sMakin’ Link # 362


We start today with a Gorilla Daze look at the beginnings of the ant-war movement in DC’s war comics beginning with the appointment of Joe Kubert as editor in the late sixties.
http://www.thefifthbranch.com/gorilladaze/?p=1483
The Groovy Agent meanwhile takes a long and well-illustrated look at the early seventies DC debuts of the venerable Iron Mike Grell on Aquaman and the Legion of Super-Heroes.
http://diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.com/2011/02/famous-first-fridays-iron-mike-grells.html
John Spranger was an Eisner assistant who went on to be the regular artist on the newspaper comic strip version of the Leslie Charteris character, the Saint, and here’s a long selection from his debut story.
http://allthingsger.blogspot.com/2011/02/roger-bravo-thursday-story-strip-day.html
Finally today, here’s Mr Door Tree with the original art for not one but all of the stories intended for the legendary unpublished EC 3-D issue-Wood, Crandall, Krigstein. Evans and Williamson.
http://goldenagecomicbookstories.blogspot.com/2011/02/storiesart-for-unpublished-ec-3-d-3.html

— booksteve

































