Gay Comics

    (U.S.A., 1944-1949)
©1945 U.S.A. Comic Magazine Corp.

Gay Comics was a deceptively simple humor anthology title from the mid-1940s. It didn’t feature many regular strips and characters per se, but served as an outlet for the talents of two of the most wildly funny and creative cartoonists in comics history: Harvey Kurtzman (whose insane genius later helped spawn the groundbreaking Mad title for EC), and Basil Wolverton (the inspiration for an entire generation of underground comix artists in the 1960s).

Kurtzman was just beginning to explore his style and develop his early signature strip, “Hey Look!” but Wolverton’s mastery of grotesque caricature and mind-numbing detail were at their full peak, producing some beautiful and hilarious 3-4 page gems. Issues were filled out with romantic, slapstick, and military-service comedy strips by other inspired lunatics.
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