Seymour, My Son
Seymour, My Son was a short-lived 1963 teen humour series from MLJ, the publishers of Archie, and the second of two new original series introduced by Dan DeCarlo that year (the first being She's Josie). The first issue was released through their imprint Radio Comics, and concurrently in paperback form by Belmont Books under the title My Son the Teenager: A Cartoon Satire, with writer Frank Doyle credited as "a 'Celebrated Father' Who Prefers Anonymity". Readers showed little interest in Seymour's generic "typical teenage" characterization or the esoteric, sometimes rhyming sarcastic narration provided by his dad; both the comic and the paperback were commercial failures. After another, more conventional one-shot the following month -- More Seymour -- the series quietly folded.
