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Thursday, 26 November 2009

More Wilda

Remember the song "Wilda" by Mel Graff I posted last week? I checked my set of 1947-48 X-9 strips, and whadda ya know... There it was!
Graff used it in the strip as a part of the plot. I guess this was a smart way to market a song. Or not. I dunno how many copies it sold.
Below are a few sample strips where the song is sung or mentioned.

Hogan's Alley has a great selection of old sheet music covers with comic characters. If you want to see what the cover to Wilda looks like, just click HERE.
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3 comments:

  1. Håkan / Wakuran26 November 2009 at 16:50

    Damnit, I get curious for an MP3!

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  2. Shay29 November 2009 at 10:53

    The cartoonist looks as though he spent a lot of time studying Milt Caniff.

    I wonder why no one reissues all these old adventure comics, they're much more worth reading than the ones in the newspapers today.

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  3. Joakim Gunnarsson30 November 2009 at 08:13

    You bet he was inspired by Caniff. :)
    Mel Graff started out at AP in the mid thirties when both Caniff and Noel Sickles worked there.

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