As long as comics have been around, there have been connections to motion pictures. From Ed Wheelan’s MINUTE MOVIES and the legendary MOTION PICTURE FUNNIES WEEKLY (with the first appearance of the SUB-MARINER) to Marvel’s film comics of the seventies and the more recent film adaptions from dozens of independant companies. Then there was Fawcett with their long-running MOTION PICTURE COMICS in the 1940′s and ’50′s, regularly presenting a new film in comics form every single issue. Here’s WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE. If you can recognize the artist, leave it in the comments over there. It’s familiar but…

http://tencentdreams.blogspot.com/2009/11/saturday-matinee-when-worlds-collide.html

Steve Ditko (subject of Craig’s latest book let’s not forget!) always seemed to genuinely enjoy his work at the low-paying Charlton Comics, to the point where it’s creative and just plain fun to look at. Here’s a BLACK FURY story from 1959 with some highly stylized horse art of all things!

http://ditko.blogspot.com/2009/11/unusual-tales-stranger-in-herd.html

Haven’t mentioned COLE’S COMICS lately so let’s do so now. Here’s a look at LITTLE DYNAMITE, Jack Cole’s first published heroic adventure, complete with the site’s trademark in-depth analysis of same.

http://colescomics.blogspot.com/2009/11/little-dynamite-jack-coles-first-heroic.html

And Cole’s comics points me toward a site with which I had not previously been familiar-PANELOLOGICAL PANTHEON, yet another site with in-depth commentary on scanned Golden Age comics, including the bzarre and little-known MINIMIDGET from 1940, seen here.

http://panelologicalpantheon.blogspot.com/2009/11/minimidget-in-they-called-him-big-boy.html