I recently ran a couple of full page pieces on DC’s Golden Age modern cowboy, THE VIGILANTE over at BOOKSTEVE’S LIBRARY. Today, Pappy shows us not one but two exquisitely drawn Mort Meskin VIGILANTE stories from ACTION COMICS, both of which feature Charlie McCarthy as the antagonist…sorta.

http://pappysgoldenage.blogspot.com/2009/10/number-608-vigilante-and-dummy-x-2.html

Jack Davis was a busy guy in 1959. Not only did he do the book we plugged the other day while still working at MAD and doing album covers and commercial jobs but he also found time for more black humor with Topps’ YOU’LL DIE LAUGHING trading cards. Find ‘em all here.

http://1959ydl.homestead.com/

One of my favorite old-time cartoonists is H.T.Webster and today you can read quite a large selection of panels (all?) from the 1953 book, THE BEST OF H.T.WEBSTER. Gentle, impeccably delineated humor the likes of which is just nonexistant in the high-tech 21st century.

http://hairygreeneyeball2.blogspot.com/2009/10/thrill-that-comes-once-in-lifetime.html

Finally, this being Sunday, here’s a nice repository of Alfred Andriola’s CHARLIE CHAN Sunday strips from the late 1930′s. A definite graduate of the Caniff school, Andriola would go on to create the long-running KERRY DRAKE.

http://charliechanfamily.tripod.com/sundaycomicsarchive/index.album/october-30-1938?i=0