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Look Here, Read: Two PSAs from FAMOUS FUNNIES, with art by Frank Frazetta

RC — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:49:15 +0000

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Look Here, Read: “The Beast in the Forest,” with art by Jesse Santos

RC — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:17:57 +0000

From Archie’s Super Hero Comics Digest Magazine #2 (1979), here’s “The Beast in the Forest,” with script by Tom DeFalco and art by Jesse Santos; the scans are poor, but so was the original printing:

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Look Here, Read: “Minit Mystery”

RC — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:43:04 +0000

From Space Adventures #13 (October-November 1954), here’s “Minit Mystery”:

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“All right. Enough is enough. This is the final, the — the very, very last straw! WHO’S RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS? This… I demand that you show yourself! Who are you? Huh?”

Look Here, Read: “Gargoyles’ Revenge,” with art by Louis Zansky

RC — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:13:16 +0000

From Web of Mystery #6 (December 1951), here’s “Gargoyles’ Revenge,” with art by Louis Zansky:

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To view all of the stories with art by Louis Zansky that I’ve posted so far, click here.

Look Here, Read: “Muscle Builders, Part I,” with layouts by Kurtzman, finished art by Elder

RC — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:45:09 +0000

Harvey Kurtzman created the following full-colour layouts for the story “Little Annie Fanny: Muscle Builders, Part I,” which appeared in the December 1977 issue of Playboy:

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The finished art, as usual, was by Will Elder…

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BTW, I have no plans to post part II of that story/episode; I’ve only included the published pages above for the sake of comparison with Kurtzman’s layouts.

If you’d like to read more, you really ought to consider purchasing the full-colour collection, Little Annie Fanny, Volume 2: 1970-1988 (ISBN-10: 1569715203; ISBN-13: 978-1569715208), which was published by Dark Horse in 2001 and is still available for purchase, new, at various online bookstores.

Look Here, Read: “Warhawk: ‘Chennault Must Die!!’” by Goodwin and Toth

RC — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:18:04 +0000

From Savage Combat Tales vol. 2, no. 2 (April 1975), here’s “Warhawk: ‘Chennault Must Die!!’” with script by Archie Goodwin and art by Alex Toth:

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Look Here, Read: “The Death Touch of Chick Rigney,” with art by Louis Zansky

RC — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:05:13 +0000

From Men Against Crime #4 (April 1951), here’s “The Death Touch of Chick Rigney,” with art by Louis Zansky:

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Look Here, Read: “Bride’s Dowry of Doom,” with art by Louis Zansky

RC — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:00:50 +0000

From Web of Mystery #11 (July 1952), here’s “Bride’s Dowry of Doom,” with art by Louis Zansky:

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Look Here, Read: “The Dried Out Xmas Tree TANNEBAUM THROWOUTUS”

RC — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:00:15 +0000

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The above page of original art was produced by Jack Rickard for a piece called “Modern Wildlife Species” that appeared in the paperback collection, Mad Looks at the Future (1978). If you like it, it’s available right now, cheap, on ebay from a very reliable seller (not me).

Here in the Queen City, the end of Christmas vacation is today; school starts tomorrow.

Look Here, Read: “Slimes, Slogs and Glumps,” with art by Tom Sutton

RC — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:00:46 +0000

From Creepy Things #2 (October 1975), here’s “Slimes, Slogs and Glumps,” with script by Nick Cuti and art by Tom Sutton; the cover of this issue is also by Sutton, so I’ve included that as well:

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