Let’s revisit the forties, the sixties and the seventies today, shall we? (Don’t ask what happened to the fifties.)

People tend to forget that THE FLINTSTONES lasted as a successful newspaper comic strip long after ending its long original run as the first prime time animated TV series for adults. Here are some choice examples from the mid-sixties, credited to Hanna and Barbera but actually drawn by Dick Bickenbach.

http://comicrazys.com/2009/10/23/the-flintstones-sundays-1965-1966-dick-bickenbach/

Gardner Fox’s Golden Age HAWKMAN strip as drawn by Sheldon Moldoff (later known as Bob Kane’s number one ghost) is one of the better drawn strips of the 1940′s in spite of-or perhaps because of-its extensive and obvious use of photo reference. here’s a well chosen reprint that demonstrates this.

http://grantbridgestreet.blogspot.com/2009/10/hawkwoman-by-gardner-fox-and-sheldon.html

From MAIL IT TO TEAMUP, here’s a frenetic and creepy tale of Marvel’s WEREWOLF BY NIGHT from the early 1970′s drawn by the always underrated Tom Sutton and scripted by Gerry Conway.

http://mailittoteamup.blogspot.com/2009/10/werewolf-by-night-9-1973.html

GORILLA DAZE reminds us that DC Comics text pages of the 1960′s and ’70′s could be educational as in the example given here, THE ART OF KISSING which is exactly what it sounds like…marketed to teenage girls in a romance comic!

http://www.thefifthbranch.com/gorilladaze/?p=872