Number 2038: You gotta be a football heroine

Babe was Boody Rogers’ comic book answer to the Li’l Abner newspaper comic phenomenon. Although Babe was a female version of Al Capp’s famous hillbilly, like Abner Babe never lacked for courage or strength. Matter of fact, she was tougher than the whole Chicago Crushers “pro-fesh-nul” football team. Just practicing with the team put it out of business when she put the players out of action.

It has been at least a couple of years since I showed a story by Rogers. I never get tired of his bizarre stories and broad vaudeville-style humor, but his work in comic books was cut short when he quit the business. He created three features, Babe, Sparky Watts (his longest-running), and Dudley, a teenage comic. All of them ended in 1949-1950, with the last issue of Babe, re-titled Babe, Darling of the Hills, cover dated April-May, 1950.

From Babe #4 (1949):

The infamous story of Babe among the mountain centaurs! Just click on the thumbnail.

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