Leakin’ Shieks # 462

Let’s start today with Silver Age Comics‘ look back at Robert Kanigher’s mid-sixties experiment at taking Wonder Woman back to her Golden Age roots both in art style and writing.
http://sacomics.blogspot.com/2011/07/wonder.html
Here we have one of the great treasures of 1966, the full run of Batman trading cards, mostly painted by Norm Saunders. Well, it’s the fronts only but those are the best part!
http://hairygreeneyeball3.blogspot.com/2011/07/bubblegum-batman-66.html
Very much pertinent to comics history was this week’s ruling against the jack Kirby estate in their suit against Marvel. Love it or loathe it, here’s the full verdict, along with commentary.
http://ohdannyboy.blogspot.com/2011/07/marvel-worldwide-inc-et-al-v-kirby-et.html
Finally today, veteran commentator RC Harvey on John Goldwater, the Comics Code, who really created Archie and…what th…!!? The whole thing turns into a nice back door review of Yoe Books’ Archie volume, orderable here on this very page!
http://www.tcj.com/john-goldwater-the-comics-code-authority-and-archie/

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