Long before any official Marvel/DC crossovers, writer Steve Skeates famously stuck in an unofficial one when he wrote the final issue of Marvel’s SUB-MARINER as a continuation of his previously written final issue of AQUAMAN for DC. Here’s the whole story…or stories.

http://diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.com/2009/12/lo-there-shall-come-endings-aquaman-and.html

Speaking of AQUAMAN, it may sound odd but here’s a fun collection of Golden Age images of the Sea King being hit on the head!

http://www.aquamanshrine.com/2009/12/bonk-bonk-on-head-golden-age-edition.html

One of a number of comic books long outlasting its source TV series was Gold Key’s DARK SHADOWS, based on the surprise cult favorite horror soap opera of the late sixties. Here from 1975 is a DS story by longtime DC Comics creators Arnold Drake and Joe Certa.

http://www.goldkeystories.com/2009/12/dark-shadows-weekend-witch-hunters.html

Finally today, the last day of 2009, is a fitting time to revisit the Marvel Comics calendars of the late seventies and early eighties. THE BRONZE AGE OF BLOGS does just that!

http://bronzeageofblogs.blogspot.com/2009/12/mighty-marvel-calenders.html