ESOTERIC COMIC ARTIST CARTOONS (PART 2)

Another quick look at this topic after I came across this two-page cartoon feature from MAN'S DARING (November 1962). Readers may recall seeing Vic Martin's signature on single-panel cartoon gags in the pages of CRACKED and FOR MONSTERS ONLY in the 1960's.

Victor "Vic" Martin was born in Argentina and drew the cartoon strip "Salvador" in his native country before moving to the U.S. in the 1950's, where he drew cartoons for various men's magazines. He drew spot cartoons for comic books, including Prize, Toby and Ziff-Davis titles.

Martin made the move to men's humor magazines such as TV GIRLS & GAGS and HUMORAMA, as well as mainstream humor magazines such as Joe Simon's SICK, Charlton's CRAZY and Robert C. Sproul's CRACKED. He also worked for a time on the LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE newspaper strip.

Coincidentally, MAN'S DARING was published by Sproul and Pre-Code horror artist alumnus Bernard Baily!

MAN'S DARING "Gals and Pets" by Vic Martin.

Vic Martin FOR MONSTERS ONLY pages:

Cartoon for the men's magazine ESCAPADE (March 1967). Charlton's Pat Masulli is listed as one of the production staff on the masthead!

TV GIRLS & GAGS (Pocket Magazines, September 1954)

IT CAME FROM THE MEN'S MAGAZINE!

"It is the mark of the evil one! We are lost! But the white woman will be mine before I die!"

In my never-ending search for the weird, the bizarre, the unexplained, I end up in some of the strangest places. Granted, what I come up with sometimes may not be monster magazine material that is pure in heart, but you can be guaranteed it will always be curious, if not, downright entertaining.

Today's post is one of those odd finds that I felt compelled to share. The topic is on the borderlands of pop culture artifact and politcally correct propriety. Consider it then, the MONSTER MAGAZINE WORLD version of a "paranormal romance" story. And, believe me, this story is anything but normal. For instance, check out the author's name and you'll know what I mean.

Enjoy, but please keep your jaw in place and hold back on the laughing.

"Lisa was a gorgeous woman with full breasts and red full lips, and though she acted as if she was colder than ice caps on the mountain, I knew she had her eye on me."

"From where we were clinging, we could see the grey matter ooze out of his skull and form a pool of crimson blood on the white snow."

THE END?