Let’s start today with some dated, heavy-handed “relevance” from 1971 in which Bob Haney teamed up the Caped Crusader with the Teen Titans with great art and storytelling by the great Nick Cardy.

http://grantbridgestreet.blogspot.com/2011/01/batman-and-teen-titans-in-rebels-in.html

Here’s Pogo’s papa, Walt Kelly, showing how a master cartoonist does works with a whimsical, smile-inducing, completely wordless non-Pogo tale from a 1946 issue of Dell’s Animal Comics.

http://fourcolorshadows.blogspot.com/2011/01/elephunnies-walt-kelly-1946.html

Here’s a site where you can legally download government giveaway comics from over the years, many of which feature characters such as Pogo, Blondie, Spider-Man, Superman and Captain America!

http://contentdm.unl.edu/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/comics

Finally today, as the Comics Code withers on the vine this week, here’s the emasculated post-code version of Bob Powell’s classic “Colorama” from Harvey’s Black Cat Mystery.

http://thehorrorsofitall.blogspot.com/2011/01/colorama.html