As much as we’d prefer to sweep it under the rug of Marvel history, Jim Shooter’s new Universe existed and thus must be acknowledged, as it is today at Mail It To Team-Up.

http://mailittoteamup.blogspot.com/2011/08/marvels-new-universe.html

Here’s the great panel cartoonist, Virgil Partch, AKA VIP, with a selection of Vietnam War era Army-related cartoons originally published by Fawcett in 1969.

http://hairygreeneyeball3.blogspot.com/2011/08/armed-farces-by-vip.html

Here’s Harvey’s odd 1965 one-shot, Blast-Off, featuring a haphazard assortment of fantasy and sci-fi stories by Angelo Torres, Reed Crandall, Al Williamson and even some leftover Jack Kirby art from the fifties.

http://goldenagecomicbookstories.blogspot.com/2011/08/al-williamson-jack-kirby-angelo-torre.html

Finally, congrats to our pal Pappy on his 1000th post, a historically important reprint of Double Action Comics, the ultra-rare, controversial ashcan comic from National/DC.

http://pappysgoldenage.blogspot.com/2011/08/number-1000-ashcan.html