For Marvel Comics’ 70th Anniversary, the UK newspaper site TIMESONLINE presents 70 factoids about Marvel. Most of them are accurate, detailed and genuinely interesting. Then you get to the part about how paul Simon wrote the theme to the sixties SPIDER-MAN cartoon. WTF? He did not. Stick around to page 7 for their retraction which gives no hint of where THAT one came from.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article6892313.ece?token=null&offset=0&page=1

Where do comic book artists go when they aren’t drawing comics? Well, back in the sixties and seventies many of them went to record companies and did LP covers. Here’s a nice selection that ranges from Frazetta and Wood to Barry Windsor-Smith and Bill Ward. Great expanded size on these, too.

http://goldenagecomicbookstories.blogspot.com/2009/11/record-jackets-art-by-bill-ward-frank.html

Here’s an 18 week run of color Sunday strips from Russ Manning’s official STAR WARS comic strip. The veteran TARZAN artist and creator of MAGNUS, ROBOT FIGHTER did the strip originally (with assistance from Dave Stevens if I recall correctly) before being replaced due to poor health by reported Lucas favorite Al Williamson.

http://ilovecomix.smugmug.com/S/Star-War/Star-Wars-01-Constancia-Affair/9448944_q63UD/1/633753421_S4rRk#633753421_S4rRk

Finally, tooting my own horn again here’s another piece I did yesterday on the 1960′s BATMAN newspaper strip. This one covers what has to be one of the Dynamic Duo’s most bizarre team-ups ever-with TVand radio comedian Jack Benny!

http://booksteveslibrary.blogspot.com/2009/11/jack-benny-meets-batman.html