makin’ LINkS # 277


Here’s a very early appearance from William Van Horn, later one of the definitive modern Disney duck artists, working here with his own little known character Nervous Rex.
http://comicrazys.com/2010/09/27/nervous-rex-issue-5-1986-william-van-horn/
Former Archie editor Harry Shorten was one of the folks behind Midwood Books, a 1950′s publisher of sleazy adult paperbacks. One of the artists who worked on some of these paperbacks was Frank Frazetta. Here’s a portfolio of some of his illustrations.
http://goldenagecomicbookstories.blogspot.com/2010/09/frank-frazetta-midwood-illustrations.html
Frank Robbins was a polarizing artist in comic books of the seventies but few would deny that his work on Denny O’Neil’s The Shadow was his best work of that period.
http://grantbridgestreet.blogspot.com/2010/09/shadow-in-night-of-neptunes-death-by.html
Finally, here’s fifties artist Don Perlin at Charlton in the sixties with an I Spy-style adventure story entitled Focus: Danger…as opposed to the completed unrelated but very similar newspaper strip from the same era entitled Dateline: Danger.
http://fourcolorshadows.blogspot.com/2010/09/focusdanger-don-perlin-1968.html

— booksteve

































