Makin’ Links # 161


Silver Age Comics this morning starts us off with an in-depth look at Tower’s Dynamo # 1, with art by Wallace Wood, Steve Ditko, Reed Crandall, John Giunta and Mike Sekowsky just some of the reasons one can argue it to be one of the seminal superhero books of the sixties.
http://sacomics.blogspot.com/2010/03/dynamo-1.html
The Big Blog of Kids Comics celebrates its brand spanking new Jim Engel logo-perhaps the best comics blog logo ever!-by reprinting a 1987 tale of Jim’s Dick Duck, Duck Dick, complete with exclusive commentary from the creator!
http://www.bigblogcomics.com/2010/03/dick-duck-duck-dick-by-jim-engel.html
While Gray Morrow was doing Charlton’s black and white Space 1999 comics mag of the late seventies, newcomer John Byrne was handling the color comic. Here’a Byrne from issue five.
http://diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.com/2010/03/byrne-ing-to-read-gods-of-planet.html
Finally, today, here’s the unique artistic stylings of Mister Basil Wolverton, turned loose here on a more-or-less straight horror tale entitled Swamp Monster from Weird Mysteries.
http://grantbridgestreet.blogspot.com/2010/03/basil-wolvertons-swamp-monster.html

— booksteve

































