Of the total quirky titles that DC printed method the cease of the Silver Age, this must absolutely be the oddest. Well, aside from Brother Energy the Geek. This occurs to be the entirely express I beget; I make no longer deem I’ve even learn one other.
The abilities is with out a doubt first-fee: Sergio Aragones on the script and artwork by Bob Oksner and Wally Wood. Oksner is doubtlessly the least-identified at the present time of that trio, however within the 1960s he was as soon as DC’s hump-to man on humor.
It seems the premise of the sequence is that Angel O’Day and Sam Simeon are partners in a private investigation residing of enterprise, although in this express there would possibly be no proof of a shopper; they more or much less operate as guidelines enforcement. Sam has one other job on the aspect; he’s a “cartoonist” for Mind Pix Comics, the place aside his boss is the wacky and devious Stan Bragg (clearly meant as a parody of Stan Lee).
The order is somewhat straightforward: Any individual has convinced the Bikini family (a neighborhood of circus performers with larceny in their hearts) to combine their forces:
They kidnap Angel and thus Sam must rescue her. But first he has to take care of the self-promoting Stan Bragg:
An early reference to the truth that Stan didn’t terminate famous of the staunch “writing” at Shock? Sam quits and decides to rob a discover at his supreme fortune at DZ Comics:
But Stan comes up with an ingenious order to construct up Sam support:
Stan’s assistant convinces Sam to cease at Mind Pix in verbalize to atone for the “demise” of Stan.
About a of the humor within the sequence comes from the truth that entirely just a few folks appear to clutch that Sam is an ape:
Angel leads the circus crooks to Mind Pix’s constructing, the place aside she and the cops manufacture brief work of them:
The noise exterior is adequate to wake the needless:
Overall the difficulty is a laugh, if no longer somewhat laugh out loud amusing, and the artwork is terrific.