I had never before heard of McGURK'S MOB by Bud Wexler and Marvin Stein but I found it interesting due to the latter's association in comic books with oe Simon and Jack Kirby. Marvin Stein inked, did layouts, and drew his own strips for the Simon and Kirby studio in the Crestwood days and also worked on Siegel and Shuster's FUNNYMAN and many other comics. Here, though, he seems to have done four years or so beginning in 1965 on one of those peculiarly unfunny 1960s comic strips that often looked good but just kind of sat there being sometimes clever, but rarely amusing.
Do you happen to have physical original copies of this biographies and comics or did you find them in a library paper?
ReplyDeleteI subscribed to the Newspaper Archives online and found scans of these there.
ReplyDeleteNice to see cofirmed this is the Crestwood Stein. I had begun to doubt. I think I may have a nice connection for Bus Wexler (no, not Elmer), but I will have to check.
ReplyDeleteGreat comic. Loved reading them in Newsday back in the 1960s.
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