Scribbly Jibbet is a semi-autobiographical character, presenting the adventures of a young man starting out in the cartooning business, and working for the Morning Dispatch newspaper.

[3] Jean-Paul Gabilliet said: "[Mayer] presented all the pages as Sunday panels because, at the time, the fact that a strip had previously appeared in a newspaper was perceived as an indicator of quality".

Ving takes on Scribbly as an apprentice and even introduces him to real-life cartoonists like Lank Leonard (Mickey Finn) and Milt Gross.

Scribbly's strip quickly catches on, and while he tries to work from home, his brother, Dinky, inadvertently gives him even more material.

This early iteration of the series, before Mayer moves to All-American, eventually shifts to pure slapstick and less about Scribbly's cartooning experiences".

In issue #3 of All-American Comics, Mayer introduced Ma Hunkel, the owner of a local grocery store.

[3] In another autobiographical touch, Ma Hunkel was inspired by the owner of a boarding house where Mayer lived, Mrs.

Scribbly tells Ma about the Green Lantern, and she's inspired to don a costume and fight crime, calling herself the Red Tornado.

By issue #23, the Red Tornado was sharing billing with Scribbly, and in #24, Ma's two kids joined the fight against crime, calling themselves "the Cyclone Twins".

They only knew that this bulky figure in the red flannels, bedroom slippers, cape, and inverted stew pot could be counted on to tackle all sorts of criminals from the biggest to the smallest".

Mayer's next project was a talking animal humor book, Funny Stuff, which launched with a Summer 1944 issue, with new stars the Three Mouseketeers and McSnurtle the Turtle, the Terrific Whatzit.

[13] One final "Scribbly" chapter was published in the one-shot giant The Big All-American Comic Book, dated December 1944.

Mayer continued to write and draw the title, which is a romantic comedy about Scribbly trying to find a steady job and win the affection of his girlfriend Red Rigley, who was a famous cartoonist and coworker.

[15] In the series, he's depicted as transcribing the events of the Seven Soldiers of Victory by Paul Levitz, Jim Fern, Joe Rubenstein and Shannon Wheeler.

[16] In an interview by Comic Book Resources, Paul Levitz explained his revival of the character: "I built this around Scribbly Jibbet, whose name you will probably not remember.

[17]Cartoonist and satirist Jules Feiffer wrote in The Great Comic Book Heroes (1965) that "the single unique stroke in the pre Detective Comics days was the creation, by Sheldon Mayer, of the humor strip Scribbly — an underrated, often brilliantly wild cartoon about a boy cartoonist with whom, needless to say, I identified like mad.