BUNNY "Yvoorg Nam"

We've presented several teen humor stories from Jetta and Tippy Teen...

...but this one has to be the wildest of all!

WTF?

If you're shaking your head in confusion, consider two things...

1) It was 1968 and "psychedelic" was IN!

2) This story, illustrated by Ernie Colon (though who wrote the tale is unknown), is from Bunny #4, Harvey Comics' 1960s attempt to expand their fanbase from pre-teens to 'tweens and teens...which has a fascinating back-story of it's own...

To most people today, the 'tween / teen comics scene begins and ends with the Archie Comics line.
Archie, Jughead, Betty, Veronica, and the rest seem to be the only non-super powered teenagers in the four-color world!
But it wasn't always that way...
In the 1960s, when many comics companies flourished in the era of Pop Art and "Camp", every company had teen-age characters side-by-side with superheroes and spies!
Harvey Comics, had a teen line headed by a female lead, rather than a male.
She was a doll...literally!

In 1966, a toy company wanted to launch a line of Barbie-type dolls, with the added kick of a comic book tie-in to boost public awareness in the same way the 1980s GI Joe series was co-conceived by Hasbro and Marvel.
Harvey's writers and artists worked with the toy company's staff on character development and storylines for the comic and toys.

Like most Harvey characters, Bunny had an ongoing obsession--in this case with teen fads and trends...clothing, dances, hairstyles, etc!
Presumably, this was to encourage doll buyers to pick up the newest clothing and accessories the manufacturer could produce...after seeing them in the comic!

However, before a single doll could roll out of the factory, the toy company collapsed!
The Harveys (three brothers who owned and ran the comic company), not wanting to let the already-prepared pages go to waste, decided to publish the comic anyway.
It sold well enough to keep going for several years and produce a spin-off title, Rock Happening, which serves as the basis for our own line of Bunny-themed goodies!

Next Week:

We don't know yet what we'll present, but we can guarantee...

You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!

(Things are really getting juicy...)

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AGAR-AGAR "Rendevous with Aquarius"

Star-Crossed, a new show on the CW, is about human and alien teens in love...

...but sci-fi and comics have been doing that for decades!

"This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius...Age of Aquarius..."

Oops, sorry, got carried away there for a second.
This surreal mini-series had eight installments, each one weirder than the previous.

Agar-Agar "got physical" (in a PG-13 way) with a variety of life-forms including centaurs, super-heroes, and a human or two.
Illustrated in a Peter Max-esque style by Alberto Solsona.

Written by Luis Gasca under the pen-name "Sadko" and published in England as part of Dracula (1971), a 12-issue partworks by New English Library, the first 3 tales made their American debut in Warren Publishing's Dracula TPB which reprinted #1-#6 of the British Dracula's run in 1973.
You can see the series, including the five stories that have never been seen by American readers, at our "sister" blog, Heroines™.
It'll be a groovy trip, baby!

Next week:

We haven't decided yet what it'll be, but we can guarantee that...

You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!

(Oh, you've heard that, eh?)

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MOD LOVE "Shadow from His Past"

Here's the final tale from the HTF 1967 one-shot Mod Love...

...a magazine-sized periodical that used unusual printing techniques to achive a unique "look".

Written by Michael Lutin, the story (and the entire issue of Western's Mod Love) is illustrated by noted French pop artist Michel Quarez.

Next week:

We haven't decided yet what it'll be, but we can guarantee that...

You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!

(Oh, you've heard that, eh?)

And now a word from our sponsor...

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MOD LOVE "As Long as I Win"

The previous Mod Love story was our most-viewed post ever...

...so who am I to argue with my pop art-loving audience?

Written by Michael Lutin, the story (and the entire issue of Western's 1967 Mod Love one-shot magazine-sized comic book) is illustrated by noted French pop artist Michel Quarez.

Next week:

We haven't decided yet what it'll be, but we can guarantee that...

You'll Cry Your Eyes Out if You Miss It!

(Oh, you've heard that, eh?)

And now a word from our sponsor...

You can own a kool komic collectible...
(t-shirt, mug, tote bag, etc.)

...embellished with the wraparound cover art from the HTF 1960's comic this week's torrid tale is re-presented from...

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