Magic Pards!

Here are some delightful covers for early issues of Magic Comics co-featuring two very different comic strip characters -- Carl Anderson's Henry  and Lee Falk's Mandrake the Magician. Two comics could hardly be more different in style and tone than these two but here we see cover artist Joe Musial (who was born on this day by the way) make them work in tandem somehow.

Utterly charming!

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Bumbershooting!

Carl Anderson's Henry was often the comic strip I'd "read" first when I got my mitts on the Sunday comics way back when. That's because I typically read comics in the order of how much text they typically had, so the ever speechless Henry almost always won the contest. The strip was good for a kindly gag though I have to admit that Henry's exceedingly peculiar appearance was oddly antique back in the 60's and 70's.

Above are some of Henry's interesting solutions to the problems he faced in his daily doings.

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