We start today with a heavily Steranko-inspired early tale from frequent collaborators, Doug Moench and Paul Gulacy, originally published in a 1974 issue of Marvel’s black and white Vampire Tales and appropriately entitled Bats!

http://diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.com/2010/05/black-and-white-wednesday-moench-gulacy.html

Bronze Age Babies Doug and Karen take a fond look back at some of the more interesting (and in some cases, really hard to draw!) armors of this week’s big movie star, Iron Man.

http://bronzeagebabies.blogspot.com/2010/05/5-iron-man-armors-to-love.html

Rip Jagger has been giving a whole lot of coverage to Rocke Mastroserio, an unsung artist to be sure and one who could be described as the very image of Charlton Comics where he was a mainstay for years. Here’s his rare sort of superhero, Mercury Man from a 1950′s Space Adventures..

http://ripjaggerdojo.blogspot.com/2010/05/rocke-mastroserios-mercury-man.html

Finally today, in an unintentional preview of one of Craig’s upcoming volumes on Good Girl Art, here’s some Fritzi Ritz from Sam Henderson’s Magic Whistle.

http://themagicwhistle.blogspot.com/2010/05/some-more-fritzi.html

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