“The Mirror Man” (Tip Top Comics 89, October 1943, p 11)
by Fred Methot and “Sam Singer” (attributed)
13 x 20 in., ink on paper
Coppola Collection

This is the fifth page of a 6-page story, featuring Mirror Man, a former super-hero comic that shifted to the war-hero genre after the outbreak of WWII.

I love this one frame. The space is composed so deliberately as the two characters talking yet the space is opened up by the circle of guards.

The term “wizaroo” was apparently a common colloquial expression in the “jerk.. idiot.. varmint” category. There is a reference to it in a line of dialogue in a 1957-62 TV series (“The Tales of Wells Fargo”) during the final season, between some gunslingers: “I’m a ring-tailed wizaroo if I’m pressed.”