[Ads-l] "What do you mean we, paleface / white man / kemo sabe?"

[Dan Goncharoff]

Could Bridwell have written the joke for the LA Times? I think he was still
living in Oklahoma at the time, and I have no sense of what he was writing
then, and where he was submitting it.

On Sat, Jun 1, 2019, 11:10 PM Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Background:
>
> Mark Evanier administers the Bill Finger Award for the San Diego Comic
> Convention, recognizing a comics writer whom the jury feels is
> under-recognized.  This year, one of the awardees is E. Nelson Bridwell.
>
> https://www.comic-con.org/awards/bill-finger-award-node
>
> In a follow-up blog post, he mentioned that Bridwell wrote a 1 page piece
> for Mad Magazine in 1958 that featured the subject joke, and speculated
> that Bridwell had come up with it.
>
> https://www.newsfromme.com/2019/05/25/more-about-nelson/
>
> Others have gone so far as to assert that the joke is, in fact, Bridwell's.
>
> https://www.cbr.com/comic-book-legends-revealed-329/ <
> https://www.cbr.com/comic-book-legends-revealed-329/>
>
> (and this last citation even ends up in the first line of Bridwell's
> wikipedia page:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Nelson_Bridwell ).
>
>
> Apparently, none of these people actually looked that hard.
>
> _Los Angeles Times_ 16 Aug 1956 p 4.
>
> "Tonto and the Lone Ranger were riding across the prairie when suddenly in
> the distance loomed 1000 wild, screaming Indians.  "What will we do?" asked
> the Lone Ranger.  "We go this way," said Tonto.  In a few minutes another
> 1000 Indians appeared ahead, charging them. "What will we do?" the Lone
> Ranger asked again.  Tonto pointed toward a butte.  They were scarcely a
> mile away when still another 1000 Indians charged around the butte, headed
> toward them.  "What will we do?" the Lone Ranger asked.  Tonto gave him a
> long, stern look.  "What do you mean 'we,' paleface?" he demanded."
>
>
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