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Alley Oop

 

Caveman Alley Oop

With his faithful dinosaur

Looks for Miss Oola,

His sidekick cracking in rhyme

Antediluvian time.

 

Antman

 

I can talk to ants.

My silver cyberhelmet

Tunes to their wavelength,

Then I ride to victory

With my Myrmidon army.

 

Asterix the Gaul

 

From Armorica,

Asterix and Obelix,

Miss Panacea,

Warrior Tragicomix

And Getafix, The Druid.

 

The Atom

 

Why does Doctor Light

Appear only black and white,

Illuminating

Our hero caught in a lamp

Cyan, yellow and magenta?

 

Barbarella

 

An angel is love

Psychedelic space cadet

Bound by the black queen

On Duran Duran's machine

Orgasmatron from above

 

Beany and Cecil

 

Beany and Cecil

The big seasick sea serpent

Had buttons for eyes.

They began as hand puppets

Before they became cartoons.

 

Blackhawk

 

Blackhawk squadron of

Paramilitary jets

Swoops in for the kill.

Another petty tyrant

Falls to the coup d'evil.

 

Brenda Breeze

 

Skirt above her knees,

Brenda Breeze was quite a tease,

Made me pant and wheeze.

Since the feminists complain

We won't see Brenda again.

 

Buster Brown

 

That brat Buster Brown

Almost electrocuted

His poor old father

When he fixed the radio

To fall into the bathtub.

 

Chip and Dale

 

These good buddies are

The epitome of cool,

Calm and collected.

Their etiquette never missed.

"After you."  "No, I insist."

 

Dennis the Menace

 

Dennis the Menace

And neighbor Mister Wilson

Are at it again

Displaced Oedipal complex

Or Kronos eating children?

 

Doctor Seuss

 

The Cat in the Hat

Went down to Mulberry Street

For green eggs and ham

Horton hears a Who today

Or the Grinch that stole Christmas

 

Doonesburial

 

Hell's Angels, Fear and Loathing,

And The Great Gonzo Shark Hunt

Duke Hunter Thompson's

Cremains shot into the sky

Just like the circus

 

Donald Duck

 

Uncle Scrooge McDuck,

Inventor Gyro Gearloose,

And Donald's nephews

Huey, Dewey and Louie,

Ain't no Mickey Mouse outfit.

 

The Fantastic Four

 

Plastic fantastic,

Pilot Ben Grimm, called The Thing,

And The Human Torch--

But The Invisible Girl

Can use imagination.

 

In their skyscraper,

What's with the "Giant Map Room?"

It's no giant room!

Do they have some giant maps?

Ben and Johnny shooting craps?

 

Fearless Fosdick

 

Get wildroot, Charlie,

And square the end of your chin,

Then you'll get your man

Unless it's Sadie Hawkins,

And then you run for your wife.

 

Flash Gordon

 

Flash Gordon and Dale

Flee from Ming the Merciless

Personifying

Paranoid xenophobic

Fear of all things alien.

 

G.I. Combat

 

Ride The Haunted Tank

With Jeb Stuart on the track

Eponymously

Mapping ghostly strategies

Against the ghastly Nazis.

 

The Great Pumpkin

 

Good grief!  A pumpkin

Has taken root in my yard:

Washed up by the flood

From Hurricane Katrina

Just in time for Halloween.

 

 Green Lantern

 

Imagination

Focused through alien lens

Brings the ring power.

You are only limited

By the freedom of your will.

 

Hawkman

 

Weapons of the past

Join science of the future:

Fight present danger

With a beautiful partner

Flying on waves of the wind.

 

Iron Man

 

If you have money,

You can replace your body

With metallic parts.

Unfortunately, one part

Needs more than a little oil.

 

The Katzenjammer Kids

 

Katzenjammer Kids

Play their mischief-making pranks

On the poor captain,

Who wishes he had never

Come to this tropic island.

 

Krazy Kat

 

A brick on the head

Brings sudden enlightenment

And encouragement

To the eternal triangle

With rat and Officer Pup.

      

Little Nemo

 

Living in the dreams

Of a flying rarebit fiend,

Possibilities,

Clown, prince and savage bushman

Merge with baroque arabesque.

 

Gerald Mac Boing Boing

 

Onomato boy

Gerald Mac Boing Boing,

Cousin of John Cage,

Industrial ancestor

Audio expressionist.

 

Bill Mauldin

 

Take a tour of the

European Theater

With our dogface pals

Bold GI's Joe and Willie

Tired of wading through the mud

 

Moonraker

 

Down the mountain pass

A Bentley skids off the road

The rocket's hijackers

The werewolves hound our hero

But Bond is back in action

 

Nancy

 

Nancy and Sluggo,

Quite an unlikely couple.

Right way and wrong way

Or is it a class conflict

Culture assimilation?

 

Plainclothesman

 

Hawk nose and square jaw,

A grotesque heiroglyphic

Of law and order:

Law of commercial design;

Art of sequential order.

 

Icon of action:

Car curves around a corner;

Tracy dodges past,

Swasticated arms and legs,

Coattail signifying speed.

 

A reader complains,

"Your villains are so ugly!"

Popular phrenology

Characterizing affects.

There's nothing cute about crime.

 

Flattop, B.B. Eyes,

Littleface, Pruneface, Shakey,

Breathless Mahoney,

Mumbles, Mole, The Brow, The Blank,

Stooge Viller and Sketch Paree.

 

Too many questions

On two-way wrist radios:

Proper procedure

Calls for us to go at once,

Sign off with a big ten-four.

 

Popeye

 

Popeye, goon and jeep

Enact Thimble Theater

Saving Olive Oyl

From evil sea hag potion

Exclaiming, "Et tu, Bluto?"

 

Buck Rogers

 

Anthony Rogers,

Airlords of Han nemesis

Better known as Buck,

Awoke in a world of war

Ruled by anti-gravity.

 

Leonard Sansone

 

Who's that lurking here?

The Wolf in GI Clothing

With a nasty leer

For Miss Red Hot Riding Hood

And he don't mean her no good

 

Showcase

 

Jack Kirby’s heroes

Challengers of the Unknown

Live on borrowed time—

Puzzle in a mystic box

Courtesy of Gardner Fox.

 

Spiderman

 

Radioactive

Peter Parker picked a pack

Of gossamer web

Swinging from all the rooftops

Just hanging around downtown.

 

The Spirit

 

Detective comics

And sequential narrative

On the edge of time

Humor, glamor and suspense

Zoot suit, wide brimmed hat

Terry and the Pirates

 

The Dragon Lady

Sends a horde of her henchmen

To greet downed pilots,

While she waits in her salon

Smoking a long cigaratte.

 

Thor

 

Come along with me,

Journey into Mystery.

What’s that eerie sound?

Strike your hammer on the ground

Be the thunder god you are!

 

Wonder Woman

 

Why is Diana

More sexy with her glasses

Than Amazon garb?

When she goes into action

She loses all her repose.

 

Zap

 

The Checkered Demon's

Creator S. Clay Wilson

Recoiled in horror

When shown a child porn comic:

"I don't dig 'short eyes,'" he sighs.

 

Phoebe Zeitgeist

 

Mike O'Donahue

Wrote absurd adventures in

Evergreen Review

No tarpits or ex-Nazis

Tarnish the name of Zeitgeist