I was never a fan of Magnus, Robot Fighter but I am most definitely a fan of that series’ major artist, Tarzan‘s Russ Manning. Here’s a typically well-drawn tale from the year 1966.

http://www.goldkeystories.com/2011/01/magnus-robot-fighter-no-15-august-1966.html

Not exactly a new joke, but here we find some clever juxtapositioning of various Popeye covers over the years that makes a fairly convincing argument as to exactly what the one-eyed sailor has been smoking in that pipe all these years.

http://ripjaggerdojo.blogspot.com/2011/01/poteye-sailor-man.html

Stan Lee’s Atlas comics of the fifties often featured art from some of the best…even if they hadn’t quite reached that level yet. Here’s a whole issue of Menace from 1953 with work by Gene Colan, Russ Heath, Bill Everett and John Romita.

http://goldenagecomicbookstories.blogspot.com/2011/01/menace-6-august1953-stories-by-stan-lee.html

Finally for today, here is a nicely drawn selection of traditional “girls’ comics” from the UK in the late seventies, specifically from the 1979 Diana Annual.

http://kb-outofthisworld.blogspot.com/2011/01/british-girls-comics-diana-annual-1979.html