Looking for some interesting comics stuff of historical interest today? Howzabout checking out COMIC COVERAGE for a start? Mark Engblom recently retired from his blog but, like the previously mentioned DIAL B FOR BLOG, has left up the voluminous, educational and entertaining archives. Here’s a look at just a few of the highlights of COMIC COVERAGE.

In his piece, FRANKENSTEIN MEETS EVERYBODY, Mark offers a tongue-in-cheek history of comic book appearances by Mary Shelley’s famous creature.

http://comiccoverage.typepad.com/comic_coverage/2006/10/cover_to_cover__1.html

A CRISIS OF INFINITE HOMAGE COVERS presents a massive group of comics covers with variations on the death theme and even goes so far as to suggest an antecedent for the iconography!

http://comiccoverage.typepad.com/comic_coverage/2007/04/comic_book_cove.html

You want history? SUPERHEROES CATCH THE SPIRIT OF ’76 is just what it sounds like-a look at the Revolutionary War era and its related masked mystery men (and women!). Join the Founding Fathers as they meet, among others, Tomahawk, the Scarecrow and…SUPERBOY?

http://comiccoverage.typepad.com/comic_coverage/2007/07/cover-to-cover-.html

Some lovely art from the pens of Bob Oksner and Mort Drucker enlivens this survey of the many comic book covers featuring real life comic and comic book character Bob Hope in various stages of love and lust. THE (CADDISH) ADVENTURES OF BOB HOPE.

http://comiccoverage.typepad.com/comic_coverage/2007/07/cover-to-cove-2.html