Happy Saint Patrick's Day With Dean and Jerry

To be fair, this isn't exactly a Saint Patrick's Day cover, but having Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis mess with a leprechaun seems like something good enough for the day...

...here, under this cover by Bob Oksner for the Adventures of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis #36 (April, 1957). 

Jerry Lewis Vacation

Seems odd to be dealing with Labor Day weekend and it still being August, but, this is the unofficial end of summer...

...and it wouldn't be Labor Day without Jerry Lewis, so, here's a few Adventures Of Jerry Lewis (#65 and #70, July-August, 1961 and May-June, 1962, both covers by Bob Oksner), with Jerry enjoying a tropical vacation as only Jerry can!

Gorilla Labor With Jerry Lewis

Celebrating Labor Day, and in the bygone days, that would mean the MDA Telethon, hosted by Jerry Lewis, as he and his friends would monkey around on stage performing and having fun.

So. what's more fun that issues of Adventures Of Jerry Lewis, wherein Jerry faced a gorilla!

Adventures Of Jerry Lewis #41 and #86 (November 1957 and January-February, 1965)

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Art by Owen Fitzgerald/Graham Place and Bob Oksner.

Adventures Of Jerry Lewis #103 and #123 (November-December, 1967 and March-April 1971)

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Art by Neal Adams and Bob Oksner.

For more on the Adventures Of Jerry Lewis comic, check here!

Remembering Dean Martin

Remembering singer, comedian and roast master Dean Martin (June 7, 1917 - December 25, 1995) on his birthday, with a look at a few of the covers The King of Cool shared with his partner, Jerry Lewis, of The Adventures Of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, which ran 40 issues from July-August, 1952 to October, 1957.

10 and 12 by Owen Fitzgerald

19 and 24 by Bob Oksner

30 and 33 by Owen Fitzgerald

When Martin and Lewis split, the title continued with just Jerry, and more information on that is here!

But, why didn't Martin get his own title?

 

Giant Jerry Lewis

Here we are with another collection of reprints, and a little extra...

 ...this time looking back at the lighter side of comics, with a couple of issues of The Adventures of Jerry Lewis in Super DC Giant S-19 (October-November, 1970)....


...all under a cover by Bob Oksner and Neal Adams!

Reprints

The stories in this issue come from Adventures of Jerry Lewis #83 (July-August, 1964) with "Scared Silly" by Arnold Drake and Bob Oksner, featuring Jerry dealing with an old age home of retired horror actors (Boris Killoff/Krankenstein, Bela Le Ghouli/Count Drinkula and Peter Leery/Dog-Boy,  and from Adventures of Jerry Lewis #95 (July-August, 1966 also by Drake/Oksner) with "The Killer Counselor Of Camp Wack-A-Boy", dealing with Jerry returning to summer camp (run by Uncle Hal), with separate camps for the boys and the girls (Jerry brings along his nephew, Renfrew, Witch Kraft and her niece, Zanyia).

Beginnings

The series originally began as the Adventures of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis (July-August, 1952), with work by Howie Post, and featured stories closer to what the duo did in movies, antics and misunderstandings with them and others around them, and this lasted until the Adventures of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis #40 (October, 1957), by which time Bob Oksner had signed on as artist....with the team of Martin and Lewis having split in real life....

On His Own

Jerry's comic counterpart soldiered on, as he took sole possession of the title with Adventures of Jerry Lewis #41 (November, 1957), with Jerry monkeying around, working his way through life, and through many adventures (including some that bordered on the supernatural), with the title ending with the Adventures Of Jerry Lewis #124 (May-June, 1971).

Super Friends

Of course, along the way Jerry did meet a few of DC's super heroes...
 
...including Batman and Robin (with the Joker) in Adventures of Jerry Lewis #97 (November-December, 1966), Superman (and Lex Luthor) in the Adventures of Jerry Lewis #105 (March-April, 1968)...

...Flash, Captain Cold and Abra Kadabra in the Adventures of Jerry Lewis #112 (May-June, 1969), Wonder Woman (in her non-powered guise as Diana Prince) and Queen Hippolyta in the Adventures of Jerry Lewis #117 (March-April, 1970)...

....and even tries his own hand at being a super-hero (the fearless Tarantula) in the Adventures of Jerry Lewis #84 (September-October, 1964), as well as Jerry being the first actor to greet Batman and Robin in the 1966 Batman TV show, as a citizen leaning out a window in the Batman episode "The Bookworm Turns" from April 20, 1966.

Holy "hey, lady", Batman!