I played the part of Homer Brown, hapless sidekick to Henry Aldrich. on stage in 1990 opposite the original radio Henry, Ezra Stone. After that, I began collecting the HENRY ALDRICH comic book with its delightful Bill Williams cartoon art. Here's Homer in a back-up solo strip from 1050's HENRY ALDRICH # 2. 
Basil Wolverton did some pretty strange serious comics in his day and some extremely insane silly ones, too...like this one. With the exception of Timely's POWERHOUSE PEPPER, nearly all of Wolverton's work was in unheralded back-up stories so they're always a treat to find when paging through Golden Age comics ( or scans thereof). SCOOP SCUTTLE is from a 1944 issue of CAPTAIN BATTLE, JR.
Here's a very early Timely/Atlas horror story with some not bad art that looks vaguely like Bill Everett on a bad day. GCD isn't willing to even speculate, though, so another for the anonymous file.
All-Great Comics was a 1944 one-shot (although it looks like they had them in other years also) that ran 132 pages including covers. About 90 percent of this issue is what would pass for filler in other anthology comics...including this story. Still, some not bad art here (unknown again), some gratuitous torture scenes and some derring do.
A preacher hero and his boy sidekick. Wertham might have actually approved of that...but nowadays it would seem suspect! Artist Jack Alderman was a shop artist who worked at various companies on all types of comics before apparently settling into a run on TWEETY AND SYLVESTER stories in the fifties.
The prolific Dick Ayers did a lot of serious war, western, horror and superhero comics in the fifties but most of his humor work was of the Will Elder "chicken fat" variety. Here we see a much less crowded strip highlighting some marvelous humor cartooning from the artist. Windy Wales was a sidekick character on the radio series, BOBBY BENSON. I appeared onstage once with one of the actors who played Bobby, Clive Rice, and I worked many times with Barney Beck, a sound effects man on the series. Windy Wales was the first major role for an actor who would become much more famous--Don Knotts. 
