National Lampoon July 1971, "Two Paths": Remembering Joe Orlando's Birthday

 Today would be the 95th birthday of artist/editor Joe Orlando (born Apr. 4, 1927). From National Lampoon July 1971, "The Two Paths"; story uncredited, art by Joe Orlando.

April Fool! Tales from the Crypt #29, "A Rottin' Trick": Joe Orlando

 In honor of April Fool's Day, an artist's prank that made it into print. From the 1950s EC horror comic Tales from the Crypt #29, "A Rottin' Trick": Artist Joe Orlando hid pornographic diagrams in the pattern of the curtains in this panel; editors Al Feldstein & Bill Gaines failed to notice Orlando's joke, and due to the reduced size and low-quality printing of comics at the time, the hidden images weren't visible in the published comic. It wasn't until the stories were reprinted at larger size and higher quality that Orlando's prank was discovered... (Story by Al Feldstein, art by Joe Orlando.)

Enlarged detail of the curtain with its "hidden images":

The Big Book of Urban Legends, "The Nude Housewife": Remembering Joe Orlando's Birthday

Today would be the 92nd birthday of artist and editor Joe Orlando (born April 4, 1927). From the anthology graphic novel The Big Book of Urban Legends: "The Nude Housewife"; script by Robert Loren Fleming and Robert F. Boyd Jr.; art by Joe Orlando.