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Smilin' Jack Sunday Page by Zack Mosley from 3/8/1936 Half Page Size!
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This is a _SMILIN' JACK_ SUNDAY PAGE by ZACK MOSLEY. FANTASTIC AVIATION STORIES AND ARTWORK! This was cut from the original newspaper Sunday comics section of 1936. SIZE: ~11 X 15 INCHES (HALF FULL PAGE) PAPER: SOME LIGHT TANNING, LIGHT WEAR, OTHERWISE: ... Read More
This is a _SMILIN' JACK_ SUNDAY PAGE by ZACK MOSLEY. FANTASTIC AVIATION STORIES AND ARTWORK! This was cut from the original newspaper Sunday comics section of 1936. SIZE: ~11 X 15 INCHES (HALF FULL PAGE) PAPER: SOME LIGHT TANNING, LIGHT WEAR, OTHERWISE: EXCELLENT! BRIGHT COLORS! PULLED FROM LOOSE SECTIONS! (PLEASE CHECK SCANS) Please include $5.00 Total postage on any size order (USA) $16.00 International FLAT RATE. I combine postage on multiple pages. Please use the shopping cart feature when purchasing multiple pages and pay only one automatic combined postage charge!. Check out my other auctions for more great vintage Comic strips and Paper Dolls. THANKS FOR LOOKING!
*some of these are are printed on "rag" (linen) stock for long term archival preservation.
_The Adventures of Smilin' Jack_
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
the Adventures of Smilin' Jack
_
Author(s)
Zack Mosley
Current Status / Schedule
Ended
Launch Date
October 1, 1933
End Date
April 1, 1973
Alternate Name(s)
On the Wing_
Syndicate(s)
Chicago Tribune Syndicate
Genre(s)
Aviation
_THE ADVENTURES OF SMILIN' JACK_ was an aviation comic strip that first appeared October 1, 1933 in the _Chicago Tribune_ and ended April 1, 1973.
After a run of 40 years, it was the longest running aviation comic strip. The strip was created by 27-year-old cartoonist and aviation enthusiast Zack Mosley, who had previously worked on the _Buck Rogers_ and _Skyroads_ strips.[1] Mosley was a member of organizations that indicate his avid aviation research for his strip: Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, Aviation-Space Writers Association, National Cartoonists Society, B.P.O. Elks, Silver Wings Society, OX-5 Club, and the Quiet Birdmen Fraternity for many years. On September 18, 1976, he was inducted into the Civil Air Patrol Auxiliary-USAF Hall of Honor.[2]
Smilin' Jack was originally Mack Martin, in _ON THE WING_, but _Chicago Tribune_ editor Joseph Medill Patterson did not like the original title, so on December 31, 1933, the name was changed to Jack Martin, and the strip was retitled _The Adventures of Smilin' Jack_ after its creator, who had been nicknamed "Smilin' Zack" by his colleagues. In later years it was simply known as _SMILIN' JACK_. Zack Mosley's assistant during the 1940s was Boody Rogers. Smilin' Jack's appearance was based on that of notable air racing star Roscoe Turner.[3]
Contents
[hide]
* 1Characters and story
* 2Parody
* 3Radio
* 4Movie serial
* 5Other
* 6See also
* 7References
* 8External links
Characters and Story[Edit]
_
Dell's Four Color comic book, Smilin' Jack_ #36, reprinting 1938â40 strips.
_
Zack Mosley's Smilin' Jack_ (November 12, 1939)
_
Cover of Popped Wheat's 16-page Smilin' Jack_ giveaway comic book from 1947. Note no mustache.
_Smilin' Jack_ developed an extremely colorful and imaginative band of supporting characters through its lengthy run, including Downwind Jaxon; Fatstuff, a humorous Hawaiian character; hillbilly mechanic Rufus Jimpson; glamorous air hostess Dixie Lee; and eventually Jack Jr., plus various romantic interests, referred to by Mosley as "de-icers". Villains included The Claw, Toemain the Terrible, The Head and his sister, The Mongoose.
Many supporting characters were drawn with distinctive visual devices. The corpulent Fatstuff had buttons popping off his tight-fitting shirt, never explaining how the buttons magically regenerated from one panel to the next. Mosley sometimes drew a chicken in one corner of the panel, eating buttons as they flew off.[2]
Even more distinctive was Smilin' Jack's handsome sidekick and co-pilot Downwind, whose face drove women wild with passion. Downwind's features remain a mystery; he was invariably drawn with his head in three-quarters rear view so that his face was averted from the reader. This visual device sometimes became contrived, as when a villain stood in front of Downwind aiming a weapon at him: the co-pilot would still be looking back over his shoulder, as if something more interesting was happening behind him.
Parody[Edit]
The strip was parodied by Harvey Kurtzman and Wally Wood in _Mad_ #7 (October-November 1953) as "Smilin' Melvin!", with Fatstuff renamed Thatstuff and Downwind altered to Upwind. The parody explained why the co-pilot's unseen face drives women wild with passion: although he looks quite ugly, he has a $1000 bill between his teeth.
_Smilin' Jack_ was influential in the expansion of NASCAR racing. NASCAR founder Bill France, Sr. was Mosley's friend, so information about NASCAR's first "Strictly Stock" (now Sprint Cup) race was written into the strip. After drivers throughout the United States, including race winner Jim Roper, read the strip, they drove across the country to race.[4]
Radio[Edit]
The _Smilin' Jack_ radio series was broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting System from February 13 to May 19, 1939 with aviator Smilin' Jack Martin fighting such international criminals as the Mad Dog in Arabia. Frank Readick had the title role, and the cast also included Gertrude Warner. The 15-minute series, airing three times a week at 5:30pm, was sponsored by Tootsie Rolls, which offered a premium for ten candy wrappersâa flying chart "just like the one Jack uses". The program opened each episode with announcer Tom Shirley demanding, "Clear the runway for Smilin' Jack!", over the roar of an airplane.
Movie Serial[Edit]
In 1943 Universal Studios produced a serial, _The Adventures of Smilin' Jack_. Smilin' Jack Martin (Tom Brown) works with the Chinese government to stop the Black Samurai, a Japanese covert spy ring led by the German operative Fraulein von Teufel.
Other[Edit]
_Smilin' Jack_ was also a Dell comic book in 1948.
"Smilin' Jack and the Daredevil Girl Pilot" was "A New Story [prose, 248 pp., w. 20 full-page illustrations] Based on the Famous Comic Strip," published in 1942 by the Whitman Publishing Co.
Jill Mosley, the artist's daughter, maintains an official _Smilin' Jack_ website.[2]
See Also[Edit]
* List of film serials
*please note: collecting and selling comics has been my hobby for over 30 years. Due to the hours of my job i can usually only mail packages out on saturdays. I send out priority mail which takes ~2-7 days to arrive in the usa and air mail international which takes 10 days or more depending on where you live in the world. I do not "sell" postage or packaging and charge less than the actual cost of mailing. I package items securely and wrap well. Most pages come in an archival sleeve with acid free backing board at no extra charge. If you are dissatisfied with an item. Let me know and i wil do my best to make it right.
Many thanks to all of my 1,000's of past customers around the world.
enjoy your hobby everyone and have fun collecting!
*some of these are are printed on "rag" (linen) stock for long term archival preservation.
_The Adventures of Smilin' Jack_
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
the Adventures of Smilin' Jack
_
Author(s)
Zack Mosley
Current Status / Schedule
Ended
Launch Date
October 1, 1933
End Date
April 1, 1973
Alternate Name(s)
On the Wing_
Syndicate(s)
Chicago Tribune Syndicate
Genre(s)
Aviation
_THE ADVENTURES OF SMILIN' JACK_ was an aviation comic strip that first appeared October 1, 1933 in the _Chicago Tribune_ and ended April 1, 1973.
After a run of 40 years, it was the longest running aviation comic strip. The strip was created by 27-year-old cartoonist and aviation enthusiast Zack Mosley, who had previously worked on the _Buck Rogers_ and _Skyroads_ strips.[1] Mosley was a member of organizations that indicate his avid aviation research for his strip: Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, Aviation-Space Writers Association, National Cartoonists Society, B.P.O. Elks, Silver Wings Society, OX-5 Club, and the Quiet Birdmen Fraternity for many years. On September 18, 1976, he was inducted into the Civil Air Patrol Auxiliary-USAF Hall of Honor.[2]
Smilin' Jack was originally Mack Martin, in _ON THE WING_, but _Chicago Tribune_ editor Joseph Medill Patterson did not like the original title, so on December 31, 1933, the name was changed to Jack Martin, and the strip was retitled _The Adventures of Smilin' Jack_ after its creator, who had been nicknamed "Smilin' Zack" by his colleagues. In later years it was simply known as _SMILIN' JACK_. Zack Mosley's assistant during the 1940s was Boody Rogers. Smilin' Jack's appearance was based on that of notable air racing star Roscoe Turner.[3]
Contents
[hide]
* 1Characters and story
* 2Parody
* 3Radio
* 4Movie serial
* 5Other
* 6See also
* 7References
* 8External links
Characters and Story[Edit]
_
Dell's Four Color comic book, Smilin' Jack_ #36, reprinting 1938â40 strips.
_
Zack Mosley's Smilin' Jack_ (November 12, 1939)
_
Cover of Popped Wheat's 16-page Smilin' Jack_ giveaway comic book from 1947. Note no mustache.
_Smilin' Jack_ developed an extremely colorful and imaginative band of supporting characters through its lengthy run, including Downwind Jaxon; Fatstuff, a humorous Hawaiian character; hillbilly mechanic Rufus Jimpson; glamorous air hostess Dixie Lee; and eventually Jack Jr., plus various romantic interests, referred to by Mosley as "de-icers". Villains included The Claw, Toemain the Terrible, The Head and his sister, The Mongoose.
Many supporting characters were drawn with distinctive visual devices. The corpulent Fatstuff had buttons popping off his tight-fitting shirt, never explaining how the buttons magically regenerated from one panel to the next. Mosley sometimes drew a chicken in one corner of the panel, eating buttons as they flew off.[2]
Even more distinctive was Smilin' Jack's handsome sidekick and co-pilot Downwind, whose face drove women wild with passion. Downwind's features remain a mystery; he was invariably drawn with his head in three-quarters rear view so that his face was averted from the reader. This visual device sometimes became contrived, as when a villain stood in front of Downwind aiming a weapon at him: the co-pilot would still be looking back over his shoulder, as if something more interesting was happening behind him.
Parody[Edit]
The strip was parodied by Harvey Kurtzman and Wally Wood in _Mad_ #7 (October-November 1953) as "Smilin' Melvin!", with Fatstuff renamed Thatstuff and Downwind altered to Upwind. The parody explained why the co-pilot's unseen face drives women wild with passion: although he looks quite ugly, he has a $1000 bill between his teeth.
_Smilin' Jack_ was influential in the expansion of NASCAR racing. NASCAR founder Bill France, Sr. was Mosley's friend, so information about NASCAR's first "Strictly Stock" (now Sprint Cup) race was written into the strip. After drivers throughout the United States, including race winner Jim Roper, read the strip, they drove across the country to race.[4]
Radio[Edit]
The _Smilin' Jack_ radio series was broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting System from February 13 to May 19, 1939 with aviator Smilin' Jack Martin fighting such international criminals as the Mad Dog in Arabia. Frank Readick had the title role, and the cast also included Gertrude Warner. The 15-minute series, airing three times a week at 5:30pm, was sponsored by Tootsie Rolls, which offered a premium for ten candy wrappersâa flying chart "just like the one Jack uses". The program opened each episode with announcer Tom Shirley demanding, "Clear the runway for Smilin' Jack!", over the roar of an airplane.
Movie Serial[Edit]
In 1943 Universal Studios produced a serial, _The Adventures of Smilin' Jack_. Smilin' Jack Martin (Tom Brown) works with the Chinese government to stop the Black Samurai, a Japanese covert spy ring led by the German operative Fraulein von Teufel.
Other[Edit]
_Smilin' Jack_ was also a Dell comic book in 1948.
"Smilin' Jack and the Daredevil Girl Pilot" was "A New Story [prose, 248 pp., w. 20 full-page illustrations] Based on the Famous Comic Strip," published in 1942 by the Whitman Publishing Co.
Jill Mosley, the artist's daughter, maintains an official _Smilin' Jack_ website.[2]
See Also[Edit]
* List of film serials
*please note: collecting and selling comics has been my hobby for over 30 years. Due to the hours of my job i can usually only mail packages out on saturdays. I send out priority mail which takes ~2-7 days to arrive in the usa and air mail international which takes 10 days or more depending on where you live in the world. I do not "sell" postage or packaging and charge less than the actual cost of mailing. I package items securely and wrap well. Most pages come in an archival sleeve with acid free backing board at no extra charge. If you are dissatisfied with an item. Let me know and i wil do my best to make it right.
Many thanks to all of my 1,000's of past customers around the world.
enjoy your hobby everyone and have fun collecting!
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