For those of you who weren’t there, let me tell you that Green Berets were big in the mid-sixties before the anti-war movement became pervasive. Practically Beatles big! Ssgt Barry Sadler had a # 1 record, there was a best-selling book, a newspaper comic strip, the John Wayne movie…and Tod Holton, Super Green Beret. Well, okay, that 1967 Lightning comic wasn’t quite a s big as the rest.

http://diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.com/2010/07/another-groovy-guest-post-by-jonathan.html

Silver Age Comics takes a look at one of the earliest crossovers in the Marvel Universe. that of Ant-Man into the Fantastic Four in order to fight Doctor Doom in the miniature world into which he had been shrunk.

http://sacomics.blogspot.com/2010/07/fantastic-four-fridays-ant-man-and-doom.html

Some lovely, sophisticated sci-fi artwork from the great Reed Crandall here from a most unlikely source-an undated department store giveaway called Buster Brown Comic Book.

http://pappysgoldenage.blogspot.com/2010/07/number-771-b-is-for.html

Finally today, Peter Richardson up on Cloud 109 is doing a lengthy, segmented piece on the genesis of Warrern’s Creepy Magazine, an important part of comics history in that it not only revived the spirit of EC (without the comics code) but also led to the boom in magazine comics and thus, sexy comic babes with the introduction of Vampirella.

http://cloud-109.blogspot.com/search?q=genesis