The Red Bee-Witmer Williams-1941

Ah, the Red Bee, so called because...well, because...well, he has a pet bee named Michael...that's RED. Oh, and our hero has puffy see through sleeves. That oughta count for something!

In the Wake of the Bomb-Robert McCarty-1953

A timely warning from the past sparks this story which itself could easily be looked on as a timely warning from the past. 

Closing Soon

With nearly 2500 posts on this blog and over 10,000 total on all my blogs over the past dozen years, I am announcing my retirement from active blogging after next week.

Watch for THE BEST OF BOOKSTEVE'S LIBRARY, coming in book form and collecting some of my best--IMHO--writing from my core blog.

Thanks for all your support!

Merlin the Magic Mouse-1969

Merlin, here, was one of the latter-day replacement Looney Tunes characters, looking more Hanna-Barbera than Warner Bros. Oddly, while few of these cartoons were amusing, a valiant attempt was made to incorporate the characters into the comics and the comics were generally more amusing than the films!

Tide of Terror-Carl Burgos-1949

GCD isn't sure this is Burgos but could be. I have to admit that until recently, I had no idea just how important Burgos was to Timely/Atlas right up through the end of the 1950s. Odd that his style just didn't fly when he was put on a couple of second tier heroes for Marvel just a very few years later.

An Excursion to Mars-2038 AD--A.S. Van Eerde

A.S. Van Eerde was a commercial artist and fine artist of the 1920s and '30s who dabbled in comics writing and illustration. 

Richie Rich and Little Audrey-1989

From Harvey Comics' last (I believe) attempt at a comics line, here's a fun time travel team-up between two rarely teamed characters. Is this Ernie Colon? Not sure. 

If you're a Harvey comics fan, be sure to get the just published HARVEY COMICS COMPANION, an 800 page definitive history with an Introduction from Dan Parent and an Afterword by...ME!