Big Chief Wahoo

Allen Saunders and Elmer Woggon brought their popular newspaper strip to comic-book form for Eastern Color, spinning seven issues of Big Chief Wahoo between 1942 and 1943. The series follows the humorous misadventures of a Native American chief and his tribe, a product of its era that reflects the broad-stroke, often dated comedy of mid-century comics. While the title character's depiction is a period piece, the series stands as a snapshot of how newspaper humor translated into the early comic-book market.