A gaggle of sad, cold Santa Clauses gathers over a city exhaust panel in this Russell Patterson drawn cover of the humor magazine Ballyhoo. This is the Vol. 3 No. 6, January 1933 issue.
From 1931 to 1939, Ballyhoo was a leading humor magazine from Dell Publishing. It thrived during the depression, hitting a circulation peak of 2,000,000. Like Mad Magazine, it featured comic humor and fake parody ads. Unlike Mad, it was a bit randy. The layout of the single panel cartoons was all over the place, and I thought it best just to show mostly the pages themselves. You are going to have to right click to enlarge these things.
Jack Markow, Carl Anderson (pre-"Henry"), Bill Holman (pre-"Smokey Stover") and E. Simms Campbell are well represented.
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