The Boy Commandos and Judy Canova-Curt Swan-1947

Radio and film personality Judy Canova had a very popular hillbilly act in the forties and beyond and was also the mother of seventies TV star Diana Canova. In 1950, she had three issues of her own comic book published by Fox. A few years earlier, however, we find her here in an unlikely team-up with the post-Simon and Kirby Boy Commandos at DC!

The Electronic Man-Wham-1968

Here's a nicely drawn two-color serious strip that popped up in the middle of the otherwise supremely silly UK 1969 WHAM ANNUAL (published in '68). Note that characters in the strip are based on actors Yul Brynner and Richard Chamberlain.

Mirror Mirror On the Wall-Rudy Palais-1967

Always a dependable comics artist, Rudy Palais' work had become very stylized by the time of this short mid-sixties Charlton story.

It Shouldn't Happen To a Dog-Burton Geller-1945

Here's some cute funny animal cartooning without the typically anthropomorphized wildlife. It's illustrated by the prolific Burton Geller who did a lot of all types of funny animal cartooning in the forties and fifties.

Liquid X-Leonard Starr-1942

Here we see some more very early work from the great Leonard Starr who would go on to pioneer realistic art in comic strips such as his classic ON STAGE after years of toiling in the back pages of comic books doing potboilers like this.

Alice in Terrorland-Alex Toth-1952

Alex Toth really started to shine at Standard in the early fifties, especially when inked by Mike Peppe. Here's another example in a plot reminiscent of some o the radio science-fiction of the day. 

Mark Merlin-Mort Meskin-1962

Mark Merlin was a third string Silver Age hero at DC who was eventually changed into Prince Ra-Man which must have seemed like a good idea to someone at the time. Before that, though, he had some mediocre adventures with some late period art by Mort Meskin who, in spite of his simplified style at this point, still had some fascinating layouts.