Monkey Covers

Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover!

Bob should know better than to play cards with a gorilla on the cover of The Adventures of Bob Hope #33 (1955).

(Standard disclaimer about poker-playing gorillas not really being monkeys applies.)


Image courtesy of the GCD. Click on the image for a larger version.

Detective M. Richard Tracy

Bizarro is brang to you today by Gooder Grammar.

This kind of simple word play where you combine the names of two things and create a third thing is very common, I know. Maybe there's even a name for this process, if anyone knows of one, please leave it in the comments section. Or make one up.

What made this one appealing to me was the deadpan humor of a whale with a two-way wrist TV that he can't possibly see from his vantage point. Plus the tiny hat. I also like to render underwater scenes, so all that added together made for a green light.

As I look at this thing this morning, I can't find the 5 symbols that the number by the signature says there are supposed to be. I only found four. So here's another version with one added. If someone finds all five in the original, let me know.