Joe Palooka

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Joe Palooka was Ham Fisher's most famous comic strip . The adventures of the boxing title character were published from 1930 to 1984 and also filmed several times.

Plot, publication and illustrator

Joe Palooka is a slightly naive heavyweight boxing champion who also experiences numerous adventures outside of the boxing ring .

Joe Palooka was developed by Ham Fisher at the beginning of the 1920s , but it was not published in series until 1930. After the comic had proven successful, Fisher employed numerous ghost artists, including Al Capp , who did Fisher's Put text and signed stories into drawings. After Fisher's suicide in 1955, his ghost artist Mo Leff officially took over the strip and continued it until 1959. In 1959 Tony DiPreta took over Joe Palooka as a draftsman and continued with him until the last episode in 1984, where he was supported by various authors . From 1962 to 1970, Morris Weiss provided the stories that Tony DiPreta translated into drawings.

Numerous films based on the comic were released between 1934 and 1955. Actors of the title character were, in addition to Stuart Erwin, mainly Robert Norton and Joe Kirkwood, Jr. In addition, there were also radio series about Joe Palooka .

background

Joe Palooka was the first comic book to focus on boxing . Fisher had his comic mostly drawn by employed Ghost artists, while he primarily took care of its marketing. After initial difficulties, Joe Palooka became one of the most successful daily strips alongside Blondie in the 1940s .

During his employment at Fisher, Al Capp developed the hillbilly figure Big Leviticus; this idea served as the basis for his comic strip Li'l Abner . The argument over this character massively affected the relationship between Capp and Fisher and led to decades of litigation between the two.

In contrast to the US administration, Fisher took an early position on questions of a possible entry into the war by the United States. As early as May 1940, he had his character speak out in favor of the United States entering the Second World War .

Joe Palooka was the most successful sports trip in comic history. It has now been printed in over 1,000 newspapers.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Franco Fossati: The large illustrated Ehapa comic lexicon . Ehapa Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7704-0865-9 , p. 141.
  2. ↑ Mo Leff on lambiek.net (English) , accessed on February 20, 2015
  3. ↑ Tony DiPreta on lambiek.net (English) , accessed on February 20, 2015
  4. ↑ Morris Weiss on lambiek.net (English) , accessed on February 20, 2015
  5. ↑ a b Joe Palooka in the Internet Movie Database , accessed February 20, 2015
  6. ↑ Harald Havas : Comic Worlds. Edition Comic-Forum, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-900390-61-4 , p. 138.
  7. ^ Andreas C. Knigge: Comics . Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 1996, ISBN 3-499-16519-8 , p. 95.
  8. ↑ a b Andreas C. Knigge: Comics . Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 1996, ISBN 3-499-16519-8 , p. 93.
  9. ^ Andreas C. Knigge: Comics . Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 1996, ISBN 3-499-16519-8 , p. 84.
  10. ↑ a b Andreas C. Knigge: Comics . Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 1996, ISBN 3-499-16519-8 , p. 69.