The many faces of Bob Hope

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That Oddball Comics site has been running a series on DC's "Adventures of Bob Hope" comics. I think it's interesting that for the first decade-and-a-half or so, they're actually running as best they can with Bob Hope's on-screen comic persona, the "horny coward", as Shaw puts it; but toward the end, when they realize that Bob Hope has no youth appeal any more and add the character of "Super-Hip" (one of those bizarre old-man-imagines-hippie characters who infested sixties pop culture), they actually start drawing Bob Hope like a villainous character, or at least a disagreeable crank who is clearly not the hero of the piece.

As far as I can tell that never happened to the comic-book Jerry Lewis, who simply never aged.