This is from THE UNSEEN# 14, a mediocre 1954 horror comic. But check out those seals' faces. This gives the legend of the Selkie a new unsettling quality.


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Another brain-teaser from Larry Gore's THiNG.


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An exciting sushi-making competition from TEKKA NO MAKIHEI, the epic 1,800 page saga of a young man struggling to make sushi just right. Here the crowd is struck aghast at his precision and deftness, while the spirit of his late father watches sternly from the Great Beyond.


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This is from TALES OF SUSPENSE# 54, February 1965. Recently thawed out and new to the Avengers, Captain America is caught in a rather dopey trap. He thinks he has been asked to give a demonstration, but really the prisoners intend to use the gadgets inside his shield to open a new magnetic door. (They've secretly broken loose and imprisoned the ( Read more... )

This is Dorothy Parrington posing as Miss Lace. You may also notice Milton Caniff at the drawing board. During WW II, Caniff did a strip called MALE CALL for US military newspapers, donating it free of charge. All the examples I've seen of MALE CALL are funny and rather sweet, rather than raunchy. Miss Lace was some sort of hostess helping to raise ( Read more... )

Another interesting item from Larry Gore's 1960s strip THING.


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From MARY MARVEL# 4, August 1946. The funny thing is, I have to wonder if maybe, just maybe, there was nothing to this business of Shazam losing his powers for one day every thousand years. Maybe this was a test? Maybe the old wizard was seeing, by how she acted when she lost her powers, Mary showed that she truly deserved them?


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In December 1968, SHOWCASE# 79 did a one-shot story about a mysterious character called Dolphin. She was a young woman who lived in the ocean, breathed underwater and evidently had had no contact with people before this moment. At the end, she dove back into the sea without much having been learned about her. (Without looking it up, I'm pretty sure ( Read more... )

A fun little change of page from T.H.U.N.D.E.R. AGENTS# 15, back in September 1967. Art is by the under-rated George Tuska, as Wally Wood couldn't draw every story. This epic is packed with in-jokes. I see references to Spider-Man, OF MICE AND MEN, that great "Mole" story with Will Elder art in early MAD, Sgt Daniel Daley in WW I ("Do you want to ( Read more... )