Makin’ Links # 86


If you were in the UK in the mid-seventies, you might have been reading DARKIE’S MOB by JUDGE DREDD creator John Wagner. With this violent, controversial BATTLE strip about to be reprinted, here’s the first three episodes to whet your appetite.
http://bronzeageofblogs.blogspot.com/2009/12/darkies-mob.html
Continuing their sequential examination of Marvel’s DAREDEVIL. THE MATT MURDOCK CHRONICLES gets to the infamous mid-seventies issue guest-starring that spoon-bending sensation, Uri Geller!
http://themattmurdockchronicles.blogspot.com/2009/12/daredevil-133.html
Although now a bit of a cult collectible, Marvel’s early seventies misfire, NIGHT NURSE is examined in some depth at SEQUENTIAL CRUSH, dotted with lots of Win Mortimer’s well done pages.
http://sequentialcrush.blogspot.com/2009/12/unlikely-romance-night-nurse-1.html
I LOVE COMIX has posted some nice-if sometimes politically incorrect-color scans of old-time Sunday strip style newspaper ads and others. Included is Ben-Gay’s PETER PAIN, seen here.
http://ilovecomix.blogspot.com/2009/12/miscellaneous-comic-advertisments.html

— booksteve

































