Oh good, I am pleased that you finished this so quickly – it’s really a fun idea!

Good job, Bill!

Is that Young Love cover by John Romita? It looks like it, especially the way the woman’s lips are drawn.

And Billy, get with the cool kids and buy some Marvel comics. One look at Ditko and Kirby and you’ll drop all those square books. (But keep Sgt. Rock)

Good job, Bill!

Definitely.

Funtastic, man. “Billy’s List Of Goodness” was particularly inspired.

And, yeah, that Doom Patrol cover was definitely the best of the month.

Also: The chick on that Girls’ Romances cover looks a lot like Jennifer Morrison from House.

I was going to go with Cathy Lee Crosby by House girl works too.

Wait … Martian Manhunter was in “House of Mystery”?

Ok, so you´ll only buy something like that Tomahawk-Book if there´s a purple gorilla on the cover, eh?

Well, ok:
http://www.comicmarktplatz.de/userimages/ui_4910c957f234b_20081104231447.jpg

All the right elements:
- Set during the War of Independence
- Protagonists in a perilous situation over some kind of gorge
- Hostile Iroquois
- And – most importantly – a purple gorilla right there in the upper left corner (“lila” means purple in German).

There you go!

I was waiting for “Why doesn’t this cover have a background?” to show up, and like magic, there it was.

HA! I love it!

This is great but my god who did that Young Love cover?

It’s AMAZING.

Don’t worry about the outcome in WORLD’S FINEST #150, Bill. Even though the dart will pop Batman’s balloon, Superman’s got a plan!

You can read about the outcome here:

http://yeoldecomicblogge.blogspot.com/2006/02/gamblers-anonymous-part-one.html

Dunc, it looks like John Romita, Sr. to me. Very distinctive inking style, especially how he inks women’s lips.

I googled and found this site:
http://comicbookdb.com/creator.php?ID=588

Yeah, it’s Romita.

Lovingly crafted from pure winium.

Thanks T.

I own a copy of that JLA issue.

That Flash issue was one of the first back issues I ever bought, at the tender age of 10. It cost several weeks’ allowance, was missing three pages, and was worth ever penny in those horrible days before Showcase books and Archive Editions. (And like the other Silver Age Flash comic I bought, Flash #155′s “The Gauntlet of Super-Villains,” I literally read the issue to death; it fell apart after one too many look-throughs.)

Haha, awesome. Comics in the 60s were so much cooler.

So is that Flash issue like the old New Year’s “I’m going to knock you into next week” gag, but with a superspeed punch?

I cannot get enough of this. It may be the most perfect blog post ever.

Why does Curt Swan think that crowns have giant round things on the front? Because he draws crowns with them in the Jimmy Olsen cover and this Action Comics cover http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=18307&zoom=4. I can’t imagine where anyone would get such a bizarre drawing twitch.

Man, that trip to Mexico was pretty wild. I even went to Tijuana and picked up a Bible. Let me tell you, it didn’t look like anything I learned in Sunday School!

I just realized that that isn’t the normal Green Lantern costume on that cover, the green area of the suit is cut a little differently than normal. Was Gil Kane experimenting with tweaking the design?

There are two types of comic book readers in the world: (1) The kind that thinks these comics (as a whole) look far more exciting than anything DC actually puts out in a given month today and (2) The kind that think Judd Winick’s “Batman” is readable.

Doom Patrol!!!

Let me tell you, it didn’t look like anything I learned in Sunday School!

You’re obviously not a Catholic then…

I guess back in the 60s it wasn’t necessary to use the word “cover” in every single description. And people say things are better than in the past.

I’d so buy Disabled Justice League

I want to see an all non-pc bruhaha between Disable Justice League, Evil Star midgets and Raging Redskins!!!

That was great!

I have a question about one of the covers. Adventure 333 has “Civil War of the Legion” Was the story by chance recognizing the 100th anniversary of the end of the American Civil War?

Cheers,

B

Nice work, Bill. I especially like the gags about the other neighborhood children.

And good call about Ringo looking like Kennedy and John looking like Donald Trump on that “Girls’ Romances” cover. Creepy.

Before I even read your commentary on Girls’ Romances #109, I thought wow that ‘Lennon’ looks like Donald Trump here. I’m pretty sure that the girl is meant to look “Ann Margaret” a big star at the time.
Here’s my ‘improvement’ on the cover:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GOPqViUEVk8/Sl90X1u9IhI/AAAAAAAABT0/mcAe3164mY0/s1600-h/trump.jpg

Looks like Green Lantern is fighting near the Star Trek/Bill & Ted rock.

IMHO Flash #153 looks like the most interesting one. I have a copy of Our Army at War #155 that I got from my dad, but I’ve never actually read it (since I don’t want to wreck it).

Just FYI for all that are digging the Young Love #49 cover by Romita… I have a copy of it, and it is actually one of those “let’s reproduce the interior story’s splash page as a “cover” job. But man when it looks that good, why come up with something new when you have that sort of secret goodness selling a book from inside.

Great stuff, sign me up for more!

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Awesome post, Bill.

I wish I had those Flash and Young Love comics. I’d frame them and hang them on my wall.

Ha! Good stuff.

I had no idea Army at Love was a play on an old title.

>>I had no idea Army at Love was a play on an old title.

*sigh* Kids these days … What the hell are they teaching in the schools?

>>Was the story by chance recognizing the 100th anniversary of the end of the American Civil War?

Not outside the realm of possibility by any means. The Civil War Centennial must’ve been a big deal during that period, judging by all the postage stamps commemorating various battles that came out in the early ’60s (slightly before I was old enough to pay attention, but I did collect stamps as a kid).

Otherwise, these would’ve been in the spinner racks a few months before I started first grade, & a couple of years before I started buying comics with any sort of regularity. The only two I own (except of course in SHOWCASE PRESENTS form, where appropriate — which I wish to god included SEA DEVILS & TOMAHAWK & MYSTERY IN SPACE & the war stuff & … oh, hell: Just reprint ‘em all!) are SUPERBOY & TOMAHAWK, because I’ve put together decentish runs of those starting in this general period.

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