Mr Door Tree shares his personal copy of 1977′s Frazetta Memory Book, the catalog to the very first official exhibit of the work of the man who was even then considered the greatest fantasy painter of them all.

http://goldenagecomicbookstories.blogspot.com/2010/12/frank-frazetta-frazetta-memory-book.html

How about a wintry war story from 1965 in which Robert Kanigher and Joe Kubert’s unstoppable Sgt Rock meets on of his most memorable enemies, the Iron Major, for the very first time.

http://www.comicbookwar.com/2010/12/iron-major-rock-sergeant.html

Speaking of war stories, here’s a 1952 Ajax-Farrell Fighting Man Annual story from an unknown writer and artist that can only be described as “Tarzan vs the Reds!”

http://fourcolorshadows.blogspot.com/2010/12/traitors-island-fighting-man-annual.html

Finally, here’s some nifty seventies sci-fi/fantasy comics art in two stories from Marvel’s Worlds Unknown, one by the great Gil Kane (with Mike Esposito) and the other by the woefully underutilized Ralph Reese.

http://www.kingdomkane.com/2010/12/he-that-hath-wings-plus-ralph-reese.html