Crankin’ Winks # 458


Let’s start with something really rare-underground superstar (and self-proclaimed Cartoon Messiah) Vaughn Bode’s early educational comic, Powermowerman!
http://trosper-ignatz-gentlegiant.blogspot.com/2011/07/comic-book-antiquity-no-2.html
And while we’re on “really rare,” here’sa 1945 children’s book called Trouble On The Ark by Tony MacLay which turns out to be a pseudonym for a pre-Pogo Walt Kelly!
http://hairygreeneyeball3.blogspot.com/2011/07/walt-kellys-trouble-on-ark.html
Here’s a brief but fun romp through the convoluted history of DC’s Adventure Comics from the LSH days to the present.
http://diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.com/2011/07/adventuring-through-groovy-age-and.html
Finally today, here from The Horrors of it All is an early horror tale by the late, great Gene Colan, his style just becoming recognizable here
http://thehorrorsofitall.blogspot.com/2011/07/lure-of-sea-hag.html

— booksteve

































