Makin’ LinkS # 214
Heroes, Inc. presents Cannon was a comic packaged by Wally Wood for the US military in 1969. Thousands of undistributed copies discovered in a warehouse a few years later were dumped on the collector’s market. Ralph Reese, assisting Wood at the time, is actually credited with his mentor on The Misfits.
http://grantbridgestreet.blogspot.com/2010/06/misfits-by-wally-wood-and-ralph-reese.html
The Bronze Age Babies go back and forth about Giant-Size Super-Heroes Featuring Spider-Man, the multi-hyphenated early seventies title that featured the Web-Spinner in an over the top story featuring Man-Wolf and Morbius the Living Vampire, all done up with art by Gil Kane.
http://bronzeagebabies.blogspot.com/2010/06/giant-size-june-g-s-super-heroes-1.html
Over at my summer house, Four-Color Shadows, we present a two-color treat from a 1939 Funnies, Inc packaged comic as drawn by Prince Namor’s pappy, the great Bill Everett! Watch for Blake Bell’s book on Everett coming soon!
http://fourcolorshadows.blogspot.com/2010/06/c-20-mystery-bill-everett-1939.html
Finally today, there’s a celebration building on the Internet around Craig’s latest thick volume of comic book reprints, The Golden Collection of Klassic Krazy Kids Komics. This morning has Mykal Banta’s Big Blog of Kids Comics offering not just another rave review but three stories from the book itself! Congrats on another winner, Craig!
http://www.bigblogcomics.com/2010/06/craig-yoe-says-hey-kids-komics.html

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