Not many brand new updates out there this morning (presumably due to the holiday) but it’s amazing what one can do with leftovers. Here are some decidedly choice bits from recent days, weeks and months.

Let’s start with part 2 of Sam Henderson’s look at the seventies humor mag BLAST, here both parodying underground comix of the day (including the “underground” ARCHIE strip seen above by ARCHIE’s own Stan Goldberg!) as well as presenting one by running an early appearance of Nick Cuti’s MOONCHILD.

http://themagicwhistle.blogspot.com/2009/11/blast-2-2-of-4.html

One of the last posts on the site CONFESSIONS OF AN UNREPENTANT COMIC COLLECTOR (which may or may not be a dead blog as it hasn’t updated for months) offers complete PRE-EC stories by EC greats Graham Ingles (from the original PLANET COMICS art!) and the team of John Severin and Will Elder (from JOE YANK).

http://tales-calculated-to-blog.blogspot.com/2009/09/here-is-rare-treat-some-original-pre-ec.html

PANELOLOGICAL PANTHEON goes into typically wonderful overkill mode describing this early POWER NELSON (THE FUTURE MAN) story by the definitive BATMAN ghost artist Dick Sprang and how he came to possess it even.

http://panelologicalpantheon.blogspot.com/2009/11/power-nelson-in-project-radium-from.html

The great Reed Crandall did some of his best-and worst stuff-for Warren in the sixties and early seventies. Here’s a piece that seems to fall in-between the two parts of that statement. From a 1969 CREEPY, read “Keep Your Spirits Up” written by fan-turned-pro Bill Parente.

http://blacknwhiteandredallover.blogspot.com/2009/11/post-14-keep-your-spirits-up.html

BUCKY BUG and LI’L BAD WOLF were mainstay backup characters in WALT DISNEY’S COMICS AND STORIES, forever overshadowed by the Barks Duck stories that highlighted each issue during the title’s golden years. They could be fun, too, though! See for yourself from a 1950 issue.

http://www.bigblogcomics.com/2009/11/lil-bad-wolf-in-sorcerers-hat-and-bucky.html