{"id":7219,"date":"2024-02-26T07:41:18","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T15:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=7219"},"modified":"2024-02-26T07:45:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T15:45:53","slug":"wheelnuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2024\/02\/wheelnuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Wheelnuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0I just picked up the July 1964 issue of Drag Cartoons<\/em>, a black and white comics magazine focused not on performative gender-bending as the youth must suspect, but on souped-up autos, including not just drag racers but hot rods as well. Did I pick it up because it had a Peanuts parody? Absolutely, but it takes more than that for me to hunt down a 60 year old comic and pay old-comics prices for it. I’m not eagerly chasing after every\u00a0Mad<\/em>, Cracked<\/em>, and\u00a0Crazy<\/em> that has some Peanuts spoof in it. However, the three-page story “Wheelnuts” in this issue has something that your typical parody does not: it’s drawn by Dale Hale, who had assisted Schulz by doing such things as drawing Peanuts comic book stories. (My interview with Dale, when he was a strapping young lad in his late sixties, is here<\/a>. The good news is, he is now a strapping young lad in his 90s!) As such, this has a real Peanuts link to it, and it gives us a chance to see how Dale handled the characters while Schulz was not looking over his shoulder and redrawing Charlie Brown’s head.<\/p>\n

I’m not going to reproduce the whole three pages here out of copyright concern, but I think fair use will let me show you enough that you can see that it starts out visually very much in the traditional Peanuts realm…<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>… and how it ends, sometime after Lucy has managed to scam some free Ford parts for her vehicle…<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> I should note that this was a full half century before Hot Wheels would bring us this:<\/p>\n

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This is not the only material that Dale would do for\u00a0Drag Cartoons<\/em>; he has an additional one-page story in this issue, and apparently another three-pager in the next issue. The “Wheelnuts” story would be reprinted in the September 1967 issue.<\/p>\n

Purchasing this issue come with some bonuses for me, as there were two one-pagers by Alex Toth and one by Russ Manning. (Peanuts is not all there is in this world!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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