mAkIn’ LInkS # 261


Remember when Marvel and DC combined heroes to create the Amalgam Age of Comics? Well this enterprising blogger thought it wasn’t enough so he’s making his own combinations—and quite well, too!
http://amalgamage.blogspot.com/
Some of Mirthful Marie Severin’s best mirth was found in the pages of Marvel’s Not Brand Echh in the sixties. Here, for instance she handles the art on Gary Friedrich’s Mad-style version of the Hulk’s origin.
http://comicrazys.com/2010/08/27/the-origin-of-brucie-banter-…and-friend-not-brand-echh-3-1967-marie-severin/
Hey, the great Ten Cent Dreams blog is back after a months-long hiatus and starts out celebrating Jack Kirby’s Saturday birthday with some reprints from Simon and Kirby’s Boys’ Ranch.
http://tencentdreams.blogspot.com/2010/08/jack-kirbys-birthday-boys-ranch-2.html
Not only Chic Young’s Blondie but also Chic Young’s Dagwood had long runs in comic book form both reprinting newspaper strips and offering all-new stories ghosted in the classic style. Here’s a fun issue of Dagwood.
http://www.bigblogcomics.com/2010/08/dagwood-comics-no-47-november-1954-and.html

— booksteve

































