Artist: Milt Gross
The concept of Banana Oil was to show in each episode the difference between what people say and what they actually do. The phrase, “banana oil,” is slang for “bulls–t.” It was, in many ways, Gross’ first success, capturing the many different shades of human dishonesty in a friendly, comically brilliant way. Each episode gave us different characters and different situations.
Banana Oil ran for roughly 7 years, first as a daily ( Dec. 31, 1923- Oct.30, 1925) and then as a topper (Sept. 12, 1926-Sept. 28, 1930)* to the Sunday Nize Baby and later Count Screwloose.
Banana Oil 1924-1928
19 Strips
Newspaper Comic Strips 
