I haven’t looked at a recent Marvel superhero comic book in ages but from what I understand there’s something going on about tons of folks secretly being Skrulls or Norman Osborn mating with a Skrull or something. I do recall that in a boneheaded move some years back it was reveald that the Human Torch had unknowingly MARRIED a Skrull! Well, today SILVER AGE COMICS takes us back to a simpler time when things were easy to keep track of without a scorecard for the original Skrull visit to the Marvel Universe in 1961′s FANTASTIC FOUR # 2.

http://sacomics.blogspot.com/2009/10/fantastic-four-fridays-skrull-cowqueror.html

The other day, we linked to some Mike Ploog artwork. Today over at this site you can see (perhaps for the very first time like me!) Mr. Ploog’s graphic story debut from EERIE in 1971. According to the accompanying backstory, Wally Wood was one of the folks who encouraged him to enter the industry after assisting Will Eisner. I should have known that.

http://diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.com/2009/10/famous-first-fridays-mike-ploogs-eerie.html

Marvel’s recent and at least partially successful attempts at straightening out all of the legal issues behind MIRACLEMAN/MARVELMAN have overshadowed one seemingly pertinent fact. SLAY, MONSTROBOT OF THE DEEP reminds us that they already HAD a character called MARVELMAN way back in 1979!

http://slaymonstrobot.blogspot.com/2009/10/why-wendell-vaughn-changed-his-name-to.html

Finally, yet another seasonal outing as we find BUGS BUNNY and one name above the title SPOOKY THE SPOOK in a breezy tale from a 1955 Dell special entitled BUGS BUNNY’S HALLOWEEN TRICK ‘N’ TREAT FUN.

http://thehorrorsofitall.blogspot.com/2009/10/bugs-bunny-spooky-spook.html