Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Adventures of Jerry Lewis #121

Adventures of Jerry Lewis #121 (On Sale: September 8, 1970) has a cover by Bob Oksner.

We begin with "Schnook and Ladder" by Alan Riefe and Bob Oksner. While playing checkers at the local firehouse, Jerry's new bicycle is stolen. Jerry accidently catches a ride with the firemen to a fire, only to end up on the end up on the wrong end of a the ladder and saving fire-eater Madame Flamazola. Jerry ends up falling through a skylight and into the shop of the bicycle thieves. In the ensuing paint gun fight, Jerry set a torch to a crate, resulting in so much popping that the bicycle gang feels out numbered and gives up. Ends up they were in Popopski's Popcorn factory. With the help of the firemen, Jerry recovers his stolen bicycle.

Next is  "Pizza Pie in the Sky"  written by Len Wein, Marv Wolfman and Howie Post, drawn by Bob Oksner and Tex Blaisdell and reprinted from Adventures of Jerry Lewis #109. Jerry takes a job at a pizza booth, but can't get the hang of tossing the dough and ends up getting fired, as usual.

That is followed by our cover story, "A Boob in the Woods" by Alan Riefe and Bob Oksner. When Renfrew complains about Uncle Jerry's guitar playing and singing, Jerry heads to the woods for quiet place to practice. Instead of quiet, he runs into the gun-toting hillbilly family, the Shacknastys: Paw, twins Clark and Errol and daughter Sairy June. Jerry is taken at gunpoint to join their family band and ends up caught in their feud with the Jugbender family.

Jerry escapes but runs into a music producer who wants to tape the two families music. Jerry agrees to help (for money), and the producer ends up signing both families to contracts. Jerry takes his money and buys a tuba, causing Renfrew to ask him to go out to the woods to practice.

We end with "Low I.Q. High Snafu" written by Don Segall, penciled by Bob Oksner and inked by Oksner and Tex Blaisdell, and reprinted from Adventures of Jerry Lewis #108. Jerry takes a job painting flagpoles, but starts at the bottom ending up trapped at the top till the paint dries.

Edited by Murray Boltinoff.


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