Makin’ Links # 96


Demetrio Sanchez Gomez is a comic book artist with whose work I was not previously familiar. Apparently he did a handful of highly stylized, Steranko-influenced romance comics for Charlton in the mid-seventies. Here are three with commentary.
http://kb-outofthisworld.blogspot.com/search?q=demetrio
COLE’S COMICS delves into Jack Cole’s darker side in a late period PLASTIC MAN tale (from a 1949 issue of POLICE COMICS) that starts out with a grim visual of Plas in the gas chamber for murder!
http://colescomics.blogspot.com/2009/12/plastic-man-goes-to-gas-chamber-1949.html
SLAY, MONSTROBOT OF THE DEEP inadvertantly previews yet another of Craig’s optizillion new books, this one being Dan DeCarlo’s JETTA, a 1950′s futuristic ARCHIE clone.
http://slaymonstrobot.blogspot.com/2009/12/manic-monday-mash-up.html
Hanna-Barbera’s TV cartoon characters were at their peak and Kennedy was racing against Nixon when 1960′s HUCKLEBERRY HOUND FOR PRESIDENT came out drawn by Harvey Eisenberg and featuring Huck, Yogi and most of the rest.
http://www.bigblogcomics.com/2009/12/huckleberry-hound-in-huckleberry-hound.html

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