroes sharing his DC Comics imprint. He'd also make forays into the successful "mad monster" genre that popped up during the later part of his book's run.



Depicted is a cover from the heyday of The Adventures Of Bob Hope, with the caricatured Mr. Hope flirts with a pretty lady.