Peter Max is the once ubiquitous psychedelic artist without whom the sixties could not really have been the sixties. Here, from the first issue of his self-titled magazine of the period, is a rarely seen Wally Wood drawn piece that invokes both Mad and the then still new underground movement.

http://hairygreeneyeball2.blogspot.com/2010/05/mr-mouse-meets-peter-max.html

Bernard Krigstein-the Last of the EC Visionaries is the title of a good piece on that highly stylized artist over at Cloud 109 that thankfully reprints something other than the classic but perhaps over-discussed “Master Race.”

http://cloud-109.blogspot.com/2010/05/bernard-krigstein-last-of-ec.html

Over at the new Kingdom Kane, we have Gil Kane drawing a 1965 romance for DC while at an artistic peak of this phase of his career. His style would be given more freedom over at Marvel soon afterwards leading to a constant evolving thereafter.

http://www.kingdomkane.com/2010/05/love-i-lost-twice.html

Finally today, some vintage 1951 Dan DeCarlo as Pappy serves up some of Stan Lee’s licensed radio adaptation, My Friend Irma and even manages to get in a plug for Craig’s still new book, Dan DeCarlo’s Jetta.

http://pappysgoldenage.blogspot.com/2010/05/number-738-dandy-dan-ds-ditzy-deb-dan.html

BoOkStEvE!