Please Stand By: New World's Funnest Post Went From A Back-Up Story To A Giant-Sized Annual

I have been working on the latest entry in the World's Funnest retrospective (The Golden Age sequence), and the introduction has, over the last four hours of typing, blown up into its own post. My plans were to dash off the introduction and scan the materials needed (copies of Sheldon Moldoff's art and Tom Orzechowski's overlay lettering), drop in the script (only two pages, but so old these always need 'fixing" because the format is corrupted) and post a LOT of DC comic book covers from our collection that I took photos of (because Sheldon Moldoff's section is a good place to discuss where the idea for World's Funnest came from in the first place (going back to the 1970s when a friend loaned me a Superman collection that featured the first Mr. Mxyzptlk vs. Bat-Mite story). 

But the introduction went off on a monster tangent, going off road and into the hills from the Golden Age of DC Comics, running roughshod into my childhood comic habits, my Marvel fixation as a kid, my anti-DC stance as a kid, how DC changed due to Marvel's encroaching influence, the "relevant comics" of the 70's, why I was never a fan of those comics (not even the Spider-Man ones), being a comics fan/general nerd back when it was not socially acceptable, how mainstream superhero comics changed with the desire for being socially accepted and taken seriously, how DC got weird when it went through a Marvel makeover and their pantheon of gods had to start dealing with flaws other than the one in Green Lantern's magic cop ring, becoming a DC reader/fan in the 80s, The New Teen Titans, and the late, great George Perez. 

So, that was a lot to just plop on top of the WF material, so it's going to be a separate post that will lead into the retrospective. 

It isn't finished, so who the hell knows what else might end up in there. Hope to finish it in the next day or so, I'm trying to get a lot done lately and am kind of trying to do too much all at once. Possibly the Ritalin talking, or typing. But the Ritalin needs to get some drawing done. And pack up some art. Shit, I also need to send my therapist a reply about tomorrow's interview.  

I also need to get out of this chair and eat something, I've been writing for four hours, and need to get something down the gullet before I get "sandwichy, as my friend Brian says. And then get over to the drawing table. And I have to replace the lamp which broke yesterday, hopefully the one I ordered is sturdier. First LED lamp, I feel like an astronaut!

ABOVE: Cover for World's Finest #169, published in July, 1967, DC Comics. Art by Curt Swan and George Klein. Relevant to World's Funnest because of the story, "The Supergirl-Batgirl Plot -- Clash of the Super-Teams", although I wasn't aware of it when I worked on the plot or script for the comic.