Pappy speculates on what might have went down when National inadvertantly(?) stole Magazine Enterprises’ hit western character, THE GHOST RIDER to be the villain in a 1952 issue of JIMMY WAKELY(with art by a young Gil Kane).

http://pappysgoldenage.blogspot.com/2010/01/number-666-phantom-brander-i-wonder-how.html

Cartoonist Howie Post returns with a story of “Doodles Duck and his Toyland Playmates” done up in a Walt Kelly style complete with an Albertesque Alligator.

http://cartoonsnap.blogspot.com/2010/01/doodles-duck-by-howie-post-vintage.html

For a look at the real thing, here’s Albert with POGO in not one but two stories from the 1950′s comic book version of Walt Kelly’s venerable and genuinely hilarious series.

http://www.bigblogcomics.com/2010/01/pogo-possum-lil-green-robin-hood-and.html

Finally today, classic Good Girl Artist (and pioneering African-American comics artist) Matt Baker serves up mostly beefcake in the 1945 debut tale of VOODAH from CROWN COMICS.

http://comicbookcatacombs.blogspot.com/2010/01/introducing-voodah-golfing-mccombs-1945.html