I’ve never personally been in the NANCY cult but for those of you who are (and apparently there are millions of you!) here’s Mr. Bushmiller’s little cutie and her tough guy boyfriend, Sluggo, from a 1949 issue of SPARKLE, one of those all Sunday strip reprint comics.

http://www.bigblogcomics.com/2010/01/sparkle-comics-nancy-by-ernie.html

Ger Apeldoorn offers some research and learned speculation as to the contibutions made to 1950′s DC comics by MAD legend Mort Drucker before he became one of the all-time great caricaturists.

http://allthingsger.blogspot.com/2010/01/this-blog-has-been-mortified-sunday.html

COLE’S COMICS captures its ongoing subject “at a peak moment” in a short piece on PLASTIC MAN’s creator’s transistion from comic books to PLAYBOY cartoons and even a little reflection on the tragic artist’s ultimate demise.

http://colescomics.blogspot.com/2010/01/moment-frozen-in-time-jack-cole-begins.html

The ever-enjoyable STUPID COMICS shows us scenes from an Al Hartley drawn 1972 ARCHIE story in which the Riverdale gang finds themselves back in the 1890′s with hilarity, of course, ensuing.

http://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics210.html