Joan Howard Maurer once told me that her husband Norman supervised (and often drew) every Three Stooges comic put out in his lifetime but one doesn’t see much of his style in this 1961 issue.

http://comicreadinglibrary.blogspot.com/2011/09/four-color-1187-three-stooges.html

Here’s some early, fun Alan Moore (with art by Bryan Talbot) from the eighties, the Golden Age of Tharg’s weekly 2000AD comic in the UK.

http://grantbridgestreet.blogspot.com/2011/09/wages-of-sin-by-alan-moore-and-bryan.html

Resettled in Europe, Sequential Crush’s Jaccque Nodell discusses Jim Steranko’s amazing and memorable Marvel romance story with Jim Steranko.

http://sequentialcrush.blogspot.com/2011/09/my-chat-with-jim-steranko-on-his-only.html

Finally today, here’s the story of the day Italian dictator Benito Mussolini banned Popeye and Mickey Mouse.

http://ohdannyboy.blogspot.com/2011/09/day-mussolini-banned-mickey-mouse.html