BiCentennial GrossOuts & Army of Principles!

A Half-Century Ago, During the Bicentennial, This Fascinating Cover Lurked on Magazine Racks...

Art by William Stout

...in "Head Shops", used bookstores, and porn stores (because there were few actual comic book stores at the time) where "underground comix" like this could be purchased!

Art by William Stout

Sadly, though, none of the never-reprinted tories involved the American Revolution, so we're not going to present them now...but they will appear in the future.
In the meantime, enjoy the cool art from the cover and intro page!

We will be presnting chapters of this, far more "family friendly" comic from (believe it or not) Kitchen Sink Press which could be considered an "edu-comic" on Tuesday and Thursday this week!

Friday Fun is Going to The Big Apple (Comix, That Is) This Summer!

Art by Larry Hama, Paul Kirchner, Stu Schwartzberg, Wally Wood

This summer we're having Friday Fun featuring Big Apple Comix!

It was an underground comic anthology produced in 1975 featuring an incredible range of NYC-based comics talent (including many DC and Marvel contributors), all paying tribute to the city "so nice, they named it twice!"

The book was sold in head shops, porn shops, and other off-the-beaten track venues in NYC, SF, and other cities where there was a major counter-cultural presence. 

(The first comic book shops were just starting up, and most didn't want to carry "adult" material.)

As Denny O'Neil explains...

Art by Denny O'Neil

...Flo, BTW, was Stan Lee's right-hand woman at Marvel during the Silver Age of Comics, and she had both the publishing experience and the contacts to put together this one-of-a-kind project!

The best part is...none of the material in this 50+ year old book has ever been reprinted, so, for a lot of you, it'll be a look at work by some of your favorites that you've never seen before!

Be here starting next Friday for...FUN!

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Wednesday Worlds of Wonder THE ODYSSEY "Part 3"

When Last We Left Odysseus & His Men...

...they were about to be drowned in a whirlpool!

To Be Concluded, Next Wednesday!

Based on the classic story by Homer, this adaptation, scripted by Bill Mantlo and penciled/inked by Jess Jodloman appeared in Marvel Classic Comics #18 (1977).

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Best of Space Force Saturdays MARS COMPANY in "Winner"

In the early 1970s, DC experimented with pulp-style illustrated prose tales...

...in genre (sci-fi, horror, western, and romance) titles!

Written by Denny O'Neil, and rendered in retro 1950s Buck Rogers style...

...by Murphy Anderson, this never-reprinted text feature from DC's Strange Adventures #227 (1971) seems more a tribute to classic 1940s-50s "hard" sci-fi pulps instead of a then-current "new wave" science fiction tale!
Since it featured the last story about Earth's interplanetary fighting force, Mars Company, we felt it would be the perfect "capper" to the SpaceBusters saga, which Murphy re-conceived just before its' cancellation!

Murphy seemed to be DC's "go-to" guy when they needed retro-style material in the 1960s-70s!

He was the artist for Silver Age revival try-outs of Golden Age characters in Brave & Bold (Starman & Black Canary) and Showcase (Dr Fate & HourMan and The Spectre), as well as the first few issues of The Spectre's own Silver Age title!

Anderson was also the initial artist on DC's Bronze Age version of Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter of Mars, as well as filing-in where needed on other Burroughs strips including Korak and Beyond the Farthest Star!

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Friday Fun FAST WILLIE JACKSON "Jabar in 'No Way Out' "

In the 1970s, there was an Archie-style comic aimed at Black audiences...

...from the publishers of the Golden Legacy series which featured factual stories about Black historical figures!

Though it looks like it, Fast Willie Jackson was not published  by Archie Comics, but by Black-owned publisher Fitzgerald Publications who had previously published the Golden Legacy non-fiction comic series about Black history.

Fast Willie was their entry into the mass-market comics market.

Though not Comics Code-approved, it received newsstand distribution, and sales were climbing for each successive issue.

Unfortunately, it reached break-even only with the seventh (and final) issue, when other matters caused Fitzgerald Publications to cease producing new material for an extended period.
When Fitzgerald briefly resumed publishing, Fast Willie was not among the titles.

Written by publisher/editor Bertram Fitzgerald, illustrated by "Gus LeMoine".

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Wednesday Worlds of Wonder THE ODYSSEY "Part 2"

When Last We Left Odysseus and His Crew...

...heading home to Ithica after the sacking of Troy, they barely survived an encounter with the giant cyclops Polyphemus...who was also a son of Poseidon, God of the oceans!
But greater terrors await the hapless Greeks...

To Be Continued, Next Wednesday!

Based on the classic story by Homer, this adaptation, scripted by Bill Mantlo and penciled/inked by Jess Jodloman appeared in Marvel Classic Comics #18 (1977).

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Wednesday Worlds of Wonder THE ODYSSEY "Part1"

With a New Big-Budget Film Adaptation Coming Out This Month...

...we thought "let's go back to the original story"...but told the Marvel way!

To Be Continued, Next Wednesday!

Based on the classic story by Homer, this adaptation, scripted by Bill Mantlo and penciled/inked by Jess Jodloman appeared in Marvel Classic Comics #18 (1977).
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