496 – Fat Old Sugar-Mommies

A panel from Weird Fantasy #12, January 1952
A panel from Weird Fantasy #12, January 1952

In EC’s Weird Fantasy #12 (January 1952), “A Man’s Job” features an amusing tale from a future in which women and men’s roles are reversed: a woman president, a mostly-women Supreme Court, all women going out to work while the men stay at home and take care of the house.

Another panel from Weird Fantasy #12, January 1952
Another panel from Weird Fantasy #12, January 1952

Truly a weird fantasy! I love how the writer and artist (Joe Orlando) really commit to this idea, including men as variously gold-diggers, helpless, and objects of women’s affections.