For my first test of my new IMac, we start with Golden Age artist Matt Baker in several stories finishing up “Black Artist Week” over at TEN CENT DREAMS.

http://tencentdreams.blogspot.com/2010/02/matt-baker-black-artist-week.html

Interracial romance is the theme of a 1973 DC YOUNG ROMANCE reprint over at OUT OF THIS WORLD. Surprisingly good art from the generally dull John Rosenberger and the much maligned Vince Colletta adorns this tale from the prolific Bob Kanigher.

http://kb-outofthisworld.blogspot.com/2010/02/inter-racial-hospital-romance-young.html

From there, check out a nice annotated selection of one page comic-style ads from BOYS LIFE Magazine in the early 1960′s, some by Neal Adams around the time of his BEN CASEY comic strip.

http://allthingsger.blogspot.com/2010/02/so-here-are-some-more-chip-martin-ads.html

Finally today, COLE’S COMICS offers a long and intricate part one of a series on PLASTIC MAN’s creator’s relatively brief career as PLAYBOY’s main cartoonist in the 1950′s, a stint that may or may not have led to his eventual and still controversial suicide.

http://colescomics.blogspot.com/2010/02/jack-cole-at-playboy-part-1-first-year.html