Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow-John Costanza-1972

Here's a totally inconsequential one-pager with an overused pun as its title and a telegraphed gag. It's here because I've always enjoyed Jon Costanza's cartooning style and, visually, this offers a very good example of it.

I've Got It Made-Girl's Love Stories-1973

Here we are in 1973 with some 1970 trappings and some 1968 conservative attitudes. As much as I feel I would have made a great hippie if I'd been just a little older, in retrospect, it wasn't exactly the most forward-thinking lifestyle. But MAAAAN, could the establishment get preachy about it! Not sure of the artist here but kinda sorta looks like Joe Giella inks.

Kit Colby, Girl Sheriff-Irwin Hasen-1951

Here's a little known DC cowgirl strip from the fabulous fifties, drawn by the recently deceased Irwin Hasen, known earlier for his GREEN LANTERN work and later for DONDI.

The Three Stooges-Norman Maurer-1954

Norman Maurer's 1950s' comics featuring the Shemp version of the Three Stooges are in some ways better than their live action counterparts. not only because Maurer--Moe's son-in-law and the act's later manager, producer and director was a heck of as cartoonist but also because his imagination wasn't hampered by the budget restrictions Columbia saddled the comedy act with in that era.

The Flash-Joe Kubert-C. 1948

No story this time, I'm afraid. Just these two intriguing pages from a never-published Golden Age Flash story featuring Robert Kanigher's original Rose and the Thorn and a Green Lantern cameo, something one didn't see a lot of in Golden Age DC comics. These saw print buried in the back of a LOIS LANE reprint collection in the early seventies. As near as I can tell that was it unless Roy Thomas perhaps resurrected them and the story behind them in ALTER EGO and I missed it.

Flicker Funnies-Al Walker-1947

Al walker is fast becoming one of my favorites of the forgotten cartoonists. Here he is with some genuinely wacky funny animal silliness and some very modern-looking art.

Captain Marvel-Pete Costanza-1950

Here's an early look at the public perception of not only television but color television, as seen through the eyes of the Big Red Cheese himself. Art here is from Pete Costanza who later became a regular at ACG and then on JIMMY OLSEN.