Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Berni Wrightson (1948-2017)

In tribute, here's a quartet of intro pages illustrated by Berni Wrightson...
...for DC's 100-Page Super Spectacular #4 (1971)
Titled "Weird Mystery Tales", the reprint anthology featured brand-new art for the section headers with Berni himself as a "host" doing intros...
BTW, none of these headers has ever been reprinted!
So, unless you own this HTF issue, this will be the first time you've ever seen these pix!
Here's the book's text piece, a never-reprinted story with a large Wrightson illo, and a cute twist ending!

Yep, Wrightson's the protaganist!

Monday, March 20, 2017

Trump Reading Room aka the Outhouse FARMER'S DAUGHTER "Short Subjects"

Since Donald Milhous Trump's "deplorables" have short attention spans...
...here's a trio of one-pagers that will probably hit the limit of their attention!
This never-reprinted story from Stanhall's Farmer's Daughter #1 (1954) was typical of the sort of lowbrow humor the publisher specialized in.
With titles including Broadway-Hollywood Blackouts and G.I. Jane, Stanhall produced adult-oriented (but never more risque than PG-13) humor.
Animator Hal Seegar was the editor/writer/illustrator for the non "good girl" strips like "The Farmer", while Bill Williams handled the art for the more risque material (like the title feature) which Seegar wrote and edited.
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Sunday, March 19, 2017

EasterWear Egg-citement!!!

Choose from Bunny Daddy, Baby Duck...
Bibs, creepers, toddlers' and kids' t-shirts, sweatshirts, and adult goodies like maternitywear!
NOTE: The organic clothing is from American Apparel!
Order now, so you'll have it in time for Easter!

Saturday, March 18, 2017

Holiday Reading Room EASTER WITH MOTHER GOOSE "Lost Chick"

Some of Walt Kelly's Easter tales were totally-new...
...not just reworkings of classic nursery rhymes and fairy tales!
This never-reprinted short from Dell's Four Color Comics: Easter with Mother Goose #185 (1948) takes chraacters who had not appeared together before and also explained where the Easter Bunny gets his supply of eggs from.
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Friday, March 17, 2017

Reading Room AMAZING ADULT FANTASY "Beware of the Giants!"

It's not often you see Stan Lee's signature on cover art...
...perhaps because it was probably meant as the title page for the following story (and, to tell the truth, I think the splash page would've been a better cover)...
Hah!
Bet you thought I had forgotten St Patrick's Day, eh? 
This Stan Lee-scripted/Steve Ditko-illiustrated piece from Atlas' Amazing Adult Fantasy #14 (1962) has one fatal flaw...the clothing and archetecture are more mid-European (Germany/Austria/Switzerland) than Celtic (Irish/Scottish)!
BTW, one of the rarely-noted aspects of the book were the kool individualized contents pages for each issue...
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