During the seventies and eighties there were a number of fanzine characters that ended up getting a chance in “real” comic books. Far and away my favorite was John Byrne’s rubbery-looking, irascible robot, Rog-2000. Here’s a Nick Cuti-scripted tale from Charlton’s E-Man.

http://diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.com/2010/05/sci-fi-week-byrne-ing-to-read-rog-2000.html

Here’s another of John Buscema’s wonderful pre-Marvel movie adaptations for Dell, this one a well done version of the 1958 Kirk Douglas epic, The Vikings (even though the artist doesn’t make any attempt to capture the likenesses of any of the actors).

http://hairygreeneyeball2.blogspot.com/2010/05/john-buscemas-vikings.html

From the forties through the early sixties, there were sure an awful lot of comic books about horses-cowboy’s horses, movie horses, TV horses and sometimes just plain horses! Talk about a comics genre that tends to be ignored! Rip offers just a tiny selection of covers here:

http://ripjaggerdojo.blogspot.com/2010/05/horseplay.html

Finally today, here’s a side-by-side comparison of the odd connection between DC’s early sixties licensed title The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis and its late sixties unlicensed title Windy and Willy. Hmmmm….

http://bullyscomics.blogspot.com/2010/05/separated-at-birth.html