Friday, March 09, 2007

40 Years Ago Today From DC Comics -- Adventures of Jerry Lewis #100

Adventures of Jerry Lewis #100 (On Sale: March 9, 1967) has a cover by the late, great Bob Oksner (who died just last month). I saw Bob a couple of times at Mark Evanier panels at the San Diego Comic-Con over the years and I don't think there was a nicer guy in comics.

Inside we have our cover story "A-Haunting We Will Go!" once again written by the recovering genius Arnold Drake and Bob Oksner. Continuing the further mis-adventures at that training center for demon damsels, "The Little Bo-Peep School for Girls".

Rounding out the book are Jerry Lewis Gallery of Art Messterpieces pin-up also by Bob Oksner featuring Jerry as the Mona Lisa and Bat-Jokes for Jerry featuring reader submitter Batman jokes.

The Adventures of Jerry Lewis started life as "The Adventures of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis" and ran under that title for 40 issues, from 1952 to 1957. After Martin and Lewis broke up the magazine continued as "The Adventures of Jerry Lewis."

Edited by Murray Boltinoff.

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