Fakin’ Blinks # 316

Remember when comic book stories hit the reader over the head with “relevance?” Here’s Wonder Woman in the latter days of her Emma Peel phase with just such a story drawn by Dick Giordano and written by sci-fi author Chip Delany.
http://diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.com/2010/11/grooves-faves-grandee-caper-by-delaney.html
Proving that it’s all done with mirrors, here’s one of Rip’s collections of comic book covers all based on a similar theme-everyone form Little Lotta and Little Dot to Plastic Man, Aquaman and Donald Duck gets the funhouse treatment.
http://ripjaggerdojo.blogspot.com/2010/11/fun-with-mirrors.html
Here’s a rarity-Reed Crandall’s originally unpublished EC redo of a classic Al Feldstein story. Intended for a 3-D comic that never happened, this was eventually did appear in an EC fanzine.
http://cloud-109.blogspot.com/2010/11/nuclear-paranoia-crandall-version.html
Finally today, there’s a whole bunch more faux, fun covers of Marvel-DC hybrid heroes-and in the case of the above, villains- over at the Amalgam Age of Comics .
http://amalgamage.blogspot.com/

— booksteve


































