Early “The Passing Scene” Cartoons – April 1965

To close out the week, here’s a few very early The Passing Scene comics from April 1965. It’s appropriate since the cartoonist himself, Gene Patrick, was featured here yesterday on the blog.

These are the earliest editions of the strip that I’ve ever seen. The first one ran in the Journal on April 10, 1965.

Gene sneaks in a few caricatures. I guess that’s one of the Beatles in the second panel. And that’s a great drawing of a miserable President Lyndon Baines Johnson in the third panel. 

The strip below ran on this blog before. But in the interest of grouping it with the strips that ran before and after it, here it is again. It’s from April 17, 1965.

The last strip is from April 24, 1965. I like that ‘Adventure Night’ at the Huron Library panel. It reminds me of the old Hanna Barbera cartoons which depicted Adventurer’s Clubs (usually in old Snagglepuss cartoons) in which the members wore pith helmets and recanted tales of their various safaris and other hunting expeditions.

As you’ve noticed, there haven’t been any Passing Scene cartoons on the blog for quite a while. Hopefully I will encounter them soon as I review old microfilm at the library month by month for my “50 years ago this month” themed posts.