MILLIE THE LOVABLE MONSTER NO. 1

This cute, cartoony character was created, written and drawn by Bill Woggon. Dell picked him up after he was unceremoniously canned by Archie Comics after receiving a telegram (very personal, wouldn't you say?) from publisher John Goldwater in a thinly-veiled message telling him his services were no longer required. This was after Woggon had created and produced their Katy Keen title since 1945.

MILLIE THE LOVABLE MONSTER was first published in 1962 with a cover date of September-November. It ran for six issues, but only three were originals; the last two were reprints of the first two issues.

SECRET AGENT WEREWOLF!

Let's close out this weird comics week with a full-length issue of Dell's WEREWOLF #1 (December 1966). Third in the series of a re-imagining of the Universal monsters (Dracula and the Frankenstein monster were the other two), it was created and scripted by editor D.J. Arneson (another source attributes the story to Don Segall), penciled by Bill Fraccio and inked by Tony Tallarico.

While not as crazed as the other comics this week, it's still pretty bizarre, especially if you put it in the context of the classic monsters. Air Force Major Wiley Wolf (!) crash lands his experimental aircraft in the arctic, suffers amnesia and lives with a pack of wolves, himself turning wild (!). Finally making it back to civilization, he is recruited by the CIA as a secret agent/superhero (!). I'll cease with the exclamation points and let you take the story from there. Mercifully, WEREWOLF only lasted for three issues.