Jack Cole in Picture Scoop v01n01

[darwination]

So, I was reading something tonight on Lev Gleason that mentioned in passing his publishing of a magazine called Friday.  A friend recently scanned a couple of issues, and I'd noted the out-of-step politics within, so I went back to look at the issues and look into the magazine a little bit on the web which led me to a fantastic article on Ken Quattro's blog with some in-depth research into FBI documents on Gleason and the Communist party.  

http://thecomicsdetective.blogspot.com/2011/07/mr-gleason-are-you-now-or-have-you-ever.html

A comment from Steven Rowe mentions another magazine called Picture Scoop which I happen to have scanned the first issue of recently (another interesting read), so I went back to look at that one too and caught some Jack Cole cartoons illustrating an article where comedians make fun of Hitler that I didn't realize were his when I read through the magazine the first time.  Anyways, I thought I'd cut the cartoons out and stick them up here in case they are of interest to any of the Cole fans around here:

http://i55.tinypic.com/308zaps.jpg

http://i56.tinypic.com/2v9doxw.jpg

http://i51.tinypic.com/263818i.jpg

And I might as well put up a link to the full issue while I'm at it (thanks to my pal McCoy for his edit work):
Picture Scoop v01n01 (1942-10.Picture Scoop)(D&M)
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?4het796bwtoahxl

along with a couple of issues of Friday in case anybody want to see what that Gleason-related pub was like, thanks to McCoy for the scans:
Friday v01n01 (1940-03-15)(10 pages damaged)
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?vhlypvjoeg7vzij

Friday v02n13 (1941-03-38)
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?wmn0dzjozty

[josemas]

These are great!

Thanks for posting them.

Best

Joe

[Yoc]

Wow, wonderful stuff.  Cole is appreciated but he should be among the BIG NAMES of comics IMO.
Thanks very much for the scans and the links Darwin!

[srca1941]

Yes, thank you VERY much!!! I've been working on a history/reprint book on Lev Gleason for a while now, but could never find even a good cover scan of Friday, let alone two whole issues!

-Eric

[darwination]

It's a very interesting magazine.  I found all the discussions of British agents manipulating America into war in the first issue surprising as well as the whole leftist bent.  Of course, there is a marked change in attitude towards the plight of the Brits by the time the other issue was published one year later.  I'll keep an eye out for other Gleason-related magazines.  In particular, I'd like to track down an issue of Burlesk  

http://www.comicartville.com/gleasonburlesk.jpg

Of course the two issues of Tops from 1949 are among my most wanted comic scans that I always hope will pop up here one day...

[colescomics]

A nice find! Thank you for sharing! I've been digging for previously unknown Jack Cole work for a few years and have been seeking issues of these Gleason pubs for awhile now, suspecting that there could be some Cole cartoons in them. It's fascinating to see something resembling an editorial cartoon by the unpolitical (according to Quality editor and Cole friend Gill Fox) Jack Cole.

Speaking of "lost" Jack Cole cartoons, there are a few on the recent postings on my blog about Jack Cole that folks here might be interested in seeing:

Millie and Terry - a 1954/55 color Sunday style strip:
http://colescomics.blogspot.com/2011/09/there-was-playboy-and-also-army-jack.html

Another Millie and Terry:
http://colescomics.blogspot.com/2010/02/millie-and-terry-jack-coles-1956.html

A nice Jack Cole cartoon from Look 1955 that Ger Appledoorn located and shared:
http://colescomics.blogspot.com/2011/10/lost-jack-cole-cartoon-from-playboy.html

[Yoc]

Thanks very much for the links CC!