#sweat mag

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From the cover of BOLD MEN magazine Vol 5, #2 (Cape Magazine Management, 1961)

Artist: uncredited, possibly George Wilson?

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We can hardly imagine Magilla Gorilla going berserk thus.

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Come to think of it, Jabberjaw is not amused by many of the so-called Killer Shark Attacks on Unsuspecting Divers tales as were a commonplace of the "sweat" magazines targeting the so-called "literal men" perhaps too conscious of themselves to an extent concealing possible emotional issues from the 1950's well until the genre died off in the mid-1970's. And he can certainly "set the record straight," even if it means Shelley going into the usual love/hate exercises reinforced by Jabberjaw invoking the Curly voice per The Three Stooges to prove his point.

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Obviously NOT Magilla Gorilla and Ogee.

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By the time this ad appeared in the March 1967 number of the "sweat" magazine For Men Only, you have to wonder just how much of Hanna-Barbera's gag-writing talent was retiring or had died off in the barely ten years the studio was operating, and had to take any writing talent they could get. Including correspondence-school "graduates."

Which became especially crucial as Saturday-morning television, 3400 Cahuenga's stock-in-trade, was starting to become more predictably stale and tepid thanks to as much activist as network pressure.

(As a side note, in the 1929-30 period that saw Joe Barbera start working with the Irving Trust Company of New York as a tax accountant, he sold a few cartoons to Collier's magazine which he signed "Roland Barbera" on the side.)

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So does the Hair Bear Bunch, I understand.