Makin’ Links # 109
CHRISTOPHER LEE’S TREASURY OF TERROR was a mass market companion to the 1966 Russ Jones/Al McWilliams DRACULA adaptation and featured new EC-type horror tales by those two guys as well as Johnny Craig and, as seen here under a Mort Drucker cover, DRACULA’S GUEST by E. Nelson Bridwell and Frank Bolle.
http://thehorrorsofitall.blogspot.com/2010/01/draculas-guest.html
Joe Bloke turns up on GRANTBRIDGE STREET for the first time in recent weeks with several posts including this nicely drawn Jack Kirby SPIRIT WORLD leftover that finally appeared in the first issue of WEIRD MYSTERY TALES.
http://grantbridgestreet.blogspot.com/2010/01/jack-kirbys-horoscope-phenomenon-or.html
Atlas did a number of enjoyable westerns with unique characters in the 1950′s and one of my favorites (from reprints) was THE BLACK RIDER. Here’s a nicely drawn George Tuska story done around the time he was also doing the BUCK ROGERS daily strip.
http://allthingsger.blogspot.com/2010/01/two-fisted-guns-friday-comic-book-extra.html
Many fans will tell you that Wally Wood’s best work was at MAD in the late 1950′s. Many more will tell you that some of the best of that best was on these Ripley parodies written by pioneering TV funnyman Ernie Kovacs.
http://wallywoodart.blogspot.com/2010/01/strangely-believe-it-with-ernie-kovacs.html
— booksteve
