One Last Bit Of June, Echoing Still...

Oops. Apparently today is July 1st in these parts. With all that time slipping i've been doing lately, i ran out of June without getting to one topic i wanted to be sure of posting. It was originally planned for Juneteenth, but got bumped by the post i did use, and then my peripatetic brain wandered away, thinking it had already been there. So i'm pushing July back by a day, and we're hopping back 56 years to June of 1964 and a comic that was legendarily rare but should have been widely distributed...

It may have been over half a century ago, but it still resonates today with our current struggles. Don't go looking for #s 1-4, this was the first comic book published as part of HARYOU's outreach programs.

The comic was years ahead of its time, illustrating a thick & wordy report - Youth In The Ghetto: A Study Of The Consequences Of Powerlessness - the way we'd see done later for things like the Iran/Contra Affair and the 9/11 Attack, making the information readily accessible to the general public.

I'm very curious about Sam Huger, the artist on this book. It appears to be the only comic he ever drew, at least under that name. I say 'at least under that name' because it's surprising well done for someone with no experience in the field. I'd very much like to know what else he did, comics or otherwise.

Without further comment from the old white dude, let's head on inside the covers...

(For all you Neil deGrasse Tyson fans, that's his Dad being named in the first panel.)

Hmm...
I was going to put the full report here, but i don't see a way to link it or store the file here on Blogger.
However, i did find a .pdf copy over at the Internet Archive. Here's the link, and hopefully it's still good by the time you got here.

page art by Sam Huger from Harlem Youth Report #5 (1964)

Follow-Up Follies

Just like the title says, today we're doing some follow-ups on previous posts. Maybe even grab at a dangling thread or two in passing. The first of which goes back to The Spider Widow from Frank Borth.

When we were looking at her, i said we'd come back to see when Spider Widow met Spider-Man. You might not have waited as long as some of those mentioned upcoming posts, but it's been more than plenty long enough...

Oh, come on! You knew it wasn't that Spider-Man since Pete didn't get bit for another couple decades. 

Let's jump to more recent posts now with the second Un-Comic featuring Captain Marvel And The Lieutenants Of Safety. As teased last time, in this one we face the dangers of Climbing!

Our second second is the next strip in the series featuring the original Hank And Lank, by Frank Thomas, in which the Sooper Sweeps decide to join the Army...

One more Hank And Lank, Sooper Sweeps strip remains.

Bonus Sorta Follow-Up:
Here's a strip that got squeezed out by time and circumstance when we looked at Champ Comics. The writer and artist are unknown -

Proof that a child could do a better job than what we have now?

(BTW - If you notice any tags missing from this post, it's because blogger limits the total number of characters to 200, but flat refuses to tell you how many you're currently using so it's nigh impossible to correct without just randomly throwing some out. I really wish they had somebody who uses the system doing the design work. Especially since they always ignore any feedback, questions, or suggestions.)

page art by Frank Borth, C.C. Beck, Frank Thomas and ??? from Feature Comics #66, Champ Comics #23, Camp Comics #2, and Captain Marvel And The Lieutenants Of Safety #2 (1942, 1943, 1950)