For better or worse this is an art blog. I include in that technological advances in the transfer of art like silly putty (press it on the page and it picks up any image) and these KOPEEFUN transfer sheets designed to copy any image by rubbing on the the magic paper on top of any image. Now I don't think the kind folks at Woolworth's intended our little KOPEEFUN consumer to use this paper to copy hot, pre-code comic babes! Maybe the older brother got into the pack? I think this is what the copyright statement means when they say not to be stored "in any retrieval system." If ever there was a retrieval system it was KOPEEFUN. These examples I found carefully preserved in a package from 1941. As you can see, the manufacturer had numerous suggestions for use. Well...I'm just glad our little wicked rubber had "extra sheets"
They say the first application of any new technology is to be to fiddle around with the female form. Books, Photography, Film, Video, Digital. They were all used to advance our prurient interests. Witness the Web. Stats vary that 5% to 20% of the entire web is porn. So I guess using the magic paper to save “special” interests isn’t surprising even if she is only a paper doll in comic form.
Kopeefun Paper) was produced by Embree manufacturing company in Elizabeth, NJ. in 1941. So I am going to guess these cartoon ladies came from comic books circa 1941-1950 Any comic book scholars out there care to identify the artists or their spicy creations?
UPDATE COMIC (AND OVERALL!!! GENIUS DEVLIN THOMPSON CONTRIBUTES THE FOLLOWING: The blonde with the forelock is "Suzie," from the 1945-54 Archie Comics Another image are her fellow Archie-published character Katy Keene. I'm inclined to think the last are from another publisher, and the blonde MAY be as well. On the other hand, Archie's house look before the fifties was a lot less uniform, so it's possible that it's actually Betty Cooper (Bill Ward actually drew a couple of "Betty and Veronica" stories in the forties that looked like this). "Suzie" and "Katy Keene" stories were both featured in PEP COMICS and LAUGH COMICS through the years, so it's possible that those are all from the same comic, but I doubt it. AND For the record, after checking through a box of Archies, Binkys, Scooters and the like that came in at work today, I can tell you that none of these are from Suzie #52, 54, or 57. Also, there are Katy Keene stories in those, as well as Suzie stories drawn by Woggon, so that increases the likelihood that both characters' images are from the same comic. I'd either forgotten or never known how shamelessly cheesecake-oriented Suzie really was. Not that Archie Comics has ever been that shy about the female form, but there are panels of things like a close-up of her gluteus maximus in a short skirt that's riding up that would not appear in an issue of Betty and Veronica, then or now! I'll scan some later, if I get the chance.
Thanks Devlin!
Magic Kopeefun Paper Pack of Extra Sheets with Handmade cheesecake Rubbings 1941 (edited from the original post on another blog) Collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb.
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