I went to three different websites and got three different answers. Imagine Marvel cancelling a book and then allowing DC to play with the characters in it!Īs for Yankee’s creator, I’m honestly stumped. That really is an indication of how much the industry has changed since the early days. Apparently, Chesler loaned Yankee out to another publisher for a grand total of one issue. Then Chesler took him back to reprint the story from Yankee Comics #3 in Bullseye Comics #11 (but with nicer coloring). Hello Pal Comics was published by Harvey Comics, probably best remembered for creating Richie Rich. So even if Yankee Doodle Jones is bad (and he is so, so bad), without Chesler around to show the viability of comics, we may never have had decent superheroes - or, indeed, superheroes at all. Prior to that, comics were mainly reprints of newspaper comic strips. Founder Harry “A” Chesler (like Truman’s “S,” the middle initial doesn’t stand for anything) was one of the first to provide original content for comic books, in the mid-1930s. Who thought this was worth collecting? I do not know.
After this, it was all reprints and collected editions. I know “rip” here is meant as a sound effect, but given that this guy’s legs have clearly detached from his torso, I’m going to assume Yankee killed him and it really says R.I.P. It also features Yankee, dressed as a skeleton because costume party, throwing a dude through a wall. It’s pretty graphic for a superhero comic, but not for a horror comic, which this clearly should have been.
#YANKEE DOODLE WAR FULL#
Dynamic Comics #8 was probably published in November 1942, over a full year after Yankee Comics #1 was definitely published.Īfter Dynamic, Yankee skipped over to Hello Pal Comics #1, in which he and Dandy fail to stop a bunch of guys dressed as Robin Hood’s men from shooting arrows into the skulls of some visiting dignitaries.
It kept the “introducing Yankee Doodle Jones” splash page in the beginning, which apparently made Comic Vine think this is his real debut. He made a single appearance in Dynamic Comics #8, which featured a reprint of Yankee Comics #1. Yankee Doodle Jones had a hard time finding a home after leaving Yankee Comics. It would have been nicer if any of the jokes were actually funny. There’s a long letter on the first page about the importance of humor in helping people, especially soldiers, cope with the stress of war, which may explain the switch.
Yankee Comics #5 consists entirely of short joke comics - more like strips, really. This goes on for two more issues (one of them featuring a dude who runs around setting pilots on fire) before Yankee and Dandy are abruptly booted from the comic. What is going on with Uncle Sam’s right arm? Is he oka-ooh, cake!
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