Ross Andru & Mike Esposito's Up Your Nose & Out Your Ear

Up Your Nose & Out Your Ear was Andru & Esposito's try at their own version of MAD, containing and in some cases rejigging old work they had sitting around looking for a home.
It was originally due to be published by Skywald, until publisher Israel Waldman realised he was already losing money with his current magazine line, and couldn't afford it.
So going the self-publishing route, they tried to put the book out with a little help from the other half of Skywald, Sol Brodky, and the first issue was released in 1972.
Unfortunately, it bombed. Not because of readers ( who probably never got to see it ), and not because of the perceived racism of, admittedly clumsy, strips like Ace Of Spades, but because of distributors & retailers who refused to stock a drug comic book.
Russ & Mike were aghast. A drug book? Where did they get that from?
Well, as you'll see, UYNAOYE is hosted by a comedy presenter called Joe Snow ( actually an actor friend of Esposito's daughter ). Add that to the title, and I can't believe the two creators didn't really know what they were doing.
Still, this is solid stuff, and it's always nice to see Andru & Esposito do humour.
I've managed to put together a fair bit of the 1st issue from original art sites around the net like Heritage, but if anybody has scans of the actual issue, I'd obviously love to see that.

Superboy: Reform School Rebel

I never knew Smallville was in Texas, did you? Well, apparently it is, as Superboy does a Cool Hand Luke, when a good kid gone bad escapes a young offender's institution on the town's outskirts, and hides out in the swamp we were all previously unaware of.
This is great fun, this piece, although sadly there's no overweight, corrupt sheriff in mirrored sunglasses to say to young Kal-El: You ain't from around here, are ya boy?
He also sort of does, but really doesn't, become a Reform School Rebel, which is a bit of a cheat, as seeing young Supes as a leather jacketed Juvenile Delinquent would've been cool.
Krypto's here though, having a ball coming out with lines like: Yip! Yap! Yup! which, we're told, means: I'll have the eye of a night-owl and the hearing of a bat. Who knew?
He also finishes this tale with an arse-clenchingly bad pun, that causes him no end of hilarity. The best comedians never laugh at their own jokes, Krypto. Didn't Bat-Hound ever teach you that?