Powerhouse Pepper by Basil Wolverton -- Who’ll Guard the Bodyguard?

Powerhouse Pepper 4-pager
from Tessie the Typist #10 June 1947
story and art by Basil Wolverton

Basil Wolverton's Powerhouse Pepper appeared in various comic books published by Timely Comics, the 1930s and 1940s precursor of Marvel Comics, from 1942 through 1952. The strip was characterized by alliterative, rhyming dialogue, screwball comedy and throwaway gags in background.

Basil Wolverton’s Hotel Trilogy

I’ve got my new Basil Wolverton Culture Corner book on order, so in anticipation of its arrival, I’d like to celebrate by pointing you toward a set of amazing scans of rarely-seen Wolverton comics!

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Courtesy of the Golden Age Comic Book Stories blog, comes this mother-lode of Wolverton wonderfulness: Thirty-something pages of golden-age comical weirdness, featuring three different stories about a hotel clerk named Berserk McJerk/Berk!

All the goodies are HERE:
http://goldenagecomicbookstories.blogspot.com/2010/02/basil-wolverton-hotel-clerk-trilogy-and.html

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More on Basil Wolverton and Culture Corner:

Dozens of scanned Culture Corner comic strips at: http://www.dinosaurgardens.com/archives/682