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Saturday, July 4, 2026

Captain America Celebrates America!

A Half-Century Ago, Marvel Did an All-New Tabloid-Sized Special Celebrating the Bicentennial...

Unpublished Page by Jack Kirby

...titled Captain America's Bicentennial Battles, written and penciled by Jack (King) Kirby, who had just returned from a tenure at DC Comics!

While it did show some of the flaws and blemishes of American History, the tale ended on an extremely-optimistic note...

Penciled page (from photocopy) by Jack Kirby

...and gave us an iconic image of the Star-Spangled Avenger congratulating Uncle Sam on making it to 200!

Bicentennial Bonus: the original art by Jack Kirby and Frank Giacoia!

Happy Birthday, America!

(Hope it isn't our last one...)

Thursday, July 2, 2026

Reading Room GIVE ME LIBERTY! A REVISED HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Part 2

On Tuesday, We Introduced You to...

...this fascinating underground comix by Gilbert (Fabulous Furry Freak Bros) Shelton, Ted (Air Pirates) Richards, Gary Hallgren, and Willy Murphy!

Let's continue with their...unique...look at Paul Revere and others...

As you can see, these guys took the approach in Rip-Off Press' Give Me Liberty! A Revised History of the American Revolution (1976) that the American Revolution was a truly-messy business!

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Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Reading Room GIVE ME LIBERTY! A REVISED HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Part 1

It's fascinating to see how 1970s "counter-culture" responded to the Bicentennial a half-century ago!

Gilbert (Wonder Warthog) Shelton and Ted (Air Pirates) Richards actually did an entire one-shot comic on the subject!

To Be Continued...Thursday!

As you can see, Shelton, Richards, Gary Hallgren, and Willy Murphy took the approach in Rip-Off Press' Give Me Liberty! A Revised History of the American Revolution (1976) that the American Revolution was a truly-messy business!

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Give Me Liberty! A Revised History of the American Revolution
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Sunday, June 28, 2026

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, July 4, 2025

Friday Fun CRACKED and CRAZY BiCentennial Features

MAD is Easily the Most Famous of the b/w Comic Parody Magazines...

...but there were others who were no slouches when it came to satire and parody, starting with this never-reprinted feature from Marvel's Crazy #19 (1976)...

Written by Michael Pellowski and illustrated by Tony Tallarico.

Now, let's look at the other major MAD competitor, with this three-pager written and illustrated by Don Orehek from Major Magazines' Cracked #137 (1976)...