The first time I ever saw the art of Atlas mainstay Joe Maneely was when Marvel reprinted his highly detailed Black Knight stories a decade after their original 1950′s publication. Here’s a couple of them now.

http://pappysgoldenage.blogspot.com/2011/02/number-897-maneelys-black-knight-in.html

Over at Silver Age Comics, we find this revealing piece on early comics fandom-particularly the relationship between National editor Julie Schwartz and influential fans Jerry Bails and Roy Thomas.

http://sacomics.blogspot.com/2011/02/here-come-fanboys.html

Here’s part one of an opinionated history of Neal Adams’ Continuity Comics of the 1980′s-hardly his best moment but an odd peak of what Gone and Forgotten labels as his “complicated” legacy.

http://gone-and-forgotten.blogspot.com/2011/02/continuity-comics-part-one.html

Finally, both Jack Kirby and Wally Wood worked on DC’s Richard Dragon, Kung-Fu Fighter but the story seen here is from Jim Starlin and Alan Weiss.

http://diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.com/2011/02/grooves-faves-dragon-fights-alone-by.html