Anything, Everything, or Nothing At All

[PowerBook Pete, the Mad Mod]

Leopard v Crocodile!

[Luke Blanchard]

According to this item at DC's DCU blog, an eight page Sgt. Rock story by Joe Kubert (on firearms maintenance) will appear in PS Magazine #700.

[PowerBook Pete, the Mad Mod]

Luke Blanchard said:

5 and the Infinite

More on the Spanish original here (the page translates well through Google's translator).

I believe some of this feature was reprinted by Neal Adams' Continuity Comics in the mid-to-late-80s as Zero Patrol. I remember first seeing some of the art in Maurice Horn's World Encyclopedia of Comics in 1982 or so and then the Continuity reprints a few years later.

[Luke Blanchard]

I read about it in Horn's book first too. I used to have the issue at the head of the first article but don't remember it well.  It was prettily drawn, but I didn't find the story particularly compelling. The issue featured the group's debut adventure. Mainly I remember that the pretty girl ended up in the group by accident because she happened to be with Sirius when he was taken into space, and wasn't very capable.

[The Baron]

[Luke Blanchard]

The Art of Norman Saunders

[Luke Blanchard]

I've been reading short articles that the late Peter O'Donnell wrote about his career for the Modesty Blaise Ltd website. They include a series on the other comic strips he wrote (with short sample sequences).

[Luke Blanchard]

The first appearance of It! The Living Colossus. Also #20.

 

(A hat-tip to the GCD's page on Astonishing Tales #21 for the information.)

[Luke Blanchard]

This article on the pulp Detective Story Magazine has interesting accounts of some of the series characters who appeared in it.

[Luke Blanchard]

The British paper the Daily Mirror is currently rerunning a Garth storyline from the 70s drawn by Frank Bellamy called "The Angels of Hell's Gap". The strip can be read at the paper's website online but there doesn't seem to be a past strips archive. The strips are being coloured by Martin Baines.

 

Garth's adventures were a mix of SF adventures and adventures in other times. In the latter stories he would merge with a person of the past and live his life. The current storyline apparently involves the American Civil War (it opened with Garth on the set of a Civil War movie). My hat tip to the Bear Alley blog, on British comics and paperbacks, for the heads up. Possible nudity - I understand there was some in the strip during Bellamy's run.

[ClarkKent_DC]

Seen on a bumper sticker:

 

Don't Drink and Park

Accidents Cause People

[Luke Blanchard]

A story strange as fiction, from the Simon and Kirby blog. Note that the blog's author requests images not be reproduced from his blog without permission for copyright reasons.

[Luke Blanchard]

This is an interesting cover for its period for its use of coloured ink for the lines of the monster figures. I think it's also the issue in which Space Ranger's run in the title started. He didn't become the cover-feature until #43, which is in turn unusual for its wash cover.