maKin’ linKs # 271


Joe Kubert, the Energizer Bunny of comics artists, just keeps on going. Here’s some of his best sixties work in a handful of full-color Sunday strips from Tales of the Green Beret.
http://goldenagecomicbookstories.blogspot.com/2010/09/happy-birthday-joe-kubert-thanks-for.html
In a nod to the annual Talk Like a Pirate day, Pappy shares a 1947 pirate tale starring Captain Fight from…well…Fight Comics, as drawn by later EC star Jack Kamen.
http://pappysgoldenage.blogspot.com/2010/09/number-810-arrrrrrggghhhhh.html
Blog Into Mystery takes a look at a Silver Age DC issue of Justice League of America that attempts to answer the question of what happened to the heroes who weren’t present in a previous issue! Clever!
Finally today, the hometown of Eugene “Zim” Zimmerman, the cartoonist who unknowingly designed this column’s logo way back in the mists of time, celebrated the 100th anniversary of a bandstand designed by Zim yesterday. Here’s a piece on the festivities.
http://www.stargazette.com/article/20100918/NEWS01/9180319/1113/Town-and-Country-Festivities-to-mark-anniversary-for-Horseheads-park-bandstand

— booksteve

































