Holy Miscellany!
I have here what might well be the first use of “Holy Moly” in a rap song. From Kurtis Blow’s 1979 Christmas Rappin’.
Also, a few frames from Harvey Kurtzman’s SUPERDUPERMAN!. This originally ran in issue 4 of Mad magazine, in 1953. But I remember reading it as a boy, so they must have rerun it at least once in the 70s or 80s.
Some readers, perhaps, will recognize Kurtzman’s work from the “Little Annie Fanny” series which ran in Playboy in the 70s. Scurrilous stuff. The artist is Bill Elder, with whom Kurtzman worked at Mad sometimes too. Highly compelling to this author at the age of perhaps eight, when I discovered them in a secret pornography stash at home.
This one is from 1973.
May 18th, 2004 at 2:56 am
Did Kurtzman steal “Jinkies!” from the Thelma character on the tv animated television series Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (1969-1972)?
May 19th, 2004 at 12:04 pm
I dunno! It looks like “Gina Diggers” in some later comic book used to say that, too. I’d guess Kurtzman bit if off Velma. Annie Fanny has all sorts of outlandish expressions!