Saturday, March 19, 2022

HY GARDENS CALLING COLLECT

HY GARDNER CALLING
1950s-1960s, VARIOUS

Cracked #6, December 1958
a: Carl Burgos

Poor Carl Burgos. Creator of the Human Torch to anonymous artist for Cracked parodies. Supposedly in his final years he burned all his comics memorabilia. Sad story representative of many golden age comics creators who died penniless. Anyway...

Hy Gardner Calling wasn't really a regular show but a series of specials with Hy Gardner, an entertainment radio/TV journalist, interviewing various celebrities it seems with the conceit that he was calling them out of the blue.

The first guest is supposed to be J. Fred Muggs, an ape that was the co-host of The Today Show. In the Dave Garroway Show post linked at right, you can see the cover he did for MAD.
Then parodies of actress Kim Novak and Jerry Lewis.

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