I know, I know. Not exactly comics ad certainly not in color. That said, I was totally enamored of the H.T. Elmo art in these 1933 movie mag filler pages done in the style of RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT and a dozen other similar movie star variations. Elmo apparently did lots of this type of thing over the years on various subjects.
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As you probably know, Elmo ran Lincoln Newspaper Features, for which young Jack Kirby toiled for a spell. His comics were made available to small-town weeklies for decades, such as "Puggy" (a ripoff of kid strips like "Smitty" and "Skippy") and "The Fizzle Family." I once visited the offices of a "shopper" paper in the mid-80s and they had dozens of proofs of those Elmo strips.
Elmo? Lincoln?
I am the granddaughter of HT Elmo and would be interested in obtaining those strips for his museum can you please tell me where they're located thank you...llmeador @ Verizon.net
These were found in an online movie mag archive but I don't recall what magazine. There is a lot more about Elmo here--http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/2011_05_08_archive.html
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