Here’s your Saturday offerings from the vast comics blogosphere.

YE GODS! HE COLLECTS DICK TRACY hasn’t been updated in months but I found a complete reprint of Dell’s DICK TRACY MONTHLY# 2 from 1948 posted back in May at http://hecollectsdicktracy.blogspot.com/2009/05/dick-tracy-monthly-2.html and vintage DICK TRACY is always a hardboiled treat! Tracy hunts Boris Arson!

BARNACLE PRESS offers long on-line runs of scores of vintage comic strips from up to a hundred years ago. They aren’t all classics but they are all interesting and with some wonderful illustrative styles. A recent addition to their archive is LIFE ON THE RADIO WAVE, a 1920′s look at how the then-new radio technology was changing the world of everyday folks. Another point of interest with this panel is that it was created by Vance “Pinto” Colvig who would go on to be the original Bozo the Clown as well as the original voice of Walt Disney’s Goofy! http://www.barnaclepress.com/?p=703

THE COMMANDO CUBS, a typical WWII era kid gang strip, gets a reprint today at NEDOR A DAY. Written by Richard Hughes who would go on to write (under various assumed names) nearly the entire output of ACG comics and drawn by Bob Oksner who would become a staple of DC humor titles and who could draw the sexiest comic book women this side of Wally Wood! http://nedor-a-day.blogspot.com/2009/09/commando-cubs-vs-herr-nero.html

STANLEY STORIES features a well thought out look at a controversial kid humor strip entitled L’IL EIGHTBALL featuring non-PC African-American stereotypes. The very last story of the character is reprinted in full (even though it may or may NOT be by John Stanley!). http://stanleystories.blogspot.com/2009/09/is-this-stanleys-work-last-of-lil-eight.html

Again, you can’t catch ‘em all but neither can we. Please send your comics sites to us via [email protected] for possible later inclusion.