Saturday Morning Wood!

This is a delightful bit of artwork by Wally Wood for TV Guide. The superhero craze which overwhelmed TV, and especially Saturday morning cartoons is addressed both in the article and in this dynamic bit of vintage art as we see the Warner Brothers characters as well as those of the Fleischer Studios and Hanna-Barbara run in mortal terror of the costumed might headed their way. Only a somewhat obscured Mickey Mouse seems to face the threat and I cannot tell if that's bravery or mere shock. 

Wally Wood was well positioned to be the artist for this kind of article, with a deft hand at drawing all sorts of heroes and drawing parodies of those same heroes as well. 

To read the article check out this link. (Thanks Richard.)

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Nifty Presents - King Of The Comics!

Over the years I have gathered up quite a heaping helping of King Features comics, comics waiting for me to finally at long last read them up. I keep meaning to and something stops me, or another whim catches my fancy for a while. Prince Valiant, Flash Gordon, Mandrake the Magician, Popeye the Sailor are all terrific King Features series, some of the most important pop culture creations of the 20th Century. So it is a grand treat to get hold of this mighty tome which has great background on those fine series as well as many many others which helped define comics as we know them today.

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