Miss Cairo Jones #1
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeMiss Cairo Jones #1 (1945) delivers a delightfully absurd quartet of Sunday strips starring the perpetually hapless Simp O'Dill, all written and drawn by the singular Sol Hess. From parachuting into chaos to swapping lives with a mischievous ape, and stumbling into a mad scientist’s botched experiment with hybrid birds, each strip is a tightly wound, gag-driven romp. The cover by Bob Oksner captures Simp’s latest misadventure with classic flair, making this 10-cent gem a rare, self-contained slice of pre-war humor.
In "null," Cairo Jones tracks her fugitive husband, the war criminal Saber von Tigron, to a final, desperate stand—only to find him dead by his own hand, leaving her to confront the weight of his crimes and her own past. The story unfolds with tense precision, blending espionage and personal reckoning in a 1945 setting where every shadow holds a secret.
In this delightfully absurd 1945 slice of humor, Simp O'Dill stumbles through a series of wildly improbable misadventures—from parachuting into chaos to swapping lives with Jocko the ape—before accidentally triggering a botanical explosion when he unplugs Professor Faertildray’s bath.
In this quirky 1945 humor strip from *Miss Cairo Jones #1*, a series of absurd, deadpan vignettes unfolds: a tramp counts red points with no clear purpose, a man named Mose tumbles off a rooftop in slow motion, two figures cling to a log in a stormy sea, and a bellboy hesitates to cut down a hanging man—because, as he reasons, he’s not quite dead yet.
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Reprinted in The Comic Book in America: An Illustrated History #[nn] (1989), The Golden Age #7
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