From the Dick Buchanan Files: Certified Vintage Gag Cartoons 1940 - 1961

It's another rainy day here in the Northeast, and a gloomy one. Here to lift the darkness, is gag cartoon curator Dick Buchanan, with another twenty lovely moldy old magazine cartoons culled from his massive Cartoon Clip File located in Greenwich Village. Thanks, and take it away, Dick:

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CERTIFIED VINTAGE
  (1940 – 1964)

Working remotely (as always) your friendly crackpot Cartoon Clip File curator has been hard at work exercising his authority under the Old Joke Protection Act of 1953.  Which means more gag cartoons have been designated as Certified Vintage.  Here are a few . . .


1.  TON SMITS.  This Week Magazine  September 22, 1962.

2.  W.F. BROWN.  1000 Jokes Magazine  March – May, 1959.

 

3.  LESLIE STARKE.  The Saturday Evening Post  October 30, 1954.

4.  JEFF KEATE.  Collier’s  October 5, 1946.

5.  CLYDE LAMB.  American Legion Magazine  September, 1954.

6.  VIRGIL PARTCH.  Collier’s September 15, 1946.

7.  FRED LUNDY.  American Legion Magazine  November, 1963.

8.  MARTHA BLANCHARD.  The Saturday Evening Post  July 31, 1948.

9.  ED NOFZIGER.  American Magazine  September, 1950.

10.  BURR SHAFER.  American Magazine  February, 1951.

11.  DONALD REILLY.  The Saturday Evening Post  September 5, 1964.

12.  AL ROSS.  For Laughing Out Loud  January – March, 1965.

13.  BEN WICKS.  1000 Jokes Magazine  December, 1963-February, 1964.

14.  VAHAN SHIRVANIAN.  This Week Magazine  September 6, 1959.

15.  CHON DAY.  Collier’s  November 30, 1946.

16.  IRWIN CAPLAN.  Collier’s  September 22, 1945.

17.  GARDNER REA.  Collier’s September 15, 1945.

18.  HERB GREEN.  Argosy Magazine  May, 1964.

19.  TOM HENDERSON.  The Saturday Evening Post  September 19, 1953.

20.  GEORGE PAPP.  Collier’s  December 14, 1940.

 
- Edited from a blog entry originally published April 2, 2021.