If I understand him aright, Michael Isenberg says he created his character Borilla in the mid ‘Sixties, which is also when, (he seems to imply), he made the drawings shown.

And the drawings do – to me, at least – show all the hallmarks of a kid heavily under the influence of Marvel Comics, circa that period.

Borilla’s outsized body topped off with a teen-weeny head is very reminiscent of Jack Kirby’s artwork, particularly the menagerie of monsters he drew for such titles as the likes of ‘Strange Tales’, etc., back then.

The bum note, though – for me, at least – is Borilla’s chest and abdominal muscles in the first drawing.

To the best of my knowledge, in the ‘Sixties, Marvel – and of course DC, etc. – had to operate within the exceedingly tight ‘morality oriented’ restrictions imposed on them by the Comic Code, hence, if you look at comic art from those days, such things as abdominal muscles are only lightly suggested, and nipples, particularly large ones, were completely out.

It was only with the advent of the ‘Seventies, and Bruce Lee’s Kung Fu movies, (with their endless scenes of him flashing those iconic abdominals of his, etc.), that Marvel and co. really went to town on the musculature.

If that happens to be correct, then it’d suggest Michael’s drawings were really made in the ‘Seventies.

Well, that, or he was ahead of his time where nipples and abdominals’re concerned – which is perfectly possible.

Good eye, Tobar!