akin’M inksL # 376


To look at the history of Little Archie is to discover a wholly separate, often more dramatic, Archie continuity spearheaded quietly by still working writer/artist Bob Bolling . Here’s an example.
http://greatestape.blogspot.com/2011/02/little-archie-and-wishing-witch-by-bob.html
Here’s a brief but interesting reappraisal of an issue of Aquaman with lots of early sixties illustrations from the Sea King’s longtime artist, Nick Cardy.
http://blogintomystery.com/2011/02/24/book-em-quisp-aquaman-7/
Here’s a little horror from one of the great unsung comics artists of his day, Ogden Whitney, creator of Skyman in the Golden Age, later a T.H.U.N.D.E.R. artist and here as ACG’s primary artist.
http://thehorrorsofitall.blogspot.com/2011/02/buried-brain.html
Finally today, Stanley Stories brings us one of my favorite Stanley projects-the first issue of Kookie, done in collaboration with Bill Williams from 1961.
http://stanleystories.blogspot.com/2011/02/beatniks-bongos-and-bourgeois-boobys.html

— booksteve

































