Paul Murry's gags.

Several gags by Paul Murry, who worked as an inbetweener and animator for Disney on 'Pinocchio', 'Fantasia' and 'Dumbo'. While at Disney, he also created newspaper comic strips featuring Mickey Mouse and characters from 'Saludos Amigos' (Joe Carioca and Panchito) and did strips for 'Uncle Remus' featuring Brer Rabbit. From 1946 to 1984 he worked for Western Publishing, creating hundreds of comics, mainly Mickey Mouse stories.

But Murry also created gags for several other magazines, among them he worked for 'Humorama', a division of Martin Goodman's publishing firm (Goodman founded Timely Comics, which turned into Marvel Comics in 1961). Humorama's magazines published pin up cartoons and a whole lot of naughty photo's of Betty Page and many other strippers/actresses in the 1950's and 1960's!

Here is another gag from Murry for 'Humorama', with the preliminary version below:

Some more quick gags, a little rougher, preliminary versions with pencil only. To identify his drawings (which he send to publishers), all gags cary visibly notable his peronal address at the time, on the reverse side (top left). 

Flipped horizontally, adding more contrast and changing the exposure, clearly shows Mr. Murry lived on 1300 S. (South) Orange Street in Glendale, California during his time at the Disney Studios: this location. 

The spicy drawings show a different address for Mr. Murry, 760 W. Avenue H-7, Lancaster California, which is this location today. These houses were build in 1957, which is exactly the time period Goodman's company published their line of 'Humorama' magazines. 

Paul Murry's 1930's Pin-Ups.

Like Floyd Gottfredon, Paul Murry is probably most famous for all the Mickey Mouse comics he drew for Western and Dell Comics in the 1940's. But in the beginning of his career, Murry worked at Disney's animation studio as Freddy Moore's assistant. Beside redesigning Mickey, as first shown in the 1940's feature 'Fantasia', Moore was also quite known for his typical portrayal of girls, drawing pin ups and nudes.

Well, it seems Murry learned more from Fred than just drawing Mickey, as you can see from the Pin ups I post here, all drawn by Paul Murry in the 1930's. I think especially the first two resemble a typical 'Moore girl', don't you think? Check for your self below!

Here are two other pin-up gags attributed to Paul Murry from a later date (1940's):