We start today with Archie’s older lookalike cousin Andy Andrews in “The Iron Curtain Caper.” What’s that? You’ve never heard of Andy? Well, it seems he’s been sitting unpublished and unknown in a file for about 55 years but this week the Archie Comics website is finally printing his sole 1950′s adventure, one page at a time.

http://www.archiecomics.com/blog/homeroom/2010/06/exclusive-andy-andrews-iron-curtain-capers—new-5th-page.html

Here’s a nice collection of Jack King Kirby’s full page pin-ups, posters and portfolio pieces from the sixties and seventies, including a lovely Captain America one that I had never seen before.

http://grantbridgestreet.blogspot.com/2010/06/jack-kirby.html

Here’s a rare glimpse at the story behind the art, in this case Frank Frazetta’s art and one of several similar pieces on this site. This one deals with a little-known Tarzan painting that was, at one time, much more explicit than it ended up.

http://frazfritz.blogspot.com/2010/06/frazetta-story-behind-art-2.html

Finally today, fresh from the early part of the previous century, here’s a bountiful crash course in the easily recognizable and most enjoyable art stylings of Mr. John Held, Jr.

http://goldenagecomicbookstories.blogspot.com/2010/06/john-held-jr.html