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A comics connoisseur, foods lover, pundit, and blabberingmouth bear extraordinaire.
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Fabulous FoXo's Brilliant Bozo - A genuine gem classic comics which is unfortunately unknown to many

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From left-to-right : Bozann, Umbrella Guy, and Bozo It was terrible times during lockdown days in 2021 when me is finds a unknown classic gem called BOZO! It not take long before it become me favourite comics, and for good reasons. There is good reason, and you will knows why when you sees BOZO for yourself that why me gives a big thumbs up, big applause, and three cheers each time for the marvellous master FoXo’s magnificent masterpiece, the most pleasant picturesque pantomime, the ever entertaining ever energetic ever enjoyable ever excellent evergreen entertainer, the brilliantly beautiful and beautifully brilliant BOZO! It is true that a picture speaks a thousand words and what better example than the splendid pictures drawn by FoXo which indeed tells the funny tales without saying a word! It’s no easy job to tell a tale or make a gag with only pictures and no speech. And to do it with such skilled artwork with depths and perspectives, a great work art indeed. Art in its p...
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Wood you beleaves it is time for tree puns?

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All right, folks. For today’s Sunday Punday, tree-t yourself to some evergreen puns. ... You can always rest assured of a koala-ty time in Aus-tree-lia. … What did the tree do when the bank closed? It started its own branch. …
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The Phantom and Mandrake - Where Lee Falk got his ideas from, in his own words

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And why one of the passwords of Norwegian underground in the second World War was "The Phantom" Here's an account from Jerry Robinson's (co-creator of "The Joker") 1974 book "The Comics". Special thanks to Unca Scrooge for providing this very valuable article. Lee Falk, in his own words, explains where he got his ideas from for his comics - The Phantom and Mandrake, and the significance of The Phantom comic during the Second Word War. As Lee Falk says in the below article, The Phantom had a wide range of readers across the world numbering 100,000,000 readers a day - one hundred million readers a day! That's 10,00,00,000 - ten crore readers a day! I was one of the large number of readers in India, during the Lee Falk & Sy Barry era. we used to get The Phantom and Mandrake in Indrajal Comics which were essentially Lee Falk's newspaper strips in a comic book format, in in full colours! Later, Diamond Comics published these as a ...
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