When Russ Cochran decided to reprint the entirety of EC Comics’ output in massive hardcover, slip-cased editions, it must have seemed quite a folly to many but Cochran had already tested the waters with his EC portfolios of the preceding years, often made from Bill Gaines’ hoarded original artwork! With art from Jack Davis, Al Feldstein, Johnny Craig and Wallace Wood, here are all thirty classic covers from Cochran’s early 1970′s CRYPT COVER PORTFOLIO.

http://goldenagecomicbookstories.blogspot.com/2009/10/tales-from-crypt-30-issues-april.html

Ol’ Groove makes fun of Gold Key’s 1967 camp revival of the Golden Age superhero, THE OWL, as done up by Jerry Siegel in a scan of the first of only two issues. Beyond that, however, he also spotlights author Don Glut’s unusual re-revival many years later in his DR. SPEKTOR series.

http://diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.com/2009/10/if-you-blinked-you-missed-owl.html

THE JACK KIRBY MUSEUM shows some rare mixed company art that the King did for a cover of Paul Levitz’ THE COMIC READER in 1973, both the used and the unused versions.

http://kirbymuseum.org/thecomicreader100

There’s a grisly pre-Code horror tale by Dick Ayers over at THE HORRORS OF IT ALL and believe it or not it’s actually froma 1950′s WESTERN comic book! BOBBY BENSON’S B-BAR-B RIDERS had a long popular radio series for kids (Don Knotts started out on it!) but this is creepier than anything that ever appeared on the show!

http://thehorrorsofitall.blogspot.com/2009/10/head-hunter-of-pirates-peak.html