The Vast Unknown-Ernie Bache-1965

About a year ago we ran a Charlton filler with particularly good alien faces by Ernie Bache who usually worked not as a penciler but as an inker. Here's another.

Peanuts-Dale Hale (?)-1957

For one of our friends in Italy, here's some more non-Schulz PEANUTS, this one a lengthy tale of Lucy on the loose with a pair of scissors. Some clever use of all the "SNIP"sound effects here

 

Movie Mag Strips-Otto Soglow-1930s

Here's a no-color oddity--a series of movie-themed one-pagers from, I believe, PHOTOPLAY in the 1930s, drawn by THE LITTLE KING's Otto Soglow.

Hourman and Thorndyke-Bernard Baily-1942

If you haven't checked out my DAYS OF ADVENTURE blog, chronicling the first 503 issues --the entire original run--of one of DC's longest-running comics, it'll be finishing up in April, highlighting the features that ran between 1936 and 1983. One such is HOURMAN, here seen in a late story with his second kid sidekick, Thorndyke.

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Nutsy Squirrel-Hollywood Funny Folks-1953

This story reminded me of the way the weather has been around here lately--60 degrees this past Saturday and heavy snow in some parts of the area on Monday! I can relate.

The Spider Man-Ed Winiarski-1954

I'm sure Pappy or Karswell or someone online has printed this but when I saw it I couldn't pass it up. Marvel's (well, Atlas's) FIRST version of a "Spider Man," this from nearly a decade earlier than Peter Parker! The main character here actually looks like Ditko's Tinkerer character! Joe Maneely illustrated the cover which I've added after the story. 

Cliff Crosby-Chad Grothkopf-1941

Crime comics from National, well-drawn by the man best known for his funny animal comics including Hoppy, the Marvel Bunny.

Going-Going-Real Gone!-Madhouse-1957

This unidentified silliness comes from a late entry, Post-Code MAD rip-off called MADHOUSE. Even MAD wasn't doing this kind of thing by '57 when this came out. Pretty funny, though, parodying both monster motifs and fifties hipsters.

The Pretender-Paul Reinman-1962

Although decidedly a second-stringer, Paul Reinman could often turn in quite enjoyable work on a story such as this one with its striking splash, creepy monsters and Cold War ending.