dir: Daniel Mann
COME BACK, LITTLE HEBA
Nuts! #2, May 1954
writer & artist unknown
The movie is basically about a doctor, “Doc” Delaney (Burt Lancaster) who's a recovering alcoholic that hasn't had a drink in a year, and his declining marriage. The title comes from the name of their dog who disappeared years ago and the delusion his wife Lola (Shirley Booth) has that it will eventually come back.
The parody eliminates the first two thirds of the movie, ignoring how the Delaneys took a college student in as a boarder and Doc was jealous of her fiance and how she's also seeing a track star, concentrating only on his alcoholic relapse. I don't remember there being any more than a passing referencing to him having attended an Ivy League school, if even that.
I don't know who the artist is, but like many of the artists for the early MAD imitations had probably never done humor before and they figured putting in a bunch of things that were supposed to be funny would be enough to make them indistinguishable from what they were emulating. The art sort of reminds me of when Daniel Clowes was just out of college and was starting at Cracked before coming into his own.
Black Cat Mystery #51, August 1954
w: Nat Barnett
a: Howard Nostrand
This wasn't in a humor comic but was humor-adjacent, a horror anthology that often intersected with a humor title. This was originally intended for MAD imitation Flip.
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