Need help locating a panel

[kusunoki]

This may seem like an absolute shot in the dark, but does anyone know what book this image came from? I saved the panel a while back, but I stupidly forgot to record any information about where it came from. If I remember correctly, it was from a book that I got from DCM and it was the last panel in a story. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/742/gnashingtheaxis.jpg

[PeterC]

GCD to the rescue... maybe...

I did a writer search there for "Ogden Nash" and came up with http://www.comics.org/issue/2281/ which is War Victory Comics #1 from Harvey in Summer 1942, but unfortunately there isn't a scan here of it.

So it's likely from a Harvey comic from 1942. Using the advanced search at the GCD gets this list:
US     Harvey       Champ Comics (1940 series) #17     February 1942
US    Harvey    Champ Comics (1940 series) #18    May 1942
US    Harvey    Champ Comics (1940 series) #19    June 1942
US    Harvey    Champ Comics (1940 series) #20    July 1942
US    Harvey    Champ Comics (1940 series) #21    August 1942
US    Harvey    Champ Comics (1940 series) #22    September 1942
US    Harvey    Champ Comics (1940 series) #23    October 1942
US    Harvey    Champ Comics (1940 series) #24    December 1942
US    Harvey    Green Hornet Comics (1942 series) #7    June 1942
US    Harvey    Green Hornet Comics (1942 series) #8    August 1942
US    Harvey    Green Hornet Comics (1942 series) #9    October 1942
US    Harvey    Green Hornet Comics (1942 series) #10    December 1942
US    Harvey    Pocket Comics (1941 series) #4    January 1942
US    Harvey    Speed Comics (1939 series) #16    January 1942
US    Harvey    Speed Comics (1939 series) #17    April 1942
US    Harvey    Speed Comics (1939 series) #18    May 1942
US    Harvey    Speed Comics (1939 series) #19    June 1942
US    Harvey    Speed Comics (1939 series) #20    July 1942
US    Harvey    Speed Comics (1939 series) #21    August 1942
US    Harvey    Speed Comics (1939 series) #22    September 1942
US    Harvey    Speed Comics (1939 series) #23    October 1942
US    Harvey    Speed Comics (1939 series) #24    December 1942
US    Harvey    War Victory Comics (1942 series) #1    Summer 1942

I've bolded the ones that have scans here.

Hope this helps!

Peter

p.s if it isn't indexed at all at the GCD, it wouldn't come up on this list of comics from 1942....

[kusunoki]

Wow, thanks for going above and beyond the call, Peter! Now that you mention it, Ogden Nash does indeed ring bells; but for some reason I was reading the name in the panel as "Oeden Nash" and didn't make the connection at all.

[PeterC]

No problem... And I just did a bit more searching...

Looks like this was a series, Duke University has a different one with the same title pictured here: http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/adaccess.W0115/ saying it was published in Family Circle magazine in 1943.

Another one is quoted here: http://www.mccookgazette.com/story/1047072.html

I don't know if these appeared in one of Nash's book collections or not. This blogger http://blog.ogdennash.org/ might be able to help... (didn't see anything in their archives)...

Peter