I’d love to add a laugh track to this consisting entirely of hyenas guffaws. Hyenas love a good joke—or even a mediocre one.
Art by Joe Doolin from the cover of Jumbo 105 (Fiction House), Nov. 1947.
Transcript:
SCENE: Wearing a skimpy, leopard skin outfit, Sheena battles what appears to be a native woman who is either a priestess or chieftess. The native woman—who like Sheena—wears a skimpy outfit. She’s holding a spear that Sheena is trying to wrest away from here. Meanwhile a pack of angry and apparently hungry hyenas are rush towards a man who is tied to a stake in the background.
NATIVE WOMAN: You can’t stop me…or my hyenas, Sheena!
SHEENA: I don’t want to stop them! I want to wear them!
CAPTION: Watch for Sheena in Disney’s new, laugh-filled masterpiece:101 Hyenas
1947 Pencils: Joe Doolin
Restoration & New Dialogue: John Lustig ©2020 Last Kiss Inc
ART: Jumbo 105 Cover
NATIVE WOMAN: You can’t stop me…or my hyenas, Sheena!
SHEENA: I don’t want to stop them! I want to wear them!
CAPTION: Watch for Sheena in Disney’s new, laugh-filled masterpiece:101 Hyenas
1947 Pencils: Joe Doolin
Restoration & New Dialogue: John Lustig ©2020 Last Kiss Inc
ART: Jumbo 105 Cover
Sheena: “Hey! My face is up here lady!”
Native Priestess: “I can’t help it! Your nipples are so erect I’m afraid they’ll stab me if I don’t watch out! How can you get turned on by watching hyenas eating a man?!?”
Sheena: “I live in the jungle! My options for porn are very limited!”
Liberace Tied to the Pole: “Oh my Streisand! Can you stop with the Tupperware party conversation and save me already! I’m late for a private lunch with Rock Hudson!”
Sheena: “Yeah, yeah. Keep your blouse on.”
Liberace Tied to the Pole: “Oh ha ha. The producers did this so they could show a little pec action. I mean this is ‘Jumbo Comics’. And it’s not like you can deliver on that promise.”
Sheena: “Hey! I’m perky!”
Native Priestess: “Yeah, well I’m scared your perkiness is going to poke my eye out.”
Sheena: “That’s it! I’m taking my spear and going home!”
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Seriously though: why does that guy look like Liberace? Now there was a man who could pull off wearing hyena skin.
Jams – Yeah, Liberace put the flam(e) in flamboyant. I remember that every once in a while he’d show up with some starlet on his arm to imply that he wasn’t gay.
I’ve come to the thought that he did more to foster a gay lifestyle acceptance by the sheer level of his talent and flamboyance. My parents, aunts, uncles, etc. loved him. So talented, so non-threatening.
My fist thought was that they tied him up so he wouldn’t try to break up the girl fight.
I don’t know Jams, when I first saw the guy tied up to the pole, I thought “Well, there goes the neighborhood. Batman and Robin have finally given The Joker a taste of his own medicine.”